April 30, 2025 • 12 mins
Jim Rohn explains the #1 reason people fail — losing control of their mind.
If you constantly battle distraction, procrastination, or lack of clarity, this episode is your wake-up call. Learn how to rewire your mindset and finally gain mental control.
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(00:00):
Let other people lead small lives, but not you.
Let everybody else cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let everybody else argue over non essentials, but not you.
Deal in things that matter. Make sure what you do is the
product of your own conclusion. Jim's message couldn't be more
relevant today. Every day people are losing the
(00:21):
silent battle, the one happeningin their own minds.
That's exactly why we created the Self-discipline Master
Playbook, a powerful guide trusted by over 5000 individuals
who decided to take control of their focus, habits and future.
If you're done letting procrastination and self doubt
win, this is your move. Tap the link in the description.
(00:44):
Don't just listen, level up. Take advice, but not orders.
Let everybody around you be helpful, but then put that
through your own mental computerand make sure what you do is the
product of what you've concludedbased on all the input.
All of us should be students of inevitability.
Without kidding myself, if I keep up my current daily
(01:04):
practices, where will it take mein 10 years without being
disillusioned? I don't want to just cross my
fingers and walk the wrong Rd. I got to learn to look into the
future called inevitable. Human beings can alter the
course of their life. Human beings can live one way
(01:27):
for five years, tear up that script, live a totally different
way the next five years. The first six years of my
economic life, I wound up broke.Second six years, I wound up
rich. Someone says, don't you have to
do the second six years like youdid the first six years and jot
this down? No, no, you don't have to live
the second six years like the first six.
(01:50):
You can use all the information and all the advice and repairing
all of your mistakes and adopting a new and refined
philosophy so that the next six years can be totally different
than the last 6. Now here's the next note to
make. Five years from now, you will
arrive. The question is where?
This is for mature people. Now, if you keep up your present
(02:11):
disciplines and keep up the present pace that you're on,
where will you be in five years?Boy, it's easy to say, hey, I
haven't really thought about that.
So now make this note. In five years, here's the
probability you will either arrive at a well designed
destination or an undesigned destination.
(02:32):
Well designed or undesigned. And I promise you, five years
from now, you, you really don't want to arrive at an undesigned
destination because you may verywell wind up wearing what you
don't want to wear, driving whatyou don't want to drive, living
where you don't want to live, maybe doing what you don't want
to do simply because you didn't design A better destination.
(02:57):
Five years from now, I wish for you to arrive at a well designed
place, a place of productivity, a place that'll make you feel
good about yourself, a place that'll give you honor and
respect, place that'll give you influence to touch other people
Five years from now that you couldn't do today.
(03:18):
Where will you be in five years?The first thing you start
changing is what your philosophy.
You start changing your mind. You start changing how you
think. You start picking up new ideas
and information, gather new knowledge, make better decisions
about what's valuable. And I'm telling you, if you'll
do that, your whole life will change.
Your health will change. Your relationship with your
(03:40):
family will change. Your ability to cope with
challenges and problems will change.
I'm telling you income, promotions, all of it will
change. If you will change, it'll all
change. If you won't change, it isn't
going to change. You can keep your fingers
crossed if you want to and hope they'll straighten it out.
You can wish for the wind not toblow quite as severe.
But I'm telling you, wishing forthe wind to change in your
favor. I mean we call naive at best.
(04:03):
Don't do this any longer. Wish for a better wind.
The key is to wish for the wisdom to set a better sail.
Utilize whatever wind that blowsto take you wherever you want to
go. That is the philosophy I picked
up at age 25 and it revolutionized my whole life.
And here's what I found. I found it was easy.
I got rich by the time I was 31 and it was easy.
(04:24):
Now here's my definition of easy.
Got to jot this down. My definition of easy meaning
something I could do. I figure if it's something you
can do, it's easy. Now here's a ( (.
I worked hard at it. I found something I could do
(04:46):
which was easy, but I worked hard at it.
I got up early and stayed up late, worked hard that six
years, but what I did was easy, meaning it was something I could
do. You say, well, Mr. on If it was
so easy, how come everybody elsearound you during that six
years? How come they didn't get rich?
