BOOK 3 -1 The Five Major Pieces To The Life Puzzle By Jim Rohn.

 

Jim Rohn was a brilliant author, inspiring speaker, and his quotes and ideas are the seeds of many personal development programs that exist today.


‘If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much!’ – Jim Rohn

He starts off by stating about How the process of change begins. He goes on to say that there are two ways that people process change. Desperation- When circumstances are out of control and Inspiration- When they become sufficiently inspired to make major or dramatic changes.  

After years of study Jim Rohn summarizes these 5 pieces into 5 simple chapters that could make anyone’s life a success.


Chapter 1 talks about how Philosophy is one of the major pieces to the Life Puzzle. 

Everything that goes on inside the human mind in the form of thought, ideas and information forms our personal Philosophy.It is a major factor in determining how our lives turn out and the way we choose to think

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‘It’s not what happens that determines the quality of our lives, it is what we choose to do when we have struggled to set sail and then, discover that after all of our efforts, the wind has changed direction.’  


We must change based on the circumstances. How quickly we react to the change and discipline ourselves to follow the 

We can learn

a) from our personal experiences

b) from an outside voice -a mentor in our life

c) from other people’s experience with failure

d) from other people’s success

e) from being a good listener


“We should become keen observers and astute evaluators of all that is going on around us. Since all of this will have an impact on what we will one day be and how we will one day live.”

He explains why we need to read books-“a little reading each day will result in a wealth of  valuable information in a very short period of time”

Another activity suggestion is Keeping a Journal- recording our observations and how it is touching our lives. It helps us to think more objectively about our actions when we review our journal 


Next post  we will look at the second piece of the Life puzzle

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