NOTE: Today's content would be better written than put on video. So my show today is some highlight footage from the rodeo we went to last night. I couldn't resist. And I threw in a pic or two of my boys. Good times! But, the training I promised you can be read here. Enjoy!
In 1999 I heard an audio tape from a man named Jim Rohn. I had never heard of him before, and didn't know what to expect. But I was told it was a good tape, so I listened to it… about 100 times. There was something about him that I loved… that resonated with me. I never wanted to stop listening to him. I can remember sitting in my car in the grocery store parking lot for 20 or 30 minutes, so I could finish the tape, one more time, before I went in to do my shopping.
During my lunch break at work, I would literally run to my car, put the sun roof back (sounds glamorous, but don't be too enamored 
), recline my seat, set the alarm on my phone (just in case I fell asleep, which I did many times), and listen to the great Jim Rohn. Again, and again, and again. Eventually, I bought every book and audio he ever made, and I attended several of his seminars. Even today, after all these years, two of my most prized possessions are a photo with him, and his book The Seasons of Life, which he signed for me. And since he passed away, it has become an even greater treasure.
So am I a groupie, some of you may be wondering? No, the furthest thing from it. I am however, so grateful to him, for his teachings, which more than anyone elses, attributed to my success. Though I have benefited from a multiplicity of voices, it's Mr. Rohn's which continues to reverberate in my soul. With his words, his wisdom and his philosophy, he reached out to me in the quagmire of poverty and ignorance, and placed my feet securely on the solid ground of my new future.
I will never forget the first time I heard him say, “You can go from wherever you are to where you want to be in six years. Any six. From 18 to 24. 24 to 30. 60 to 66. Any six years.” He added this caveat, ”If you will go on an intensified learning curve.” I believed him. And I went on that intensified learning curve. And six years later I was living a life at 33 years old, that most people will never experience in their lifetime. And, I am so grateful.
What he called an “intensified learning curve” I call the Basic System for Success. I have adapted it over the years as I have taught it to others and have systematized it so as to become a systematic method of operation, rather than just some good ideas. It' spelled out below.
THE BASIC SYSTEM FOR SUCCESS
1. READ 10+ PAGES OF A GOOD BOOK, EVERY DAY.
2. LISTEN TO 1+ EDUCATIONAL/MOTIVATIONAL CD EVERY DAY (ABOUT 45 MINUTES).
3. ATTEND 1+ LIVE SEMINAR, WORKSHOP AND/OR CLASS EVERY 90 DAYS.
4. ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE WHAT YOU WANT.
5. DISASSOCIATE WITH THOSE WHO ARE NEGATIVE AND UNSUPPORTIVE.
6. PUT INTO PRACTICE WHAT YOU LEARN FROM YOUR READING, LISTENING & FROM YOUR POSITIVE ASSOCIATIONS.
Don't be fooled by it's simplicity. There's a lot to it. Tomorrow, I'll be back in front of the camera going step by step on how to make this work for you.
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