Let me take you on a trip, if you will, to a place far far away. Far away from the daily grind. Far away from the hustle and bustle of the city and into a place of beauty, spender, and serenity. Might this place exist? Have you ever been there?
Take a Mental Vacation to Paradise
For me, it feels like I haven’t been there for years if not longer. One so call moment that I vividly remember is when my family and I went to the California Sierra Mountains during a soft slow fall and sled down some hills. Other times were when I was alone among nature as a child, exploring the world. Even if it was a very small part of the world usually a few miles from my home, but sometimes a few hundred miles.
I would like you to take a 2 minute break from everything you are doing right now to close your eyes and image you are among the most beautiful, loving, and peaceful places and times you can possibly think of. You can take more time if you like, but I want this to be like a vacation for you.
Explore every aspect of your experience savoring every minute detail such that you could write about it in a manner that an alien could read and understand just as you had experienced it. Find things moving slower than usual. Don’t fall asleep though, unless you can.
Now come back to notice and take in every feeling you are currently having. Don’t you feel wonderful? Can you enjoy it every day? The answer is yes, if you decide to make it so. You will be far more productive and live longer and healthier if you take these mental vacations when you are the most overcome by stress and tension. Anytime you take a mental vacation as explained in this post, even when you are not feeling severe pressure and fatigue from life, you will benefit by the healing affects of doing so.
Calmness, Peace, and Tranquility are the signs of a person who is in control of their lives and who is best able to deal with challenges that come their way. You want to be at your best as much as possible, right?
Extremely successful people do not show themselves as anything other than calm, at peace, and tranquil almost 100% of the time. There are reasons for this that mimics their success. They have learned to master themselves so they can live their life and not live the life that they believe others want them to live.
Learn to live your life calmly, peacefully, and tranquilly so you can enjoy the mental vacation that takes you to the best places in the world within your mind. Don’t you want to be there? You can with your thoughts and you determine what those will be.
It’s tax time again and that’s a good time to look at what you accomplished from a financial perspective for the previous year. I hope you have something to celebrate about because even in an economic down-turn people are getting wealthy.
Keep Your Heart Pure And Have Love For All
As you know, money isn’t everything. In fact, I’d rather have a lot of other things in life like my precious family, our health, happiness, peace and calmness above money. However, you probably know that having money helps if you have grown enough inside to handle having it. I know I have. This leaves me with a sense of feeling good because if you don’t have the financial wherewithal you want right now, you can always get it by determining you want it. And as long as you have grown inside enough to handle financial success, you will be able to keep it and share it without ever losing it.
Recently I’ve been thinking and saying “If you can dream it and believe it, you can achieve it.” Napoleon Hill the famous author of Think and Grow Rich said something similar, “What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”, however I wanted something that was original :^) Also, when you talk about the life you are going to have, that is extraordinary way beyond what it is today over and over until it becomes a burning desire and everyone you say it too is tired of hearing it, you will get there, I firmly believe it.
There are people who have a lot of money and resources at their disposal, but they haven’t grown personally within to provide peace within themselves. They are not happy. To me, that is sad. It is their choice to be like this because everyone has the capacity to control themselves if they chose to do so. If you don’t steer your ship of life, then others will do it for you which can lead you to running into rocks, which isn’t a very pleasant experience. In other words, you will end up with a life you are unhappy about.
I keep coming back and dreaming of the life I desire that my late mentor Jim Rohn would talk about. That is a life where you create so much abundance for yourself that you can help yourself, your family, your extended family, your friends, your community, your world and so on. You can make a difference in the world. You can leave a legacy that says, You meant something, You did something great. You created hope and helped millions of people. Your life was not for not, but for significance. You were a meaningful specific, not a wandering generality. Folks, I challenge you to create and live a life that is meaningful. But remember, life is very short so you better start today!
I came across one of the most inspiring, interesting and incredible stories ever told by Brian Tracy that I want to share with you. I know you will love this video. Watch all 4 short parts. Well worth your time.
