We learn facts, we learn how to study, we learn how to take tests, we learn how to perform tasks, we learn what to say, we learn how to act, we learn what to think, we learn reactions, we learn emotions, we learn to dance, we learn to teach. Or at least we attempt to learn these things. One thing that is rarely taught us is how to learn. So let’s take a look at learning, and at how you can enhance the learning in your own life.

Life is about learning. To move forward, a person must be committed to constant learning. Your ability to learn brings an abundance of wonderful things. Learning can prevent you from repeating past mistakes. It allows you to improve your performance over time. It enables you to benefit from the experience of countless others. Learning is one of the most valuable ways you can spend your time.

When you hear the word learning you probably think of school, books, teachers and tests. Yet only a fraction of learning takes place in school. You were learning long before you ever set foot in school, and it is vital that you continue learning all your life.

The world is changing so quickly that anyone who is not committed to continual learning will be left behind. Learning is an essential ingredient for success in today’s information-driven world. The good news is that learning is available to anyone. You don’t need to have a college degree hanging on your wall to be able to learn.

Everything is a learning experience. Learning gives a positive aspect to everything that happens. Even when you lose, you win by learning from the experience. So learning is a key strategy for living positively on a continuing basis.

Learning is a wonderful way to leverage your time and effort. The things you learn stay with you always. No person, no circumstance can take them away from you. Knowledge has real value, and there is no danger of anyone stealing that value away from you. In fact, the more you share it with others the more valuable it becomes to you.

A key strategy for learning is to appreciate the value of learning. Unfortunately, learning can too often be forced on you by your own decisions or by other people, rendering the effort largely ineffective. Yet learning can be a natural, enjoyable, productive activity when you approach it with the right attitude.

It’s vitally important that you find a reason to learn. If you can develop a strong enough reason why you want to learn, you’ll find a way to learn whatever you need to know. Each day is filled with opportunities to learn. When you are motivated to learn, all sorts of teachers appear at every turn. The main reason people do not learn is that they don’t avail themselves of all the opportunities. When you understand why you need to learn something, when the desire is strong enough and personally meaningful, you will learn. Think of the goals you have set for yourself. In order to achieve these goals, you’ll need to learn many new things. Make a meaningful connection in your mind between the things you want to achieve and the things you’ll need to learn in order to achieve them. Find within yourself a personally compelling reason to learn.

Admit your ignorance. In order to learn something, you must first admit that you do not know it. This may seem obvious, yet there are many things we avoid learning because we’re afraid that asking questions will make us look foolish. But there is no shame in ignorance. You’re not born with a wealth of knowledge. To learn, you must ask. Pretending to know something that you don’t will make you look much more foolish than sincerely and honestly asking questions. If there’s something you don’t know, admit it. Then you can proceed to learn it.

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The Law of Sowing and Reaping by Jim Rohn

Now, here’s the second law that changed my life forever in network marketing. I learned the law of sowing and reaping. And in the law of sowing and reaping is also the story of the law of averages.

Jot this down…the story of the sower. It comes from the Bible. I am an amateur on the Bible, but this is such a useful story. Here’s what the story says, and take notes, because the drama’s in the details.

The sower was ambitious. Evidently, he was ambitious. When you read the whole story you’ll conclude yes, this was an ambitious sower.

Here was number two. He had excellent seed. The sower who sowed the seed had excellent seed. And the excellent seed could be an excellent opportunity, an excellent product, an excellent story.

So we’ve got an ambitious sower with excellent seed. But now here are the rest of the details of the story. For your information, for the drama of your life, so you can understand things better, learning some of this is how I got rich by age 31.

The sower goes out to sow the seed, but the first part of the seed falls by the wayside and the birds get it.

So jot this down. The birds are going to get some of the seed. The birds are going to get some of the seed.

Now you say, "Mr. Rohn, what does that mean?"

Well, I invited John to come to a meeting. He said he’d be there Tuesday night. Tuesday night I show up. John isn’t there. I say, "I wonder why John didn’t make it."

Now I know the answer. The birds! The birds! John had this great idea of coming to the meeting to look at an opportunity, and somebody stole it and said, "You’re not going to go see network marketing." And he says, "Well, maybe not."

So have you jotted that down now? The birds are going to get some.

