I'm
a very big proponent of activity, labor and discipline.
In fact I devoted one of the five major pieces to the
life puzzle (in my book under the same name) to the subject
of activity and labor. But now let me add another
key word to the labor equation - skillful. Yes,
skillful labor.
We
need the skills to help build our family's dreams, the
skills to stir up an enterprise and make it successful.
We need skills to build equities for the future.
We need skills of all kinds.
How
about this - skillful language. If you just talk to
your family you can hold them all together, but if you
skillfully talk to your children you can help them build
dreams for the future. That is why I spend
so much time at the Weekend Seminar on communication
- how to affect others with words. You can't be
lazy in language - it cost too much. What if you meant
to say "what's troubling you?" and instead you said
"what's wrong with you?". Wow, that's too big a mistake.
And sure you could have made that mistake 10 years ago,
but not now. You should have gotten much better
by now in language and communication.
Skills
multiply labors by two, by five, by ten, by fifty, by
one hundred times. Hey, you can chop a tree down
with a hammer but it takes about 30 days, called labor.
But if you trade the hammer in for an ax, you can chop
the tree down in about 30 minutes. What's the
difference in 30 days and 30 minutes? Skills.
Skills made the difference.
So
do what you can - labor. But also do the best
that you can do – improved skills. And you will find
that the labor combined with skills will start producing
miracles. Miracles with your money, miracles with
your family and miracles in every part of your life.
To
Your Success,
Jim
Rohn
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