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Credit Score Tip – Make Yourself a Fortune.

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credit score tip make yourself a fortune“Formal education will make you a living;
self-education will make you a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn: was an American author and motivational speaker

Jim Rohn was one of the most influential motivational speakers and life coaches of the past few generations so when he speaks we should listen.

A formal education can be great depending on what you do with it…

Self education is what you learn out there doing what you learned in school.

Honing your life education is one of the biggest keys to ending up where you want to be in your financial world and ultimately in life.

This advice apllies far beyond a person’s credit score and even your career it applies to your relationships and entire attitude towards life.

 

Get out there and make your education count.

 

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Want to Be Wealthier? Want to Be the Top in Your Field?

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Outside of the lottery or an inheritance wealth isn’t just going to drop into your lap and you won’t be granted “Expert Status” in your field for no good reason…

Here is a simple suggestion from Jim Rohn to help you acquire both of the above.

“If you read a book a week, in a year you’ll have read 52 books. In ten years 520 books. You’ll be in the top 1% in your field. You’ll be more motivated, better educated; you’ll become the leader in your field.”
~Jim Rohn~

You’ve got to educate yourself if you want to become richer.

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Part 2 – Action Speaks Louder than Words but Not Nearly as Often

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Here’s more from Chicken Soup for the Soul Author Jack Canfield on taking action…

“The biggest thing that stops most people from being successful is that they think they are not enough of something.

They’re not smart enough.

They’re not old enough.

They’re not well-connected enough.

They’re not well-dressed enough.

They’re not funded enough in terms of their capitalization, etc.

As long as you believe that, you are never going to take the action that you need to.

Because you’re going to feel that you still aren’t yet enough of something to take action.

The way you become enough is by taking action and learning from your experience.

One of my mentors, a man named Jim Rohn, who I’m sure you’re familiar with, said: “you want to set goals that are high enough that in the process of achieving those goals, you become someone worth being.”

It doesn’t make a lot of difference to become a millionaire.

I’ve done that many times over and I can tell you that it’s nice to have a house and a car that doesn’t fall apart and all that.

But, what’s more important is who did I have to become in order to become a millionaire?

I had to learn how to overcome my fears.

I had to learn how to talk in front of groups.

I had to learn how to plan a speech.

I had to learn how to ask people that I was initially afraid of to loan me money, etc.

All of that was scary.

But, when I did it and survived it, I was no longer afraid to do it in the future.

Now you can take away my house, my money, my car and everything, and it wouldn’t matter.

I know how to create more of those things because of whom I’ve became not what I possess.”

 

Those are some powerful words…who do you want to become along your way to financial freedom?

 

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Don’t Start the Day Until You Have it Finished…

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More Jim Rohn nuggets…

“The Beatles wrote, “life is very short.” For John Lennon it was extra short.

There is not an unending supply of the days and the moments.

The key is to utilize them to the best of your ability.

Don’t just to let them slip away.

Capture them, like we capture the seasons. There is only so many.

If some guy says, you know, “I got twenty more years.”

You say, “No, you got twenty more times.”

If you go fishing once a year you only have twenty more times to go fishing. Now that starts to make it a bit more critical.

Not that I have a whole twenty more years, but just twenty more times. How valuable do I want to make these twenty times?

It doesn’t matter whether it’s going to the concert or sitting down with your family, or taking a vacation. There is only so many.

It’s easy not to plan and do the details necessary to make them the best possible.

Then I have other little ideas like, “don’t start the day, until you have it finished.”

It’s a key for executives, a key for leadership.

But it’s also a key for a mother at home. It doesn’t matter, whoever.

Plan the day to the best of your abilities. There will be plenty of room for surprises and innovations and whatever.

Give a good plan, a good schedule for the day.

Because each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.

You can either just cross your fingers and say, “I hope it will work out okay,” or you can give it some attention and say, “here’s what I would like to accomplish in the next twenty four hours.”

Just look at it that way and do a lot of it up front or maybe the night before.

Start the day after you finished it.”

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Jim Rohn’s Most Valuable Piece of Advice.

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Jim Rohn, one of the most highly respected financial genius of our time shared a philosophy his mentor offered him and Mr Rohn calls it the best piece of advice ever given to him.

His mentor had this to say…

“Set a goal to become millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it.”

He said, “Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

Do it for what you?ll end up knowing about the marketplace, what you’ll learn about the management of time and working with people.

Do it for the ability of discovering how to keep your ego in check.

For what you have to learn about being benevolent.

Being kind as well as being strong. What you have to learn about society and business and government and taxes and becoming an accomplished person to reach the status of millionaire.

All that you have learned and all that you’ve become to reach the status of millionaire is what’s valuable.

Not the million dollars.

If you do it that way, then once you become a millionaire, you can give all the money away. Because it’s not the money that’s really important.

What’s important is the person you have become.”

Jim Rohn’s response to this philosophy was this:

“That was one of the best pieces of philosophy I have ever heard in my life.

Nobody ever shared it with me like that before.

Another thing he said was, “beware of what you become in pursuit of what you want.

Don’t sell out.

Don’t sell out your principles.

Don’t compromise your values.

Because you might acquire something by doing so, but it won’t taste good.”

