The Resilient Mind - Get Started Today and Radically Change Your Life - Jim Rohn

Episode Date: September 21, 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 Get Started Today and Radically Change Your Life with Jim Rohn. Get access to the Mental Mastery Program and other exclusive episodes by becoming a subscriber. Enjoy. Understanding self-worth is the beginning of progress. Self-worth should be easy. If one of us can do it, all of us can do it. If anybody can think it, we all can think it.

I can read, you can read. I can understand, you can understand. From where I came from, the few simple things I did and tried, revolutionized my life in five years, there isn't anybody here that can't do it. Change from pennies to fortune. Change from nothing to something. Change from broke to rich. Anybody in this room can do it.

If any of us can do it, we all can do it. That's the kind of value you should place on yourself. If Jim Rohn can understand it, I can understand it. If he can read, I can read. If he can find it, I can find it. If he can change, I can change. If he can get it done, I can get it done. That's the attitude about yourself.

self so valuable okay now in transforming our lives we don't start with attitude we don't start with the inspiration here we start with education somebody says well I expected you just come get motivated today well that probably won't do it somebody says by now we should be standing on the chairs waving a flag singing the old gray mare get going here no that's not where you start life change does not start with inspiration life change starts with education. You've got to be educated to the point of where you might have messed up. My teacher put it in blunt, simple language. He only went to the ninth grade in school, so

He put it in simple language. I could understand. He said, Mr. Owen, after six years living in America healthy American male 25 years old been working six years one year of college, pennies in your pocket, nothing in the bank behind on your promises. Shoeff said I just got one simple explanation for that. You've messed up. Now I could understand that kind of language Substitute a Hershey bar for an apple means you've Messed up Should walk around the block could walk around the block

Won't walk around the block you have Messed up and all you got to go is right down through the list Don't need some teacher to come by and tell you be your own best teacher saying hey Let me make a list of some places I've messed up Because if I let this down let this down that probably affects the rest and the answer is that's true. So we don't start with inspiration. We start with education. Somebody says, well, just motivate this guy. He'll be all right. Just motivate him. Get him turned on. Probably not. If a guy's an idiot, you motivate him. Now you got a motivated idiot.

No, he won't be all right. So we start with education. What's the first education? If it isn't going well and you live in America, you have messed up. You don't need to change countries. You say, well, the country's messed up. That's like cursing the soil. And cursing the seed in the sunshine and the rain which is all you got don't curse all you got when you get your own planet you can rearrange this whole deal but this one you got to take like it comes so number two is attitude here was number three activity this is the work part the labor part taking action and the activity is the miracle working piece a miracle being something we don't quite understand how it works doesn't mean it doesn't work it means we

just don't quite understand how it works miracles work god says now i'm an amateur on god but here's my best analysis god says if you'll plant the seed i'll make the tree now that's a good arrangement number one gives god the tough end of the deal what if you had to make the tree that'd keep you up late night trying to figure out how do you make a tree Say no, I'm telling you the mystery and the miracle of this stuff has already been set up God says I got the miracle going I got the seasons going I got some sunshine and some rain and I'm God But the way I've arranged that I just need somebody to plant the seed not chant in California. They're trying to chant get this stuff done

Forget this California stuff You don't have to rub a crystal and sleep under a pyramid This stuff too easy getting rich is too easy changing your life Life is too easy. Forget all that. Massive bombard affirmation. Forget all that. My opinion. Ocean waves and seagulls. Come on. This stuff's too simple. Just simple, easy stuff. But if you neglect it, that's how it piles up year after year. If you're willing to straighten it out. And here's one of the keys. It's called activity. It's called disciplines. Turning wisdom from your philosophy and inspiration, the strengthening of action. attitude and faith, courage, commitment, and all this stuff that comes from attitude. If you're willing to take these two qualities, philosophy and attitude, and invest it into activity, you can have a miracle. Anything short of that, no miracle.

Wisdom doesn't perform a miracle. Attitude doesn't perform a miracle. The only thing that performs a miracle of increase called equity is called putting wisdom and attitude into discipline, into labor. And this labor now can perform a miracle. And here's the two parts of the labor. One, do what you can. Number two, do the best you can. Can't give you better advice than that.

