The Resilient Mind - Do The Best You Can - Jim Rohn

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

Jim Rohn was a renowned motivational speaker who has been widely regarded as one of the best in his field during his time. He had an incredible ability to inspire and motivate people from all walks of life with his speeches and teachings. One of his most notable achievements was serving as a mentor to Tony Robbins, one of the most successful and well-known motivational speakers in the world today.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to Do the Best You Can with Jim Rohn. Get access to the Mental Mastery Program and other exclusive episodes by becoming a subscriber. Enjoy. How hard should you work? The ant philosophy. The man says to me, I'm making about $50,000 a year, isn't that enough? Now, what would be your philosophical answer to someone who says, I'm making $50,000 a year, isn't that enough? He said, my kids are doing okay, and he said, I got my bill.

paid. So what would you say if a guy says I'm making $50,000 a year isn't that enough? I said yes, $50,000 a year is enough if it's the best you can do. We don't call enough an amount. We only call enough your best. If you're capable of making a half million dollars a year and you make $50,000 a year, we call you loser. Now it isn't the difference between 50,000 and a half a million that's important. What's important is the full extent of your reach. That's what's important. The only The only way to feel maximum good about yourself is to extend yourself to the full capacity of your reach, your intellectual reach and your physical reach and your potential and your possibility to do the best you can.

What should you do? All you can. How many books should you read? As many as many as you can. How many skills should you learn as many skills as you can? How many people should you touch as many as you can? You could change. You should change. You won't change.

That's called accumulated as that. In six years you'll be explaining instead of celebrating. Having some ragged list like I had reasons for not doing well pennies in my pocket. Could, should, don't is asking. And if you'll just start the process of change, could, should, and will, you can start this whole process. And if you will, then put it into action. The miracle belongs to you. But here's how you get a miracle going for your life.

Number one, do what you can. get a list of the stuff you could do and you haven't done postponed and start cleaning that up. You can't start at a better place for personal change. It'll affect your bank account, affect your future, affect your income, affect everything. You can't start a better life change process than cleaning up what you should be doing. The man says, well my mother lives down in Florida. Should have written her six months ago. I just can't seem to get that letter written.

I'm asking you to get that letter written, clean that up and don't walk like other people walk. Don't postpone like other people postponed. Sometimes the first year you say, well, you know, I'm so healthy now. What difference is it going to make? You've got to be smarter than that. Just because disaster doesn't fall on us at the end of the first day doesn't mean disaster isn't coming. You've got to be so smart that you look down the road and say, will the errors in my present judgment of philosophy?

What's that going to cost me in one year, six years? One month, six months. I'm telling you the money cost and the health cost and the success cost is too gigantic if you'll look down the road a little ways and say are there errors in my current judgment like an apple versus a Hershey bar. Is that just a good illustration of some of the rest of my errors in judgment if it is? That's where I found myself at age 25. I started working when I was 19. I met my teacher who helped turn my life around when I was 25. That's six years. At the end of the first six years of my economic life, I've got pennies in my pocket.

I've got nothing in the bank. The creditors are calling saying, hey, you've told us the check was in the mail. I'm embarrassed. I'm behind on my promises. I live in America. I'm 25-year-old American male. I got a nice family, every reason to do well. And I'm messed up.

Now, what's messed up? I used to think it was the community that was messed up, and the country was messed up. And the government was messed up. If those Democrats ever get in the White House, that'll really mess things up. If the Republicans stay in power, that'll really mess things up. The economy was messed up, interest rates are messed up. I thought all this stuff was messed up. Then I found out that's not what was messed up.

I was criticizing the only thing I had to work with. What was really messed up was my own personal philosophy. How much should you do? You've got to come up with a philosophy of how much should you do. We're all governed by our thinking, our evaluation, what we've decided and how we feel. And this is a big question. What should you do? Schof gave me the best answer when I was 25 years old.

Here's what he said. Do all you can. How many books should you read in the next six months? As many as you can fit into your schedule. Because the book you miss won't help. What if a guy missed the book think and grow rich? The guy's 40 and poor and he missed the book. He lived in the right country, but he missed the book.

He was a nice guy, but he missed the book. He was very sincere, but he missed the book. He worked hard, but he missed the book. I'm telling you, if you missed the book, no telling what treasure will be missing in your life, if you just missed the book. My own errors in judgment, in my own personal philosophy, brought me in six years to pennies in my pocket,

nothing in the bank, and trying to explain why I wasn't doing well, living in America, 25-year-old American male got a family every reason to do well now once I understood this here's the formula for failure errors in judgment being lax about developing your own personal philosophy telling you it's called accumulated disaster it doesn't matter whether it's your health or your bank account guys got an empty bank account probably has high cholesterol why over the last six years he never paid

attention to either one and it doesn't matter whether it's a dollar or whether it's your money or whether it's your cholesterol count. All you got to do is commit the errors and just because disaster doesn't fall on you at the end of the first day that you don't eat an apple. You say, well I didn't eat an apple today and tonight I'm not ill. Well, you got to be brighter than that. Someday you got to leave first grade. You say, well, is it as simple as writing a letter and the answer? Yes. Where else would you start for life change, personal change? You don't need a pink package to fall out of the sky. You don't You need massive bombard pre-conscious subconscious, practice channeling, find a 2,000-year-old

guru. I mean, you don't need any of that stuff. Pass on all that. Kids are afraid of that stuff. Too much of it. You'll be out on a limb with Shirley. I mean, don't. This stuff's too easy.

The stuff's too simple. It's called take action, number one, on neglect, on errors in discipline. Number two, start setting up some disciplines. And if you'll do that, you'll perform a miracle. Now here's the second part of the miracle. Number one is do what you can. Here's number two, do the best you can. If that's not your philosophy, I would ask you to amend it.

Let me give you the best of ancient script. Here's what it says. Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might, do it with all your strength, and do it with all your power. What a good philosophy. That kind of philosophy revolutionize your life if you haven't picked it up late. Now let me give you the secret to success. Formula for failure, a few errors in judgment repeated every day for one month,

starts the weakness, starts the disaster process. You can imagine what happens in six years. Now here's the formula for success. A few simple disciplines practiced every day and you've started a whole new process called a whole new life. A few simple disciplines practiced every day and if you decide today to go for the apple instead of the Hershey bar, I'm telling you you have begun the process of turning your life around. And if you keep up that process, not only with your health habits, but with your money habits and with your communication habits, with your sales habits, management habits and every other habit that you've got, if you'll start that process, eliminate the errors and replace it with disciplines practiced. I'm telling you can start this process of life change immediately. After today, you don't ever have to be the same again. Only by choice.

You don't have to walk out of here the same as you walked in today. Only by choice. You can start a whole new process. And you say, well, Mr. Ron, is it that simple? Yes, it's that simple. Where else would you start? But with an apple. You don't have to start with something staggering.

What if you should be walking around the block for your good health and you don't? What will that do in six years? I'm telling you the word is disaster. You could and you should and you don't. Here's an even stronger word. You won't. I mean, don't might mean you're careless. Won't, probably make you stubborn. And either one's called disaster. Could, should, don't. I'm telling you, that's why at the end of five years, six years I found myself with pennies in my pocket, nothing in the bank, creditors calling.

Could, should, won't. Could, should, don't is called disaster. Thank you for tuning into this episode. If you're enjoying the content, you can access exclusive material by becoming a subscriber. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.