How to Work on Yourself | Jim Rohn Personal Development

[Music] do something different the next 90 days than you did the last 90 days like picking up the books to read do something different like the new health disciplines relationship with your family whatever it is it doesn't matter how small it is he'll start doing different things with the same circumstances since we cannot change the circumstances but we can change ourselves we can change what then he gave me another secret to success when he said what have at the moment Mr Owen you've attracted by the person you've become what you have at the moment you've attracted by the person you've become de the simple principles here uh once you understand these it starts to explain so much now sometimes it's a little tough to take blaming yourself instead of the marketplace taking responsibility instead of putting it off on someone else that transition sometimes is a challenging Mission and this one was a little tough for me he said Mr on you've got pennies in your pocket You' you got nothing in the bank the creditors are calling you're behind on your promises he says here's how that occurs you've attracted up until now you've attracted the things to you because of the person you've become now I said well how can I change all that he said very simple if you will change everything will change for you uh you don't have to change what's outside all you've got to change is what's inside to have more you simply have to become more and then he said don't wish it was easier wish you were better don't wish for Less Problem wish for more skills start working on yourself making these personal changes and he said it'll all change for you shelf said here's the secret Mr Owen learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job once I got that I to turn my life around learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job he said if you work hard on your job you'll make a living if you work hard on yourself you can make a fortune if you would have known me at age 25 you would have said Jim runs a hard worker if you'd have known me you'd have said that I'm the guy I don't mind coming a little bit early staying a little bit late uh I don't mind that you'd have said well Jim Run's a hard worker you say well how come he's got pennies in his pocket nothing in the bank and behind on his promises well I was a hard worker but I was working hard on my job not on my so I'm telling you if you'll learn that simple little principle and start the process today latest tomorrow give you tonight to think it over and start this whole process of personal development work on yourself make yourself more valuable to the marketplace I'm telling you you can so dynamically change your income and economics is the least of the values that you can start earning in terms of equity if you'll start working harder on yourself than you do on your job work hard on yourself and develop the skills work hard on yourself and develop The Graces all of the stuff necessary to become more valuable to the marketplace I'm telling you your whole life can explode into chains promotions no problem becoming more valuable to the company I'm telling you no problem money no problem economics no problem future no problem if you just go to work on the right thing not get things out there to change don't try to change the seed don't change the soil don't change the sunshine don't change the rain don't change the mix of Seasons let the miracle of everything that's available work for you and start working on the inside work on your philosophy work on your attitude work on your personality work on your language work on the gift of communication work on all of your abilities and if you'll start making those personal changes I'm telling you everything will change for you so success is something you attract by the person you become success is not something you pursue Chase run after success is something you've developed something you've become you attract success so oh key to unlock all the treasures whether it's economic Treasures or spiritual Treasures Financial social personal every way you can possibly think of is by your own personal development then he added one more which is so important and it's probably worth the price uh the seminar here it is what you become is much more valuable than what you get what you become is much more valuable than what you get the major question to ask on the job is not what am I getting here the major question to ask on the job is what am I becoming here not what am I getting what am I becoming so it's very important what you become because what you become attracts if you become cynical you attract cynicism uh what you become attract so this whole subject of personal development was so vitally important to me it changed my life I was a millionaire by age 31 and that was just the economic part of it took me six years from age 25 to age 31 it was unbelievable Mr cha over a five year before he died at age 49 who taught me some extraordinarily simple things he only went to the ninth grade in School never finished high school never went to college never went to University so he put his ideas and his experiences in very simple language which I think for me you know kid from The Farms of Idaho that Simplicity was so important because if it would have been technical I'd have missed it if it would have been Mystic uh you know I would have you know backed away but was just basic blab familiar stuff that I hadn't thought of before and he did start to remind me and those ideas changed my life Mr scha was the one when I said you know this is all they pay he said you've been working six years Mr Owen how come you're not doing better and I said this is all the company pays he says well that's not true I said no this is my paycheck this is all the company pays he said no this is all the company