Define Your Dream & Go Make it Happen !

"I like to believe it’s better to be prepared and to never have the opportunity than to have the opportunity and not be prepared.

As my grandmother grew older she got really sick. My uncle called the family and said we’d have to put her in the county hospital. Now, there is nothing wrong with the county hospital. I know these people mean well, but many times they are overworked and underpaid. But because I worked hard to achieve my dream, we had the resources to put her in a private home with around-the-clock care.

Realize that the cost each month for her care was more than my dad ever made as a university professor with a PhD. Yet we were able to pay that every month.

Do you think she lived for another year? Two? Three? The doctors gave her 6 months, yet she lived another seven years. She didn’t die in a hospital bed with a bunch of bedsores. She died without a single one because of the personal care that we were able to provide for her.

What can you do with the money you make? You choose!

Some people say, “I don’t want the big boat on the lake or the lake house. I just want to do good for others.”

Do you want to know what’s exciting? It’s not either-or; you can do both. You aren’t limited by a single choice. You don’t have to choose shoes for your children or the Ferrari. I wouldn’t be too happy with myself if I had a Ferrari and I couldn’t afford school clothes for my children. The fun thing is you can drive a Ferrari and have shoes and clothes for your children.

You get to do both! It’s not an either-or! God is a god of abundance; you get to choose and you get to choose whatever you choose. You choose where you give and what you do. So, choose! Choose! Choose! But mostly, choose to live your dream. Define your dream and then go make it happen."

YOU determine your Income!

My first mentor, Mr. Shoaff, over a five-year period of time when I was age 25 to 31, taught me some extraordinarily simple things, before his untimely passing at age 49. He only went through the 9th grade in school. He never finished high school, never went to college, never went to a university. So he put his experiences and ideas in very simple language, which, I think for me—a kid from the farms of Idaho—was so important.
When I would say, "This is all the company pays," Mr. Shoaff would say, "No, that is all they pay you." I thought, "That is a new way to look at it." I told him things cost too much. But he said, "No, you can't afford them." Well, that was a new concept for me. He promised that if I would improve, then I would qualify for more money. So I learned that we don't have to work on the company, we have to work on ourselves. Now if it had been technical, I would have missed it. If it had been mystic, I would have backed away. But it was just basic, blunt "a-b-c" stuff that I hadn't thought of before. For me it was the beginning of what he called "personal development."
Mr. Shoaff also taught me that life puts some of the more valuable things on the high shelf so that you can't get to them until you qualify. If you want the things on the high shelf, you must stand on the books you read. With every book you read, you get to stand a little higher.
And the "biggie" that forever had an impact on me: "Success is something you attract by the person you become." That phrase changed my life. Success is not to be pursued, but to be attracted by the person you become. Put your energy into becoming a better you, the best you. Learn the skills. Practice the skills. Attract the success.
By Jim Rohn