The Work at Home Millionaire Journey

I hear from a lot of the marketing gurus that success is 90% mindset, at least.  The other 10% then, is method.

I used to believe it.  Because, after all, shouldn’t those running successful businesses and making millions of dollars know what it takes?

But as I struggled, my experience made me doubt the accuracy of this 90/10 rule.

I did all of the mindset stuff right.  I made it 90% of my focus.  And I was good.   Affirmations, meditations, visualizations . . . I was a 24/7 living, breathing picture of success.  In my mind.

Reality, however, was different.

The method wasn’t that big of a deal, right?  So I picked a supposed “proven method” and I did it.  Exactly as I was told.  Step-by-step.

I stuck with it.  Invested (or wasted?) lots of money, and time.

I didn’t achieve success.

Some people will say my mindset must have been wrong.  Or that I didn’t give it long enough.

But I struggled in this same spot for nearly a year.  Thinking my day would come.  In fact, knowing my day would come.  100% convinced.

Things really turned around for me when I started doing more and thinking less.  When I did more method and less mindset.

I began to question why the 90/10 rule hadn’t worked for me.  I believed and trusted those who preached it.

And, I’ve come to realize that those who preach it believe it too.  No one was intentionally trying to mislead me.

I think for them, it is 90/10.  Because once you have your “method” down, it is easy.

And then it really becomes about getting your head around the money, scaling your business, becoming not just a person who’s figured out how to do it.  Becoming a person who can successfully grow and sustain a profitable business.

It makes me wonder what comes first.  Do you develop a positive mindset because you are successful?  Or are you successful because you’ve developed a positive mindset?

The answer is neither.  While I have definitively concluded that success is not 90% about mindset, I also know that you can’t achieve success without the proper mindset.

On average, maybe it’s 50/50.  For some people, maybe 60/40 in favor of mindset.  For others, 60/40 in favor of method.

The specific numbers don’t really matter.

The lesson is – don’t just sit around visualizing your success for 2 hours and then working on your website for 15 minutes.

Thinking that the method doesn’t really matter is like saying any map will do when you set off on a trip from LA to New York.

As a disclaimer, I must say that I agree with Jim Rohn’s advice that you should work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

This may seem inconsistent.  But I think Mr. Rohn’s advice suggests something far different than much of the personal growth advice I hear these days.  I’ll explain why later.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering others to personal and business success through a positive mindset and consistent action.

Don’t put it off until tomorrow.  Start your success journey today with Jim Rohn’s One Year Success Plan.

Filed under: mindset, personal development, personal growth on July 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

Everyone wants easy, right?

We are an immediate gratification society.

Microwaves that cook in seconds, diets that eliminate ten pounds overnight, and a home business that will make you a millionaire in a month.

But microwaves destroy any nutritional value your food happens to have.  And drastic diets can kill you.

Likewise, buying into the instant business success myth can crush your chances of ever making significant money as an entrepreneur.

I’m very interested in success.  Business and personal.   I take in everything I can on the subject.

And most of what I read and hear tries to boil it down into something “easy” to attain.  And attain now.

But it’s not.  It’s not easy.  And it’s not immediate.

And I know that’s not what you want to hear.

But it’s true.

And because we’ve been conditioned by overzealous product promoters to expect overnight riches, too many of us give up before we give our business any real chance of success.

I love all the easy stuff as much as the next person.  Yes, you can change your attitude instantly.  And having a positive mental attitude is essential to success.

So it’s cool that you can do something right now to further your path to success.  But it’s truly the first step in a thousand mile journey.

And it’s not easy.  And most people — like 97% (at least) — will never find success.  Meaning they will never be financially independent.  They will never have complete control over their time.

But, the encouraging thing is you can do it.

And, there is probably some proof of that in your very own life.

I was participating in a group coaching call the other day with an expert in online marketing.

Students were throwing questions at him.  He was answering them with ease.  There was no script.  He was working off the cuff.  And he just knew the answers.

And it made me think.

In my offline career, which I’ve been at for 20 years, I can do the same thing.  People ask me questions all the time.  Often it takes several minutes for me to make them understand something that is second nature to me.

Because I am an expert in my field.  Because I have 20 years of experience.

