The Resilient Mind - Take Action (Walk Away From The 95%) - Jim Rohn

Episode Date: March 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 Take Action with Jim Rohn. Get access to the Mental Mastery Program and other exclusive episodes by becoming a subscriber. Enjoy. Take action. Not hasty if it isn't required, but don't lose much time. Here's the time to act. When the idea is hot and the emotion is strong. That's the time to act.

See, Mr. Run, I'd like to have a library like yours. See, if you feel strong about that, what you've got to do is get the first book and then get the second book. Before the feeling passes and before the idea gets dim, action, Pronto, action immediate, action as soon as possible. Because if you don't, here's what happens. We call it the law of diminishing intent. We intend to when the idea strikes us. We intend to when the emotion is high.

But now if you don't translate that into action fairly soon, now the intent starts to diminish, diminish, diminishing, diminishing. And a month from now it's cold year from now can't be found so act set up a discipline when the emotions are high and the idea is strong and clear and powerful That's the time to set up the discipline somebody talks about good health and you're stirred right? You need to get a book on nutrition get the book before the idea passes and before the emotion gets cold Go for the book start the library start the process fall on the floor do some push-ups Action. Got to take action. Otherwise, the wisdom is wasted. Otherwise, the emotion soon passes. Unless you put it into a disciplined activity. Capture it. Disciplines is called how to capture the emotion

and how to capture the wisdom and translate it into equate. Disciplines. Now here's what's important about disciplines. All disciplines affect each other. In fact, here's a good philosophical phrase. Everything affects everything in. Nothing stands alone. They'll be naive in saying, well, this doesn't matter. I'm telling you everything matters. There are some things that matter more than others, but there isn't anything that doesn't matter. We all pity the man and says, well, this is the only place I let down. Not true.

Key to take home. Every letdown affects the rest of your performance. Every letdown affects the rest. This is part of the educational process on personal development. If you don't take the walk around the block, You probably won't do the apple a day. If you don't do the apple a day, you probably won't consist, you know, start building your library. If you don't build your library, you probably won't keep a journal and you won't take pictures.

And you won't do this, you won't do wise things with your money, won't do wise things with your time, won't do wise things with your possibilities and relationships. And the first thing you know, six years of that accumulated, and we say you have messed up. So the whole key to reversing that process now is to start picking up these disciplines. Now here's the positive side. Every new discipline affects the rest of the business. affects the rest of your disciplines. Every new one affects the rest. That's why action is so important the least action the smallest action Take it because when you start accomplishing and the value starts to return from that one action

It'll inspire you to do the next one and the next one and the next one and the next one You start walking around the block. It'll inspire you to get an apple get an apple. It'll inspire you to get a book Get a book it'll inspire you to get a journal get a journal. It'll inspire you to grow develop some skills All disciplines affect each other every lack affects the rest every new effect the rest. The key is to diminish the lack and set up the new and you've started a whole new life process. Also, one more thought on discipline. Here's the greatest value of discipline. Self-worth. Self-esteem. People are teaching self-esteem these days, but they don't connect it to discipline. The least lack of discipline and it starts to erode our psyche. One of the greatest temptations

is to just ease up a little bit. The slightest lack of doing your best starts to erode the psyche. Instead of doing your best, doing just a little less than your best. Sure enough. You say, well, it's just going to affect my sales. No, it's going to affect your consciousness. It's going to affect your philosophy. Now you've begun in the slightest way to affect your own philosophy.

Here's the problem with the least neglect. Neglect starts as an infection. And if you don't take care of it, it becomes a disease. And one neglect leads to another. And the worst of all, when neglect starts, it diminishes our self-worths, our self-confidence, our self-value. You say, well, how can I get back my self-respect? I'm telling you, you don't have to go to 29 classes.

All you have to do is start the smallest discipline that now corresponds to your own philosophy like I should and I could and I will. No longer will I let neglect stack up on me so that I will have the sorry scenario six years from now giving some excuse instead of celebrating my progress. That's the key to discipline.

