Jim Rohn

There's a lot of things I'd have missed if he hadn't have been blunt.

One day with sort of a curious look on his face, he said, Jim, just out of curiosity, tell me, how come you haven't done well up until now?

Excellent question.

I thought, well, so I won't look too bad, I'll go through my list.

And this list I just gave you, I put that on him.

And he was very patient.

He let me go through the whole thing, the government, the weather.

I went through this whole thing.

When I finished, he looked my list over very carefully.

He said, Mr. Rohn, big problem with your list.

You ain't on it.

How brilliant.

When I went to work for him a few months later, I learned very quickly to tear up my list, reasons for not doing well, and I threw it away.

And I got me a fresh piece of paper.

And I put one word on it.

Me.

There's a black heritage spiritual that says it's not my mother, nor my father, nor my brother, nor my sister, but it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.

See, I used to blame everything outside.

And then let me give you a little philosophy that helped turn my life around.

For your notes, here it is.