When I go to the gym, I watch new people struggle to do something I can do while having a drink of water and talking to a friend.

Because I’ve been doing it for years.

And when I talk with someone just starting her home business, I realize that I’m well on the path to becoming an expert there too.  Again, I’ve got years of experience.

You forget how much you’ve learned.  How much you really know.

Because, over time, it becomes routine.  It’s second nature.

I know it’s cliche, but really, “practice makes perfect.”

The lesson is to keep practicing.  Keep doing it.  Keep taking action.

It won’t be easy, or overnight.  But once you hit it — once you reach the “tipping point” — it will become easy.  And it will all be worth it.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering others to personal and business success through a positive mindset and consistent action.

Establish a solid foundation for life-long success with Jim Rohn’s One Year Success Plan.  Today is the right day to start your one year.

Filed under: successful home business on June 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Have you ever visited a jail?  A Division of Family Services office?  Unemployment office?  Hopefully “no” to all of the above.

But more likely, a hospital?  Or a Department of Revenue office?  (Where you’ve just been lucky enough to pull number “99″ and look up to see that they are now serving number “36.”)

What do all of these places have in common?  They are generally all very “low energy” places.  People are grumpy, unpleasant, downright mean.

This can be said of almost any place where either

(1) there’s a long line,

(2) most people are physically or mentally not well, and/or

(3) people are being asked to part with their money without getting anything they really want in return.

The collective energy in these places is so low that you could come in having just won the lottery and leave depressed and angry.

But I have discovered a way to change all this.

To make everyone happy.  Or at least everyone you come in contact with.  And that’s all that really matters, right?

The secret is to simply . . . smile.  You’ll be amazed at what looking someone in the eye, smiling at her, and saying “thank you” will do for a person’s attitude and behavior.

Think about your life experiences.

From restaurants to gas stations to grocery stores, the employees are universally indifferent towards us customers, at best.

My usual experience with those in the “customer service” arena is that the entire encounter could occur without any words being exchanged.  I have to think that most business owners would be horrified by the number of their employees that don’t even say “thank you” to the customers.

And, for the most part, who cares?

Do you need to walk away from picking up your order at the local Chinese joint feeling all warm and fuzzy?

Probably not.  But, we have a lot of these individually insignificant encounters throughout our day.

And, at the end of the day, it feels better to have connected positively with the world.  It raises your energy level and that of everyone around you.

And, if you want to get something done, creating a positive interaction with the person who can make it happen is essential.

When I showed up at my gate at 3:24 for my 3:25 flight the other day, I knew it was going to take a lot of smiling to get the agent to re-open the door and let me on.  She was not happy to see me.

So I smiled a lot, thanked her a lot, and got on the plane.  By the end of our two minute conversation, she was actually smiling back.

Of course, some people are more challenging than others.  And I’ve found that it helps to assume that everyone is facing something tragic.

When I’m tempted to be nasty back to someone who’s “on the job,” I first tell myself — “I’d be grumpy too if I had to come here every day for just over minimum wage.”

I then run through some possible reason for such unpleasantness.

Maybe their partner just broke up with them.

Maybe a family member is critically ill.

Maybe the bank is foreclosing on their house.  Yeah, that must be it.

The point is, you don’t know what anyone else is dealing with.  Assume they really need your smile and your support today.

And ultimately, on the off chance that you don’t change the world, you’ll always feel better having smiled than having bought into someone else’s negative energy.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering others to personal and business success through a positive mindset and consistent action.

Discover why personal growth is the foundation to your business and personal success in Jennifer’s free mini-course, Seven Simple Success Steps.  Get started today.

Filed under: attitude, mindset on May 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

I’ve been listening to Wayne Dyer’s It’s Never Crowded Along the Extra Mile.  I’ve been through it twice now.

As a result I’ve been focusing a lot of my personal development efforts lately on raising my spiritual energy.  For me this involves seeing all people as being part of God.

Whatever your spiritual beliefs, becoming a nicer, gentler, more compassionate person is essential to your personal growth.  And the airport is a great place to practice this.

I’m at the airport about once a month.  There’s a personal growth opportunity about once a second at the airport.

The “old” me would say that the majority of the people that work at the airport and come to the airport to catch a plane are crazy.  Or mean.  Or seriously miserable.  And for some, all three.

