Naija Motivation

By Chris Widener (excerpted from Jim Rohn’s Twelfth Pillar of Success: Legacy, Part Three of the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan)

This week I want to talk with you about leaving an impact legacy. “What is an impact legacy?” you may ask. It is how you impact people and the world around you. You see, many people glide through life and do not make much of an impact.

That is unfortunate. Others though, those driven by a purpose and passion for living, are continually making the world a better place and making an impact wherever they go.

By Jim Rohn (Excerpted from the Jim Rohn One-Year
Success Plan)

This month we focus on the learning that comes through the power of the mind. Take care to feed and stimulate your brain, and you will expand your mind. But first, what do we mean by “learning?”

Here are how some dictionaries define it:

–the act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skill
–knowledge or skill gained through schooling or study
–behavioral modification especially through experience or conditioning
–to gain knowledge, comprehension, or mastery through experience or study

You’ll not get me into an argument about religion or politics. No one ever wins. If I am to reach someone I want to influence them by my gentle nudging and by the life I live. I have discovered that arguing only creates distance.

Frankly, the differences of opinion in both those areas excites me. I celebrate our differences.

What I try to focus on is where we are connected.

For me the most difficult thing to define is “reality.”

I am sure it is your desire to achieve something worthy of celebrating this year. As it is common all over the world, we all enter the New Year with so much expectations and enthusiasm. We dream of all we are going to achieve by the end of the year and so many other good things that will happen to us.

It is pitiable to see how many people will achieve anything at the end of the year. There will be so many people that will abandon their dreams, some few months/weeks into the year just because of other people’s opinions. There are so many negative people out there and they are always ready to pick holes in any dream you share with them.

by Denis Waitley (Excerpted from the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Event CD/DVD Package)

When asked, “How do you develop mental toughness in life?”, my response might sound
negative at first when I answer, “Always be prepared for a surprise. The surprise
might be a negative surprise. Something is going to happen in your day, whether you
are late because you got stuck behind a train or your car had a flat tire –
something is going to happen… And the key is your ability not to take mole hills
and look at them as mountains.”

by Jim Rohn (Excerpted from the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Leadership Event)

To really help people in extraordinary ways, learn to deal in challenges. That is
what sports is all about, challenges. That is what music is all about. The challenge
to play so well, someone is inspired. The challenge to say it so well someone gets
it. The challenge to be so gifted in language that someone sees it. Insight is
unbelievable, only human beings can do this.

I set the manuscript on my wife’s night table as we left to go rollerblading, not knowing she would never come home - never sleep in her bed again.

Teresa lost control on her rollerblades and fell. She suffered a brain injury from the impact and was rushed to the hospital. The initial prognosis was bad, but not devastating. The frontal lobes of her brain were bruised and there was some swelling. She would live, but recovery would take time and it would take incredible patience. We were warned numerous times that brain injuries are not like a broken leg. Damage to the brain can change the person. My four sons and I were ready for whatever person accompanied us home from the hospital. We loved Teresa.