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Failure
is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is
the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor
choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors
in judgment repeated every day.
Now why would someone make an error in judgment and then be so foolish as
to repeat it every day? The answer is because he or she does not think
that it matters.
On their own, our daily acts do not seem that important. A minor
oversight, a poor decision, or a wasted hour generally doesn't result in
an instant and measurable impact. More often than not, we escape from any
immediate consequences of our deeds.
If we have not bothered to read a single book in the past ninety days,
this lack of discipline does not seem to have any immediate impact on our
lives. And since nothing drastic happened to us after the first ninety
days, we repeat this error in judgment for another ninety days, and on and
on it goes. Why? Because it doesn't seem to matter. And herein lies the
great danger. Far worse than not reading the books is not even realizing
that it matters!
Now here is the great news. Just like the formula for failure, the formula
for success is easy to follow: It's a few simple disciplines practiced
every day.
Now here is an interesting question worth pondering: How can we change the
errors in the formula for failure into the disciplines required in the
formula for success? The answer is by making the future an important part
of our current philosophy.
Both success and failure involve future consequences, namely the
inevitable rewards or unavoidable regrets resulting from past activities.
If this is true, why don't more people take time to ponder the future? The
answer is simple: They are so caught up in the current moment that it
doesn't seem to matter. The problems and the rewards of today are so
absorbing to some human beings that they never pause long enough to think
about tomorrow.
But what if we did develop a new discipline to take just a few minutes
every day to look a little further down the road? We would then be able to
foresee the impending consequences of our current conduct. Armed with that
valuable information, we would be able to take the necessary action to
change our errors into new success-oriented disciplines. In other words,
by disciplining ourselves to see the future in advance, we would be able
to change our thinking, amend our errors and develop new habits to replace
the old.
One of the exciting things about the formula for success—a few simple
disciplines practiced every day—is the results are almost immediate. As
we voluntarily change daily errors into daily disciplines, we experience
positive results in a very short period of time. When we change our diet,
our health improves noticeably in just a few weeks. When we start
exercising, we feel a new vitality almost immediately. When we begin
reading, we experience a growing awareness and a new level of
self-confidence. Whatever new discipline we begin to practice daily will
produce exciting results that will drive us to become even better at
developing new disciplines.
The real magic of new disciplines is that they will cause us to amend our
thinking. If we were to start today to read the books, keep a journal,
attend the classes, listen more and observe more, then today would be the
first day of a new life leading to a better future.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
© 2005 by Jim Rohn
International. All Rights Reserved.
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Jim Rohn is considered to be America's Foremost Business Philosopher, with
a career that has spanned over 37 years and touched the lives of over
three million people worldwide. He has been internationally hailed over
the years as one of the most influential thinkers of our time and has
helped motivate an entire generation of personal development trainers as
well as hundreds of executives from America's top corporations. He's been
described as everything from a master motivator, to a modern day Will
Rogers, to a legend!
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