Now I just view all of these people as beautiful souls put along my path to bring me valuable lessons.  (Most days, anyway . . .)  Without these fine folks, how could I work on my own enlightenment?

While at the airport, however, I often wonder — do only perpetually unhappy people go to the airport?  Or does the airport for some reason bring out the worst in otherwise fabulous people?

We’ll get to that.  For now, the point is that, if practice makes perfect, you can become the likes of Ghandi or Mother Theresa just by spending a few hours at the airport on a regular basis.

I have successfully learned how to smile and say “thank you” no matter what anyone does or says to me at the airport.

But not everyone is as seasoned as I am.

Here is one of the most useless displays of grumpiness that I witnessed yesterday.  A woman walked through the metal detector with her pager on.  The metal detector did not go off.

However, the TSA agent told her that she had to take it off and send it through the x-ray.  (Easy enough, huh?)

No, the passenger had to argue.  (Why?  Isn’t the TSA agent just doing her job?  Is it hard to take a pager off?)

Apparently so.  The offender’s next complaint was that there was nothing to put the pager in.  With a serious attitude, the TSA agent told her to get a bin and send it through.

As the passenger then proceeded through the metal detector, the TSA agent loudly and with anger recounted to her co-worker the woman’s reluctance to part with her pager.

Both passenger and the agent left the exchange angry.

Why?  How ridiculous is this?  The passenger was delayed maybe 30 seconds.

How differently could this have gone?

“I’m sorry, policy is that your pager has to go through the x-ray.”

“Okay, do you have something I can put it in?”

“Sure, just grab a bin.”

“Okay, thanks.  Have a great day.”  (smile)

“Thanks. You too.”  (smile)

Here’s the great thing.  It doesn’t take cooperation from everyone to make this work.  You can change the entire mood of the airport, almost single-handedly.

We’ll talk about how next time.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering others to personal and business success through a positive mindset and consistent action.

Learn how personal growth is the foundation to your business and personal success in Jennifer’s free mini-course, Seven Simple Success Steps.  Get started today.

Filed under: attitude, personal development, personal growth, spiritual growth on April 11th, 2010 | No Comments »

My kids and I left the house about 9:30 this morning.  It was a beautiful 70 degree day and we had great plans.

As we pulled out the driveway and started up the street, I saw that my neighbor two houses down had a yard completely full of stuff.  His stuff.  Apparently the mortgage company had moved everything his family had on to his front yard and changed the locks.

I live in a nice neighborhood.  Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen a view of all of a neighbor’s possessions on the front yard.  Times are hard for a lot of people.

But today it struck me really differently than it has in the past.  I’ve been doing a lot of work on the practice of gratitude, and on changing the way I judge people.

Judging others as not as good as me in some way has been a lifelong habit (I’m embarrassed to admit).  It’s not an easy one to break.

But I feel like I made a real breakthrough today.  My initial reaction when I observed my neighbor’s plight was to feel really blessed to have what I have.

I spend a lot of time giving gratitude for the people in my life.  For all things “non-physical.”  But giving gratitude for my “stuff” feels like it places too much emphasis on material wealth.  Today, I gave gratitude for my stuff.  Lots of gratitude.

In previous days, I would have thought something like -  “how much of a pathetic loser can you be to go from a big house in a nice neighborhood to THAT?”  Today,  I felt true compassion for my neighbor.  I don’t know him or his family.  But combined with my gratitude were great feelings of sadness and empathy for him.  “But for the grace of God . . .” type feelings.  I wanted there to be something I could do to help.

While I am happy that these are my genuine reactions, I’ve got to admit, it’s hard.  What happened just two doors down has bothered me all day.  Just after 9:30 tonight the last caravan of cars and trucks full of stuff pulled away from his house.  It took over 12 hours to clean off his front yard.

And all the while I was spending a terrific day with my kids, topped off with ice cream to end our trip and a good workout at the gym for my peace of mind.  Truly I am blessed.  And, no matter what he’s done to “deserve it,” truly I hurt for my neighbor.

It was easier when I could just brush it off as something that would never happen to me.  When I could dismiss someone in that situation as an idiot, or something equally as derogatory.

