I was listening to a webinar by John Di Lemme this evening and as always there were lots of great nuggets of wisdom for success. One of the many of these nuggets which stood out to me was this quote:

Quitters do not understand committers.

Why – because commitment requires:

• Discipline
• Determination
• Dedication

Quitters don’t like any of these three verbs. In other words, quitters are usually looking for the easy route, and so they don’t like anything that spells hard work or pain.

Jim Rohn often said –

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Discipline means work – hard work, and yours and my body don’t really like that.

There is no easy way to success – that is why all who pursue an easy way will give usually up. Then they will say things like: “I guess success is just not for me” or “I have tried this, and I have tried that and nothing works”.

Quitters are the ones who look for the easy way. They are the ones who scoff at long term commitment, determination and dedication. They are also the complainers.

Committers know that real success will take time and hard work and they are prepared to pay the price.

Today’s question is:
Are you prepared for the long haul or do you spend your time looking for short cuts?

There is a great verse in the Bible (in Galations 6:9) that says : And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Never give up - you might be just moments away from achieving your goals of success.

You don’t have to listen to any of the well known motivational speakers today for very long before you will hear them mention Jim Rohn.

He was greatly honored and respected by multitudes. I have just finished reading The Power of Focus by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hanson and Les Hewitt and the last chapters contained one of Jim Rohn’s famous quotes:

Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Let others argue over small things, but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

As you watch this video that contains many other well known quotes, what stands out the most to you? You might have to watch it more than once (I know I did).

Here is one that I really like:

You are alive, live it that way! – Jim Rohn

Don’t forget to leave a reply with your favorite quote from the video above.

Someone said: “He who makes no mistakes does nothing.”

This is so true. To reach your success goals whatever they may be, you need to take action.

However the action you choose to take may not always be the correct one. But that’s ok. It is always much easier for God to guide you to the right place when you are moving, than it is if you are simply sitting with your arms folded “waiting”.

One of the greatest hindrances to reaching success in any area of your life is fear, and one of the things that is often feared is failure. Remember fear will paralyze you. So if you let fear take over, you will end up doing nothing right?

There are at least three BENEFITS of failure as you journey towards your purpose in life and your success goals.

1. Failure always offers an opportunity to learn.
I believe it was Jim Rohn who said:

Self education is ongoing. It often involves the method of learning by trial and error. Of course this is just one part of your self-education. Your learning program also includes your daily program of reading and listening to good instructional material, as well as being alert to every learning opportunity – right?

Every time you and I fail in something, we learn a valuable lesson. We learn what does not work. Remember Edison? How many times did he fail before he finally reached success? It was not just 10 or 20 times was it?

2. Failure offers an opportunity to exercise creativity.
Sometimes when something does not go right (or we just plain make a mistake) we are left with a great opportunity to exercise creativity (to rectify the situation or to get out of the hole we just fell into).

This is always a good thing. Every time you and I exercise a muscle, a talent or an ability – what happens? Of course, it gets stronger.

So here is a great opportunity to develop your creativity. Now it is time to find a way to recover from the error and continue to seek what WILL work. This may take some more experimenting or perhaps more research (or a little of both), as well as a whole lot of creativity. You can do it!

Whatever it takes – persist! Never give up and you WILL find what works. Again, remember the example Edison left us.

3. Failure may sometimes give you an opportunity to confront a weakness in your life.
Sometimes you may fail because of a personal weakness (for example procrastination, not listening to a warning, not reading the instructions etc).

This is a great time to confront this weakness and make a decision to eliminate it from your life. Because you are bold enough to face your weakness and conquer it, the failure quickly becomes an opportunity to improve your life right?

• Are you ready to turn all failure into an opportunity?
• Are you ready to eliminate any fear of failure from your life today?

Let’s take this learning process and turn it into a fortune!

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