pays you I thought that's a new way to look at at it right he said doesn't the company pay 2345 times this amount to other people and I said well yes you say well then this is not all the company pays it's all they pay you and if you qualified wouldn't your income grow 23 45 times I said I suppose so he said we don't have to work on the company we have to work on you see that was the beginning of what he called the phrase personal development I told him things cost too much he said no you can't afford them I thought well that's a New Concept I hadn't thought about that you know we put some of the valuable things on the high shelf so you can't get to them until you qualify if you want the things on the higher shelf you got to stand on the books you read every book you read you get to stand a little higher so you can get the things on the higher shelf see I learned those Concepts it was so incredible and here was the most important one success is something you attract by the person you become see that phrase changed my life success is something you attract by the person you become success is not something you pursue it's like chasing a butterfly you can't quite catch it uh success is something you attract by becoming an attractive person see those were new Concepts to me I'm just working hard trying to make a living here's what he said to me this changed my life I got a chance to teach this in Moscow and across Russia three visiting now the fourth here here what Shu taught me profits are better than wages nobody taught me that in high school nobody taught me that I went to one year of college nobody taught me profits are better than wages wages make you a living profits make you a fortune and how could you work on both a living and a fortune he said well you could start part-time uh working on your fortune while you're working full-time on your living I thought wow now he said it's fun to get up in the morning not just getting up go to work to pay the rent but to get up to go to work to make a fortune first to make a living for my family second to make a fortune and then he taught me how to make both a living and a fortune guess what I did I learned how to make both a living and a fortune and I found out anybody could do it once they get the information and at age 25 I started receiving this extraordinary information here's what he said your income is directly related to your philosophy not to the economy I thought no never told me that I kept hoping the economy would change he said no your philosophy has to change I assured him that I had my fingers crossed he said that won't help then what could I do to change my income and multiply it by two by three by five by 10 and then multiply it by 10 again what could I do and he started giving me the disciplines and the process of learning the skills to change my life this was an extraordinary man those were extraordinary times for me life changing in every manner that you can imagine but very simple ABC Concepts here's what I learned not to search for the Exotic until you've discovered the basic and those basic philosophies that he shared with me during that time were life changing now if you're excited and you're ready to change let me give you three steps to start life change that can change your life your personality your lifestyle everything can change uh here's the steps number one find out how things work the first key to doing better is find out to change your life really you need ideas there isn't anything an idea can't change and uh shelf taught me the major problem is lack of an idea not a problem uh at first I didn't have any money I said to Mr shelf I don't have any money they said that's not a problem now see up until then I always thought it was right I was confused he said no no the problem is lack of an idea on how to create money and wealth it isn't lack of money it's lack of ideas so if you get the ideas so you can change anything uh to get ideas you need a constant study of finding out now CH also said when you find out something that works put the information in your Journal don't use your head for a filing cabinet put it in your Journal so that you can do the next best thing repetition repetition repetition repetition go over it and if you repeat it go over it sure enough someday some mysterious day bodyat takes root starts to grow and shows up in your bank account and your dress and your personality and your lifestyle but capture the ideas in your Journal find out how things work so gave me this word for my life change he said uh study great word if you wish to be successful study success if you wish to be happy study happiness if you wish to be wealthy study wealth don't leave it to chance make it a study some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed see that won't do it you've got to study the things that can change your economic social spiritual personal life now here's a qualifying phrase and we'll have several of these qualifying phrases throughout the seminar uh here's the first one you may not be able to do all you find out I understand that you may not be able to do all you find out but you should find out all you can do say you don't want to wind up at the end of your life and uh then discover that you've lived only 110th of it and the other night 10 went down the drain not for lack of opportunity for lack of information so that's number one find out how things work now here's the best human virtue for finding out curiosity make a note at curiosity curious you might add a word to it that'll help childish curiosity 12 kids do it they want to know something bad enough bu you B that's the phrase they can ask 1,000 questions you think they're through they got another thousand they'll drive you to the brink it's a virtue when you got to know be like a child now if you're curious let me give you three ways to find out how to change