Introduction
Anyone in marketing and specifically Network Marketing knows of Jim Rohn. As a teacher, coach, mentor and public speaker, Jim was one of the best. From all over the world, people would come to hear him speak.
But it wasn’t always that way. Jim came up through the ranks to get to where he became one of the best speakers and mentor to some of the best names today.
This article is to remember Jim Rohn and how he changed the lives of hundreds, thousands even millions of people.
Jim’s Humble Beginnings
Rohn started his professional life by working as a stock clerk for Sears. Around this time, a friend invited him to a lecture given by entrepreneur John Earl Shoaff. In 1955, Rohn joined AbundaVita and became a distributor of the company’s product line.
In 1957, Rohn resigned his distributorship with AbundaVita and joined Nutri-Bio. It was at this point that the company’s founders, and Shoaff, started to mentor him. After this mentorship, Rohn built one of the largest organizations in the company. In 1960 when Nutri-Bio expanded into Canada, Shoaff and the other founders selected Rohn as a vice president.
Jim Rohn had many quotes. Through out the article I will inject a few of his quotes.
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary”. Jim Rohn
“Either you run the day or the day runs you”. Jim Rohn
Jim Began Public Speaking
When Nutri-Bio went out of business in the early 1960s, Rohn was forced to seek other opportunities. He was invited by a friend of the family to come and tell his story to a meeting at his Rotary Club. Jim accepted and, soon, others began asking him to speak at various luncheons and other events.
In 1963 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, he gave his first public seminar. He then began presenting seminars all over the country, telling his story and teaching his personal development philosophy.
Throughout the 1970s, Rohn conducted a number of seminars for Standard Oil. At the same time, he participated in a personal development business called “Adventures in Achievement”, which featured both live seminars as well as personal development workshops. He presented seminars worldwide for more than 40 years.
Here are a few more Jim Rohn quotes:
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present”. Jim Rohn
“Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future”. Jim Rohn
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch”. Jim Rohn
“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become” Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Mentored
Rohn mentored Mark R. Hughes founder of Herbalife International and Tony Robbins in the late 1970s. Others who credit Rohn for his influence on their careers include Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup book series), author/lecturer Brian Tracy, motivational speaker Chris Widener. Widener’s book Twelve Pillars was co-authored with Rohn.
Rohn was the recipient of the 1985 National Speakers Association CPAE Award for excellence in speaking. He is also the author of 17 different written, audio, and video media.
Sculpting Life Strategies
For more than 40 years, Jim Rohn honed his craft like a skilled artist-helping people the world over sculpt life strategies that have expanded their imagination of what is possible. Those who had the privilege of hearing him speak can attest to the elegance and common sense of his material.
It is no coincidence, then, that he is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of our time, and thought of by many as a national treasure. Jim authored countless books and audio and video programs, and helped motivate and shape an entire generation of personal-development trainers and hundreds of executives from America’s top corporations.
From then on, Jim Rohn became a trailblazer in the self help and personal development industry, impacting the lives of millions through his life-changing material.
Human Behavior
Jim Rohn focused on the fundamentals of human behavior that most affect personal and business performance. He possessed the unique ability to bring extraordinary insights to ordinary principles and events, and the combination of his substance and style captures the imagination of those who hear or read his words.
Jim is known as one of the great wordsmiths of our time. Here are a sampling from Jim’s Treasury of Quotes that reflect on his philosophy on life and business:
Skills: “Don’t wish it were 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”.
Growth: “Don’t join an easy crowd. You won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform and achieve are high”.
Change: “We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation”.
Success: “Success is what you attract by the person you become”.
Jim shared his message with more than 6,000 audiences and over 5 million people all over the world..
Here is 8 minutes of Classic Jim Rohn….Excuses
Jim Rohn died on December 5, 2009. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) in Los Angeles, California.
If He Was Alive Today He Might Say:
Live by the ABLB rule – ABLB stands for Always Be List Building. Lists contain money. Settling for only the sales you can make up front without building and continually tapping a list is leaving the majority of your wealth unclaimed.
If you want traffic, sit in a lawn chair on the freeway curb and watch all the cars whiz by. If you can’t or don’t convert traffic to LEADS who voluntarily place themselves onto your lists, enter into direct relationship with you and invite you to sell them things – you might as well go sit next to the highway.
Thanks for reading,
