The Resilient Mind - Why You Can’t Stop Now: The Reasons You Won’t Give Up - Jim Rohn

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

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 Why You Can't Stop Now with Jim Rohn. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. Mr. Schofe put it to me this way. He said, Jim, if you had enough reasons, you could do the most incredible things. I never forgot how he put that. If you have enough reason.

See, reasons. will change your whole life. Mr. Shoev said to me, said, Mr. O'n, I think you've got plenty of intelligence, you've got plenty of talent, you've got plenty of ability. Probably what you lack is plenty of reasons. He said, I don't think your current bank balance is a true indication of your level of intelligence.

I was happy to hear that. He said, I think you're much smarter than your present bank balance indicates. And that turned out to be true. I was much smarter. But of course my first question was, well then why isn't it bigger? And he said, you don't have enough reasons. You've got enough intelligent, but not enough reasons.

So see, reasons can change your life. Here's what else I found out. Reasons come first, answers come second. You don't get the answers to do well till you get the reason. Life has a mysterious way of hands. hanging on to all the answers, and only gives them up to the people that are inspired by reasons. So reasons make the difference in how your life works out. Now, what are some of the reasons for doing well?

Let's go through a quick list called reasons for doing well. First is personal reasons. Some people do well for recognition. Some people do well for respect. Some people do well for the way it makes them feel. They love the feeling of being a way. winner. Those are good reasons. I have some millionaire friends that keep working 10, 12 hours a day, making more millions. And it's not because they need the money. It's because they need the joy

and the satisfaction and the pleasure that comes from being a constant winner. And see, it's not just the money anyway. It's the journey, not the money. Once in a while somebody says to me, Boy, if I had a million dollars, I'd never work another day in my life. That's probably why the good Lord sees to it. They don't get their million, but they'd quit. They'd quit. Okay. Next is family reasons.

Some people do extremely well for other people, and that's powerful. Human beings can greatly affect each other. Sometimes we will do things for somebody else we will not do for ourselves. We're made that way. I met a man one time who said, Mr. Oan, to do all the things I want to do with my family around the world, he said I got to have at least a quarter of a million dollars a year. I thought, incredible.

Could a guy's family affect him that much? And the answer is, of course. How fortunate are the people that find themselves greatly affected by somebody? for personal achievement. And we are affected. The writer of a recent song said, If not for you, the winter would hold no spring,

couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you. So we can be affected. That might be one of the most stimulating reasons to do well, finding somebody. When Andrew Carnegie died, The wee little Scotsman that built the big steel industry.

When he died, they opened up his desk, and in one of the desk drawers they found a slip of paper. On that piece of paper, Mr. Carnegie had written his goal for his life, and he wrote it when he was in his 20s. And on that piece of paper, it said, I'm going to spend the first half of my life accumulating money. I'm going to spend the last half of my life giving it all. Away. What a goal. He got so inspired by that goal that the first half of his life he accumulated

$450 million, and the last half of his life he gave it all away. Good question tonight. What's got you turned on? What's got you bombed out of sight to get up early and stay up late and hit it all day? Next question. What's got you turned off? When I found the answers to those two questions, my life exploded into change. I finally found out what had me turned off, and I got that cured. And then I got me a long enough list of reasons to turn me on. And once the lights went on for me, age 25, they've never gone out.

I've fallen out of the sky a few times, but I've never lost that drive to make something unique out of my life. See, reasons altered my whole life. Now there's another list of reasons. Call. Nitty-gritty. Hard little reasons. Sometimes those little reasons are the most powerful reasons that can change your life.

Sometimes it doesn't take much. I now carry several hundred dollars in my money clip. It's only a few hundred dollars, but it was one of those reasons. Turn my life around. Just before I met Mr. Schwarz. I heard a knock at the door. I go to the door, and there's a little girl standing there about this tall selling Girl Scout cookies.

And she gave me one of the finest sales presentations I've ever heard. Special deal, several flavors, this whole package of stuff. $2. And with a big smile, she very politely asked me to buy. And I wanted to. Big problem. I'm broke. I don't have

two dollars and to this day I can remember the pain and the embarrassment I'm a father I'm a husband I've been to college I'm working

I'm 25 I don't have two dollars and I didn't want to tell her that for some reason so I did what I thought was next best I lied to it I said, hey, look, I've already bought lots of Girl Scout cookies.

