"We've all heard the expression, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Well, I've got a good question for you: What if it's true? Wouldn't that be easy to do - to eat an apple a day? Here's the problem: It's also easy not to do. And therein lay the equation for success and failure. The things that are easy to do are also easy not to do." 

Jim Rohn

Skills Make Labor More Valuable

by Jim Rohn

As you know by now, if you have been a long time subscriber to our weekly E-zine, I'm a very big proponent of activity, labor and discipline. In fact I devoted one of the five major pieces to the life puzzle (in my book under the same name) to the subject of activity and labor. But now let me add another key word to the labor equation - skillful. Yes, skillful labor. 

We need skills to help build our family's dreams, skills to stir up an enterprise and make it successful. We need skills to build equities for the future. We need skills of all kinds. 

How about this - skillful language. If you just talk to your family you can hold them all together, but if you skillfully talk to your children you can help them build dreams for the future. That is why I spend so much time at the Weekend Seminar on communication - how to affect others with words. You can't be lazy in language - it cost too much. What if you meant to say "what's troubling you?" and instead you said "what's wrong with you?". Wow, that's too big a mistake. And sure you could have made that mistake 10 years ago, but not now. You should have gotten much better by now in language and communication. 

Skills multiply labors by two, by five, by ten, by fifty, by one hundred times. Hey, you can chop a tree down with a hammer but it takes about 30 days of hard labor. But if you trade the hammer in for an ax, you can chop the tree down in about 30 minutes. What's the difference in 30 days and 30 minutes? Skills. Skills made the difference.

So do what you can - labor. But also do the best that you can do - improved skills. And you will find that the labor combined with skills will start producing miracles. Miracles with your money, miracles with your family and miracles in every part of your life. 

To Your Success,

Jim Rohn

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Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn
SKILLS/SALES

by Jim Rohn

Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom. 

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. 

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things. 

Learn to hide your need and show your skill. 

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting - there are lots of people! 

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice. 

In the sales profession the real work begins after the sale is made. 

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word "no" mean to a child? Almost nothing. 

Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills.

Vitamins for the Mind are a weekly sampling of original quotes, on a specific topic, taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn (TTOQ). TTOQ, a beautiful, burgundy hardbound book with gold foil lettering, is a collection of over 365 quotes on 60 topics gathered from Jim's personal journals, seminars and books spanning over 37 years. To order or to get more information on the TTOQ by Jim Rohn or Excerpts from the TTOQ by Jim Rohn or Brian Tracy, please go to www.jimrohn.com and click on Monthly Specials.

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