Success is Easy, But So is Neglect

This a favorite from Jim Rohn - very thought provoking. I would urge you to buy the mp3 from iTunes or JimRohn.com if you like this, you'll love some of his audio programs.

Success is Easy, But So is Neglect by Jim Rohn

People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They found it easy not to. I found it easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to. I found it easy to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get around other successful people. They said it probably really wouldn't matter. If I had to sum it up, I would say what I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. Six years later, I'm a millionaire and they are all still blaming the economy, the government, and company policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy things.

In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as well as they could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.

It is not the lack of money - banks are full of money. It is not the lack of opportunity - America, and much of the free World, continues to offer the most unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the last six thousand years of recorded history. It is not the lack of books – libraries are full of books - and they are free! It is not the schools - the classrooms are full of good teachers. We have plenty of ministers, leaders, counselors and advisors.
Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply neglect.
Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread throughout our entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete breakdown of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.

Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even more... and on and on it goes.

So my suggestion is that when giving the choice of "easy to" and "easy not to" that you do not neglect to do the simple, basic, "easy"; but potentially life-changing activities and disciplines.

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Owner's Manual

Why don’t we all have an Owner’s Manual for our businesses?

Whether we are domainers, domain developers, or just entrepreneurs we should have an owners manual for our business. Now I know that you may be asking what the difference is between a “Business Plan” and an “Owner’s Manual.” I’m not quite sure I can quantify that for you. The difference I see is that when I read Berkshire’s Owner’s Manual I see a guiding set of behaviors and principles that define how the business will operate. When I read a business plan I see numbers and figures and projections that tell me what the business will do.

I suppose the difference is that the BPlan tells me What we are doing and the Owner’s Manual tells me How.

I think it would be important as an investor (and if you own a domain you are an investor) to know what management (sometimes this is you) plans to do with the domain and the Owner’s Manual tells the investor (this would also be you) how management will act/behave in attempting to achieve the objectives in the BPlan.

One of the reasons that so many people fail to realize their domaining or investing dreams is that they may be able to identify a promising domain, but then they don’t have a plan in place that explains what they will do with the domain and they have no plan for how they will act as the manager of the domain.

Read Warren Buffett’s Owner’s Manual (PDF) and then think about how his “Owner-Related Business Principles” could be applied in conjunction with your business plan. How could you use these as tools to increase your likelihood of success.