With the help of this book I learned how valuable it is to make lists in order to get more clarity about what I want. Jim Rohn's 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness is an excellent guide for people who want to turn their life around. Being happy and wealthy is not about pure luck, coincidence or just destiny. It is about developing the character traits that transform you into a successful person. The mindset that you have is the one responsible for your rise or fall. Jim does an excellent job in telling uncomfortable truths and determine you to get your act together. Now.
The contents of the book are important guidelines when it comes to the strategy that a person must have in life in order to become all that they can and have all they desire:
1.Strategy one: Unleash the power of goals
2.Strategy two: Seek knowledge
3.Strategy three: Learn how to change
4.Strategy four: Control your finances
5.Strategy five: Master time
6.Strategy six: Surround yourself with winners
7.Strategy seven: Learn the art of living well
The chapters I liked the most were about surrounding yourself with winners, mastering time and controlling your finances. I can't express enough how important it is to let go of bad influences in regards to people. Quality friends can make a huge difference in your destiny. If you want to be genuinely happy, pick genuinely happy people. If you want to be positive, pick positive people. If you want to be rich(materially/spiritually) , pick rich people. The poverty mindset can corrupt you. The negativity and procrastination mindset can corrupt you. Too many people are afraid that they would be alone if they would eliminate the wrong people from their lives. Wrong. New friends will come, new opportunities and connections will open towards you. Jim Rohn advises us to think of a couple of things when it comes about picking/analysing our friends:
What have they got you doing?
What have they got you listening to?
What have they got you reading?
What have they got you going?
What have they got you thinking?
How have they got you talking?
How have they got you feeling?
What have they got you saying?
Are my present associations helping me grow in the direction I have chosen through goal-setting.?
I notice that every day I value my time more and more. I realize that giving time to the wrong people or activities can slowly lead me to bad habits. You can get more money but you can't get more time and Jim Rohn's principles for making the most of your time are brilliant. The same goes with finances: learning to spend only 70% and invest the rest of it is important. It is not how much money you make, but how you spend it and how you invest/save.
I picked some of my favourite quotes from the book and I hope that they will make you think and act towards becoming the best version of yourself:
Surround yourself with people who won't put up with your usual baloney. Don't join an easy crowd. Go where the expectations are high, where the pressure to perform is high. That, too, is part of your overall strategy for wealth and happiness
If your story ever gets into somebody's book, make sure it's used as an example, not as a warning...
You are what you read
Watch what successful people do. Why? Because success leaves clues. People who do well own the habits of success
To have more than you've got, become more than you are. Unless you change how you are, you'll always have what you've got
If someone hands you a million dollars, you'd better hurry up and BECOME a millionaire. A very rich man once said that if you took all the money in the world and divided it equally among everybody, it would soon be back in the same pockets it was before
Discipline is the only thing that will do it. It is the only vehicle for real progress
Why not work full time on your job and part time on your fortune?
Let me give you the definition of rich and poor. Poor people spend their money and save what's left. Rich people save their money and spend what's left. It's the same amount of money-just a different philosophy
One of the best ways to start regaining control of our time is to learn the most effective time-management word. Do you know what it is? The word is no. Learn to say no
It's easy to remain mediocre. All you need to do is spend major time on minor things with minor people
Where do you go for your intellectual feast? Pity the person who has a favorite restaurant but not a favorite thinker. That person has taken care to feed his body but not his mind and soul
Have a gorgeous day and toodle loo!