Let's get kids involved in the least of discipline. One more and then one more and then another one and then another one and then some more. And the first thing you know you're starting to weave the tapestry of a disciplined life into which you can pour more wisdom and more attitude and more strong feeling more faith and more courage. Now you've got something in a vessel in which to put it and now the equity start to flow. And the early return, I'm telling you if you'll start this process, the early

return will have you so excited. You'll commit yourself to this strategy for the rest of your life. You'll never go back to the old ways. Join a new crowd, join a new group. The disciplines to do it, take action. I recommended the last time I was here, the little book, Richest Man in Babylon, and I said, I've lectured now to over three million people in the last. last 33 years and I've recommended this little book to almost all of them I think guess how many have actually gone and got this little book answer very few my best guess is 10% such an easy thing to do in that last seminar right I suggested this little book number one is easy to find number two it's easy to buy

the most you can pay for it six seven eight dollars you can borrow that from your kids and number three it's easy to read it's in story form That's why I use it for teenager teaching them how to be rich by 40, 35 if you're extra bright much sooner if you find a unique opportunity But if it's easy to find and easy to buy and if it's easy to read why wouldn't everybody go get it? We don't know What do you know you don't know? You don't know I don't know nobody knows Here's how profound it is some do and Some don't now here's the numbers about 10% do 90% don't Or won't. We don't know the mystery of that. And I'm telling you 10 years some now those numbers will still be the same. 10% will 90% won't.

The numbers don't change. Only the faces change. You're looking at one of the faces. I used to belong to the 90% who couldn't be bothered even if it was easy. Guess how many people have a library card? Wisdom of the world available transform your life in any value amount you want. By the way, how much is a library card in Texas? Free, here's what free is. Easy. I mean, it can't be any easier than free. Somebody says, well, would you bring it by? Well, no, at least you gotta go get it.

No. Wisdom of the world available. Transform your life, spiritually, socially, personally, economically, and every other way. Teach you how to be rich and powerful and sophisticated and healthy, influential. How many people have a library card? Answer, 3%.

95, 97% could. be bothered. Guy specializes in happy hour, but he doesn't have a card. And now readily and quickly blames the government and blames his company and blames policy and blames the pay scale. When if he only knew, if he joined the 3%, here's my advice to you today, walk away from the 97%. Don't talk like they talk.

Don't act like they act. Don't go where they go. Don't specialize in what they specialize in. Throw away the blame list they cling to. Start you a new life. You say, well is it as simple, it's getting a library card and join the 3% and the answer is? Of course, of course. That's how easy this stuff is.

This is so easy, it's so simple, it's not complex. You don't need a 2,000 year old guru. You don't need multi-track affirmations. I'm telling you don't. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Don't let somebody sweep you into some contrary way to nature itself, says, I'm telling you unless you labor, the miracle of the seed and the soil and the seasons and God and all the other stuff that's available, sunshine and rain, that's not available to you by affirmation.

It is only available to you by labor. So labor well, learn well, discipline yourself well. And you can have all the treasures you want. This stuff's easy and simple. It's not ocean waves and sea goles. You don't have to move to Sedona where all the forest fields comes together in Arizona. Let's teach our kids the simple ways to do. transform their health number one their economics number two their ability to

communicate number three their life and treasure and lifestyle number four spirituality number five and the list goes on and on let's not leave out any of the least of disciplines that encourages to do the next one to do the next one to do the next one to do the next one first thing you know this whole scenario for you is spinning up instead of out of control on the negative side this is all you got to do it's as simple as this it's as simple as a start committing yourself to life change and once you start down this road I promise you you'll join the 10% and the 3% We're gonna talk financial independence in just a little while guess how many people can retire from the income of their own personal resources when it comes time to retire

Answer 5% in the most independent country in the world 95% are dependent 5% are independent Take charge of your own retirement I'm telling you if you take charge of your own retirement through personal development and all these skills we've taught today Plus what's coming up financial independence I'm telling you take charge of your own retirement you can multiply it at least by five maybe by 10 maybe by 20 maybe by 100 let the government take care of it some company take care of it you got to divide by five take charge of your own life take charge of your own day take charge of your own conversation take charge of your own

family take charge of your own possibilities and learn these skills develop this kind of strategy and I'm telling you life will open up for you join the 3% join the 10 percent join the 5% walk away from the 95% In our leadership weekend we teach, find out what poor people read and don't read it. I'm telling you, don't talk like they talk. Lend a helping hand, but don't fall into their poor philosophical scenario. Don't blame what they blame. Don't use the excuses they use.