anything any life Direction any Dimension here's three ways to find out how to change anything number one is to read become a good reader all of the successful people I know and work with around the world they're all good readers curiosity drives them to read they got to they just read read read read read read read read while become a good reader now that's my opinion listen to the other lectures and listen to me and make up your own mind don't be a follower be a student okay I say really for life change you got to read from one way to learn is from your own experiences but another way to learn is from other people's experiences see one book might save you 5 years if you read it did you know though there's books on how to be stronger more decisive the but speaker be a leader have a better effect on other people dou up your personality did you know there's books on that and people don't read them how would you explain that and they can read did you know that hundreds of successful people have written their stories in books and they wrote down how they did it and people don't read it how would you explain that the guy's busy I guess you know you get tied up the guy says well yeah you work where I work um by the time you struggle home it's late you got to eat a bite of supper watch a little TV get to bed you can't sit up half a night reading reading reading and the guys behind on us car payment good worker hard worker sincere but we got to be better than sincere and work hard otherwise at the end of your life you'll wind up cold Stony broke you got to be better than a good worker you got to be a good reader my now you don't have to read half the night okay although if you're broke that's not a bad place to start right get on with the Cure but put this in your notes 30 minutes a day just devote 30 minutes a day to reading stretch it to an hour if you can but at least 30 minutes 30 minutes minutes a day read something positive something challenging something inspirational something instructional something instructional get at least 30 minutes a day uh and here's the next clue every day don't miss once you set this up just don't miss miss a meal but not your 30 minutes because you can get along without some meals but you can't get along without some books there's a Bible phrase that says humans cannot live on bread alone or just food says the next most important thing to food is words words nourish the Mind makes us different than animals and dogs uh words nourish the soul so humans have to have food and words in order to be happy and healthy uh I told my staff the other day some people read so little they've got rickets of the mind they're undernourished mentally uh so to get a good diet of words I suggest good reading habits 30 minutes a day now some people don't read because they don't read well I understand that and the national average is fairly poor uh people have fairly poor reading skills they're still trying to operate on Awkward old skills of the past right reading one word at a time and with such poor skills when you read the Mind usually wanders because you can think about a lot of things the mind is an incredible mechanism and if you read poorly the mind wanders around thinking of other things while you're trying to read did you ever read a page and wonder what it said so so I got to read that again right that's because the mind is just doing this job right just wandering around did you ever read yourself to sleep see that's another problem the mind says who needs this just shuts off right poor skills while a guy looks at a book 500 pages and says no you starting right and I mean I'd never get through this one anyway in our weekend seminar we take a whole section in about 2 three hours and we go through reading skills how did all read a book a day is the title of that subject and I'll tell you what if you can read a book a day it'll change your whole life I mean uh book a day will change your whole life expose yourself to a whole variety of things spiritual moral personal economic history geography everything I mean you can really change if you read a book a day so you might want to attend the weekend get in on those reading class skills it's incredible a book a day will change your life but hey whether you read slow or fast or whether you read awkwardly or whether you read well here's the key um red don't miss here's what reading is reading is tapping The Treasure of ideas that's what reading is tapping The Treasure of ideas and ideas can change any part of your life and if you've got a good excuse not to Tap The Treasure of ideas at least 30 minutes a day or spend the money and get the bugs I'd love to hear it some people have excuses you wouldn't believe I say John luck I got this gold mind I got so much gold I don't know what to do with it all come on over and dig John says I I ain't got a shovel I say well John get you one he says you know what they want for shovels let me give you the two books that started my library 20 at age 25 my library now is worth many many many thousands of dollars but it started with two books Mr shelf recommended these to me got me started shelf said become self-educated he said standard education will get you standard results and you can check those numbers and see if that's what you want but if you want to go beyond that you now have got to become self-educated so he got me started in my library he said one of the ways is build your library now I had a Bible right that was 66 books so that's a pretty good deal uh but here's what else he recommended he said number one get the book Think and Grow Rich buy Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich if you don't already have it the title should Intrigue You Think and Grow Rich uh I'm that book in a secondhand bookstore I paid $0 47 for it I've still got it one of the rare hard back covers I read it several