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People
often ask me how I became successful in that six-year
period of time while many of the people I knew did
not. The answer is simple: The things I found
to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I
found it easy to set the goals that could change my
life. They found it easy not to. I found it
easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and
my ideas. They found that easy not to. I found
it easy to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get
around other successful people. They said it
probably really wouldn't matter.
If
I had to sum it up, I would say what I found to be easy to
do, they found to be easy not to do. Six years
later, I'm a millionaire and they are all still blaming
the economy, the government, and company policies, yet
they neglected to do the basic, easy things.
In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as
well as they could and should, can be summed up in a
single word: neglect.
It is not the lack of money - banks are full of
money. It is not the lack of opportunity - America,
and much of the free World, continues to offer the most
unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the last six
thousand years of recorded history. It is not the
lack of books – libraries are full of books - and they
are free! It is not the schools - the classrooms are
full of good teachers. We have plenty of ministers,
leaders, counselors and advisors.
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Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful
and sophisticated is within our reach. The major
reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is
simply neglect.
Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will
spread throughout our entire system of disciplines and
eventually lead to a complete breakdown of a potentially
joy-filled and prosperous human life.
Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to
feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of
self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes,
so does the level of our activity. And as our
activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline.
And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to
weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift
from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes
even more. . . and on and on it goes.
So my suggestion is that when giving the choice of
"easy to" and "easy not to" that you
do not neglect to do the simple, basic, "easy";
but potentially life-changing activities and disciplines.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Reproduced
with permission from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine
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