If you change, everything will change for you.

Jim Rohn – what a guy.  He’s gone now but his counsel is timeless. 

You can listen to him on YouTube.  AI is amazing – bringing people back to life.

The core of his teaching – 

If you get better, everything will get better for you.

People who complain and people who are angry at the world because it is not easier….Jim would give them this advice.

By blaming anything but yourself, you give your power away to them/it.  You are saying they are responsible for your situation and not you.  This gives you a convenient way to avoid responsibility and for doing the work to get better.  You are off the hook – it is someone else’s fault.

But when you take responsibility for everything in your life, it is at the same time sobering and empowering.  Now you have the power to change it.  You still need the will and resolve, the courage, the knowledge, and the self-discipline, but you have taken the important first step.  You have taken responsibility.

The world is your reflection.

If you change, everything will change for you.

We discount free information.

People value advice more if they have paid for it, even if it is the same as advice they got or can get for free somewhere else.

Do you really need to pay for weight loss advice?

Do you really need to pay for, let’s say, “adult education”?

The answer is no.  Of course, if what you want is a support system and someone holding you accountable because you don’t have self-discipline, then that is a “value-added service” that comes with the advice.

Consider Think Daily.  It’s free.  How many of you have your teen or older kids signed up?  How many of your kids would even want to be signed up and read it every day?

I have kids, I know!  Some do, some don’t.  Why?  As Jim Rohn would say, “We don’t know why.  That’s just the way it is.”

How many of you have spent your life savings sending them to college?

Good information and advice is still good regardless of where it is from, whether it is from your grandmother, your Dad, your pastor, your professor, in a book, or in a YouTube video.

You’ll get better at recognizing good from bad quickly as you learn more and try things.  That’s called wisdom.

Who are the five people you spend the most time with?

You probably already know Jim Rohn’s line: “You become the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.”

Question to consider: WHO are YOUR 5? 

If you mixed them up in a blender, what quality of character, values, thinking, and actions do you get?

Direction + Time = Destination

It’s always a good question to ask again – 

“If I keep going the way I am going, where will I be in 5 years?”

10 years?

20 years?

What is your answer?

Do you like the answer?

Memories are not accurate

Memories are not accurate.  They feel like facts, but they are not.

Memories are colored by the limited facts you knew or observed back then, what story you want to support today, what was documented (and repeatedly impressed) and what was not, and other factors.

What incentive do you have for your memory to support? Once you filter your memory through the incentive, the memory is altered.

People don’t doubt their memory, but you should.  

The past is a memory.  If the memory is not accurate, then neither is the past.

Question – do you want your memory to support victimhood today, or empowerment?  Because it can do either – it is your choice.