Now when the birds get some, you’ve got two options. Number one is to chase birds. You say, "Well, let me get hold of the person who talked him out of coming to the meeting. I’ll tear him a new page." I wouldn’t do this.

Here’s what happens if you go chasing birds. You leave the field. If you go chasing birds now, you leave the field. Which is going to distract from your future, not add? So you can’t chase birds and try to straighten this stuff out.

Here’s what it is. It’s just one of those things, and here’s the best comment when things are a little disappointing. "Isn’t that interesting?"

You just have to say, "I thought sure he would be there. He promised me. He promised me! But I know it was the birds." And you just have to say, "Isn’t that interesting?"

Now here’s the rest of the story.

The sower kept on sowing. See, that was the secret to his success. He kept on sowing. And if you keep sowing, you can sow more than the birds can get because there aren’t enough birds. If you keep sowing, there are some birds but there’s not enough, because the Law of Averages will work for you.

My mentor taught me, "You know, Mr. Rohn, there are only nine or ten real nasty, miserable people in the whole world. Now you know they move around a lot and you’re liable to bump into one once in awhile, but when you bump into one you say’ ‘There’s only 9 more like you–I can handle that–in the whole world?’"

Now here’s what else it says. The sower now keeps sowing the seed. Now the seed falls, the story says, on rocky ground where the soil is shallow. And the rocky ground where the soil is shallow is not of your making, because you had excellent seed and you were an ambitious sower.

So the rocky ground where the soil is shallow is not of your making. But here what it says happened. This time, the little seed that falls in the ground starts to grow and the little plant starts to grow. But the first hot day, it withers and dies. Not an easy thing to watch.

I finally get John started. Sure enough, three or four days later somebody says "Boo!" and he’s gone–doesn’t show up at the second meeting. And I say, "I thought sure John would last a week."

What happened? Jot this down. The hot weather is going to get some. And this is not of your making. Here’s what you must say when that happens. "Isn’t that interesting?" What can you do? The answer is nothing.

You say, "Well, I’m going to try to change this!" I wouldn’t take that class. You know, the sun comes up in the east and somebody says, "Why is that?" I wouldn’t spend much time on that. Just let that happen.

Don’t go for this why, why, why stuff. I’m giving you the answers here. The answer is in the structure and in the consequences and is in the deal. The answer is in the deal. Anything beyond that is not worth studying.

You say, "Well, how come some just last a little while?" I wouldn’t sign up for that class. Here’s the answer: Some don’t stay. You just have to jot that down. And when some leave you say, "That’s one of those that don’t stay."

Now, you know what category to put them in, and you can’t solve this now. It’s like rearranging the seasons. You can’t fool with that. All you can do is cooperate with the way things are set up. I didn’t set it up.

You say, "Well, it shouldn’t be this way." Well, when you get your own planet you can rearrange this whole deal, but on this planet you’re a guest. You’ve got to take it as it comes.

Now, here is the secret to the ambitious sower with good seed. It said he kept on sowing.

Now, here’s what he had to do to keep on sowing. He had to discipline his disappointment. This is a key phrase now to use for the rest of your life. You must learn to discipline your disappointment. Because you didn’t set up the set up, and some are not going to stay, and that is not of your making.

Now, if you made gross errors and you ran them off, see that’d be different. Now you’re responsible for that. But if it’s in the normal course of things, this is the way things are.

Now, here’s what it says. The sower keeps on sowing. Now it says the seed falls on thorny ground. And somebody says, "Well, how much of this do you have to go through?"

Well, hang on. It’s not the end of the story now. Now the little seed falls on thorny ground and now the little plant starts to grow again but as the little plant starts to grow, the thorns choke it to death and it dies.

So jot this down. The thorns are going to get some. And that’s not of your making.

And what are these thorns? The story even called these little thorns little cares, little distractions, little something’s. Who knows what all they are.

I said, "John, we had a meeting last night. You weren’t here." And John says, "Well, I can’t make every meeting."

I say, "Why not? You’re part-time."

He said, "Well, the screen door came off the hinges and you can’t just let your house fall apart. You’ve got to take some time and fix things up."

And I can hear the thorns growing. He said, "Some extra trash had piled up in the garage. You can’t let mountains of trash take over. You’ve got to keep your trash hauled out."

People who let little things cheat them out of big opportunities. People who let little things cheat them out of big opportunities, and you feel almost helpless. What could I do about that? And that’s nothing. And you say, "Well, why is this?"