I've still got plenty stacked in the house, which was not rude. But it seemed to get me off the hook for the moon. She said, well, gosh, that's wonderful. Thank you very much. And she went away. When she left, I closed the door, and that was the day I said to myself, I don't want to live like this. any more. I've had it with lying and I've had it with being broke. I'm never going to let this

happen to me ever again. I promised that day I would work as hard as possible and would always carry plenty. It took me a little while, but now I do. It was one of those reasons. And I guess I I carry plenty for two reasons. One is the way it makes me feel, but also in case I bump into another Girl Scouts selling cookies right I'm ready if you want to be wealthy and happy the rest of your life just learn this lesson well learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job I have found in my experience that income does not far exceed personal development now sometimes income takes a lucky jump but sure enough unless you grow out where it is it'll usually come back where you

are life has strange ways If somebody hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire quickly. So you get to keep the money. Otherwise, sure enough, it'll disappear. Somebody once said, if you took all the money in the world, divided it up equally among everybody, it would soon all be back in the same pockets.

Success is something you attract, not something you pursue. So instead of going after it, you work on yourself, personal development, Because true happiness is not contained in what you get. Happiness is contained in what you become. Now, if you're excited and you're ready to change, let me give you three steps to start life change that can change your life, your personality, your lifestyle, everything can change. Here's the steps.

Number one, find out how things work. To change your life really, you need to change your life really, ideas. There isn't anything an idea can't change. And Scholf taught me the major problem is lack of an idea, not a problem. At first I didn't have any money. I said to Mr. Schoev, I don't have any money. He said that's not a problem. Now see up until then I always thought it was. Right? I was confused. He said, no, no, the problem is lack of an idea on how to create money and wealth. It isn't lack of money, it's lack of ideas. So if you get the ideas, see you can change anything. Now to get ideas, you need a constant study of finding out.

If you wish to be successful study success, if you wish to be happy, study happiness. If you wish to be wealthy, study wealth. Don't leave it to chance. Make it a study. Some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed. See, that won't do it. You've got to study the things that can change your economics. economic, social, spiritual, personal life. Now, Schof also said, when you find out something that works, put the information in your journal. Don't use your head for a filing cabinet.

Put it in your journal so that you can do the next best thing. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Go over it. And if you repeat it, go over it. Sure enough, someday, some mysterious day, the idea takes root starts to grow and shows up in your bank account and your dress. and your personality and your lifestyle.

Now, if you're curious, let me give you three ways to find out how to change anything. Any life direction, any dimension. Here's three ways to find out how to change anything. Number one is to read. All of the successful people I know and work with around the world, they're all good readers.

Curiosity drives them to read. They've got to know. They just read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read. become self-educated. Standard education will get you standard results. And you can check those numbers and see if that's what you want. But if you want to go beyond that, you now have got to become self-educated. One way to learn is from your own experiences,

but another way to learn is from other people's experiences. See, one book might save you five years. If you read it. Did you know there's books on how to be stronger? More decisive. Be a speaker, be a leader. Have a better effect on other people. Develop your personality.

Did you know those books on that? Did you know that hundreds of successful people have written their stories in books and they wrote down how they did it and people don't read it? How would you explain that? Now, you don't have to read half the night. But put this in your notes, 30 minutes a day.

30 minutes a day, read something positive, something challenging, something inspirational. something instructional, at least 30 minutes a day. Become a good reader. Now, that's my opinion. Listen to the other lecturers and listen to me and make up your own mind. Don't be a follower. Be a student.

Here's the second way to find out how to change your life. And that's to listen. Get around successful people and listen. Now, you can also learn from unsuccessful people. Take notes on both. Negative and positive. Find out what poor people read and don't read it. Right?

That's good information. Learn from the negative. But now you can also learn from the positive, get around successful people, listen to what they say, listen to how they say it. It's important. Now here's some of the best advice I've got for the whole evening. Poor people ought to take rich people out to dinner and listen.

