The Resilient Mind - Transform From Within: The Key To Lasting Change - Jim Rohn

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

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 Transform from Within, The Key to Lasting Change, with Jim Rohn. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. Get better. There isn't any of us that can't get better. So turn on this whole idea of personal development and personal growth.

That was what my teacher shared with me that changed my life. starting a few steps from here at that convention. I'm telling you, for things to get better, you've got to get better. Don't ask for it to change out there, ask for you to change here. Don't ask for a more favorable wind. We call that naive. Don't ask for better seed, better soil. This is the only planet you got.

Just ask that you can get wiser and stronger and better be able to take care of your own responsibilities. Get better. Learn how to handle the seasons better. Let's go through them. Just get better at handling the winters. You can't change the winter. You can't change the seasons, but you can change yourself. You see, well, what can I do about the upcoming winters of my life? The challenges that I know I'm going to face. Here's what you can do. You can get wiser and stronger and better.

Just make a list of that trio of words. Wiser, stronger, and better. Go home smarter than you came. Go home with more ideas than you came with. Next, get stronger. You can develop the muscle. You can develop the courage muscle. You can develop the inspiration muscle. You can develop the dedication muscle. You can get stronger.

There isn't anybody here that can't get stronger. Next time we see you may not even recognize you. How strong you're going to be able to become in language and style and personality, the ability to cope, the ability to handle with the time. anything that happens no matter what happens. And the third one is get better. We can all get better. I've gotten better.

First talk I gave, I stood up. My mind sat back down. But here's the secret to my success. I stood up and did it again. I stood up and I did it again. And I did it again and I did it again all those many years ago. I did it when I was scared

and I did it when I didn't want to and I did it when I was ill. And I did it when it didn't work well. And I didn't did it when they didn't appreciate it. And I didn't a lot of times. when I didn't know much what I was doing. I just did it anyway. And now all these years later,

I'm asked to walk on this stage with the greatest introduction I've ever had, greatest response and welcome I've ever had, the greatest opportunity I've ever had to touch this many lives with a mixture of words and heart and soul. I got better. I got better day by day and week by week and month by month,

and I'm asking you to do the same thing until you can develop a long arm and a long reach, until you can develop influence that won't quit. Touch people next year you couldn't touch this year. Touch people now you couldn't touch before. Conduct a meeting now you couldn't conduct before. Heart and soul now, mixed in there that wasn't there, missing before.

I'm asking all of you to get better. In spite of the winters, in spite of the downturn, the money downturn, the social downturn, the personal downturn, whatever it is. Just get stronger. Get better. The key is not to wish for a better winter. The key is to wish for more strength.

more wisdom, more courage, get better, get wiser, get stronger. Here's number two. Learn to take advantage of the spring. Spring means opportunity and we've got a fresh spring going here. It's called a spring like no other. A spring an opportunity like no other for you. But here's the clue. Spring is not a guarantee of a harvest in the fall and the autumn harvest on. Here's what you must learn to do. Underline the two words if you're taking notes take advantage Take advantage of the spring don't just be faked out by the spring because the nice weather has come Looks like everything is going to be a lot better the winter's finally passed the spring is here I'm telling you that's not going to do it for you just because the spring is here is not going to do it for you

You got to seize it with your own two hands and take advantage read the books study the tapes go back through your notes notes, get ready to cash in on the spring. And now there's a sense of urgency here. Here's why, spring doesn't last that long. Sooner, let's take advantage of it. It's called take advantage of the spring. And there's also an urgency here.

How many springs have you got in a lifetime? Not very many. Life is brief at the longest. The Beatles wrote, life is very short. And for John Lennon, it was extra short. For Michael Landon, it was extra short. was extra short. But it is short.

There's an urgency here. Don't waste your springs. Don't just let them pass, pass, pass, hoping the time will pass. Take advantage. Last year it was seized the moment. And I'm asking you now this season to seize the spring opportunity.

You've got a new organization going, seize the spring. You've got a new distributor going, seize the spring. You've got a new life situation going, seize the spring. Take advantage. of it. Don't let it pass without giving it the best of your two hands and your attention.

Number three, first, learn how to handle the winter, second, take advantage of the spring. Number three, in the summer, learn to nourish and protect. We've got some major challenges now come summertime. One is to nourish our values, take care of them, feed them. Don't let them go hungry. Don't let them go wanting in nourishment and care. care. Then here's something else we've got to do in the summer. Defend ourselves against the enemies. Summertime is a unique time. It's a time of opportunity. It's also a time of challenge.

Whatever threatens you, I'm asking you to threaten it back. Take care of your responsibility, but don't take anything off of anybody. Somebody wants to destroy your chances for a good future by their negative talk, negative thinking, putting it all down. I'm telling you, walk away. if you have to, walk away. Whatever threatens you threaten it back, whatever threatens your opportunity, threaten it back. Now, some of our enemies are on the outside, but here's the most important thing to understand.

Some of our enemies are on the inside. Let me give you a quick list. Indifference. You've got to do battle with your own indifference. Boy, it's easy to coast, especially if you've accomplished something, you know, extraordinary now. Somebody says, I've got to relax. Here's the key.