I’m asking you not to sign up for that class. Don’t sign up for these, "Why is this?" classes. It’s just the way it is–like winter following fall and spring following winter.

So have you got that? The thorns are going to get some.

But now here’s the good news. Let’s read the rest of the story now quickly. The sower now keeps on sowing the seed. Keeps on sharing the story. Keeps on giving an invitation. Yes the invitation can be more powerful for me as it was one year later than it was the first month, because now I’m saying I’m making twice as much money part time as I’m making on my full-time job.

Yes, the story can be more powerful, but the Law of Averages is still going to work. But now here’s what the story says. Finally the seed falls on good ground. Now put this in parentheses. It always will, if you keep sowing. If you share a good idea long enough, it will fall on good people.

But now here’s the rest of that story. Some of the good ground did 30%. And some of the good ground did 60%. And some of the good ground did 100%.

You say, "Well, why the difference in numbers?" I wouldn’t sign up for that class! Have I said that often enough now? Don’t register for that class. It’s just the way it is.

Now I tried to get the 30’s to do 60. Found out it was more than I could handle. I used to say, "I’ll make them successful if it kills me." I almost died. No, you can’t do that.

Here’s what you do. Let the 30’s do 30 to the best of their ability and keep doing 30, because that’s how they build their lifestyle and get what they want out of life. And let the 60’s do 60. And let the 100’s do 100.

Now how can you get some to do a 100%? You’ve got to go through all these experiences and you’ve got to talk to all these people.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

Has social media lost its newness? Perhaps! Many would say about time too. According to and article on WebProNews, 58% of respondents in a recent survey did not recognize the term social networking.

Social networking as a fad had to come to an end at some time. Along the way many people have enjoyed using the services and met many new friends, however, as is becoming apparent, many sites are now becoming rigid in how you use those services.

If you accept that the largest demographic to use social media is in the under 35’s, finding a haven away from the rules of society has been one of the biggest attractions. As soon as societies rules start to affect their online experience, they want nothing to do with that site. Social networking is not a young persons terms. They don’t go online to network, they go online to meet friends and do what ever young people do.

They play games, they chat, they gossip, they even wind each other up. Start to put restrictions on these actions and it is no longer fun. It is more of home, school, work and society - the very fabric of our society that they are trying to escape. Of course they don’t recognize social networking. Social networking and social marketing are two business terms. They are certainly not in the every day language of the majority of users.

Social media will not be lost, at least, not in the short term. As the younger generation move on, the over 35’s are moving in. The old joke of a parent signing in to Facebook or Myspace to talk to their child is no longer a joke. It is real, and the kids don’t like the rules they are bringing with them!

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Jon Clayton
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Here’s a way you can profoundly increase your effectiveness. Rise above all the pettiness. Focus your time and attention on the things that really matter, rather than the little, meaningless things.

Did someone say something that sort of offends you? So what? That’s their problem. Did someone look at you the wrong way? Who cares? Replace the petty thoughts of anger, jealousy and spite with thoughts of strength.

Maybe you didn’t get the promotion you thought you deserved, and you think it’s because of office politics. That could very well be true, but will your resentment, cynicism and desire for revenge be of any positive value to you? No matter what malicious intentions others may have, you can decide whether or not to let them affect you. You can give in to the pettiness, spend your energy fighting it or worrying about it, or you can rise above it, freeing your energy and effectiveness for more meaningful things, for accomplishment, for fulfillment of your dreams.

Of course there are things that make you angry. Certainly you can take steps to change those things you find unacceptable. But that does not mean that you must live and act out of anger. Spite and pettiness are just not effective strategies for success, and the farther you get away from them, the better.

Calm down. Rise above the little, insignificant things. You’re better than that. Your time is more important than that. Focus your thoughts in the direction of fulfillment and accomplishment. The ridiculous actions of others are not your concern. If they’re causing a problem for you, then get yourself in a position where you won’t be affected by them. Focus on the truly important things, and you’ll be much more effective in everything you do.

Think about how important learning can be in increasing your effectiveness. Learn, learn, learn. Learn from others. Learn from your experience — especially from your mistakes. Learn from reading. Learn from experimenting and trying new things. Learn from the challenges. Learn from the successes. Learn what works and what doesn’t. Learn why. Learn about yourself. Learn about others. Every day is full of lessons to be learned, lessons that will improve your performance and your effectiveness. Don’t pass up those opportunities to learn. What you learn is always yours and will continue paying dividends for your entire lifetime. Learn all you can, and never stop.

