That Make Life WorthwhileJim Rohn

Francis Madojemu

• Focus

• Your Profession

• Your Organization

• Your Life

This Teaching:

4 Powerful Little Words• Over the years, as I’ve sought out ideas, principles

and strategies to life’s challenges, I’ve come across four simple words

that can make living worthwhile.

• Four powerful little words:• Learn, Try, Stay And Care

Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV

(15) Take us the foxes, the little

foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

1: LEARN!• First, life is worthwhile if you

LEARN. What you don’t know will hurt you.

• You have to have learning to exist, let alone succeed.

• Life is worthwhile if you learn from your own experiences—negative or positive.

• We learn to do it right by first sometimes doing it wrong. We call that a positive negative.

1: LEARN!• We also learn from other

people’s experiences, both positive and negative. I’ve always said that it is too bad failures don’t give

seminars.• Obviously, we don’t want to

pay them, so they aren’t usually touring

around giving seminars. But that information would

be very valuable.

Matthew 11:28-29 KJV(28) Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (29) Take my yoke

upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest

unto your souls.

1: LEARN!• We would learn how

someone who had it all, messed it up.

• Learning from other people’s experiences and mistakes is valuable information because we can learn what not to do without the pain of having tried and failed ourselves.

Titus 2:4 KJV(4) That they may teach the young

women to be sober, to love their

husbands, to love their children,

Paul Zane Pilzer• Remember when you were

young and adults asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

• The idea was that you were going to “be” one thing and “be” that for the rest of your life.

• How many people do you know who have done the same thing since they graduated from school? Anyone?

Paul Zane Pilzer• You can no longer just pick

a job and keep it for the rest of your life. All of these established patterns have been swept away by the advance of technology.

• And you certainly can’t sit back and expect customers to beat a path to your door.

• If you want your business to be a viable fit in the marketplace, you have to stay current with your personal technology.

Paul Zane Pilzer• You need three

different types of skills.

• First are your basic skills, including your ability to read, write, speak, calculate and process information.

• If you are limited in these core skills, now might be the time to improve them.

Paul Zane Pilzer• Next are your functional

skills, which include any specialized skill sets you have learned to date.

• Today, relying on mastery of one functional skill is business suicide—because the area in which your skill set lies could completely transform or disappear in a matter of years.

Paul Zane Pilzer• You need multiple

functional skill sets.• Your business success

depends largely on the third set of skills: adaptability.

• To a great degree, you can define your competitive edge by how fast and how well you learn something new.

Paul Zane Pilzer• You have to keep up

with your customers’ needs and ask yourself if your business is solving a problem.

• But it’s no longer solely about finding and filling a need;

• it’s about imagining a need and creating it.

Focus: CANI• CANI! means constant and

never ending improvement. The concept of kaizen, the “Japanese way of doing business,” is the basis for success…in business and in life.

• Combined with notions as old as “seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you” and, “ask and ye shall receive,” all the way up to the present day CANI!…the message is the same:

• Success is a progression towards a worthy goal and/or ideal…or whatever! As long as the “whatever” is quite specific and the progression is consistent and never ending!

1: LEARN!• We learn by what we see,

so pay attention. • We learn by what we hear,

so be a good listener. • Now, I do suggest that you

should be a selective listener.

• Don’t just let anybody dump into your mental

factory.

Mark 4:24 KJV(24) And he said unto them, Take heed what

ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall

more be given.

1: LEARN!• We learn from what we read, so learn from every

source. • Learn from lectures. Learn

from songs. Learn from sermons. Learn from

conversations with people who care.

• Always keep learning.

2: TRY!• Second, life is

worthwhile if you TRY. • You can’t just learn. • Now you have to

try something to see if you can do it.

• Try to make a difference.

• Try to make some progress.

James 1:22-24 KJV(22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,

deceiving your own selves. (23) For if any be a hearer of the

word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his

natural face in a glass: (24) For he beholdeth himself, and goeth

his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man

he was.

2: TRY!• Try to learn a new skill. Try to learn a new sport.

• It doesn’t mean you can do everything, but there are a lot of things you can do if you just try.

• Try your best. Give it every effort. Why not

go all out?

3: STAY!• Third, life is worthwhile

if you STAY. • You have to stay from

spring until harvest. • If you have signed up

for the day or for the game or for the project,

see it through.

Mark 9:23 KJV(23) Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things

are possible to him that believeth.

3: STAY!• Sometimes calamity comes; then it is worth

wrapping it up and that’s the end. But just don’t

end in the middle. • Maybe on the next project you pass, but on this one, if you signed

up, see it through.

Luke 9:62 KJV(62) And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and

looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Quitting• Quitting is the deadliest of all

success killers and it is a habit. Avoid quitting at all costs! Success, like quitting, is a habit.

• That’s why I love The Strangest Secret, Think and Grow Rich, and Personal Power II…they are all about setting and achieving goals, building one day on the day before, one 30 day challenge upon the last…until you have created a habit and a lifetime of success!

Proverbs 24:16 KJV(16) For a just

man falleth seven times, and riseth up

again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

4: CARE• And lastly, life is

worthwhile if you CARE. • If you care at all, you

will get some results. • If you care enough, you can get incredible results.

• Care enough to make a difference.

Matthew 9:36 KJV(36) But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they

fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no

shepherd.

4: CARE• Care enough to turn

somebody around. • Care enough to start

a new enterprise. • Care enough to change it

all. • Care enough to be the

highest producer. • Care enough to set some

records. • Care enough to win.

Finally…Four powerful little words: Learn, Try,

Stay And Care. What difference can you make in your life today by putting

these words to work?

Paul Zane Pilzer• The trick is you have to be

alert to what is new and emerging— because once everyone else has noticed, it will no longer be new and emerging.

• How well do you explore the area you don’t know about yet, and how regularly and rigorously do you explore it?

• Your business success and your greatest potential for growth are defined by your technology gap.

Paul Zane Pilzer• One way to assess whether

your business is still viable is by putting yourself in the position of your customers.

• Would you buy your own product or try your service? Would you choose your business over your competitors’?

• Can customers find your business—are you recognized in your industry for your expertise? Or do you have too many competitors?