It Is A Challenge To Succeed by Jim Rohn

It Is A Challenge To Succeed by Jim Rohn

(excerpted from The Challenge to Succeed audio series)

It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I'm sure more
people would be successful, but for every person who is
enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are
examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out.
They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some
strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if
ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most
of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller
number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of
just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged
in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems
to work out for them. While the much larger group sits in
awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.

"I am a nice person," the man says to himself. "How come
this other guy is happy and prosperous, and I'm always
struggling?" He asks himself, "I am a good husband, a good
father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out
for me? Life just isn't fair. I'm even smarter and willing
to work harder than some of these other people who just seem
to have everything going their way," he says as he slumps
into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But
you see you've got to be more than a good person and a good
worker. You've got to become a good planner, and a good
dreamer. You've got to see the future finished in advance.
You've got to put in the long hours and put up with the
setbacks and the disappointments. You've got to learn to
enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself
through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it
becomes comfortable. You've got to be prepared and willing
to attack the challenges if you want the success because
challenges are part of success. Now that may sound like a
full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the
process of going from average to fortune isn't really all
that difficult. Thinking about it is the difficult part.
Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the
disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can
promise you that the challenges you'll meet on the road to
success are far less difficult to deal with than the
struggles and the disappointments that come from being
average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an
exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul
and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It
strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become
better prepared for the next challenge.

I've often said that to have more, we must first become
more, and to become more, we must begin the process of
working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But
in addition to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new
experiences; it is also important to discover new emotions.
It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest
difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the
chances we have and the choices we have determines the
intensity of our effort. Whether we try or don't try. Join
or don't join. Believe or don't believe.

I'd like for you to discover some strong feelings about your
life and about what you want to do with that life. You
probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the
experience and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to
become successful. What you may be lacking in are the strong
feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You
may be one of those who have become so involved in the
process of earning a living that you've forgotten about the
choices and the chances you have for designing your own
life.

Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at
your life and where you're headed. After all, you've only
got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an
adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all you can
do and what all you can have? Why not discover how many
others you can help and in the process how that can help
you?

Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America's Foremost Business Philosopher. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine go to www.jimrohn.com .

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