Become More Valuable

The Lesson – Become More Valuable

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the death of legendary business philosopher, motivational speaker, and personal development guru Jim Rohn.  According to his official website, Rohn “shared his message with more than 6,000 audiences and over 5 million people from all over the world.” Rohn is highly regarded as one of the most successful personal development seminar leaders in history, which isn’t too bad considering he dropped out of college after only one year and had collectors calling him at the age of 25.

So what happened? How did this Idaho farm boy go from having nothing in the bank in his mid-20s to becoming a millionaire in his early 30s?

Simple. He choose to become more valuable.

In his book, The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle, Rohn outlines five factors that he used to approach success: Philosophy, Attitude, Activity, Results, and Lifestyle. According to Rohn, “It is our personal philosophy that establishes our individual attitude. It is our attitude that determines both the quantity and the quality of our level of activity. That activity produces a final and proportionate result, and the result provides the lifestyle that we live.”

With Rohn, everything started with personal philosophy:

The Challenge

For this week’s challenge, take a moment to reflect on your career philosophy, and try to identify at least three ways that you can become more valuable to the marketplace within the next 90 days. If you didn’t complete last week’s challenge, I suggest starting there.

For additional inspiration and ideas you might check out these Rohn quotes:

The Reflection

1. What three ways did you identify?
2. Which one thing can you start working on within the next 24 hours?
3. How will you achieve your goal?
4. What obstacles are in your way? What will you do about them?
5. How much different would your life be one year from now if you worked on one thing each month that helped you to become more valuable?

Be about it!

Gary Jensen
Editor | collector mentor

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