Four Steps To Success
by Jim Rohn

Allow me to share with you my four simple steps to success...

The first step to success is become a collector of good ideas... My mentor taught me to keep a journal when I was just twenty-five years old, I took that advice, and one day those journals will be passed on to my children and then to my grandchildren.

When you learn a good health, wealth, business, or lifestyle idea, write it down. Then on a cold wintry evening go back through your journals and rediscover the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions... What a good review—going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So become a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your life.

The second step to success is have a good plan... A good plan for today; a good plan for tomorrow; a good plan for your future. Because building a better tomorrow is like building a house—you need to begin with a good written plan. Now here's a great question: When should you start your next day, week, month, or year? And here's the best answer: As soon as you have it finished—on paper! Remember, it's just like building that house...

What if you started laying bricks and somebody asks, "What are you building?" And you say, "I have no idea." They would come and take you away to a safe place. So, don't start the house until you've finished it—on paper. Now, is it really possible to finish the house on paper before you start building it? Yes! And yet it would be foolish to start building it before you had it finished on paper. So do a little pre-planning, and then get it all down on paper—before you start building a better tomorrow.

Now the third step to success is learn to handle the passing of time... It takes time to build your Network Marketing business and it takes time to better your life. It takes time to master something new, and it takes time to make improvements and refinement in philosophy as well as in activity. Give yourself time to learn, time to get it, time to start some momentum, time to finally achieve. Because it's easy to be impatient with yourself...

My Mama taught me how to play the piano. "Here is the left hand scale," she said. I got that, it was easy. Then she said, "Here is the right hand scale." I got that, it was easy too. Then she said, "Now we are going to play both hands at the same time." I thought, "Well, how can you do that?" Now one hand at a time was easy...but at the same time? And yet, over time, I got where I could play the scales with both hands. Then I remember the day she said, "Now we are going to read the music and play with both hands." And I thought, "You can't do all that." But you know, now I'm looking at the music, looking at each hand, a little confused at first, but finally I mastered it.

And just like learning to play the piano, you can learn how to build a bigger business, you can master the art of parenting, you can learn how and where and with whom to invest your time, your resources, and your life. You've just got to give yourself time.

Now the fourth step to success is learn to solve problems... Business problems, personal problems, financial problems, and emotional problems. And here's the best way to treat a problem: As an opportunity to grow. Change if you need to, modify if you must, discard an old philosophy that wasn't working well for a new one that will serve you better. The best reminder of this truth my mentor ever gave me was, "Mr. Rohn if you will get better, everything will get better for you." Well, I took those words to heart, and sure enough the more I improved, the more everything improved for me.

So become a collector of good ideas, have a good plan, learn to handle the passing of time, and go to work on solving those problems, and you will be well on your way to becoming more successful than you ever imagined!

To Your Success,

Jim Rohn

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© 2009 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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