Not too long. The weeds will take all your plant if you rest too long. Don't rest too long. Indecision, you got to make those decisions. The ones that don't turn out to be good, gives you experience to make better decisions. Don't let much time go by without making some decisions. The ones that you can make quickly, make them quickly. The ones that take time, take your time.

But get those decisions made. Don't let indecision be an enemy, rob you of the future, empty your bank account, leave you with zero in the purse. Don't let that happen. The next one is doubt. Sure, there's doubts on the outside. People doubt that America's going to make it. People doubt that Europe's going to make it.

People doubt that Russia's going to make it. The Poland's going to make it. The Czechoslovakia is going to make it. They doubt the whole world is going to make it. But I'm asking you not to pick up all those doubts. I'm asking you to have some faith, have some courage, believe, drive your doubts into a small corner. Don't let them loose like a mad dog.

drive you into a small corner. Don't doubt the future. Don't doubt the possibilities. Don't doubt the extraordinary gifts that your distributors bring to your organization. Don't doubt that. And here's the most important one of all. Don't doubt yourself. If I've got miracle working power to change my life, so do you. If I've got the ability to change, so do you. If I've got the ability to read, so do you. If I can discover, so can you. If I can grow, you can develop, you can develop. If I can get an invitation like I got six years ago, help take something around the world, so can you. If I can stand on this platform, Idaho farm boy raisin obscurity, so can you. If the millionaire team can do it, president's team can do it, walk off with the diamonds, the

trophy, so can you. I'm asking you, don't sell yourself short. We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. Now, it takes time to bring value to the marketplace. However, We do not get paid for time. So we cross that out. Mistakenly, the man says, I'm making about $20 for an hour. Not true. If that was true, you could just stay home, right? And have them send your money. So that's not true. We don't get paid for time. We get paid for value brought to the marketplace. Now, since that's true, here's one of the key questions of my talk to you today. Is it possible to become twice as valuable to the market place? place and make twice as much money in the same time. Is that possible? The answer is yes. Could you become three times as valuable as you might be right now to the marketplace and make three times as much money in the same time? And the answer is yes. Five times, ten times, of course. America is unique. It's a ladder decline. It starts down here, let's say, at $5 an hour,

and it keeps going up. Top income last year, $80 million. the guy who runs Coca-Cola. Now, that's a heck of a ladder. That's why everybody wants to come here, right? The boat people are not headed for Vietnam. People haven't plotted in scheme for 50 years saying, if I could just get to Poland, everything would be okay. Not true.

Everybody wants to come to America. And the reason is because we've got the best wind ever blowing in our favor. We've got the best economic opportunity anybody's had in six and a half thousand years. and all you have to do is understand it and take advantage of it. Now, there's some key questions to ask here. Why would the marketplace pay someone only $5 an hour? Very simple answer. They're not very valuable to the marketplace.

Now, we must underline to the marketplace. This person might be a very valuable brother. Yes, member of the family, valuable, yes. Valuable member of the church, of course. valuable citizen of the country? Yes. Valuable in the sight of God, no doubt. We're all of equal value in the sight of God. But if you're not very valuable to the marketplace, you don't get much money. You say, well, it shouldn't be that way. Well, then you've got to start your own country. You know, this one's been in process for 200 years, and this is the best we've been able to come up with so

far. But here's the key. You don't have to stay here. Now, there was a big debate in Congress last year that this $5 was not enough should be six should be six should be six should be six but we don't need legislation six is already on this ladder the next step up you know if you work for McDonald's they'll pay you five dollars an hour to take out the trash if you whistle while you take out the trash they'll pay you six dollars an hour so we don't need that legislation you need just need to take lessons on how to whistle have a good attitude now as you begin to climb this latter, why would the marketplace pay some people $50 an hour? Answer, evidently, they must be more

valuable to the marketplace, 10 times more valuable. And is that possible for someone to be 10 times more valuable and earn $50 an hour instead of five? And the answer is yes. That's what America is all about. Now, why would the marketplace pay some people $500 an hour? evidently this person must be much more valuable to the marketplace. That's what's important to understand to the marketplace. And would the marketplace pay one person $80 million for one year's work? And the answer is of course. If you helped a company make a billion dollars, would they pay you $80 million? I'm telling you it is possible. And that's why America is so exciting. That's why

this financial ladder is so exciting. It's possible for all of this to come true for all of you, no matter where you start. As a student in school, just getting started out there in the workplace, this is all possible for you. Now Mr. Schof gave me the clue on how to climb this ladder as high as I wanted to climb. Now we're talking primarily economics here. There's a lot of other ways to become valuable to your family, valuable to your friends, valuable to the community. valuable to the team, right? Valuable to the to the team effort, valuable to the concert. But here's what he said to me.

In climbing this ladder economically, all you have to do is work harder on yourself than you do on your job. Once I heard that, it made sense to me. I kept hoping that everything else would change around me, found out that if I went to work on myself, worked on my skills, worked on my language, if I became better than I was each year, if I grew in skills and language and vocabulary and competence, then I would become attractive to the marketplace.

