When Selective Listening Is Good

Learn from other people's experiences (OPE)

From Failure--learn from them. Take notes on them. Find out what poor people read, language they lose--and don't lose it.

From Success--pick up information from others. Observe during the day, pay attention. Get from the day vs Getting Through the day. Listen. Sort through the voices that don't count. Find a voice of value. Teach kids the skill of selective listening. Don't waste time on the shallow.

Leadership Refinements

Some Thoughts on Leadership Refinements:

Don’t deal in “shoulds and shouldn’ts”
Be kind bur not weak.
Don't deal in delusions.
Be bold without bullying
High life isn't timid and shy
Be humble but not timid
Be thoughtful but not lazy
Be proud but not arrogant
Arrogance from ignorance us the worst
Life is unique not tragic.
Turn frustration into fascination
80/20 Rule. Spend 80% of time with 20%
The 80% want the most of your individual time.
Deal with 80 in groups
Law of averages. Do something often enough you get a ratio of results.
You don't solve the seasons you work with it.
Understand diplomacy and strategy.

4 QUESTIONS TO PONDER

1. WHY?
a. When “why” gets powerful, the “how” gets easy.
b. Why=Reasons

2. WHY NOT?
a. What else do you have to do?
b. Why not see all you can see, do all you can do?
c. Why not engage in as many things as you can?

3. WHY NOT ME?
a. If ____ can do it, anyone can.
b. Change. Set up some simple daily disciplines.
c. Take full responsibility.
d. Don’t settle for less.

4. ASK FOR GOD’S HELP

Jim Rohn's "BE's" On Refining Leadership Skills

Jim Rohn’s “BE’s” On Refining Leadership Skills

1. Be strong, but not rude. Rudeness isn’t strength.
2. Be kind, but not weak. Be kind enough to lay it on the line and tell the truth.
3. Be bold, but not a bully. Stride out front.
4. Be humble, but not timid.
5. Be thoughtful, but not lazy.
6. Be proud, but not arrogant.
7. Be willing to deal in the realities of truth.s

5 Thoughts On Changing The Next 5 Years

5 Thoughts On Changing The Next 5 Years
From Jim Rohn

• In 5 years we will arrive. But where?
o A few daily disciplines changed will add tremendous value (Compound Effect)
o A refinement of disciplined thought
• To fix the next 5 years, we must come to grips with reality and truth
• Hoping without action is disillusion.
• Adjust our daily programs to take us where we want to go.
• Must translate response into results.

Jim Rohn--The Two Choices We Face

THE TWO CHOICES WE FACE
BY Jim Rohn

Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation.

And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.

To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.
Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings.

Jim Rohn' Philosophy

Jim Rohn’s Philosophy

The following are notes from a recent article in Success magazine about Jim Rohn:
1. Rohn emphasized the importance of taking responsibility for personal growth.
2. He taught people why and how to reach for bigger, better, more vital life.
3. Stressed the importance of personal development.
4. Change your philosophy, change your life.
5. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job; your income is directly related to our philosophy, not the economy; and for things to change you must change.
6. Get the right philosophy and discipline to follow through with action.
7. The ultimate expression of life is not a paycheck.
8. We must constantly ask, “What, for me, would be a good life?” A list including spirituality, economics. Health, relationships and recreation.
9. The game of life is not at rest. We must rest, but only long enough to gather strength to get back to productivity.
10. Our culture—our language, music, ceremonies, traditions, dress.
11. Spirituality—study, practice and teach.
12. Don’t miss anything—don’t miss the game, the performance, the movie, the show, the dance.
13. Live a vital life.
14. Invest in your family and your inner circle.
15. There is no greater value than love.
16. There are no new fundamentals.
17. Truth is not new, it’s old.
18. Success is simple and is the result of sticking to the basic, but mostly missed, fundamentals.
19. Two of his best known works—“Challenge to Succeed”, “The Art of Exceptional Living”

Jim Rohn--It's Easy To Achieve Success

Some thoughts from Jim Rohn on accomplishing goals:

1. If you will change, everything will change for you.
2. Change your mind, how you think, gather new information, gain new knowledge.
3. It's EASY to achieve. Rohn's Definition of EASY--something that I can do.
4. Must work hard at the easy.
5. How come most people do do the "easy"? Because it's "easy" not to.
6. The things that are easy to do, are easy not to do. That's the difference between success and failure.
7. Do not NEGLECT to do the easy things I can do every day.
8. NEGLECT is the major reason we don't reach the goals we set.
9. NEGLECT starts as an infection--and if you don't take care of it, it becomes a disease. 1 neglect leads to another.