It's called the language of the poor. Switch gears, switch language, switch ideas, switch strategy. Start with the simplest of discipline. And don't be mean any of these disciplines. The smallest of discipline starts the process of life. change and if you'll invest in this thing called discipline you can have whatever you wish it's called the beginning of a miracle now here's the last clue on discipline do the best you can we covered earlier but here's a good scenario for

the do the best you can I've got a good question for you is the best you can do all you can do and the answer is no strangely enough if we all fell on the floor right now and did as many push-ups as we possibly could and let's say for some reason you haven't been into push-ups lately I can't imagine why but let's say and let's say the best you can do is five and you look up at the rest of us and say hey five is the best I can do we can tell but a look on your face that's probably true five is the best you can do now is five all you can do the answer is no if you rest a little you can do five more and if you rest a little you can do five more and if you rest a little you

can do fifteen more how did we get from five to fifteen It's a miracle and if you rest a little you can do 15 rest a little you can do 15 rest a little you can do 20 How did you get from five to 20? It's a miracle Did you know you can keep doing that do a little more rest a little do a little more rest a little and finally get up to 50 push-ups? Is it possible to get up to 50 push-up? Of course How do you go from 5 to 50? It's a miracle How do you get a miracle going number one? Do what you can. Don't leave out what you can

from riding a leather to your mother in Florida start cleaning it all up to do in the push-ups go from five to 50 it's a miracle number one do what you can number two do the best you can here's number three rest very little don't rest too long why the weeds take the garden kids have got that figured out can't rest too long here's the clue make rest a necessity not an objective the objective of life is not to rest the objective of life is to rest the objective of life is to act. Think of more disciplines. Think of more ways and means in which to use your own wisdom and your own philosophy and use your own attitude, your own faith, your own courage, your own

commitment, your own desires, your own excitement. Invest it, invest it, invested, invested, invested in discipline so that it's not wasted, the smallest of discipline, thereby transform your life. Join the 5%, join the 10%, join the 3%. Guess when I went and got this little book, Richest Man in Babylon. The same day, I heard you. heard about it. I went and got it. Somebody says, well, Mr. Rohn, does that make you different than most other people? And the answer is yes. Somebody says, well, why is that? We don't know. We don't know. What do you know? You don't know? I don't know. None of us knows. Some do and some don't. The numbers don't change. Only the faces change. From those who get in on a seminar like this,

Listen to a dynamic sermon read a book listen to some cassettes take seriously the next conversation of a friend who wants to level with you and do something about it and you can walk away from the 97% not live there anymore Because if you don't the next six years of your life will be like the last six Mr. Schoves said to me mr. own six years now you've been working I'm telling you the next six years your life is going to be like the last six unless you take advantage and start making these personal changes I made the changes totally revolutionized my life So take a look at the next five years of your life. It's going to be like the last five unless, unless, unless, unless you change. And if you will change, everything will change.

Join the 5%. Ten years from now, the numbers are going to be the same. But I'm telling you, some faces in this audience can change and start showing up in the 3% crowd, in the 5% crowd, and the 10% crowd, and thereby dynamically affect your life. in your future develop these strengths how do you know if you're successful really successful how do you know especially when your success could be so vastly different from someone else's success here's how you measure results making measurable progress in reasonable time that's all life asks making

measurable progress in reasonable time so you You've got to be reasonable with time. Don't be unreasonable with time, parents. Don't be unreasonable with time. Managers, brokers, business associates. Have a little patience. You can't ask somebody every five minutes. How are you doing now?

That's too soon. The guy says I haven't left the building yet. Give me a break. So five minutes is too soon to ask. So five years is what? Too long and too late. So what is reasonable time to ask for results as a measure of progress? Here's number one at the end of the day.