Number one, do what you can. You just got to go home and make a list after today. And here's the question to ask as you make this personal list. What am I not doing that would be easy to do? That could greatly change my health, my wealth. What am I not doing? I'm neglecting that would be easy to do. Just go home and answer that question personally.

You don't have to put the answers on a public bulletin board. This is just all personal stuff. From the walk around the block to the apple, to what to do with your money, which we're going to cover today. What does a child do with the dollar? We're going to cover that today. Errors and judgment, disaster. Few simple disciplines, wealth beyond imagination.

And if you'll pick up the activity part, the miracle working part, plant the seed part, take care of your part, the soil will take care of its part, and the seed will take care of its part. The seasons will take care of their part, the miracle will take care of its part, if you'll take care of your part, called putting it into activity action. Works miracles. 2,000 years ago on April 13th, one of Jesus' disciples.

Now again, I'm an amateur on the Bible of it. Best as I can remember it, one of Jesus disciples said to Jesus, it's time to pay our taxes and we don't have any money. That's how come I know it was about April 13th to this statement by his disciple Jesus said best as I can read the record Jesus said no problem now why could he say no problem well Word has it word has it he was a miracle worker word has it if you're a good student of history Word has it he was a miracle worker if you handed a problem to a miracle worker what would he be inclined to say no problem you got to hang out with

folks like that. I belong to a small group like that. We do business around the world. You hand these guys a problem. They say no problem. What? How many books would they read to solve it? Many as it takes. How early would they get up? Early as it takes. How much information would they get? Much as they needed. So it's what? No problem. You got to hang out with folks like that. Jesus said this will be no problem, the tax thing. He said to his disciple, it's simple. Go fishing. Wow. Now that was easy for this particular disciple. His name was Peter. And Peter was a fisherman.

How clever. How clever. But here's the real problem. If you should fish and you could fish and you don't fish, you've got no miracle. You could change. You should change. You won't change. That's called accumulated disaster.

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 disaster 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 Jesus said to his disciple it'll be simple go fishing and the first fear you catch look in his mouth. Peter said okay he was used to strange things happening in this relationship Peter goes fishing catches the first fish looks in his mouth guess what's in the fish's mouth coins Peter says wow coins starts counting the value of these coins and when he adds it up guess how much it

added up to exactly enough money to pay his taxes and Jesus taxes which gives you Jesus position on taxes now we call that what a miracle only because we don't quite understand how it works. It doesn't mean it doesn't work. It simply means we don't quite understand how it works. 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. You say, well, is it as simple as writing a letter? And the answer is 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 need massive bombard pre-conscious subconscious. practice channeling find a 2000 year goal 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 pass on all that stuff 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 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 lately. Guy slips in late, company doesn't seem to mind, slips out early, first one in the parking lot heading for happy hour. stretches his break, comes early for lunch, late back from lunch, company doesn't seem to notice, guy says, best as I can calculate, I'm putting in about a half a day's work and I'm collecting a full day's pay. And the guy says, I got it made. Little does he know the seeds of his own disaster are already being sewn by the weakness of his own personal philosophy. It's not the economy that's going to determine your next six years. It's your philosophy about labor and

about activity and about miracle and soil and seed and sunshine and rain and the economy and the banks and the money and the companies and the schools and what's going on. It's your philosophy and your attitude and then your ability to take action. All of that we call the process of life change, miracle working. Number one, do what you can. Number two, do the best you can. Here was number four results every once in a while you got to take a measure see how you're doing with these three pieces philosophy attitude activity now we take a measure called results what is the results at the end of the day the results at the end of the week you can't let too much time go by without checking when time goes by six years

I'd been out there working when I met my teacher mr. Schoep said well mr. Let's just go through a little summary here. He said in the last six years how much money have you saved and invested? Let's go through a little tab list here. How much money have you saved and invested the last six years? I said what? Zero. He said you have messed up. You remember these notes. I like that. You messed up. He said who sold you on that plan? I thought my gosh, the man's right. I'm a nice guy. I bought the wrong plan. What if you were 50 and broke? Right? Didn't need to change countries bought the wrong plan. What a sad scenario that would be But Shoeb said these questions. Let's go through some results. He said how many books have you read in the last 90 days? I said what? Zero wisdom of the world available Change your life change your future Wisdom of the world available develop any skill you want earn the kind of income you want have all the treasures you want