You should be. Here’s a person and a story that was meant to inspire everyone. Your problems may just seem not so big after you learn about Z.
You may not know Z Zazhinne, but you should, because she lost her sight and was told she had permanent brain injuries and would be permanently disabled. Well, that didn’t happen because Z wasn’t going to allow it to happen. Find out this week on the Ask Mister Self Help Tele-seminar series what can be learned through Z’s experience, like Never Give Up among others. Here is a quick video to introduce her to you:
Is it self-esteem? Sometimes I wonder what in the heck is taking so long for success to come pounding at my door and take me away like water breaking through a dam that has been broken. I mean I’ve had a lot of success in my life, don’t get me wrong, and I’m not ungrateful for it either. However I’m really aspiring to reach the level of success that Jim Rohn talks about that can help so many people and change the world.
Self Esteem Expert - Dr. Rubino
Does anyone feel like I do? I’ve been working at doing the best I can, giving life everything I can; enjoying and living 100% in everything I do and yet still… still… still no joy in the extraordinary goals. I’m persistent in that I’ll never give up, but could there be a problem with my self esteem? I kind of doubt it, but I’m not about to rule out anything because I believe that once I find the key that unlocks the door, I’ll live the life that is spoke about by Napoleon Hill when he says something to the effect of “Riches will come to you so fast and furiously that you’ll wonder where they’ve been hiding for so long.” I can’t wait to be in that kind of situation, but I’m also using Zig Ziglar’s approach of helping enough other people get what they want, and I’ll get what I want. Or Vic Johnson’s saying that you serve others to become successful. The reality is I haven’t served enough other people yet.
Ok, enough with the long dissertation. The fact is, and it’s a good one that 85% of the population struggle with self esteem that holds them back from living the life they want. We are fortunate to have the expert of self esteem, Dr. Joe Rubino help us through this possible road block so we can catapult ourselves to success. And I’m not talking about the success that allows us to take the trash out on Monday nights. I’m talking about the kind that changes lives permanently, especially yours. Dr. Joe Rubino and I are here to help you, check out this Thursday’s call with him. And ask your biggest question because we plan on answering it during our call.
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Success usually doesn’t come easy. And I’m no exception to that concept. I’ve pretty much done things on my own throughout my life and prided myself in doing so. One important success principle I learned to accelerate my success is to work together with others. Here are three great ways to accomplish and use this success principle in your own life:
Chris Teaches What He Knows
Find someone at the level of success you want to be at and do what they have done
Find mentors or coaches to guide and help you get where you want to go
Utilize a mastermind group of like minded individuals (high desire to succeed in life) who provide synergistic collaboration of thoughts and ideas
Here’s a short story on how I met our next incredible featured speaker (Chris Cade) of the free “Ask Mister Self Help” tele-seminar series as it relates to finding a mentor. I sent out invitations to my highly successful “Belief Equals Possibility” giveaway looking for participants for my first significant online project. Chris responded and gave me feedback that was really useful on how to make improvements. We created a friendship over time and his mentoring hasn’t stopped. I really appreciate the help he has provided me and I pass it along to others as I can and through my participation in “The List Building Club” as a spokesperson and ambassador for that program.
Keep in mind that a mentor is someone you want to find and someone you want to become to others. It’s all about making the law of attraction work for you!
Get registered for the free blockbuster “Ask Mister Self Help” tele-seminar series right now to learn more powerful self improvement concepts and tools to help shortcut your journey to success.
Whether you have ever met or heard Vic Johnson speak or not, you can’t help but become engrossed in his teachings. Or maybe it’s just me because Vic’s story is a little like mine and he shares without holding anything back. Perhaps it’s the genuineness and transparency, the passion he has to help others. I’m not sure, and it really doesn’t matter, the main thing is Vic relates to people through his inspiring story.
Believe and Achieve
You can tell he cares about you as he communicates his struggles from having very little to achieving enormous abundance. Everyone enjoys a great rag to riches true story because they want that so much for themselves. We all have a place in our hearts to hear stories like Vic’s.
