SUCCESS IS EASY, BUT SO IS NEGLECT by jim rohn

People often ask me how I became successful in that six- year period of
time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The
things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found
it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They found it easy not
to. I found it easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and my
ideas. They found that easy not to. I found it easy to attend the classes
and the seminars, and to get around other successful people. They said it
probably really wouldn't matter. If I had to sum it up, I would say what I
found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. Six years later,
I'm a millionaire and they are all still blaming the economy, the
government, and company policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy
things.


In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as well as they
could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.


It is not the lack of money - banks are full of money. It is not the lack
of opportunity - America, and much of the Free World, continues to offer
the most unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the last six thousand
years of recorded history. It is not the lack of books - libraries are
full of books - and they are free! It is not the schools - the classrooms
are full of good teachers. We have plenty of ministers, leaders,
counselors and advisors.


Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and
sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take
advantage of all that we have is, simply, neglect.


Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread throughout our
entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete breakdown
of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.


Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and
guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence
diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity
diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our
attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift from
positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even more...and on
and on it goes.


So my suggestion is that when given the choice of "easy to" and "easy not
to," you do not neglect to do the simple, basic, "easy," but potentially
life-changing activities and disciplines.