Jim Rohn

I found it easier to blame the company, company policy.

I used to say, if this is all they pay, how do they expect you to do well?

So I figured that, you know, my future was going to be tied to what everybody else was arranging, the economy and, right, interest rates.

I used to say things cost too much.

That was my whole explanation, not my philosophy, until my teacher taught me better that this is where the problem was, my own personal philosophy.

Here's what's exciting about each person's personal philosophy.

That's what makes us different than dogs and animals and birds and cats and spiders and alligators.

That's what makes us different than all other life form.

The ability to think, the ability to use your mind, the ability to process ideas and not just operate by instinct.

In the winter, I'm telling you, the goose can only fly south.

What if south doesn't look too good?

Tough luck.

It can only fly south.

But see, human beings are not like a goose, can only fly south.

I mean, you can turn around, go north, you can go east, you can go west, you can order the entire process of your own life.

And we do that by the way we think, we do that by exercising our mind, we do that by processing ideas and come up with a better philosophy, a better strategy for our life, goals for the future, okay?

Plans to achieve those goals.

All this comes from developing our philosophy.

Philosophy helps us to process what's available.

Well, when we get here, we got seed and we got soil and we got some rain and we've got some what?