Discover this week on the “Ask Mister Self Help” tele-seminar what must be done for you to find the level of success you deserve and desire as Vic Johnson gives his all to answer your questions. He even has a holiday treat for you that is available through registering at http://AskMisterSelfHelp.com and then reviewing the “accesspass” page.
There is no shortage of success available to you in your life. You just need the knowledge to catch it and the perseverance to never give up on the required action that will take you there. You’ll also learn tons about how the power of belief works in your favor.
Won’t you join us on the beginning of your journey to reaching everything that you desire? Click below to get registered and to obtain the call details:
Stephanie Frank has a background similar to mine in that she has embraced technology to create a fortune (me a livelihood) from that industry. As great as that is, we aren’t here to talk about that. We are here to talk about what I believe is far more powerful and serving and is what her focus has been for that past 10 years.
Stephanie Frank - Find The Success You Desire
Similarly to improving performance in the computer world, she has been helping people improve their personal performance and she’s got rock solid and sound principles. We’re talking about peak personal performance in business, relationships and in life. I also share her passion to bring out the best in others so that they may live an extraordinary life realizing all their potential and as a result being happier.
I’ve found that just living every day, day to day, with little or no enthusiasm in what you do is just a waste of your life. Because the bottom line is you can do, have, and become anything you desire. And doing anything less than what you truly want to do is living a compromising life. G-d didn’t put you on this planet having beaten out all odds to be here to just live a mediocre life and not make a difference to your family, your community, and the world. Your Higher Power placed you hear for great things, for incredible things. Stephanie Frank has the unique ability to bring out what it is that you are here for and accelerate your moving to that destination.
You’ll be glad to know that this week’s speaker on the FREE “Ask Mister Self Help” Tele-seminar series is Stephanie Frank. Get registered now so you don’t miss this or any of the incredible line-up of speakers scheduled to give you what will be the most valuable personal improvement information ever created and put together into a single package.
It’s easiest to say “No” to that question because to my knowledge, nobody wants to think of themselves as having fear of anything. However, according to Lisa Jimenez, M. Ed. this week’s featured speaker for the free “Ask Mister Self Help” tele-seminar series, everyone has fear. That’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned because that way I know I’m not the only one or in a subset of people who do. Over the years I’ve done a better job of controlling my fear by working on myself through self improvement.
One example of this happened to me late last week as I attended my first Toastmasters meeting after having heard many self help experts recommend doing so because of the skills you acquire and the people with whom you surround yourself with. That is, like minded people who are looking to better themselves and aspire to live an extraordinary life with purpose and passion. Self help experts will tell you that the person you will become is a factor of the books you read, audios you listen to, and the people you associate with, so Toastmasters is a good place to go for the right kind of association.
At the Toastmasters meeting as a guest, I requested to be able to speak. They were delighted and allowed me speak. I gave a description of who I am, what I am looking to accomplish and why I was there. It went great and I had a lot of confidence as I delivered my 6 minute speech. I did feel a slight level of fear as I waited for my turn to speak, but it was fairly minimal, or in other words, not too uncomfortable.
I’ve heard a lot about fear over my years working within self improvement and here are three things in dealing with fear (Lisa is going to give a bunch more information as it relates to fear):
1) Feel the fear and do it anyway (book title by Susan Jeffers)
2) Create massive action and the death of fear is certain
3) Fear is an absence of confidence and confidence comes from knowledge
I had a great time doing the speech and what I found out is that I felt good about having done it because I’m growing and getting better. My goal is to speak before large and small audiences on the topic of self improvement to help empower them to move on with their lives and to live up to their potential. Toastmasters will help me achieve that goal. As one of the members said escorting me to the meeting, you aren’t born with speaking skills, they are learned. And I’m in the right environment to do just that.
This just in from Jim Rohn International. Jim has been a mentor of mine for years and I can’t express the admiration I have for him. He will be missed but not forgotten. I highly recommend his teachings, so I encourage you to check them out here.