dozen times shove taught me repetition is the mother of skill some of the ideas in that book helped change my life as I look back on it now the book was worth several $100,000 and I bought it for $0 47 what a lesson I learned the difference between cost and value before I met Mr shelf I used to ask how much does it cost after I met Mr shelf I asked how much is it worth I started basing my life on worth instead of cost and everything changed but that was book one Think and Grow Rich the second book he recommended I get was the book on nutrition chelf said study nutrition I think that first book was by Dell Davis eat right to keep fit I think I've got lots of them now but I think that was the first one uh shelf said study nutrition and there's all kinds of books on nutrition just read them all some are a little weird but but read them all if you're weird do the weird stuff I mean whatever but read them then make up your own mind remember don't read and become a follower read and become a student make up your mind find a plan that works good for you but get the books on nutrition here's what Mr self said to me uh Vitality plays an important part in doing well Vitality he said some people don't do well because they don't feel well it's not that they're not not intelligent it's that they're out they don't have the zing and the fire and the Vitality to do well so he put it right on me about studying nutrition he said Jim you wouldn't believe it he said uh I got this friend of mine raises race horses the guy's got nine books on how to feed horses uh he does not have a book on how to feed himself he said my friend studies horse nutrition studies it vitamins minerals trace minerals protein amino acids carbohydrates fats enzymes proper balance for his horses shelf said he's a fanatic and he said you ought to see his horses they're magnificent beautiful powerful animals they can run like the wind and he said you ought to see him he's a wck he said the guy feeds his horses better than he feeds himself do you ever believe that in my later studies I discovered some people feed their dogs better than they feed their kids if you can believe that anyway I didn't mean to give you a health lecture here tonight okay but hey ter yourself work on that part because it's one of the answers to doing well uh there's even a Bible phrase that says many times the spirit is willing but the body is weak now see you're in trouble and that is the problem you wake up in the morning and the mind says let's go get them and the body says I can't even get out of bed so you got to work on both sides of this right okay but get your library started get the books put it together books are the trademark of civilization it's fascinating to walk into someone someone's home and brow through their library because your library says something about you so put your reading together very important here's the second way to find out how to change your life and that's to listen get around successful people and listen now you can also learn from unsuccessful people take notes on both negative and positive on the negative the notes are called what not to do and you got to learn what not to do as well as what to do to learn from the negatives as well as the positive fa find out what poor people read and don't read it right that's good information learn from the negative but now you can also learn from the positive sit around successful people listen to what they say listen to how they say it it's important we've all got about 16 waking hours practice listening those 16 hours and I say practice listening because listening isn't easy I found out it's easier to talk than it is to listen uh but if you will practice listening the 16 hours you're awake sure enough from surprising sources comes great ideas and sales training we teach if you want to learn sales listen to the kids kids have got to be the master sales people of all time they have no equal father tells his young son no you cannot have an ice cream cone 30 minutes later he's licking on one that'd be 30 minutes worth listening to they got moves you wouldn't believe uh persistence runs deep like the ocean and the kids never took a class on how to overcome objections they already know how they don't need classes so listen and learn now here's some of the best advice I've got for the whole evening it won't get any better than this this is it poor people ought to take rich people out to dinner and listen that's some of the best I got if a guy's not doing well one of the first things he ought to do is find a guy that is doing well and offer to buy him his dinner spend 506 8,000 go for the full nine course start him on the juices and horse sters get him started talking uh the salad takes 15 minutes keep it rolling biggest steak in town takes 45 keep it rolling pour on the dessert stretch that meal out about 2 hours if you get a successful person to eat and talk for 2 hours they able to drop ideas in your lap pange your life multiply your income by two by three by five but you're right poor people don't usually take rich people out to dinner that's the problem the guy said he's Rich let him buy his own dinner I'm not coming up with any money and uh he says besides you work where I work by the time you struggle home it's late you're lucky to get your own supper let alone running around trying to find a rich man to feed and the guy's behind on his house payment good worker hard worker sincere but you got to be better than sincere work hard you end up broke you got to be better than a good work work you got to be a good listener and remember what you read and what you hear put the good stuff in your Journal now here's the third way to find out how to change your life and that's to observe you pick up a lot of ideas just by watching get around successful people and watch here's why success leaves Clues watch how the man