Jim Rohn Quotes: Our Why Determines Our How

Internet marketers are constantly bombarded with tips and techniques. “How-To” content is abundant on the Internet. But it’s not just methods and activities that determine our success, it’s our philosophy.

Our belief system and how we choose to respond to the challenges of life will ultimately determine our success. Our “why” determines our “how.” Here are some powerful concepts and ideas from one of my mentors, the late great, Jim Rohn.

• A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
• A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
• Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
• Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.
• Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
• Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.
• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
• Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
• Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
• Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
• Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
• Either you run the day or the day runs you.
• Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
• Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
• For every disciplined effort, there is multiple rewards.
• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
• Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn also said, “Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.” If you read this entire post, hopefully, you gleaned at least one smart idea that will assist you on the road to success. Mark