Not very long ago, a company called me and said, Mr. Owen, we're expanding internationally. We'd like to have a bit of your expertise to help us. Would you give us a bit of your time? We'll add some millions to your fortune. And I said, okay. And I thought later, isn't that interesting they would call me? Then my second thought was, of course they'd call me. Who else would they call? I can get the job done.

Now, what a contrast for me, farm boy from Idaho, raised in obscurity, parents of modest means broke when I was 25. How come I would get a telephone call and someone offer me a lot of money to help them in expanding around the world? Simple answer, evidently. Something happened to me between age 25. and where I am today. And I can tell you where it all started.

From my teacher, Mr. Schof, who said to me, we don't have to change what's going on out there. That's the wind that's blowing. All we have to do is change what's going on in here. And now there's several ways to do that on personal development. And let me give you those ways. Here's the first one. We must learn from personal experience.

Pretty simple. Learn from what happens to you. Take a look back over the last few months. Did you make some mistakes? How could you correct those for the future? Take a look back over the last year. Have you done it right or done it wrong? Let's correct it for the next year. Learn from your personal experience. Mr. Schof asked me when I first met him. He said, Mr. O'n, how are you doing? You've been out there now six years and I said, I'm not doing very well. He said, I suggest you not do that anymore. What a simple swift analysis to my situation. He said, if you keep doing it, next six years will be like the last six. You don't want that to happen. Let's make the changes. So learn from your personal experience. Now here's number two why I came to share this video experience with you today. And that I call it OPE, other people's experiences. That's me, other

people. That's your teacher, other people. That's your friends and colleagues, other people. the people you meet that can pass along to you their experiences. What's happened to them? The mistakes they made. How they corrected them. How they changed their health and change their bank account and change their income and change their future. That's it. Other people.

Now, there's two kinds of people to learn from. One is failures. It's too bad failures. Don't give seminars, right? That would be valuable. Bring your notebook. Have them tell you how they lost it all and threw it all away, through their health away and through their friendships away and things didn't work out well,

that would be valuable. But now then we must also learn from positive people that have done well. They've got the health and so we asked them, how did you become so healthy? They've got the skills, so we asked them, how did you become this skillful? They've got the income, so we ask them, how did you get here in such a short period of time? So now here's what's important in personal development. In learning from other people, we learn number one by observation. We learn what we see. We watch people that are successful in what they do. In sports, we watch their disciplines. In business, we watch their disciplines by observation, what we can see. The reason I created this video is something that you could see someone's experiences translated for you.

Second, we learn by what we hear. I've got some of my lectures on cassette tapes, so you know, you can take them with you wherever you go, and learn by listening. Turn your car into a mobile classroom and listen. And then listen to the sermon on Sunday morning. Listen to the lectures. Listen to the teacher. Listen to someone who's got something good to say. And then number three is vitally important on personal development, and then number three is vitally important on personal development, And that is read all the books, all the books you can possibly read in your lifetime. Mr. Schof got me started on my library. I've got one of the better libraries.

Haven't read everything in it, but I feel smarter just walking in it by library. At least I was smart enough to buy it. Now I got to be smart enough to read it. Then, of course, I got to be smart enough to decide what's valuable and then do it. But this one is very important. Become a good reader. Some books that helped change my life. Mr. Schof recommended, of course, the buy, And my parents made sure I was a pretty good scholar by the time I was 18. That's been so beneficial for me, drawing from those illustrations, reading about those stories, people who made it and people who didn't make it and what the difference was.

And then other books that helped to really change my life, one called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. And then a book that helped me become financially independent by the time I was 31. And that book is called The Richest Man in Babylon. by George Clayson. And I'm going to share a little bit of that book with you when I get to Financial Independence today, our third subject. But I started reading the books, attending the classes, making sure that I got in front of people that had something good to say. And then I started keeping a journal. One of the major things my teacher taught me was to keep a journal. He said,

don't trust your memory. If you hear something good, just make a little note and write it down. Now at first I took you know notes on pieces of paper and torn off corners and backs of old envelopes and it didn't serve me well, you know, thrown in a drawer. Then I learned to keep a journal, a bound copy of all my notes. So I would suggest you do the same. Things that impress you, a poem that impresses you. When you attend a class, some of the ideas that impressed you, jot them down. You read something in a magazine, right? Some ideas. Take those out, put them in your, you. your journal, keep a good journal the rest of your life, this will serve you well. My journals make up a significant portion of my own library.

And if you saw my library and saw my journals, I'd tell you what you'd have to say. This is the library and these are the journals of a very serious student. No wonder Mr. Rhone is invited to lecture and speak on his experiences around the world. So I want the same thing to happen to you. Value captured that you can resort to later, go back over it and review it and let it become valuable to you. So that's my first subject, personal development. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. Develop the skills, learn the lessons, take the classes, absorb all that is being taught to you these days. And then later on, of course, you can sort it out what's valuable to you

and how to refine it for your business and for your life and for your future. But the main thing is to get it and start this process of personal change, personal development. And let me me, you know, say it one more time if you will change everything will change for you thank you for tuning in continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes