article · March 2006
The New Millennium and You
First, let me say that life is about constant, predictable patterns of change.
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The qualities of skillful leadership
What's important in leadership is refining your skills.
article · July 2006
Read all the books
They have offered their wisdom and experience so that we can be inspired by it and instructed by it, and so that we can amend our philosophy by it.
feature · August 2006
You are a genius - Unlocking the power of the mind
Learning is gaining knowledge through various means.
feature · September 2006
Preparing for your presentations
Persistence in your presentations, this is one secret to success.
article · October 2006
The Law of Sowing and Reaping
And in the law of sowing and reaping is also the story of the law of averages.
article · November 2006
The Three Keys to Greatness
I suggest having a minimum amount of time set aside for reading books, listening to audiocassettes, attending seminars, keeping a journal and spending time with other successful people.
article · November 2006
The Three Keys to Greatness
I suggest having a minimum amount of time set aside for reading books, listening to audiocassettes, attending seminars, keeping a journal and spending time with other successful people.
article · December 2006
The Ant Philosophy
What a neat philosophy, to never quit looking for a way to get where you're supposed to go.
article · January 2007
Leading a World Class Life
The secret of how these athletes became world class is found in the combination of two fundamental ideas: Desire and dedication.
feature · February 2007
Achieving your dreams
Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles.
feature · March 2007
The Best Gift to Give Yourself and Others
The key to helping others is to help yourself first.
article · April 2007
All life wishes to reward its benefactors
If you become the benefactor, you will receive these incredible rewards.
article · June 2007
Wherever you are, be there
One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.
article · August 2007
Don't Send You Ducks to Eagle School
Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.
feature · September 2007
Building a Successful Team
Gathering a successful team of people is not only helpful, it's necessary.
feature · October 2007
The Time to Act
Engaging in genuine discipline requires that you develop the ability to take action.
feature · November 2007
One of Life's Great Lessons - Learn to Be Thankful for What You Already Have
Both the years and the experiences have brought me here to where I stand today, but it is the thankfulness that opened the windows of opportunities, of blessings, of unique experiences to flow my way.
article · December 2007
No Matter How Busy You Are
I believe you will find the act of reflecting, thinking, dreaming and planning (with your family) to be one of the most important exercises you can do that will positively impact the next 12 months.
article · January 2008
The two choices we face
And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be.
article · February 2008
Enterprise is better than ease
Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives.
article · March 2008
Change begins with choice
Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all.
article · April 2008
Profits are Better Than Wages
"Profits are better than wages. Wages will make you a living; profits can make you a fortune."
article · May 2008
Personality
You've just got to spruce up and sharpen up your own personality. You've got plenty of personality.
article · July 2008
The First Step for Getting Better Results
With that one bold challenge the impossible became a reality. THE SAME PRINCIPLE APPLIES TO EVERY OTHER AREA OF OUR LIFE!
article · September 2008
Action vs. Self-Delusion
You see - affirmations without action can be the beginnings of self-delusion. And for your well-being there is little worse than self-delusion.
article · December 2008
Dividing the Financial Pie
Because we have all agreed to live as a society, and for that society to function properly, there are some things we cannot do for ourselves alone.
article · January 2009
What Constitutes a Good Life?
Here's the ultimate expression of life in my opinion, and that is living a good life.
feature · February 2009
Basics of Healthy Relationships
Our relationships can allow us to experience the peaks of ecstasy and the low valleys of agony. They have the greatest potential to give us joy and cause us to grow and become more if we so choose.
article · April 2009
Where do You Go for Your Intellectual Feast?
For some people, the accelerated learning process will continue on. But for most, it levels off when they get their first job.
article · May 2009
Creating Opportunity
To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It's to be skilled enough, confident enough, creative enough and disciplined enough to seize opportunities that present themselves... regardless of the economy.
article · June 2009
Nitty-Gritty Reasons
This is what I mean by a nitty-gritty reason. It may not win me any prize for greatness, but it was enough to have a permanent effect on the rest of my life.
feature · July 2009
Establishing Dreams and Goals
But what makes this even more powerful is that we have also been given the ability to not only dream but to pursue those dreams and not only to pursue them, but the cognitive ability to actually lay out a plan and strategies (setting goals) to achieve those dreams.
feature · August 2009
Being Fruitful
Here's what I think fruitful, abundance and productivity mean - to go to work on producing more than you need for yourself.
article · September 2009
A Dollar and Some Ambition
When looking for people, don't always look for the ones with money, money doesn't matter. What matters is somebody's willingness, somebody's ingenuity, somebody's willingness to try.
article · October 2009
Keys to Finding Your Genius
The truth is that you have an amazing mind with a capacity for learning that is beyond your comprehension. You must believe this. And when you do, you will be unlocking the potential of your mind!
article · November 2009
How to Turn Nothing into Something
Think of it, ideas that become so powerful in your mind and in your consciousness that they seem real to you even before they become tangible. Imagination that is so strong, you can actually see it.
feature · January 2010
A Jim Rohn Classic - America, A Depository of the Gifts of the World
We must all now recognize what an incredible opportunity we all have before us, as this giant planet seems to get smaller all around us. And remember that it is our diversity that when mixed together can create genius.
feature · January 2010
A Jim Rohn Classic - The Qualities of Skillful Leadership
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
feature · January 2010
A Jim Rohn Classic - The New Millennium and You
First, let me say that life is about constant, predictable patterns of change.
feature · January 2010
A Jim Rohn Classic – Keeping a Journal – One of the Three Treasures to Leave Behind
Keeping a journal is so important. I call it one of the three treasures to leave behind for the next generation. In fact, future generations will find these three treasures far more valuable than your furniture.
feature · January 2010
A Jim Rohn Classic - The Four Emotions That Can Lead to Life Change
Emotions are fuel and the mind is the pilot, which together propel the ship of civilized progress.
feature · January 2010
A Jim Rohn Classic – The Subtlety of Language
Consciously making a decision to quit saying what you don't want and to start saying what you do want.
article · February 2010
The Miracle of Personal Development
“Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”
article · March 2010
Success is Everything
It is not just a destination that is set for everybody to try and go for. It is like Zig said, "improving in every area of your life to see if you can't with satisfaction at the end of the day, week, month and year and say 'I have made excellent progress this year, for myself,…
feature · April 2010
Scolding: One of Communication's Tools of Last Resort
Scolding someone is like giving them a cut, giving them a small cut with your words on the hand. Maybe it will serve its purpose, and the cut will heal and everything will be okay. You needed to get their attention. But you must not do it everyday, all the time.
article · May 2010
Become a Good Observer
One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.
article · June 2010
Don't Be A Complainer
Complaining leaves you out of more opportunities than you can possibly imagine if you let it take over and grab you by the throat.
article · July 2010
Ambitiously Pursuing Your Own Self-Direction
Your ambition is an expression of who you truly are, your own self-expression.
article · August 2010
Attitude is Everything
But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, that produces the intensity of our activity, and that predicts the quality of the result we receive is our attitude.
article · September 2010
Reaping a Multiple Reward
For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards.
article · November 2010
Ending Procrastination
The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you never quit. Procrastination usually means you never get started, although the inability to finish something is also a form of procrastination.
article · December 2010
One of Life's Great Lessons – Learn to be Thankful for What You Already Have
Both the years and the experiences have brought me here to where I stand today, but it is the thankfulness that opened the windows of opportunities, of blessings, of unique experiences to flow my way.
article · January 2011
Four Steps to Success!
So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.
article · February 2011
From Making a Living to Creating a Lifestyle
It's called changing your life as well as changing your skills and earning more money. It's best to invest some of that early money in lifestyle.
article · April 2011
Walking a New Road
Just a few changes. Sometimes we get the idea that we're doing about 10% and there's about 90% more that we need in order to make the difference for our fortune but probably the opposite is true.
article · May 2011
Making Your Goals Count
I've often said the major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
article · July 2011
Facing The Enemies Within
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear can destroy fortunes. Fear can destroy relationships. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
article · August 2011
The Great Challenge of Life
However, you can have more because you can become more. You see, here is how the other side of the coin reads - unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.
feature · September 2011
How Do You Attract Opportunity Into Your Life?
I always thought opportunities and success were something you went after, then I found out that I needed to turn it around. Opportunities and success are not something you go after necessarily, but something you attract - by becoming an attractive person.
article · October 2011
The Major Key to Your Better Future is YOU
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.
article · November 2011
A Thankful Thanksgiving
This means all the more that if we want to be the kind of people who are characterized by thankfulness, then we must make sure that we focus on it, and not just on Thanksgiving Day, but at all times during the year.
article · December 2011
A Classic Rohn: Read All The Books
They have handed us the gift of their insights so that we can change our plans, if need be, in order to avoid their errors. We can rearrange our lives based on their wise advice.
feature · January 2012
Preparation for Your Presentations
Here is what I am asking this unusual audience to do - get FROM the day.
article · February 2012
Success is Easy, But so is Neglect
The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do.
article · March 2012
Three Key Words to Remember: Weigh, Count and Measure
If you find that the results are not to your liking there are only three places to look. Your philosophy needs to be fine-tuned; your attitude needs to be strengthened or your disciplines need extra skill. But that's it. Activity, attitude and philosophy create results.
article · April 2012
Doing The Remarkable
Here is why humans can do remarkable things: because they are remarkable. Humans are different than any other creation.
feature · May 2012
The Great Leadership Challenge
Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent.
article · June 2012
Labor That Works Miracles
If you hand a problem to a miracle worker what they are inclined to say is "no problem". You've got to hang out with people like that.
article · July 2012
Practice Being Like a Child
A child’s curiosity is what helps them to reach, learn and grow.
article · September 2012
Personal Development Legend Jim Rohn
"You don't pursue success, you attract success by the person you become," he says.
article · October 2012
Hopes in the Midst of Tragedy?
The strength of the human spirit is demonstrated in a profound way when viewed through tragedy.
feature · December 2012
Skills Make Labor More Valuable
How about this - skillful language. If you just talk to your family you can hold them all together, but if you skillfully talk to your children you can help them build dreams for the future.
article · January 2013
Thinking Like a Farmer
There is a lesson here. Learn to use the seasons of life. Decide when to pour it on and when to ease back, when to take advantage and when to let things ride.
article · March 2013
Change Begins with Growth
Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all.
article · April 2013
Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow
Time is the great equalizer of all mankind. It has taken away the best and the worst of us without regard for either. Time offers opportunity but demands a sense of urgency.
article · August 2013
The Seasons of Life
Let reality be your best beginning. Every garden will be invaded.
article · September 2013
Nine Things More Important Than Capital
Well, I believe there are actually some things that are more valuable than capital that can lead to your entrepreneurial success. Let me give you the list.
article · October 2013
The Seasons of Life – Part 5
Fall also presents us with our fourth major lesson to learn in life, and that is to learn how to reap in the fall without apology if you have done well and without complaint if you have not.
article · November 2013
Personal Philosophy is Like the Set of the Sail
What guides us to different destinations in life is determined by the way we have chosen to set our sail. The way that each of us thinks makes the major difference in where each of us arrive. The major difference is the set of the sail.
article · December 2013
Four Words That Make Life Worthwhile
If you care at all you will get some results, if you care enough you can get incredible results. Care enough to make a difference.
article · January 2014
One of Life's Greatest Lessons – Learn to Be Thankful for What You Already Have
I believe one of the greatest and perhaps one of the simplest lessons in life we can learn is to be thankful for what we have already received and accomplished.
article · February 2014
Mr. Shoaff's Simple Strategies to Success
So I learned that we don't have to work on the company, we have to work on ourselves.
article · May 2014
It's a Challenge to Succeed
I can promise you that the challenges you'll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average.
article · June 2014
Multiple skills for the 21st century
So my admonition learn some multiple skills, or should we say, back-up skills for the 21st Century and no better place to learn them than in what your already doing now.
feature · November 2014
Personal Development – The Plan
Personal Development, and the four main components:
feature · December 2014
Success is Easy – But so is Neglect
Six years later, I'm a millionaire and they are all still blaming the economy, the government, and company policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy things.
feature · January 2015
Forging Your Character
Personal success is built on the foundation of character, and character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you may make that gradually turn who you are at any given moment into who you want to be. If that decision-making process is not present, you'll still be s…
article · June 2015
The Importance of Leaving a Legacy
The founding fathers of the U.S., who had a dream of a place of self-determination
article · September 2015
Challenges to Pursue
Review your performance. Whether it's communication, whether it's activity, whether it's a CEO, whether it's on the job. Here's what my father said, "Always do more than you are paid for to make an investment in your future." Now some unions would argue with that. My father wa…
article · November 2015
Thriving Through the Holidays
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feature · June 2019
A Look Back..... Who is Really in Charge?
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feature · March 2020
The Formula for Failure and Success - WHY
Because it doesn't seem to matter. And herein lies the great danger. Far worse than not reading the books is not even realizing that it matters!
feature · June 2022
Change Begins with Growth a Clasic
You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life - and it all begins with your very own power of choice.
feature · March 2014
Success is Easy – But So is Neglect: A Classic
Lifestyle means rewarding excellence wherever you find it by not taking the small things of life for granted.
article · March 2014
It’s a Challenge to Succeed: A Classic
I’ve often said that to have more, we must first become more.