Equities you want relationship with your family that you want everything that you want available and the wisdom of the world to help you get it haven't read any books in the last 90 days my teacher said mr. Rohn you have messed up I'm telling you you've got the deal show said mr. own in the last six months how many classes have you taken to improve your skills or to develop new skills go for the American dream become rich and powerful and sophisticated and healthy and influential how many classes have you taken the last six months I said how many Zero. He said you have messed up. He said you don't need to unmess the country. You don't need to straighten out the perplexed. You don't need to straighten out any of this stuff. All you've got to do is look within and let results teach you a great deal about your own activity, your own attitude, and your own philosophy. I went through that process. Take this phrase home. Results is the name of the game. other game is there results here's all life asks us to do make measurable progress in

reasonable time just take home that little phrase good phrase we're asked in life simply to make measurable progress in reasonable time we demanded of our children how many years do you want your child to spend in fourth grade approximately about one if it looks like they're not going to make it we pour on the pressure call legitimate pressure lack of results peer pressure, family pressure, school pressure, community pressure. Every other kind of pressure we can bring to bear. Why?

You can't stay more than one year in fourth grade. As parents, you'd have to leave the community. You'd say, well, what if they're nice kids? Wouldn't you give them three or four years? The answer's no. You got to make better progress than that. So you got to check fairly often. Some things you've got to check every day.

Some things you've got to check at least by the end of the week. Salesmen joined us a little sales company. Supposed to make 10 calls first week. Wouldn't it be legitimate? Call him in on Friday and say, John, what? How many calls? I mean, this stuff is simple. John says, well, say John, well won't fit in this little box here. Well, now John starts with a story. You say, John, I made this little box so small so a story won't fit. I don't need a story. I need what? A number. A number. What will a number tell me? Everything. John's supposed to make 10 calls. What if he made 20? You say, wow, wow, we got somebody. What if he only made one call? Whoa. Will that tell us something about John's philosophy? And the answer is yes. Will it tell us something about his attitude? Of course. Will it tell us something about his disciplines? Of course. And if he wants a lesson in life change, all he has to do is be willing to face the numbers and

come up with the results that will teach you to either celebrate if you got good results or fix whatever needs to be fixed in your philosophy, attitude, activity called disciplines. You don't need to go anywhere else. I do believe in affirmations. They are valuable as long as you affirm the truth because it says in ancient scripts the truth what will set you free. Free to do what? Amend your errors and pick up new disciplines.

That's what the truth is. for to help us amend our errors and pick up the disciplines for life change. That's what the truth is for. So I do believe in affirming the truth. If you're broke, the best thing to affirm is, I am broke. You put that up on the refrigerator where you can see it every day. I mean, that's how you do that. Now, if you need a little additional affirmation, you just put up there, I'm 40 and broke.

I mean, you know, that ought to do it. And if you need just a little more, put up there, I live in America and I'm 40 and broke. That's enough to turn your life around. It says, hey, something is wrong. Somewhere I have messed up. And I'm telling you, if you'll start with that, it's called the process of life change, and it doesn't matter how small the process is to start.

One discipline starts it, and then one discipline feeds another, feeds another. And the first thing you know, you've got this whole cycle in an upward positive motion. And it's called life change. It's called income change. It's called health change. Relationship with your family change.

equities unprecedented that you can have in numbers that will stagger the imagination if you do not curse what's available and start amending what's possible to get the results that you want. I don't think I can put it in any better language. That's it. Kids can do it. Teenagers can do it. Parents can do it. Managers can do it. Right?

Government officials can do it. Anybody can do this stuff called personal change. Wow. Results is the name of the game. Success is a numbers game. Good note to make. Success is a numbers game. You've got to go for the numbers. You've got to understand what the numbers are. How many pounds overweight should you be at age 50? Approximately. John says I got big bones. We'll give you 10 pounds. 10 pounds for big bones. Otherwise, come on, John. 20 pounds, 25 pounds. Shouldn't we turn on the caution light at work and at home? Blinking caution lights? And this is what's that caution? So John's up about 20, 25 pounds. We got the blinking light going at home, got to go in here at work. To remind him what? Wrong numbers.