shakes hands watch how the lady responds people who do well do certain things over and over and over and over and if you're clever you can pick them up watch it all for guys making $10,000 a month I'd watch how he walks maybe that's it copy his funny little walk somebody says well that's kind of a silly walk say it's 10,000 I haven't got the money yet but I got the walk it's being bound to start somewhere what I ask you tonight is to be unusual and be a good Observer of what's going on you can pick up ideas that can change your life starting tomorrow just be a more careful Observer now remember there's two ways to see one is called sight see with your eyes the other one is called inside see with your mind see with your eyes you'll see things uh see with your mind you'll see answers put your eyes and your mind to work and the best advice on developing sight and insight is pay attention don't miss anything in the weekend seminar we teach one of the greatest fatalities to success is preoccupation lack of concentration the guy's mind wanders so you wind up average you got to learn to zero in concentrate I read a good article one time Readers Digest the title is wherever you are be there excellent don't miss anything now we've lingered a little bit long on one here for personal development find out how things work but it's so very important finding out and I've given you three ways to find out now here's the second step to personal development okay one let's find out how things work here's two go to work you must now take action on what you found out in doing business around the world we call it game G plan put together your game plan one of the major things we teach on the weekend seminars game plans how to game plan your office if you're in sales you need a game plan kids need a game plan you need a home game plan uh social game plan business game plan everybody needs game plans Financial Independence game plan your investment game plan don't think in your head put it on paper don't operate out of your mind operate from paper I often ask somebody what are you going to do the next 6 months and somebody starts to tell me I say no don't tell me show me and show me your game plan for the next 6 months then I can look at things and maybe I can help but you got to operate from paper put on a game plan take action on what you found out now here's the best word I know of to go with action massive see that'll change everything Massive Action is called The Cure All if you're going to make calls make a few thousand if you're going to make contacts make a few thousand if you're if you're going to knock on doors knock on a few thousand see that'll change everything here's the language of the poor I'll try a time or two and see what happened it's the way poor people talk the guy says well I'll give it 30 days 30 days you could guess his bank balance you got to have a better game plan so here's one of the major things to do starting tomorrow take a look at your game plan if it isn't loaded with Massive Action change it tomorrow action the uh formula really works like this pick up a good idea a take heavy action pick up a couple of good ideas take heavy action that's the formula for sex success heavy action it's a good thing we can edit all this right the formula for Success take heavy action on a good idea right that's the ratio now here's the key don't wait till you've learned two or three thousand things because that way you'll use up all the time and you could wind up smart and broke and hey it's okay to be dumb and broke but if a guy's smart and broke that's pitiful don't let your learning lead to knowledge if you become a fool let your learning lead to action you can become wealthy and there's many kinds of wealth I understand that not just money money is one of the least of all values I know some people with a lot of money that are very poor aita sings As for fortune and as for fame they are Illusions they're not the solutions they promise to be so it's all kinds of wealth but to get a big share coming your way you've got to have a heavy action game plan now here's here's the third step to personal development and we'll wrap up personal development step three it's just a little Caution and all through life we need the cautions this one simply says don't try to beat the system find out how it works work it but don't try to beat it some people learn just enough to start slicing it shading it thinning it cutting corners and looking for cheap answers see don't fall for that you'll end up with a cheap life find out how it works best and do it that way even even though it seems to take a little longer do it right don't compromise with right now under this step here's another key be a quick learner don't want it take long to teach you learn quick don't run at the wall too many times learn quicker one guy said he broke his nose seven times in the same place somebody says looks like you'd stay out of that place learn quicker now the third Point here is don't be stubborn see some people won't change even when a better way comes I say well I've been doing it this way 30 years hey be ready for change if it's a better way go for it but don't try to beat it or you'll be like the guy that went to Los Vegas he didn't have much money so he didn't want to risk his money gambling but he gets to Las Vegas and the jackpot Bells Are Ringing the money's flowing the lights are flashing and he can't help himself he's got the gamble but instead of gambling with his cash he decides to play the mental gambling game and the brilliant scheme he worked out goes like this he'd pick a number like three mentally he would bet a certain amount of money on the number and whether it won or lost he would jot down that amount in his little pad I would have won $5 if I'd have made that bet just to keep track of it win or lose that way come midnight he can