BOOK 3-4 The five major pieces to the Life Puzzle

 The next piece of the Life puzzle that is discussed by Jim Rohn is RESULTS

‘Any business or personal activity undertaken in the proper season and combined with the passage of enough time, will produce a predictable Result. 

 Results are the harvest of past efforts.  Jim gives the example of a farmer and how the farmer plants seeds and waits for the harvest. 

How do we measure our results?  

One method is to look at the results of what we have right now. The assets that we have acquired- house, car, etc., or accumulation of money. 

Another important way to measure our results is to see what we have become -Have we  become people of integrity? Have we become better people over a period of time? 

“The results will always be predictable because results are always determined by what we are in the process of becoming.”

Jim states that -Success must be attracted nor pursued-the solution to having more is becoming more, we must be in constant search for new ways to increase our value.

The more we become a better person the better will be the results that we achieve.

How to dramatically change our results is largely dependent upon our imagination and our desire to succeed. 

We need to monitor the results on a regular basis to check if we are on course to achieve our goals. We should have measurable goals and depending on the time taken we could modify the pace at which we are working to achieve our results.

‘Ten years from now we will all be somewhere, the question is where? Now is the time to fix the next ten years’ Some examples of questions that he asks.- How many books have I read in the last 90 days? How regularly did I exercise last month? How much of my income have I invested this past year?

The answers to such questions will provide us with vital information about our progress and will show us where we need to discipline ourselves. 

We are left with two choices to do with our lives. – one is to make it to be less than the capacity we have. To earn less, to have less. Leading a live of apprehension etc. 

The second choice is to do it all- “Like a tree it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities.”

The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of who and what they have become.