Here's why it's easy not to. How else would you describe it?
(05:13):
That's it. You say no, no, for all of the
rest of them. It was hard for them and it was
easy for you. That's not true.
You couldn't debate me on that in front of this intelligent
audience. But here's the challenge.
Let me give it to you in the philosophical phrase.
I tend to be a little philosophical.
Here it is. The things that are easy to do
are also easy not to do. That's the difference between
(05:38):
success and failure. So you've got the choice here
today of one of two Easys. Easy to or what?
Easy not to. I can give you in one sentence
how I got rich for the time I was 31.
Here it is in one sentence. I did not neglect to do the easy
things I could do every day for six years.
Underline, I did not neglect. That's the key.
(06:04):
I found something easy I could do that led to fortune and I did
not neglect to do it. Major reason for not having
everything you want in America. Major reason for not having more
of what you want in America. More health, more money, more
power, more influence, more everything.
Major reason why you don't get it.
Simple answer. Neglect.
(06:26):
Neglect. And here's the problem with
neglect. It starts as an infection and if
you don't take care of it, it becomes a disease.
And here's what else is the problem.
One neglect leads to another. Neglect to do wise things with
your money. You'll probably neglect to do
wise things with your time. Neglect to do wise things with
your time. You'll probably neglect to do
wise things with your business. One leads to another leads to
(06:48):
another. Pretty soon neglect has you by
the throat, emptying your purse,emptying your heart, emptying
all of your chances for equitiesand power and all the good
things. Neglect.
What if you should be walking around the block every day for
your good health and you don't? I'm telling you you're on the
wrong track. You should do it.
You could do it. You don't do it.
(07:09):
That's called formula for disaster.
All you've got to do is let thatand a few other things
accumulate for six years, and now you're driving what you
don't want to drive, wearing what you don't want to wear,
living where you don't want to live, doing what you don't want
to do, maybe having become what you really didn't want to
become. I'm telling you, that's it.
Just neglect along, drift along,and it's got you by the throat.
(07:30):
It'll take all your values, leave you with just a little bit
of dust in a summer wind, and it'll soon be gone.
I hope I said that. Well, that's it.
That's where I found myself at age 25 until my teacher came
along and said, Mr. Owen, up till now you've messed up.
Let's see if we can't clean thatup.
Change it. All I did changed my life.
Not just the money, all the restof the values that came pouring
(07:52):
in when I understood that it wasme, it was me.
We intend to when the idea strikes us.
We intend to when the emotion ishigh.
But now, if you don't translate that into action fairly soon,
now the intent starts to diminish, diminish, diminish.
And a month from now, it's cold.Year from now can't be found.
(08:15):
So act, set up a discipline. When the emotions are high and
the idea is strong and clear andpowerful, that's the time to set
up the discipline. Somebody talks about good health
and you're stirred, right? You need to get a book on
nutrition. Get the book before the idea
passes and before the emotion gets cold.
Go for the book, start the library, start the process, fall
(08:37):
on the floor, do some push ups. Action got to take action.
Otherwise the wisdom is wasted. Otherwise the emotion soon
passes unless you put it into a disciplined activity.
Capture it. Disciplines is called how to
capture the emotion and how to capture the wisdom and translate
it into equity disciplines. Now here's what's important
(09:00):
about discipline. All disciplines affect each
other. In fact, here's a good
philosophical phrase. Everything effects everything
else. Nothing stands alone.
Don't be naive in saying, well, this doesn't matter.
I'm telling you everything matters.
There are some things that matter more than others, but
(09:20):
there isn't anything that doesn't matter.
We all pity the man who says, well this is the only place I
let down. Not true.
Key to take home. Every let down affects the rest
of your performance. Every let down affects the rest.
(09:41):
This is part of the educational process on personal development.
If you don't take the walk around the block, you probably
won't do the apple a day. If you don't do the apple a day,
you probably won't consist. You know, start building your
library. You don't build your library.