You can't let more than a day go by without getting some things done, some letters written, having a conversation with your son or daughter. You can't postpone the important more than a day. When you work on the job, there are some things you've got to get done within a day. You've got to make some calls within a day. a day. Your health disciplines. You've got to get those done within a day. You can't carry over. You can't say, well, I'll eat nine apples ten days from now. No, it's an apple a day. A day. Some things you've got to get done within a day. So at five minutes to midnight and you haven't

gotten your apple in yet, munch away and get it done. A day. Here's what's next. A week. Some things you've got to get done within a week. Stuff on the job, calls made, activities. A week is a good chunk of time. Can't let more than a week go by without taking a look and a measure to see how you're doing. John joins this little sales company. He's supposed to make 10 calls the first week.

Just to get acquainted out there in the marketplace. Would it be legitimate to call John in on Friday and say what? How many calls did you make? That's legitimate. It's legitimate time to ask for a measurable amount of progress. He's supposed to make ten calls. Come Friday, how many calls did you make? John says, well, you say, John, well, won't fit in my little box here. I just need a number. Now John starts with a story. You say, John, the reason I made this little box so small is so a story won't fit. I don't need a story. I just need a number. Now here's one of the better phrases to take home.

The numbers tell us the whole story. The numbers tell us the whole story. Success is a numbers game. There are three important questions to ask yourself in this area. Here's number one. How much money have you saved and invested during your career? Second question. In the last 90 days, how many books have you read? To invest in the miracle of your mind, give you ideas to ponder, fashion your future with meticulous care. How many books have you read in the last 90 days? Third question, in the last six months, how many classes have you taken to improve your skills?

Or to develop new skills for your future and your family? How many classes in the last six months? I'm telling you, numbers tell us everything. Success is a numbers game. You've got to make progress. You've got to make progress in reasonable time. You've got to take a look at the numbers and see how you're doing. It's the name of the game.

How often should you weigh the new baby? Well, you say, I'll weigh the new baby next spring. No, you can't wait to know. until next spring. Don't you have to weigh the new baby often? And the answer is yes, of course, to see what? To see whether it's gaining weight or it's losing weight. What if it's losing weight?

The alarm bells have got to go off. You can't let a little baby lose weight very long. It's called disaster. These numbers are important. How often should you check the corporation to see if it's healthy or not? You say, well, in a couple of years, we'll get all accountants together no you'll be out of business in Las Vegas the big gambling

houses guess how often they put together a financial statement to see where they are several times a day why so much is happening if you don't learn when to shut down some of those tables you'll be out of business by midnight you can't wait till midnight you can't wait till tomorrow tomorrow's too late you've got to know the numbers what is your cholesterol count. You don't know and you don't care? You've just got your fingers crossed for the future? We'd better come and get your family and take them to safety. Come on, be responsible for the set of your own sale. Leave it to no one else but yourself and learn to refine these numbers for yourself.

How many pounds overweight should you be at age 50? John says, well, I've got big bones. Well, we'll give you 10 pounds for big bones, but hey, 25, 30 pounds. And we've got to turn on the caution light at home and at the office. Somebody says, what's that flashing caution light? John's up about 20, 25 pounds. 35, 40 pounds, and the flashing red light comes on at home and at the office. Somebody says, what's that flashing red light?

John's up about 40 pounds. 50 pounds and the siren. goes off. Somebody says, what's that siren? John's over 50 pounds. I'm asking you to take charge of your own life. Be responsible for your own life. Be responsible for your own retirement. Be responsible for your own health. Don't just drift along with the crowd. Those who don't care. Don't care to be responsible about the numbers, meticulous about the number. Some of these numbers have got to be coming down like your cholesterol. Some of these numbers have got to be going up, like the number of books in your library.

Don't be satisfied until you've looked at all your own numbers and be responsible. Don't wait for somebody to come along. What if nobody comes along? You've got to be responsible yourself. Results are the name of the game. Let's check the numbers. Don't be satisfied with anything less than the best of numbers. Thank you for tuning into this episode of the Resilient Mind podcast, where we're committed to empowering you with the knowledge and tools to strengthen your mind. We hope you found this episode with Jim Rohn helpful and valuable. If you enjoyed the episode, please consider subscribing or donating to our podcast.

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