I’ve always taught people that giving gratitude is “easy.”  Today, I’m not so sure.  Sometimes part of realizing how great your life is brings into sharp focus how tough someone else has it.  That can be really uncomfortable.

As is often the case, the easy path is not the right path.  Sometimes giving gratitude is hard.  But it is always right.  And the few who follow it will always live better.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering others to personal and business success through a positive mindset and consistent action.

Want to learn more about the joys of giving gratitude?  Claim your free copy of Jennifer’s mini-course, Seven Simple Success Steps, and start your life on the right path today.

Filed under: gratitude, personal development, personal growth on March 24th, 2010 | No Comments »

Yes, making your bed CAN make you wealthy.  Well, it’s a start anyway.  No, I’m not introducing a new “system” that pays you to recruit a team of people who all make their beds.

This is a lesson in understanding one of my favorite Jim Rohn quotes — “For things to change, you must change.”

I used to think this meant I needed to change how much money I made, that I needed to change from being paid by the hour to earning passive income.  If I could change those things about me, then I was certain that yes, things would change.

I spent a few years spinning my wheels.  Wondering why nothing was changing.  I was persistent.  I kept working.  Buying every new course.  Trying every new thing.  Failing.

Eventually I figured out that making more money and creating passive income streams was the end result, not the path to change.  I needed to change me.  Because I was never going to dramatically change my income doing what I was doing anymore than a hamster is going to escape his cage if he just keeps running on that wheel.

“For things to change, you must change” means that you need to change from the ground up.  You need to change your habits.  The way you live your daily life.

This likely has little or nothing to do with your business.  It’s about you.  You don’t need a new course, or a new website.  You don’t need to change your tracking methods or tweak your adwords ad.

You need to change your habits.  To become more responsible, more productive, more focused.  Your habits are at the root of your failure.

Just because some habits are seemingly easy to change, don’t underestimate their importance.  I have a lot of trouble with organization.  And I know I am way more productive when my physical space is organized.

But looking around at my house (including my home office), it is completely unrealistic to think I can get everything organized just the way it should be, and then get to work.  I would be in a state of constant organizing for six months.

So I pick small battles.  Make the bed every morning.  Get all the dishes cleaned up after each meal.  Things I’ve thought I just don’t have time to do.

And if you make a small but significant thing your goal, it pretty quickly becomes a habit.  As routine as getting dressed in the morning.

In addition to making progress towards your goal, when you are able to make a small change that is important to you, you feel really good.  It lets you know that change is possible.  And it gives you motivation to continue to make change.

A series of small changes will make you a new person before you know it.

So, get off your hamster wheel.  No matter how hard you try, if you keep doing what you’re doing the way you’re doing it, things will not change for you.

If you think you don’t have time to make your business wildly successful, figure out how to be more productive, and what shortcuts you can take.  Then break it down into little steps and go do it.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering others on the challenging and rewarding journey of entrepreneurship.

Having trouble figuring out why you’re stuck?  Find your answer in Jennifer’s free mini-course, Seven Simple Success Steps, and start changing your life today.

Filed under: Goal Setting, attitude on March 21st, 2010 | No Comments »

We’ve made it through February. Time to check up on those New Year’s Resolutions you reluctantly made. Most people have long ago lost that piece of paper.

I go to a fitness club.  I have for over 20 years.  So I know this little graph to the right to be absolutely true.

I curse the full parking lot every January.  But take solace in the fact that it will only last a month or so.  And always, every year, it proves to be true.  By the end of February, we’re back to the old crew.

A few weeks ago during an aerobics class, I looked around at some of the people who had been attending regularly since the new year began.  And they were getting it.  They had gone from stepping on the wrong beat and looking around the room in frustration, to being in sync with the regulars in the class and in step with the instructor’s calls.

I also thought about the dozens of new faces that I’d seen once, and then never again.  They cared enough to show up.  But it was hard.  Others made it look easy.  But the newbies gave up in frustration, often even before their first class was over.

It occurred to me that my aerobics class mirrors life.  Those who show up — who keep showing up — succeed.  And, it becomes easy for them.  I wrote this post in my head while doing a fairly complex aerobics class.  Because I’ve been doing it for 20 years and it’s easy for me.  It became easy for me a long time ago.