You probably won't keep a journal and you won't take
pictures and you won't do this. You won't do wise things with
your money, won't do wise thingswith your time, won't do wise
things with your possibilities and relationships.
(10:03):
And the first thing, you know, six years of that accumulated
and we say you have messed up. So the whole key to reversing
that process now is to start picking up these disciplines.
Now, here's the positive side. Every new discipline affects the
rest of your disciplines. Every new one affects the rest.
That's why action is so important.
(10:23):
The least action, the smallest action.
Take it because when you start accomplishing and the value
starts to return from that one action, it'll inspire you to do
the next one and the next one and the next one.
You start walking around the block.
It'll inspire you to get an apple, Get an apple.
It'll inspire you to get a book.Get a book.
It'll inspire you to get a journal.
Get a journal. It'll inspire you to grow,
develop some skills. All disciplines affect each
(10:45):
other. Every lack affects the rest.
Every new affects the rest. The key is to diminish the lack
and set up the new and you've started a whole new life process
key. Also one more thought on
discipline. Here's the greatest value of
discipline, self worth, self esteem.
(11:09):
People are teaching self esteem these days but they don't
connect it to discipline the least.
Lack of discipline and it startsto erode our psyche.
One of the greatest temptations is to just ease up a little bit,
right? The slightest lack of doing your
(11:30):
best starts to erode. It's like instead of doing your
best, doing just a little less than your best.
Sure enough, you say, well, it'sjust going to affect my sales.
No, it's going to affect your consciousness.
It's going to affect your philosophy.
Now you've begun in the slightest way to affect your own
philosophy. Here's the problem with the
(11:51):
least neglect. Neglect starts as an infection,
and if you don't take care of it, it becomes a disease.
And one neglect leads to another.
And the worst of all, when neglect starts, it diminishes
our self worth, our self-confidence, our self value.
You say, well, how can I get back myself respect.
(12:12):
I'm telling you, you don't have to go to 29 classes.
All you have to do is start the smallest discipline that now
corresponds to your own philosophy, like I should.
And I could, and I will. No longer will I let neglect
stack up on me so that I will have the sorry scenario six
years from now, giving some excuse instead of celebrating my
(12:34):
progress. That's the key to discipline.
Let other people lead small lives, but not you.
Let everybody else cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let everybody else argue over non essentials, but not you.
Deal in things that matter. Make sure what you do is the
product of your own conclusion. Jim's message couldn't be more
relevant today. Every day people are losing the
(00:21):
silent battle, the one happeningin their own minds.
That's exactly why we created the Self-discipline Master
Playbook, a powerful guide trusted by over 5000 individuals
who decided to take control of their focus, habits and future.
If you're done letting procrastination and self doubt
win, this is your move. Tap the link in the description.
(00:44):
Don't just listen, level up. Take advice, but not orders.
Let everybody around you be helpful, but then put that
through your own mental computerand make sure what you do is the
product of what you've concludedbased on all the input.
All of us should be students of inevitability.
Without kidding myself, if I keep up my current daily
(01:04):
practices, where will it take mein 10 years without being
disillusioned? I don't want to just cross my
fingers and walk the wrong Rd. I got to learn to look into the
future called inevitable. Human beings can alter the
course of their life. Human beings can live one way
(01:27):
for five years, tear up that script, live a totally different
way the next five years. The first six years of my
economic life, I wound up broke.Second six years, I wound up
rich. Someone says, don't you have to
do the second six years like youdid the first six years and jot
this down? No, no, you don't have to live
the second six years like the first six.
(01:50):
You can use all the information and all the advice and repairing
all of your mistakes and adopting a new and refined
philosophy so that the next six years can be totally different
than the last 6. Now here's the next note to
make. Five years from now, you will
arrive. The question is where?
This is for mature people. Now, if you keep up your present
(02:11):
disciplines and keep up the present pace that you're on,
where will you be in five years?Boy, it's easy to say, hey, I
haven't really thought about that.
So now make this note. In five years, here's the
probability you will either arrive at a well designed
destination or an undesigned destination.
