The Real "Secret" to Your Success

There has been allot of buzz in recent months about "The Secret" to getting more of what you want in life and unfortunately, so too have the snake oil salesmen flooded the marketplace with their nonsense designed to attract your money into their pockets.

Fortunately, there are also some voices committed to sharing the truth about the real Secret to success and how to have more in your life. Jim Rohn is one of those voices. Following is an article by Jim Rohn that I believe you will enjoy and is sure to be helpful in your quest for success.

Mr. Shoaff's Simple Strategies to Success
by Jim Rohn

My first mentor, Mr. Shoaff, over a five-year period of time when I was 25 to age 31, taught me some extraordinarily simple things, before his untimely passing at age 49. He only went through the 9th grade in school. He never finished high school, never went to college, never went to a university. So he put his experiences and ideas in very simple language, which, I think for me - kid from the farms of Idaho - was so important.

When I would say, "This is all the company pays." Mr. Shoaff would say, "No, that is all they pay You." I thought, "That is a new way to look at it." I told him things cost too much. But he said, "No, you can't afford them." Well, that was a new concept for me. He promised that if I would improve, then I would qualify for more money. So I learned that we don't have to work on the company, we have to work on ourselves. Now if it had been technical, I would have missed it. If it had been mystic, I would have backed away. But it was just basic, blunt "a-b-c" stuff that I hadn't thought of before. For me it was the beginning of what he called "personal development".

Mr. Shoaff also taught me that life puts some of the more valuable things on the high shelf so that you can't get to them until you qualify. If you want the things on the high shelf, you must stand on the books you read. With every book you read, you get to stand a little higher. And the "biggie" that forever had an impact on me, "Success is something you attract by the person you become." That phrase changed my life. Success is not to be pursued, but to be attracted by the person you become. Put your energy into becoming a better you, the best you. Learn the skills. Practice the skills. Attract the success.

Those few simple strategies and ideas helped change my life, forever, for the better. Thank you, once again, Mr. Shoaff.

Reproduced with permission from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine - http://www.jimrohn.com

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