This is part three of a series on “How to Attract Success in Your Life,” where I’m sharing one of the most important lessons in life that I learned from “America’s Business Philosopher,” Jim Rohn:
Success isn’t so much a product of what we do, but of who we become.
If you missed my first two posts, you’ll want to start reading at the beginning: “How to Attract Success in Your Life – A Tribute to Jim Rohn, part 1.”
I’ve observed, and you probably have too, that we humans are born with a default mode of blaming others when things don’t go our way. If we hate our job, don’t earn enough, live in a bad neighborhood, or drive a broken-down car, we like to blame someone else.
We seem to automatically look for external sources of our problems, instead of looking internally. We might blame the president, the economy, our boss, or our customers. But we rarely look to see what we’ve done to cause the situation we’re in – or what we can do to get out of it.
Certainly there are times when a person’s situation may be, to a large extent, someone else’s fault – like when a spouse commits infidelity and leaves the innocent spouse for another. Or when an employer closes its doors, leaving its employees without a job.
But even in those tough situations, there are still things we can do and learn that will help us out of that situation! We might be justified in feeling like we’re a victim today, but we cannot stay that way if we want to get ahead and attract greater success in our lives.
Jim Rohn believed that if we’re not satisfied with our current reality and want a better future, the major focus of our efforts should be on becoming more than we already are. It is who we are that finally determines the results we want.
So, if you haven’t done so recently (or ever) take some time to think about the results you want in life, and compare them to the results you are currently getting.
If you’re not getting the results you want, follow this lifestyle design process which works Jim’s puzzle pieces backwards:
- Determine the lifestyle you want to enjoy in your life. Write it all out in vivid detail – all the things you want to be able to have, do, and enjoy.
- Decide the results or rewards you’re going to need in order to enjoy your ideal lifestyle. How much time and money will you need?
- Identify the actions that will be necessary in order for you to reap the results that will enable you achieve your dream lifestyle.
- Discover the attitudes that will motivate the action that will result in the rewards that will enable your dream lifestyle.
- Create the philosophy – the thoughts and beliefs – you’ll need to employ in order to have the attitudes that will motivate the action that will result in the rewards that will enable your dream lifestyle.
Has anyone else followed a lifestyle design process like this before? Please share your comments and ideas. Thanks!
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