Your effectiveness and level of performance also depend heavily on your state of mind. So to get into that zone where everything is clicking and you’re achieving the best possible results, means getting your mind there first. You can completely control your state of mind, and one of the most powerful ways to do that is through visualization.

Think of a time in the past when you were highly effective. Think of a time when you were able to reach a maximum level of performance. Think of a time when the results you desired came to you naturally. How did the world look to you? What shapes and colors were around you? What did it sound like? Was the temperature cool or warm or just right? How did you feel? What did you think about yourself? In your mind, put yourself and all your senses, as completely and clearly and specifically as possible, into a time in the past when you were in that zone, when you were highly effective, when it came easily and naturally.

Then take that intensely positive and effective experience and project it into your life right now. Visualize in your mind how it will be to experience that same level of effectiveness in your current life. What will it look like? What actions do you clearly see yourself taking? What will it sound like? How will it feel? See yourself, clearly and in specific detail, easily and naturally transcending the obstacles that stand in your way and achieving the goals you’ve set for yourself.

Visualize in specific detail what you’re going to accomplish. See yourself hitting the golf ball straight down the fairway. Visualize yourself typing in that report with the words and concepts coming easily to you. Hear yourself speaking with confidence and persuasiveness to your potential client. Know that you’ve reached that level of performance before. Experience once again in your mind how great that can be. And know with confidence that you can do it again.

You’re fully and completely capable of reaching a mental state in which you can enjoy maximum effectiveness. Reach it in your mind by visualizing the experience. Reach it in your mind and you’ve indeed reached it in reality.

You’ve been effective your whole life. Look back and consider all the things you’ve accomplished so far. Just staying around for this long is a major accomplishment. And you’re capable of so much more. So don’t just try. Get results. Don’t merely stay busy. Take effective action. When you learn to be effective, anything is within your reach.

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Jon Clayton
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Are you a home based business owner? Are you considering starting a home business? This recession may be the best business break that ever happened to any of us. Check your goals, roll up your sleeves, and get to work! Here is a great article; http://apnews.myway.com//article/20081117/D94GM8G00.html.

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Have you ever been "stuck," trying to figure out the answer to a tough problem? You work and work on it, and can’t seem to find the answer. Then you take the weekend off, come back to it on Monday, and suddenly the answer is obvious. What happened? You got so close to the problem, you couldn’t possibly see the solution. When you backed away for a little while, you were able to see much more clearly and become much more effective.

Of course it’s important to be persistent in your efforts. And just as important is balance. Don’t get so obsessed with what you’re doing that you lose balance.

The trick is to remain focused on the outcome you desire, without becoming consumed by it. Take regular time for fun, family and friends, no matter how busy you are. Often, the less you work the more effective you’ll be.

How clearly do you communicate? The way you communicate has a tremendous impact on your effectiveness. The more clearly and positively you communicate with others, the more effective you’ll become at getting things accomplished.

Learn to communicate with precision. Avoid the use of nebulous, confusing terms. Make absolutely sure that you understand the person with whom you’re talking, and that he or she understands you. If the other person uses vague terms or if there is something you don’t understand, ask for clarification. It’s easy to do. It won’t offend the other person. In fact they’ll be flattered that you are so interested in what they’re saying. The goal of effective communication is understanding on both sides.

Use positive language. Avoid the use of negative wording whenever possible. Negative language sends a mixed message. For example, if you tell your child "Don’t run in the street," the overall message is very strongly opposed to running in the street. But a portion of the message is "run in the street." In order to comprehend what you’re saying, your child must visualize herself running in the street. A more effective, more positive, more direct, way to say the same thing would be, "Stay away from the street." Of course there are some times when it is absolutely necessary to state something in the negative. It pays, though, to look for a positive way of communicating whenever possible, so that your words are more direct and effective.

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Jon Clayton
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Don’t be discouraged by a failure….Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. — John Keats

“Character is like a tree, and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” — Abraham Lincoln

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again." — Abraham Maslow

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve." — Leonardo da Vinci

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you." — Brian Tracy

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." — Benjamin Disraeli

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way." — John C. Maxwell, Author and Speaker

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