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JANUARY 2005 EDITION


EXTRACTS FROM "Art of Exceptional Living" by Jim Rohn
compiled by Haris Tabassum

Be A Student

  • Instead of being a follower; be a student.
  • Take information, Process it (think over it) And your action should be the product of your own conclusion.

Defining Success and Failure

  • Success is the collection of personal values clearly defined and achieved
  • Reasons of failure : a few errors in judgment repeated every day
  • Formula for success : a few simple disciplines practiced every day
  • To be successful you don’t have to do extra-ordinary thing, but you have to perform ordinary things extra-ordinary well.

Importance of Personal Philosophy

  • Personal philosophy holds the key factor of individual’s success or failure
  • Change of jobs, places or even countries holds no recommendation; change in personal philosophy is the key of personal , organizational and national success
  • If we lack in something then it could never be because of money, opportunity or luck; infect it Is lack of ideas that we have.

Reading Habits

  • All leaders are readers
  • Develop a library in home
  • When you read, make it a balanced one
    • Read history to understand the basis of your social believes
    • Read philosophy to under the basis of your spiritual believes
    • Some times read fictions and novels as they also have some lessons hidden in them
    • Read biographies of great people to understand what they did and what they did not.
    • Read law to understand your rights and duties not to be a lawyer but to be an enlightened individual

Information & Knowledge

  • When you find any idea capture it. It is better than trusting own memory
  • Our failures service well when they teach us valuable information
  • Things we all leave behind are pictures, our libraries (tangible source of our knowledge) and most importantly our journals (what we captured from the source of information)

Personal Ability

  • It is not what happens to determine the major part of your failure; the key is what you did about it.
  • To have more, you simple have to be more.
  • Don’t wish for less problem; wish for more skills
  • People judge you by your outlook. Be careful how you look.

Financial Success

  • We are not paid for time; we get paid for the value you put in that time.
  • You cant be rich by demand
  • Learn to work harder on your self than work

Success & Life

  • Success is not something you pursue, infect it is something you become.
  • Those humans can do remarkable things that have some remarkable thing to do.
  • Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment

4 major lessons of life

Life and business are like seasons. You cannot change the seasons but you can change yourself.

  • Learn how to handle the winters which come right after fall with regularity.
    • When it all goes wrong.
    • Disappointments all round in social, economical and personal matters

    • You have to be stronger, wiser and better

  • Learn how to get advantage of spring (opportunity)
    • Strangely enough spring follows winter

    • Get busy with your springs because that are just handful

  • Learn how to nourish and protect your crop all summer
    • Major skill to develop
    • Protecting intruder from taking away all the good
    • All good would be attacked; all values must be defended
  • Learn how to reap in the fall without complaint
    • Accepting full responsibility of what ever happens with you.

 

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