Personal Development

Here is some great insight and personal development from the great business “philosopher” Jim Rohn taken from his CD “The Art of Exceptional Living”. If you want to grow, be happy and become more successful both personally and professionally, get started with his suggestions below…it can’t hurt to give it a try!

GOAL-SETTING

· Make a list of your long-term goals. This list should include the most important things you want to do in the next 1-10 years. What do you want to see? What do you want to do? Who do you want to be? What do you want to have? Take 15 minutes and just pour your thoughts out on paper. Don’t take longer than 15 minutes. Write fast. Abbreviate. After you finish, write down how many years it will take you to accomplish each goal. Some goals might be one-year goals. Others might be three-year goals. A few might even be 10-year goals.

· Constantly refine, reflect upon and revise your goals as you change. When you complete goals on your long-term list, celebrate. Celebrate your wins in life.

· Make a list of your short-term goals. This list should include all of the little things you want to do within a year. Part of the fun of making goals lists is being able to cross them off after you accomplish each.

· Set the kind of goals that will make something of you if you achieve them.

· Don’t set your goals too low.

· Don’t sell out (or give up on your goals). Don’t compromise. Tips: Goal-setting is easy. Just decide what you want and write it down. Save your goal lists to track your personal growth. Your old lists will show you how you have grown.

PERSONAL GROWTH

• Don’t hang out with an easy crowd.
• Unhappiness starts when you know you could be a little more than you are. This is where the slow erosion begins. Don’t let it happen to you.

• Your life philosophy will change as you grow. Ask yourself: What do you want to be known for?
• Set a goal to make a million dollars, not for the money but for what it will make of you
• Spend major time on major things. Minor time on minor things. Ask yourself if you focus on the majors
• Reasons come first and then the answers. If you can’t accomplish some of your goals, your reasons for why you want to accomplish those goals might not be strong enough. If you have enough reasons, you can do great things. When you know what you want and you want it bad enough, you can make it happen.
• What can you do today to change your life so the next five years are not the same as the last five?
• Ideas and information are the keys to your success. They can change your life.
• If you want to be happy, study happiness. Wealthy, study wealth.
• Keep a journal with you at all times to capture your ideas when they come. Don’t rely on your memory.
• All leaders are readers.
• To have more, become more.
• It isn’t what happens to you in your life that matters—it’s how you react to what happens to you.
• Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
• The greatest value you get in life is what you become, not what you get

ASSOCIATIONS

• The people you surround yourself with influence you more than you think. Take a look at the people you are around and ask yourself: What do they have me doing? Saying? Feeling? Never underestimate the power of influence.
• It is easy to let associations and influences impact you. The people you are around shape who you will become. Don’t hang out with an easy crowd. Challenge yourself to grow.

SUCCESS

• Discipline makes all the difference. A few simple disciplines practiced over time every day can be your key to success.
• Failure comes from a few errors in judgment repeated over time.
• Work on your craft.
• Mend your errors by better thinking.
• Eat an apple a day!