You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
Jim RohnRead
Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.
Interpretation
Set ambitious goals that challenge you and promote personal growth.
This quote by Jim Rohn emphasizes the importance of setting challenging goals that not only define your objectives but also foster your development as an individual. It highlights that true achievement comes from pursuing goals that push you to become a better version of yourself, thereby transforming your character and capabilities in the process.
In practice
During a seminar on personal development, I quoted Jim Rohn to inspire attendees to set challenging goals.
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
It isnβt what the book costs. Itβs what it will cost you if you donβt read it.
Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.
Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.
Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.
If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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