Okay, 35, 40 pounds, red light, blinking at home. So he said, what's that blinking red light? John's up about 40 pounds. 50 pounds. We got the siren. Ah, ah, ah, what's that siren at home and at work? John's up about 50 pounds. Cholesterol, almost out of control.

Come on. Success is a numbers game. I'm asking you to be mature enough to start checking your own numbers. How many books have you read in the last 90 days? Transform your life become cultured powerful sophisticated healthy influential all the rest of the stuff you want how many books how many classes How committed are you to taking what's available and turning it into equities unprecedented? Since we live in a country that there's been such country in the last six and a half thousand years. If you'll pick up that process, ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you it's called life change

of the best order. Now here's the last one. Number five is called lifestyle. Lifestyle is simply learning how to live well. The last of the five major pieces. Here's the ultimate challenge of life. I've worked on this. You cannot believe how hard since age 25.

And that is, after applying better philosophy, attitude, and activity, and picking now up results, what are results for? Here's my ultimate challenge on results. To fashion, good word to jot down, fashion, fashion for yourself lifestyle, or what we call the good life. That's the ultimate challenge. To take your results, take your money, take your results, take the return, take the, equities you've gathered and now fashion for yourself a good life like weaving a tapestry. And Mr. Schof gave me all kinds of examples on lifestyle.

He gave me two phrases that helped change my life. In case you have to leave early, let me give you these two phrases. It'll be worth the price of coming and being here today. Just take these two phrases home in case you have to leave early. Here's number one. Shoev said, Mr. Lohn, if you wish to be wealthy, study wealth. When he said that, I said, my gosh. I don't know anybody that studies wealth.

Where am I going to learn it? He said, never mind, Mr. Rohn, now that you've met me, if you'll be with me for a while, he said, and if you'll commit yourself, he said, I will teach you. And he taught me. He taught me the books. He taught me the stuff. Change my life.

For the time I was 31, I was a millionaire. The man taught me well. If you wish to be wealthy, well. If you were to show me your present. economic plan in a personal conversation between you and me you say mr. own let me disclose for you my current economic financial plan for the future would i get so excited i'd say hey i'm going to go across the country and lecture on your plan and if the answer is no mr own you probably wouldn't want to go across the country and lecture on my plan here's my question to you why not

why wouldn't you have a superior powerful financial plan that's taking you to the places you want to go. I'm asking you if you find yourself caught like I was at age 25, make the personal commitment today and say I'm going to study and I'm going to change. And five years from now, nobody's going to be able to say how come you don't have a superior plan living in a superior country with superior opportunity? Nobody's going to be able to say that five years from now of me. If you'll make that commitment, I'm telling you, this will be one of the most exciting days of your life, not because of my seminar. It'll be one of the most exciting days of your life because of your commitment to this simple little process I've outlined for you. Here was the second

phrase. Mr. Shoeff said, Mr. O'n, if you wish to be happy, study, happiness. I didn't know happiness was a study. My best hope for happiness at age 25 was to just go through the day with my fingers crossed. Open somehow. Something would make me happy. Shoeff said, no, Mr. Rohn. Happiness is not something you postpone. Happiness is not something off in the future. Happiness is something you design. You've got to get the word.

Happiness is something you design. Happiness is a study. Happiness is a practice. Happiness is an art. It's not an accident. It's an art. And anybody that wants to can study. Practice, the art, happy living.

Happiness is like culture. Money doesn't make you culture. But culture is not. within the grasp of all of us. How much is a book on sophistication in the marketplace? $4,000? No, $40. I'm telling you in America everything's available. Everything's within reach. All you have to be is committed to it and make it a study. Culture is a study. Sofistication is a study. It's not an amount. It's not an account. It's a study. Money doesn't make you sophisticated in culture. I know a guy that's rich. He's a clodd.

The guy's a clawed. He eats with his elbow in his soup. I mean, he's just a clawed. Nothing much more pitiful than a rich clawed. I mean, it's a sad thing to see. Money doesn't make you sophisticated. Only study and practice makes you sophisticated. Only study and practice makes you culture.

And only study and practice makes you happy. Study and practice makes you rich. Key phrase, don't be lazy in learning. One, how to do well. Next, how to live well. Don't be lazy in learning and practicing the art of economics, practicing the art of productivity, and practicing the art of lifestyle. Shof taught me in such simple terms. Shof said, Mr. O'Ne, if you're getting your shoes shine, Shoe Shine boy has done an exceptional job.

You look down, you've got one of the world's all-time great shines, and you pay him. Now you've got a little change in your hand. Question pops in your mind. Should I give him one quarter or two quarters as a tip from a neat shine? Here's what Chilf said. If two amounts pop in your mind, always go for the higher amount and become the higher thinking person. That helped change my life. Here's what he said.

Become a two-quarter person. Now, you can tell that was a long time ago when a quarter was a good tip. Now it takes dollars. But just substitute $1992, dollars for people. quarters. Shof said, hey, if you, you know, are thinking one quarter or two quarters, and you say, well, no, I'll just give him one quarter. He said, that'll affect you the rest of the day. The rest of the day, you'll look down, see this great shine, you'll say, I've got to be really cheap, one lousy quarter, tip from a shine. But he said, if you'll go for the two quarters,

Shope said, you can't believe the extra happiness you can buy for just an extra quarter. That's called studying and practicing the art of lifestyle, which means living. well. Money doesn't make you happy. Father wads up a $20 bill throws it at his son and says if you need the darn stuff that bad take it just get out of my face. How sad a father with money and no joy. He studied economics but he never studied joy. I'm asking you to turn that around. Turn that all around. I did a seminar one time, St. Louis, Missouri. When I finished a seminar like this, man walked up and said, Mr. Owen, you've really gotten to me.

He said, I'm going to change my philosophy, I'm going to change my attitude, I'm going to change my life, I'm going to change everything. He said, you've touched me today. And he said, you'll hear about me. You'll hear my story someday. I said, okay, right? A lot of people, right, say things. Sure enough, a few months later, I come back to St. Louis, did another seminar. When I finished my seminar, I saw this man come walking up.

I didn't remember his name, but he said, I'm sure you'll remember me as the man who said, I'm going to go make some changes. You've touched me today. I said, I do remember you. He said, I'm telling you, things are already happening for me. I cannot believe in just a matter of months. He said, one of the things I decided to change was my relationship with my family. He said, my wife and I have two lovely teenage daughters.

Parents couldn't ask for any more beautiful, lovely daughters. And he said, I'm the only one that's given him trouble. said these daughters of ours have never given us any trouble he said i've usually been the one all these years given all the trouble and all the stat he said my daughters love to go to the rock concerts and i'm always giving them trouble they have to beg me for the money said i don't want you to go you stay out too late music's too loud you're gonna ruin your hearing won't be able to hear the rest of your life and he said i just get on their case and he said they keep begging keep begging finally when they beg long enough i say all right here's the money

if you have to go that bad just go said that's how I've been up until now. But he said after I left your seminar I decided to change all that called lifestyle living well. He said you won't believe it. Not long ago I picked up the newspaper and I saw an advertisement and I knew my two daughters it was one of their favorite performers was coming to town. He said guess what I did he said I went down and bought the tickets myself and brought them home put them in an envelope and when I saw my daughters later that day he said I handed them this envelope and I said to my two lovely daughters you may not believe it but inside this envelope

are two tickets for the upcoming concert they could not believe and he also added you'll be happy to know begging days are over now they cannot he said now don't open the envelope until you get to the concert they said okay so they go to the concert come concert time open up the envelope hand the tickets to the usher he says follow me and he starts down front the girl say hey hold it hold it something must be wrong he takes another look says no nothing's wrong follow me 10th row center now they cannot leave 10th row center the only tickets they were able able to ever to beg for was right third balcony can't see he said I stayed up

little late that night sure enough little after midnight my two daughters come bursting through the front door one of them lands in my lap the other one's got her arms around my neck they're both saying you got to be one of the all-time world's great fathers he said mr. own you're right I can't believe same money different father he said I've started making the changes and I decided to start with my teenagers my girls he said what a difference it's making in my life and I'm telling you you can do that with your lifestyle you can do it with your sales career, you can do it with your management career. You can do it with any part of your

life. If you're looking for equities unmatched, do not curse the only thing you have. Don't complain about the only thing you have, which is seed and soil, sunshine, rain, miracle and seasons. 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.