The “just keep showing up” rule applies to most anything you want to succeed at.  As a baby, you just kept trying until you walked.  (Good thing babies’ brains are so undeveloped, most adults would give up after a couple of days . . .)

Musicians, athletes, even doctors.  When they started they had no idea how to read music, to hold the ball correctly, to diagnose disease.  But they kept showing up, and working at it.  Until they could do it in their sleep.

The same formula for success applies to your home business.  Show up at night after everyone else is asleep.  Work on your business.  You’ll learn how to succeed.

Nearly everyone who starts a home business fails.  And it’s always because they stop showing up before they start making money.  They’re looking for get rich quick.  They want to get their website up tonight and see $10,000 in their Paypal account tomorrow.

That’s not how it works.  Not for anyone.

The good news is, you probably signed a contract with that fitness club.  So it’s not too late to start going again.  Today.

But before you go, sign a contract with yourself and get back to work on your home business.  It’s not too late to be healthier, and wealthier, in 2010.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering others on the challenging and rewarding journey of entrepreneurship.  Discover the Seven Simple Success Steps for free in Jennifer’s mini-course designed to start you on the path to personal growth and home business success.

Filed under: Goal Setting, Persistence, attitude, personal development, personal growth, successful home business on March 8th, 2010 | No Comments »

You probably know that if you write down your goals you are 1000 times more likely to reach them than if you don’t.  This makes sense to me.  I imagine that most people who have no written goals have no identifiable goals at all.  Which makes it decidedly harder to meet any goals.

I can’t count how many times I’ve done some version of a goal setting exercise.  Usually this involves writing down everything you want in your life.  And it requires that you throw aside any limiting beliefs about what’s possible for you to achieve in this life.  If you want to own a private island, write it down.

I think this is a wonderful exercise.  I continue to do it on a regular basis.

But, honestly, I had written goals for at least a couple of years without achieving one of them.  And that got rather depressing.  I did as I was told.  I wrote down everything I wanted to be, do and have.  I read the list at least twice a day.  I was a good student.

After way too much failure, here’s what I figured out.  My goals list wasn’t getting me anywhere because it was really a list of my dreams.  And it’s a beautiful and motivating list.  The thought of a first class trip to the Figi Islands with my entire family makes me work an extra hour.

But looking at that goal tells me nothing about how to attain it.  My problem was that I could read my goals list all day long and it gave me no direction as to how to get there.

What I really needed was a list of goals that would allow me to be, have and do the things I dreamed about.  So I renamed my “goals” list my “dreams” list.

And I started fresh with a new goals list.  Try this if you’re struggling with the fact that none of your goals have been checked off the list yet.  Pick an item from your newly renamed “dreams” list.  It should be something you really want to accomplish, and something that is fairly attainable.  (For example, buying a private jet may not be your first pick).

Let’s say you dream of paying off all your creditors.  That requires $5,000.  You intend to raise that money by marketing a new affiliate product.  Or starting a new “leg” in your network marketing business.  Or creating a new product.  Whatever it is, it becomes your goal.

Each step it takes to get there becomes a goal.  Make a list of every step you’ll need to take to generate $5000 in sales from your new affiliate product — create a landing page, write some review articles, test a ppc campaign, create a bonus for your buyers, etc.

Put a deadline on each of these goals.  As you meet your goals, you’ll find yourself checking things off your dreams list.  And you can start to pick bigger and bigger dreams.  And write goals to meet those dreams.

Someday it will become a matter of just living the life of your dreams, almost effortlessly.  But let’s not get ahead of ourselves . . .

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is helping others on the challenging and rewarding journey of entrepreneurship.  Discover the Seven Simple Success Steps for free in Jennifer’s mini-course designed to start you on the path to personal growth and home business success.

Filed under: Goal Setting, mindset, successful home business on January 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

Usually I’m beating myself up by now.  Looking at that piece of paper that represents the new person I was going to become in the new year.  Well, maybe I’ll start this plan after the weekend, when the holidays are REALLY over, I tell myself.  Yeah, whatever.

But not this year!  Today, I feel great.  I made no New Year’s Resolutions.  Which means I’ve broken none of them yet.

Here’s why I gave up on New Year’s Resolutions.  (and why you may want to also)  You can’t change overnight.  You fail to meet your resolutions every year because they require you to wake up on January 1 a new person.