That's some of the best I got. But you're right. Poor people don't usually take rich people out to dinner. The guy said he's rich, let him buy his own dinner. I'm not coming up with any money. You're lucky to get your own supper, let alone run around trying to find a rich man to feed. And the guy's behind. If a guy's not doing well, one of the first things he ought to do is find a guy that is doing well.

An offer to buy him his dinner. Spend $50, $60, $80, $800. Go for the full nine course. If you get a successful person to eat and talk for two hours, they're liable to drop ideas in your lap, change your life. Multiply your income by two by three by five. But you're right. Poor people don't usually take rich people out to dinner.

Now here's the third way to find out how to change your life. And that's to observe. You can pick up a lot of ideas just by watching. Get around successful people and watch. Here's why. Success leaves clues. Watch how the man shakes hands. Watch how the lady responds.

People who do well do certain things over and over and over and over. And if you're clever, you can pick them up. Watch it all. If a guy's making $10,000 a month, I'd watch how he walks. Maybe that's it. Poppy is funny little walk. Somebody says, well, that's kind of a silly walk. Say it's 10,000.

I haven't got the money yet, but I got the walks. It's bound to start somewhere. What I ask you tonight is to be unusual and be a good observer of what's going on. You can pick up ideas that can change your life starting tomorrow. Just be a more careful observer. Now remember, there's two ways to see. One is called sight. See with your eyes.

The other one is called insight. See with your mind. See with your eyes, you'll see things. See with your mind, you'll see answers. Put your eyes and your mind to work. And the best advice on developing sight and insight is pay attention. Don't miss anything. Wherever you are, be there.

Excellent. Now, we've lingered a little bit long on number one here for personal development. Find out how things work, but it's so very important. finding out, and I've given you three ways to find out. Now here's the second step to personal development. Okay, number one was find out how things work. Here's number two. Go to work.

If there's one thing to get excited over, that's it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things. What could you make yourself do starting tomorrow that would change it all? No, tell it. Now see, that's exciting. On any given day you can massively change the direction of your life. Now here's the key to discipline. Start with the little disciplines, get excited over the little disciplines, and get right on

those because those will lead to the big ones. You can't handle the big challenges in life unless you take on the little ones. Make a list of all the things you can do. Get right on those. Discipline yourself for those, both for the results and for the muscle and for the practice. so that when life hands you some big challenges, you'll be ready, you'll have the muscle. But see, if you don't handle the small ones, you can't take care of the big ones. Here's what else it takes for life change. Self-motivation. Key phrase, self-motivation.

I don't know why we call it self-motivation. It's really the only kind there is. You've got to motivate yourself. And you don't want to give self-motivation away to somebody else and make it somebody else motivating you. The guy says, boy, if somebody just come by and turn me on, what if they don't show up? See, you've got to have a better plan for your life. You must now take action on what you found out. Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. You'll become a fool. Let your learning lead to action.

You can become wealthy. And there's many kinds of wealth. I understand that. not just money. Money is one of the least of all values. I know some people with a lot of money that are very poor. Now here's the third step to personal development and we'll wrap up personal development. Step number three. It's just a little caution and all through life we need little caution. This one simply says don't try to beat the system. Find out how it works, work it, but don't try to beat it. Some people learn just enough to start slicing it, shading it, thinning it, cutting corners, and looking for cheap answers.

See, don't fall for that. You'll wind up with a cheap life. Find out how it works best and do it that way. Even though it seems to take a little longer, do it right. Don't compromise with right. So if I had a word with you tonight one-on-one, just you and me, I think my personal advice to you would be This year, 1981, reach down inside of you and come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts. They're there waiting to be utilized and then change anything for you you want to change.

And I challenge you to do that because you can change. See, you don't ever have to be the same again after tonight, only by choice. Starting tomorrow, what are you going to do that will make a change in your life's direction? Good question. What are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference? Now see if you don't do something starting tomorrow that'll make a difference, guess what? It's gonna be the same. And see that way you can guess what the next five years are going to be like. Look at the last five. Because the next five are going to be like the last five unless you made your key tomorrow change it all. Or change a little or change something or don't change. It's choice time. You can do it or do it.

you want. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.