Eternal Wisdom From Jim Rohn

The process of human change begins within us. We all have tremendous potential. We all desire good results from our efforts. Most of us are willing to work hard and to pay the price that success and happiness demand.

Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, that produces the intensity of our activity and predicts the quality of the result we receive, is our attitude.

Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.

No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.

If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.

If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected accordingly. Beware of the vandals and thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or seek to steal it away.

Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires. The combination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve that influences all the other areas of our existence.

Reproduced with permission from Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine. To subscribe, go to www.JimRohn.com All contents Copyright © JimRohn.com except where indicated otherwise. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Eternal Wisdom From Jim Rohn

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It’s to be skilled enough, confident enough, creative enough and disciplined enough to seize opportunities that present themselves… regardless of the economy.

A person with an enterprising attitude says, “Find out what you can before action is taken.” Do your homework. Do the research. Be prepared. Be resourceful. Do all you can in preparation of what’s to come.

Enterprising people always see the future in the present. Enterprising people always find a way to take advantage of a situation, not be burdened by it. And enterprising people aren’t lazy. They don’t wait for opportunities to come to them, they go after the opportunities. Enterprise means always finding a way to keep yourself actively working toward your ambition.

Enterprise is two things. The first is creativity. You need creativity to see what’s out there and to shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

What goes hand in hand with the creativity of enterprise is the second requirement: the courage to be creative. You need courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

And lastly, being enterprising doesn’t just relate to the ability to make money. Being enterprising also means feeling good enough about yourself, having enough self-worth, to want to seek advantages and opportunities that will make a difference in your future. And by doing so, you will increase your confidence, your courage, your creativity and your self-worth—your enterprising nature.

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The Turk’s Corner
Yep, the title sounds odd but let me explain; psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, linguists and speech pathologists currently have no coherent theory to explain why we swear and why we choose the words we do when we swear. Timothy Jay is one of the many scholars who try to answer these questions. And unlike some scholars Timothy Jay doesn’t believe that people swear because of lack of vocabulary, he argues that swearing has no social boundaries and emphasizes that virtually all people swear and they do it pretty consistently. Jay’s research shows we swear on average of 0.3% to 0.7% of the time. Now this might look small but it is actually significant, frequently used personal pronouns (in other words I, we, you, he, she, it and they) occur in approximately 1% rate in speech. Wow! This potentially means we use the “A” word nearly as frequently as “I”. Now that’s scary!

Swearing is a natural part of human speech development. We learn which words are taboo, and which words are not through our normal childhood development. We also learn that not all swear words are equal. Some express more anger and frustration than others. If we think about it, the English language is not really helping us thoroughly in expressing some of our feelings without the swear words. If I hit my thumb with a hammer, I doubt I could say ‘I truly despise being so clumsy because my thumb hurts like the dickens’ instead I can see myself yelling a word that I cannot write here.

Swear words can also be used in a more positive manner, in the form of jokes and humor, storytelling and so on. Imagine when you want to emphasize how great you feel something is, a swear word emphasizes the positive feelings. We could say “this concert was good” but if we said “this concert was damn good” the swear word emphasizes the emotional reaction we have toward the concert. You can exercise this by replacing damn with other swear words that I cannot use here to measure the impact.

Swearing is beneficial in ways that people may underestimate or take for granted. Swearing is often cathartic, it often relieves us and frees us of the feeling of anger or frustration. It can also be a useful substitute to physical violence, some may prefer a swear word over a punch in the nose.

For the past couple of years, a few months prior to holidays, we (Jenna, Jim, Berk, and myself) had a “Swear Jar” conveniently located in the office. Some words cost us a buck and some cost us 50 cents. I admit, just a little swearing goes on in our office time to time. Anyway, we filled the jar with $$$ and Jenna and Jenn went shopping. They bought 33 winter coats for kids who are in need. You can find the details about “Winter Coat Drive’ on the News 10 website. I was the lucky guy to drop them off. Let me express how I felt; “It felt DAMN good”, for more clarification please replace the “D” word with a more severe swear word, then you will know what I mean.

We are proud to swear for the greater good!
*Exercpt from the Cache Creek Casino Resort Hotel Operations newsletter, The Suite Life, December 2009. Turk’s Corner is a column by Volkan Tuzer. For more information on Cache Creek Casino ResortShare this Post

     

For years psychologists have attempted to divide people into various categories. Sometimes an observant poet can do a better job. Ella Wheeler Wilcox did so in the poem “Which Are You?”

There are two kinds of people on earth today;
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.

Not the sinner and saint, for it’s well understood,
That the good are half-bad and the bad half-good.

Not the rich and the poor, for to rate a man’s wealth,
You must first know the state of his conscience and health.

Not the humble and proud, for in life’s little span,
Who puts on vain airs, is not counted a man.

Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying years
Bring each man his laughter and each man his tears.

No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean,
Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.

Whenever you go, you will find the earth’s masses,
Are always divided in just these two classes.

And oddly enough, you will find too, I ween,
There’s only one lifter to twenty who lean.

In which class are you? Are you easing the load,
Of overtaxed lifters, who toil down the road?
Or are you a leaner, who lets others share
Your portion of labor, and worry and care?

These are good questions we must ask ourselves because our answers will have a huge impact on our relationships. People tend to add value to others, lessening their load and lifting them up, or they take away value from others, thinking only of themselves and taking people down in the process.Share this Post