Friday is the 80th birthday of my mentor, the late Jim Rohn. It is cause for me to pause one more time to offer gratitude for the profound influence this man had on my life (and the lives of millions of others). I met Jim when I walked into his seminar back in 1994. I wasn’t even there to meet or hear Jim. I was there to meet the promoters of the event. I needed to wait until the event was over so I sat down and listened to this willowy grey haired man with the most fascinating voice and intonations lecture about principles of success.What he said riveted me. The simplicity and purity of his message grabbed my heart. And his teachings challenged and confronted my previous beliefs about obtaining success. I just pulled off my library shelf the journal I had with me that day. In my notes are a few things Jim said that I wrote down, underlined and circled. Those few things forever changed my life.In honor of Jim’s birthday I’d like to pass forward the gift of those words on to you… Jim Rohn asked the audience, “How many people want more…?” I thought, “Yes! I want more… success, money, a better body, more companionship, etc. (I was 23!)” and awaited the instructions of what to do…I had experienced some moderate success already by that time, but I had done it through sheer brute force. I was aggressive and just outworked, out failed and out persisted everyone else to grab my achievements. I did it by doing… do, do, do. But what Jim said next would multiply my income, my goal achievement and my results… and it wasn’t by doing. Jim continued, “If you want to have more… you have to BECOME more.” He said, “Success is not a doing process, it is a becoming process. What you do, what you pursue, will allude you—it can be like chasing butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.” “Wow,” I thought. This was the first time I had heard this twist of perspective, insight and wisdom. Jim continued, “For things to...

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My mentor Jim Rohn emphasized that one of the first things everyone should work on is their physical health.He said, "How terrible would it be if the mind said, ‘let’s go conquerthe world’ and the body said, ‘I can’t even get out of bed’?” It takesyour healthy body to carry around your head full of ideas and yourheart’s desires. There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body. There is a well-known quote from the philosopher Virgil that says,"The greatest wealth is health.” I also believe that health is thebeginning of wealth. In other words, your health will help you createwealth. Times of great danger. The great efficiencies oftechnology have made us more inactive and sedentary than ever before.Food has become more abundant, more easily accessible, super-sized,bulk packaged and mass merchandised. Commercial marketing hasproliferated into every space of attention with ingeniously creativeand utterly tantalizing commercial marketing. It has never been moredifficult to become and remain healthy. If you are in the business of attracting, influencing, selling orleading others, how you show up, your physical appearance, speaks volumes about who you are, how you are and what you are or not capable of. I know, people shouldn’t judge you, right? Well, here is a clue… they do! Whether you like it or not, people make judgments and draw conclusions about you in the first 10-15 seconds they meet you, based solely on how you look. Like it or not, how you show up on the outside says a lot about you on the inside. Our body advertises our personal development. All the habits, behaviors, choices, disciplines (or lack there of) are made physical (literally) in your physique. Here is a good question to consider: CLICK HERE TO READ REST OF POST

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