Jim rohn essay

Rohn went from working as a store clerk to speaking for money at high schools and colleges. He eventually made between $3,000 to $8,000 per lecture, in addition to profits from the videos, cassettes and books he sold.

“He gave me a way of looking at life that allowed me to not ask [that] life would be easier, but to ask that I’d be better,” Robbins said in a tribute after Rohn passed away in 2009.

He became a millionaire at age 31, helped others create fortunes of their own along the way, and met Robbins nearly 16 years later when the struggling teenager showed up to a seminar. “That man, that seminar, that day — what Jim Rohn did was put me back in control of my own future,” Robbins writes in his book.

THE JIM ROHN GUIDE TO PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ‐ Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. The important question to ask on the job is not, “What am I getting?” Instead, you should ask, “What am I becoming?” What you become directly influences what you get.