 

Some great words to ponder. It looks like we all some learning and growing to do…but it will all be worth it!

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The Jim Rohn Marathon – You WILL Reap What You Sow.

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Here’s another excerpt from the ebook I am reading containing an interview with Jim Rohn…

“A phrase in the Bible seems to indicate that whatever you move towards, moves towards you. It mentions that God said, “if you make a move toward me, I’ll make a move toward you.”

If you move toward education, it seems like the possibilities of education start moving your way.

If you move toward good health, the ideas for better health, the information starts moving toward you.

That’s good advice.

If you’ll just start the process of moving toward what you want, it is true, mysteriously, by some unique process, life loves to reward its benefactors.

If you start taking care of something, it wants to reward you by producing and looking well.

If you take care of flowers, they seem to bloom especially for you and say, “Look how pretty we are. You have taken such good care of us. Now we want to give back to you by giving you our beauty.”

I taught my two girls how to swim and dive. Of course, like all kids, they’d say, “Daddy, watch me. Watch me do this dive.” It’s almost like they’re saying, “You’re the one that taught me. You’re the one that had patience with me. You invested part of your life in this process. Now watch me. Watch how good I am.”

All of life wishes to do that.

All life wishes to reward its benefactor.

It could be something like a garden that grows because you took the time to cultivate it, to pull out the weeds, and take care of the bugs.

Now, the garden does extremely well for you as a reflection back to you Because you are the one that invested time, energy, effort, and a piece of your life.”

Make a move towards your financial freedom today.

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More Gold Nuggets from Jim Rohn.

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There’s an ebook I’m reading where numerous millionaires are interviewed and I’m pulling out some of the best nuggets and passing them on to you.

Here is another from Jim Rohn…

“We suffer one of two things…

Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

You’ve got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.

The reason is because the regret is an accumulated affect a year from now, two years from now, when you didn’t do the easy discipline.

Its like having a cavity in your tooth. The dentist says, “If we fix it now it’s only $300, and if you let it go, someday it’s going to be $3,000.” So, the easier pain of the $300 and sitting in the chair for just a little while takes care of it. But if you let it go, that’s no good.

You know, the dentist says, “This cavity is not going to get better by itself. This is something you have got to take care. You can’t cross your fingers and hope it’s going to go away. That’s not going to help.” Whatever you see that needs to be corrected, you start taking care of it.

It doesn’t matter what it is. You don’t have to take giant steps at first.

To have an incredible increase in self-esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something.

Whether it is to benefit your health, benefit your marriage, or to benefit your business, or your career.

You don’t have to revolutionize all at once. Just start.

Say to yourself, “I promise myself I’ll never be the same again.”

It doesn’t take a revolution.

You don’t have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self-esteem to start going off the scale.

Just make a commitment to any easy discipline.

Then another one and another one.

It doesn’t take but just a collection of those new easy disciplines to start giving you the idea that you’re going to change every part of your life: financial, spiritual, social.

A year from now, you’ll be almost unrecognizable as the mediocre person you may have been up until now.

All of that can change.

It doesn’t change overnight.

But, it does change with a change in thought and philosophy.

Pick up a new discipline and start it immediately.”

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Words of Wisdom from Jim Rohn…

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Here’s some words of wisdom from the world famous motivational speaker Jim Rohn.

Notice how he never talks about luck, natural skill, personality, formal education or who you know.

“The first passion is to survive. To somehow make it. Then start to build from there with something that you could find to do even if it is distasteful.

You don’t have to love what you do.

Just love the chance or the opportunity to begin the process.

Because where you begin is not where you have to end a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now.

You just begin, first of all, to correct errors. Find something, anything, it doesn’t matter what.

The ladder of success is available for everybody.

If you have to start at the bottom and make your way to the top, who cares?

As long as they let you on the ladder.

Then, if you study, and grow, and learn, and take classes, and read books, burn a little midnight oil, start investing some of your own ambition, I?m telling you, the changes can be absolutely dramatic.”

Go for it…it’s in your power to change your financial future.

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Jim Rohn’s Financial Philosophy…

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World renowned American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker Jim Rohn was asked about his financial philosophy and here is what he had to say…

“Unless you have an excellent financial philosophy that gives you guidance to correct errors, accept some new disciplines, and make some changes, you can forget being financially independent.

Ask yourself, “What is your philosophy on good health?” Is it to cross your fingers and sort of let it go and if something goes wrong then you fix it?

The answer is, no. You should try to learn up front. Ask yourself, “What is your cholesterol count?”

The average guy?s philosophy is, “I don?t know, and I don?t care. If something goes wrong, I will try to fix it.”

But, by then usually it?s too late. Now it?ll cost you a fortune. It costs you time. Maybe even it costs you your life.

If someone can help you with errors in judgment, or help you correct your financial philosophy, your spiritual philosophy, your philosophy on a good relationship, that?s where it all begins.

We go the direction we face, and we face the direction we think.

It?s the things we think about and ponder. What are your values? What?s good? What?s not so good? What?s the better way? What?s the best way?

Unless we do some constructive thinking on that, we usually take the easier way.

Easy causes drift, and drift causes us to arrive at a poor destination a year or five years from now.”

Food for thought…

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