(02:32):
Well designed or undesigned. And I promise you, five years
from now, you, you really don't want to arrive at an undesigned
destination because you may verywell wind up wearing what you
don't want to wear, driving whatyou don't want to drive, living
where you don't want to live, maybe doing what you don't want
to do simply because you didn't design A better destination.
(02:57):
Five years from now, I wish for you to arrive at a well designed
place, a place of productivity, a place that'll make you feel
good about yourself, a place that'll give you honor and
respect, place that'll give you influence to touch other people
Five years from now that you couldn't do today.
(03:18):
Where will you be in five years?The first thing you start
changing is what your philosophy.
You start changing your mind. You start changing how you
think. You start picking up new ideas
and information, gather new knowledge, make better decisions
about what's valuable. And I'm telling you, if you'll
do that, your whole life will change.
Your health will change. Your relationship with your
(03:40):
family will change. Your ability to cope with
challenges and problems will change.
I'm telling you income, promotions, all of it will
change. If you will change, it'll all
change. If you won't change, it isn't
going to change. You can keep your fingers
crossed if you want to and hope they'll straighten it out.
You can wish for the wind not toblow quite as severe.
But I'm telling you, wishing forthe wind to change in your
favor. I mean we call naive at best.
(04:03):
Don't do this any longer. Wish for a better wind.
The key is to wish for the wisdom to set a better sail.
Utilize whatever wind that blowsto take you wherever you want to
go. That is the philosophy I picked
up at age 25 and it revolutionized my whole life.
And here's what I found. I found it was easy.
I got rich by the time I was 31 and it was easy.
(04:24):
Now here's my definition of easy.
Got to jot this down. My definition of easy meaning
something I could do. I figure if it's something you
can do, it's easy. Now here's a ( (.
I worked hard at it. I found something I could do
(04:46):
which was easy, but I worked hard at it.
I got up early and stayed up late, worked hard that six
years, but what I did was easy, meaning it was something I could
do. You say, well, Mr. on If it was
so easy, how come everybody elsearound you during that six
years? How come they didn't get rich?
Here's why it's easy not to. How else would you describe it?
(05:13):
That's it. You say no, no, for all of the
rest of them. It was hard for them and it was
easy for you. That's not true.
You couldn't debate me on that in front of this intelligent
audience. But here's the challenge.
Let me give it to you in the philosophical phrase.
I tend to be a little philosophical.
Here it is. The things that are easy to do
are also easy not to do. That's the difference between
(05:38):
success and failure. So you've got the choice here
today of one of two Easys. Easy to or what?
Easy not to. I can give you in one sentence
how I got rich for the time I was 31.
Here it is in one sentence. I did not neglect to do the easy
things I could do every day for six years.
Underline, I did not neglect. That's the key.
(06:04):
I found something easy I could do that led to fortune and I did
not neglect to do it. Major reason for not having
everything you want in America. Major reason for not having more
of what you want in America. More health, more money, more
power, more influence, more everything.
Major reason why you don't get it.
Simple answer. Neglect.
(06:26):
Neglect. And here's the problem with
neglect. It starts as an infection and if
you don't take care of it, it becomes a disease.
And here's what else is the problem.
One neglect leads to another. Neglect to do wise things with
your money. You'll probably neglect to do
wise things with your time. Neglect to do wise things with
your time. You'll probably neglect to do
wise things with your business. One leads to another leads to
(06:48):
another. Pretty soon neglect has you by
the throat, emptying your purse,emptying your heart, emptying
all of your chances for equitiesand power and all the good
things. Neglect.
What if you should be walking around the block every day for
your good health and you don't? I'm telling you you're on the
wrong track. You should do it.
You could do it. You don't do it.
(07:09):
That's called formula for disaster.
All you've got to do is let thatand a few other things
accumulate for six years, and now you're driving what you
don't want to drive, wearing what you don't want to wear,
living where you don't want to live, doing what you don't want
to do, maybe having become what you really didn't want to
become. I'm telling you, that's it.
Just neglect along, drift along,and it's got you by the throat.
(07:30):
It'll take all your values, leave you with just a little bit
of dust in a summer wind, and it'll soon be gone.