Now maybe if you’re one or two things away from being perfect, this is attainable.  But let’s face it, most of us have things in our business (and/or job), relationships, household, finances, personal habits . . . that we want to change.

And you can’t do it all at once.  Stop trying.  That’s why we fail so badly.  We neglect a resolution in one area of our lives and it has a domino effect.  The failure mindset creeps in.  Any chance of success in some other area is gone.

The arbitrariness of making all of these fantastic changes at the stroke of midnight on December 31 also bothers me.  Of course, it can be a very appealing concept to those of us who struggle with procrastination.  Ever find yourself in November saying, “Next year, I’m going to . . .”  Or maybe even in October, September . . .

What’s wrong with right now?  Why put it off until the new year — which is meaningless timing to most resolutions?

Next year I’m going to get up an hour earlier and put an extra hour into writing articles to promote my website.  Why?  How about tomorrow I’m going to start getting up an hour earlier?

If you made resolutions, don’t throw them away.  If you didn’t, don’t feel like an unmotivated slug.  Either way, do this.  Determine what your ultimate goal for 2010 is.  This is likely something big, like quit your J-O-B and go full time in your home business.

Don’t take this assignment lightly.  This is not what your “dream” is for the year.  Make it a definable, attainable goal.  That doesn’t mean it can’t be a BIG goal.  A hard to reach goal.  But it must be something you feel is attainable.  Walking on the moon in 2010 probably isn’t realistic if you have zero training as an astronaut as of today.

Once you’ve determined your ultimate goal for 2010, we’ll talk about how to make it happen.

So relax, even if your two page list of New Year’s Resolutions has already been burned in your evening fire, there’s still plenty of time to make 2010 your best year ever.  And it won’t be as hard as all those resolutions made it feel.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is helping others on the challenging and rewarding journey of entrepreneurship.  Take the first step by claiming your free copy of Jennifer’s mini-course, Seven Simple Success Steps.

Make 2010 your best year ever with Jim Rohn’s One Year Success Plan. Today is the right day to start your one year.

Filed under: Goal Setting on January 10th, 2010 | No Comments »

My “friend” Jim Rohn died on December 5.   Of course, he had no idea who I was.  But that didn’t make him any less my friend.

I was introduced to Jim Rohn by my upline in my first network marketing company.  I will always consider my time with that company a success.  Not because I made a lot of money, I didn’t.  But because it brought to me the man who would become the most influential mentor in my life.

Over the past 13 years, I’ve learned lots about personal and professional development from a handful of people.  But for some reason — and I can’t even put my finger on exactly what it is — no one has even been a close second to the value I’ve gotten from Mr. Rohn’s books, CDs, and DVDs.

To this day, if I feel discouraged or beaten down, I pull Jim Rohn up on my IPod.  I’m pretty sure I own everything in the Jim Rohn library.  Jim’s style, his story, his words and the way he delivered them — all have a unique way of reassuring me that yes, anything IS possible.  And of motivating me to go make it happen.

What made Jim Rohn unique in the personal development world?  He taught fundamentals.  His foundation for success boiled down to basic principles.  What’s worked since the beginning of time.

There is never any fear of Jim’s stuff becoming out of date.  My great grandkids will be able to rely on it when learning how to succeed.  As fast paced as our world has become, that fact speaks volumes about Jim’s philosophy.

In the first days after his death, I found myself feeling really sad.  And, kind of embarrassed that I was so sad.  I didn’t know Jim Rohn personally.  To me, he was pretty much the same dead as he was alive.  Which sounds bad as I say it, but I knew Jim through his books, CDs, and DVDs.  These are all things I still have.

But I realize that somehow I was comforted by the knowledge that Jim was here in this world on the journey with me.  And knowing that he was part of the same journey, and such a good part of it, gave me hope, inspiration and self-confidence.

I’ve seen a lot of people touting the customary “Rest in Peace” when commenting on Jim’s death.  I have no doubt that Jim has found peace in his escape from what must have been an especially difficult affliction for a man who talked for a living.  But “rest,” I doubt it.  I’m sure he’s gone to a better world, and is hard at work making it even “more better.”

Enjoy, my friend.

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