The Formula For Failure & Success
by Jim Rohn
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not
fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an
accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put
it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few
errors in judgment repeated every day.
Now why would someone make an error in judgment and then be so
foolish as to repeat it every day? The answer is because he or she does
not think that it matters.
On their own, our daily acts do not seem that important.
A minor oversight, a poor decision, or a wasted hour generally doesn't result
in an instant and measurable impact. More often than not, we escape from any
immediate consequences of our deeds.
If we have not bothered to read a single
book in the past ninety days,
this lack of discipline does not seem to have any immediate impact on our lives. And since
nothing drastic happened to us after the first ninety days, we repeat this error in judgment
for another ninety days, and on and on it goes. 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!
Now here is the great news. Just like the formula for
failure, the formula for success is easy to follow:
It's a few simple disciplines practiced every day.
Now here is an interesting question worth pondering: How
can we change the errors in the formula for failure into
the disciplines required in the formula for success? The
answer is by making the future an important part of
our current philosophy.
Both success and failure involve future consequences,
namely the inevitable rewards or unavoidable regrets
resulting from past activities. If this is true, why
don't more people take time to ponder the future? The
answer is simple: They are so caught up in the current
moment that it doesn't seem to matter. The problems and
the rewards of today are so absorbing to some human
beings that they never pause long enough to think about
tomorrow.
But what if we did develop a new
discipline to take just
a few minutes every day to look a little further down
the road? We would then be able to foresee the impending
consequences of our current conduct. Armed with that
valuable information, we would be able to take the
necessary action to change our errors into new
success-oriented disciplines. In other words, by
disciplining ourselves to see the future in advance, we
would be able to change our thinking, amend our errors
and develop new habits to
replace the old.
One of the exciting things about the formula for
success—a few simple disciplines practiced every day—is
the results are almost immediate. As we voluntarily
change daily errors into daily disciplines, we
experience positive results in a very short period of
time. When we change our diet, our health improves
noticeably in just a few weeks. When we start
exercising, we feel a new vitality almost immediately.
When we begin reading, we
experience a growing awareness and a new level of
self-confidence. Whatever new discipline we begin to
practice daily will produce exciting results that will
drive us to become even better at developing new
disciplines.
The real magic of new disciplines is that they will
cause us to amend our thinking. If we were to start
today to read the
books,
listen to the CDs, and attend the
classes, then today would be the first day of a
new life leading to a better future.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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© 2010 by Jim Rohn International. All Rights Reserved.
About the author:
Jim Rohn (September 17, 1930
— December 5, 2009) was considered to
be America's Foremost Business
Philosopher, with a career that spanned
over 40 years and touched the lives of over
four million people worldwide. Internationally hailed as one of the most influential thinkers of our
time, Rohn helped motivate an entire generation
of personal development trainers as well as
hundreds of executives from America's top
corporations.
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