I hope I said that. Well, that's it.
That's where I found myself at age 25 until my teacher came
along and said, Mr. Owen, up till now you've messed up.
Let's see if we can't clean thatup.
Change it. All I did changed my life.
Not just the money, all the restof the values that came pouring
(07:52):
in when I understood that it wasme, it was me.
We intend to when the idea strikes us.
We intend to when the emotion ishigh.
But now, if you don't translate that into action fairly soon,
now the intent starts to diminish, diminish, diminish.
And a month from now, it's cold.Year from now can't be found.
(08:15):
So act, set up a discipline. When the emotions are high and
the idea is strong and clear andpowerful, that's the time to set
up the discipline. Somebody talks about good health
and you're stirred, right? You need to get a book on
nutrition. Get the book before the idea
passes and before the emotion gets cold.
Go for the book, start the library, start the process, fall
(08:37):
on the floor, do some push ups. Action got to take action.
Otherwise the wisdom is wasted. Otherwise the emotion soon
passes unless you put it into a disciplined activity.
Capture it. Disciplines is called how to
capture the emotion and how to capture the wisdom and translate
it into equity disciplines. Now here's what's important
(09:00):
about discipline. All disciplines affect each
other. In fact, here's a good
philosophical phrase. Everything effects everything
else. Nothing stands alone.
Don't be naive in saying, well, this doesn't matter.
I'm telling you everything matters.
There are some things that matter more than others, but
(09:20):
there isn't anything that doesn't matter.
We all pity the man who says, well this is the only place I
let down. Not true.
Key to take home. Every let down affects the rest
of your performance. Every let down affects the rest.
(09:41):
This is part of the educational process on personal development.
If you don't take the walk around the block, you probably
won't do the apple a day. If you don't do the apple a day,
you probably won't consist. You know, start building your
library. You don't build your library.
You probably won't keep a journal and you won't take
pictures and you won't do this. You won't do wise things with
your money, won't do wise thingswith your time, won't do wise
things with your possibilities and relationships.
(10:03):
And the first thing, you know, six years of that accumulated
and we say you have messed up. So the whole key to reversing
that process now is to start picking up these disciplines.
Now, here's the positive side. Every new discipline affects the
rest of your disciplines. Every new one affects the rest.
That's why action is so important.
(10:23):
The least action, the smallest action.
Take it because when you start accomplishing and the value
starts to return from that one action, it'll inspire you to do
the next one and the next one and the next one.
You start walking around the block.
It'll inspire you to get an apple, Get an apple.
It'll inspire you to get a book.Get a book.
It'll inspire you to get a journal.
Get a journal. It'll inspire you to grow,
develop some skills. All disciplines affect each
(10:45):
other. Every lack affects the rest.
Every new affects the rest. The key is to diminish the lack
and set up the new and you've started a whole new life process
key. Also one more thought on
discipline. Here's the greatest value of
discipline, self worth, self esteem.
(11:09):
People are teaching self esteem these days but they don't
connect it to discipline the least.
Lack of discipline and it startsto erode our psyche.
One of the greatest temptations is to just ease up a little bit,
right? The slightest lack of doing your
(11:30):
best starts to erode. It's like instead of doing your
best, doing just a little less than your best.
Sure enough, you say, well, it'sjust going to affect my sales.
No, it's going to affect your consciousness.
It's going to affect your philosophy.
Now you've begun in the slightest way to affect your own
philosophy. Here's the problem with the
(11:51):
least neglect. Neglect starts as an infection,
and if you don't take care of it, it becomes a disease.
And one neglect leads to another.
And the worst of all, when neglect starts, it diminishes
our self worth, our self-confidence, our self value.
You say, well, how can I get back myself respect.
(12:12):
I'm telling you, you don't have to go to 29 classes.
All you have to do is start the smallest discipline that now
corresponds to your own philosophy, like I should.
And I could, and I will. No longer will I let neglect
stack up on me so that I will have the sorry scenario six
years from now, giving some excuse instead of celebrating my
(12:34):
progress. That's the key to discipline.
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