Warm wishes,
Kevin
The Passing of a Legend
With great sadness we share that Jim Rohn, our mentor and friend, left us December 5, 2009 for a better place.
Over the past 18 months, in his battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis, Jim assured us with a smile that all is good, that he would fight until the last breath, yet he had no fear as to what would be next. Jim’s faith was as much a part of his life as his desire to inspire and challenge us all to be the best we could be and to live our dreams.
Jim’s courage in his final months and days were a testament to his message that we should all fight the good fight. He never gave up and never gave in.
Jim Rohn touched millions of lives over the past 46 years through his seminars, books, articles and CDs. He always stayed long after an event t o shake hands, take pictures and sign autographs. He loved making a difference in people’s lives, that was his passion and inspiration. Yet he was also a private man who kept a small, loyal and caring inner circle. He was a tremendous friend to those who knew him.
Harold Dyke, long time close friend of Jim’s for over 55 years said it best, “As Jim is ending one life he is simultaneously being birthed into a new life. One that he has talked about over the years and anticipated with great joy in his last remaining days.”
Kyle Wilson, long time colleague and friend of Jim had this to say about his mentor, “Jim Rohn was a great human being. Jim had the rare ability to take any concept or idea and then frame it in such a way that the rest of us could see it more clearly. His wisdom and insights positively affected everyone he touched on some level and to so many of us it was in an extraordinary way. But even more impressive was Jim Rohn the man. He possessed style and charisma, yet was humble, kind and understated to all who knew him. I find myself every day reflecting, benefiting and passing on the wisdom and ideas that are rooted in Jim’s message and wisdom. Jim is irreplaceable on every level. I will miss him beyond words, but am comforted as I know he was, that his message and legacy will live on and positively change millions of lives over the years to come!”
Someone once said “when you are born you enter the world crying while everyone else is rejoicing and when you die hopefully you have lived such a life that everyone will be crying while you are rejoicing”. Jim Rohn lived such a life.
Jim’s family asked us to thank all of you for your concern, prayers and love toward their father and grandfather, which has been so evident during the past 18 months.
Darren Hardy, dedicated student and Jim Rohn protégé for more than 15 years, said of Jim, “He was the most influential man in my life, second only to my father. Jim cemented my philosophical foundation and nourished my mind with ideas and ambitions never before imagined. He chiseled my character seminar by seminar, tape by tape, book by book, then CD by CD, hour by hour. Jim emboldened my belief, in me and in my most daring dreams. When I fell and was bloodied, he was there with encouraging words to help me get back up. When I didn’t think I could go on, Jim convinced me I was stronger than I imagined. When I wanted a shortcut, he reminded me there aren’t any. Even when I got too caught up in trying to achieve and succeed, Jim compelled me to leave room to live, to laugh and to love.”
Stuart Johnson, business associate and long-time admirer, said, “I was first introduced to the philosophies and teachings of Jim Rohn almost 25 years ago. And he made an immediate impression on me. I was amazed by how this modest and unassuming man could communicate such an extraordinarily powerful message in simple and straightforward terms. In person, one-on-one, he was as humble and down-to-earth as he was in front of an audience of thousands. I will treasure my personal memories of Jim and know that I will forever benefit from the wisdom of this remarkable man.”
There will be a private funeral held in the coming days. Plans and details are also being arranged for a Public Memorial Service to be held in the Los Angeles area in the coming weeks. Details will be announced upon final confirmation at the Jim Rohn Tribute Site.
We know Mr. Rohn is looking down on us at this very moment with a smile saying I did it, I gave it my all, I went for it, now it’s your turn. Go for it. Make your life a life worth living well!
View a special tribute to Jim at the Jim Rohn Tribute Site produced earlier this year and debuted at the March 2009 SUCCESS Symposium. You are also encouraged to post your thoughts and remembrances of Jim on the Memorial Wall.
Jim fondly closed his programs with the following sentiments: “I go with you in all the experience that we’ve had. But I promise you this as we leave here: I will not leave you behind. I’ll take you with me in my thoughts and in my heart.”