calculate how he's doing win or loser how much only not his money keep his money just play this mental gambling game so here he is around the gambling table everybody else shelling out their hard-earned cash he's got This brilliant scheme instead of betting with his money he's betting with his mind and he lost his mind which means don't try to beat the system I guess let's talk about some more parts of personal development here's the first one physical the physical side got to take care of yourself do not neglect to take care of yourself abiology used in the Bible in my amateur way but let me put it to you best I can here's what it says treat your body like a temple that's a good phrase good suggestion uh Temple meaning something you take extremely good care of the temple that's a good phrase treat your body like a temple not a Woodshed a temple a temple a temple take good care it's the only place you've got to live currently the temple nutrition my mother studied nutrition passed it along to me passed it along my father my children my grandchildren what a legacy that was learning to just take care of yourself key phrase some people don't do well because they don't feel well they've got the gifts they've got the skills maybe they just haven't taken care of themselves they don't have the Vitality key phrase Vitality is a major part of success Vitality so take care of yourself I know a guy that raises race horses I'm telling you the guy feeds his horses better than he feeds himself he's so careful how he feeds his horses he's so careful what they eat he's so careful that they get everything and because of that extreme care I mean these are magnificent animals they can run like the wind but you ought to see this guy 10 steps up a flight of stairs and I mean he's all out of breath his horses can run like the wind and he can hardly make it up the steps the guy takes care of his animals better than he takes care of himself some people feed their dogs better than they feed their kids physical now there's all kinds of Parts the physical here's one appearance it's part of the physical never have a second chance to make a first impression physical side and here's some of the best advice on appearance can give you comes from ancient script again it says God looks on the inside people look on the outside isn't that good information now you say well people shouldn't judge you by how you look well let me give you a clue they do they do you can't deal in these shoulds and shouldn't uh you'll be tipped over the rest of your life now of course when people get to know you they'll judge you by more than what they see but at first they're going to take a look so here's the best advice I can give you make sure the outside is a major reflection of what's going on inside the physical side a few minutes a day stay healthy uh a little bit of nourish a little bit of study on nutrition stay healthy okay now here's the next part of personal development the spiritual part I'm an amateur on the spiritual side I do happen to believe that human beings are more than just an advanced life form an advanced species of the animal kingdom I do believe humans are a special creation that's just my personal belief and I don't ask you to buy it but here's what I do ask you to buy if you do believe in spirituality in any manner here's my best advice study it and practice it do not neglect your values do not neglect your virtues if you do believe in spirituality my advice is study it and practice it don't let It Go unstudied Don't Let It Go unnourished if you do believe that's my best advice on the spiritual side now here's the third part the mental side part of this personal development challenges to develop mentally learn study grow change is what schooling is all about and the human development takes time incredible amounts of time why we've taken the time for this seminar just takes time some things you can't cover in a 20-minute speech you can't cover in a little five minute talk takes time for humans it takes seem like uh more time than any other life for human beings the little will the beast in Africa guess how much time it's got as soon as it's born to be able to run with the pack so it doesn't get eaten by the Lions guess how much time it's got got a few minutes not hours not days minutes wow but the human baby wow after 16 years we're not sure unbelievable amount of time it takes so it does take time for personal development it does take time for Spiritual Development physical development uh but here's also what takes time and that's your mental development feeding the Mind nourishing the mind some people read so little they've got rickets of the mind uh they they couldn't give you a good strong argument as to their own personal beliefs I'm telling you got to be able to pick up those ideologies you got to be able to pick up the philosophy and here's the next part you got to be able to defend it uh if you can't defend your virtues and if you can't defend your values I'm telling you even in the '90s you'll fall prey to philosophies that are not in your best interest and we've got to help our teenagers we've got to help our kids especially to be able to debate the major life issues the political ISS issues and the social issues and the religious issues and the spiritual issues and the nutritional issues and and the economic issues and all the rest of the issues that are valuable for us to build the kind of equities we want you got to get yourself ready and one of the ways you got to get ready is not just physical and not just spiritual you got to get ready mentally and this is where schaf went to work on me to be ready mentally to develop the philosophy and also be able to defend your virtues and your values

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Length: 35min 58sec (2158 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 09 2023