Power Affirmations

Ambitiously Pursuing Your Own Self

by Jim Rohn

(Excerpted from The Power of Ambition series)

What is the origin of true ambition? There exists really only one place to find true ambition and that is within you – in every thought, in every movement, in every motivation. Your ambition is an expression of who you truly are, your own self-expression.

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All Life Wishes to Reward Its Benefactors

by Jim Rohn

(Excerpted from the 1999 Weekend Seminar audio/CD series)

Parents, leaders, employers, teachers and volunteers have you discovered one of the great positive mysteries of life? Here it is - All life seems to wish to reward its benefactor.

If you become the benefactor, you will receive these incredible rewards.

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Action vs. Self Delusion

by Jim Rohn

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. Action is the ingredient that ensures results. Only action can cause reaction. Further, only positive action can cause positive reaction.

Action. The whole world loves to watch those who make things happen, and it rewards them for causing waves of productive enterprise.

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Achieving Your Dreams

by Jim Rohn

While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily working at building and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. And here sits the much larger group, wondering how life can be so unfair, so complicated and unjust. What's the major difference between the little group with so much and the larger group with so little?

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A Dollar and Some Ambition

by Jim Rohn

Capital in your business isn't what matters. It isn't the money that buys you a future; it's your skills that buy you a future. Money and no skills, I'm telling you, you are still poor. Money and no ambition, where are you? Money and no courage, you're broke. A little bit of money and a whole lot of courage is all we need.

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401K-itis

by Al Thomas

Are you one of those many people who dread reading their 401K statements? You have been watching it decline for about 2 years and are wondering if will ever stop. Just about everyone says the market will come back. Brokers say you are in for the long haul so don't worry. Any account that drops to a 50% loss has to go up 100% to get "even" and that is a very difficult phenomenon. If you have an 80% loss as has already occurred in the Nasdaq you would need a 400% rally to get "even". At 90% you have to see a 900% rise to that mythical "even".

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Health, Wealth, and Love

What is happiness?  The dictionary defines it as "a state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy."

Like many dictionary definitions, this may be accurate, but needs to be more specific to be of practical use.  How do you experience this "state of well-being"...

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Take Control of Your Taxes

As everyone in the U.S. knows, we have just passed one of our most "favorite" times of the year:  income tax season.  If you are going to create and sustain wealth, it is inevitable that you will have to address your personal tax situation.  By "address," what I really mean is take control.  This is true whether you live in the U.S. or just about any other country.  Agree or disagree with the "fairness" of taxes, this is a subject that you must obtain some basic understanding if you want to significantly increase your wealth.

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