Book 77 - A Year of Magical Learning

Reflection Title - Work Harder on Yourself Than You Do On Your Job!

Book -  The Ultimate Jim Rohn Library by Jim Rohn

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Reflection:

My mentor, Darren Hardy, has time and time again talked at length about the importance and significance that his mentor, Jim Rohn, has played in his life. I hear it constantly from Darren about how amazing Jim Rohn is and how much he changed his life. I figured, on this year of magical learning, I should probably look into this Jim Rohn guy and see what all the fuss is about.

I found this audio book called, The Ultimate Jim Rohn library, which is a collection of audio recordings of his best lectures, seminars, and teachings distilled into one audio experience. I gave it a shot and had a blast listening to this. I now totally get why Jim was so inspirational to Darren on his own journey. The guy's energy is infectious. I could probably write 10 reflections on this particular "book", but I'll try to distill it down into the most important aspect that I learned from Jim that I have implemented into my life over the past few years since my daughter left me on this Earth with only the memory of her and a why to act for the rest of my life. It is the concept of "work harder on yourself than you do on your job".

This one phrase is the distillation and combination of basically every non-fiction self help book out there in this universe. To me, it reminds me of one of my key learnings from the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and always remembering to put first things first in your life. You work harder on yourself than you do on your job by identifying those non-urgent, but important (first things first) activities of how you want to live your life and then prioritizing them over all else. Those non-urgent, but still important activities will be a reflections of your core values if you do this right (in my opinion) and you want them to be sustainable. It really is that easy and that hard at the same time.

If you put these ideas into practice everyday, everything else magically seems to fall in line. You have taken control of what you do and why you do it. When you finally take that power back from the world as we know it, the sky is truly the limit.

Ironically, I just finished listening to my morning Darren Daily mentor video and he was talking about treating yourself like a "franchise player" that we hear about all the time on sports teams. These are the players that are the cornerstone of the businesses and the engine that makes everything else work. If you were smart as a business owner, you would make sure that every dimension of your franchise player's human needs are met and kept them in tip top shape and to remain your franchise player. Darren's thought was that we are all essentially our own franchise players in our own lives. If we aren't constantly working on all dimensions of our lives then we are not protecting the engine that makes our world go. We have to take care of ourselves first before we can take care of anyone else in this world.

That singular thought is the only thing I could think about the first day after my daughter was born and we found ourselves in the fight of our lives in the NICU and staring up at a mountain to climb to get her home safe and sound. Once the shock cleared that this was our new reality, my singular mission became to make sure that I took care of myself so that I could be there for Emilia throughout this whole journey and do everything I could to make sure she made it home. I had to stay balanced. I had to make sure I was keeping myself centered, spending time to reflect, exercising, learning, and putting those first things first activities center stage. That is how I survived.

It is in continuing what I learned in the NICU and combined with my why in Emilia, that I'm able to write this reaction, read this next book, and do it again each and every day until I die. I'm working harder on myself than I do on my job because that is what makes me happy and able to not be afraid of work that does not end.

Question: Are you working harder on yourself than you do on your job?

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Links:

What is The Year of Magical Learning? An Introduction

YOML Podcast Discussion - My Philosophy for Successful Living

YOML Bookstore - My Philosophy for Successful Living by Jim Rohn