Koli Sumitra Dilip, Student B. Ed 1st Year , D.Y. Patil College of Education, Akurdi, Pune
This book is a must read guide if you want to be a successful person. In business, in personal life, in your family and in your relationships.
Jim Rohn’s book, The keys to success, is very easy to read. Its writing style is simple, direct and sincere. I found it so good.
It’s never too late to do anything good in life. It’s never too late to change for the better, to learn, to grow. It’s never to late to say things, accept things, forgive things and change anything. Progress is not a comfortable thing and a person has to get out of their comfort zone in order to achieve greatness. Always defend your right to dream.
Have a good attitude about the past. Treat it as a school or a teacher from whom you can learn. Don’t let the past beat you, but teach you.
Mistakes are the experience from which we can learn.
How you feel about the future is just as important. Have a good attitude looking to tomorrow. You need to have a destination in mind because if you don’t know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?
The first point I would like to make on time management is that your time is your own, to use how you wish. Your life is your life, and you don’t have to let anybody make you in their mold. Success is not money or style, but the progressive realization of your own goals.
One approach to time management is to ignore it altogether!
Remember, it may be perfectly valid to step down to something easier.
There are two things that will destroy you quicker than anything – greed and impatience. You must learn to be patient. You have to give your project time. It takes time to build a corporate career or a strong family.
Learn to invest in yourself and in other people and you can become wealthy without greed.
Learn to solve problems.
Life is solving a set of problems.
An ancient prophet said that without a vision – a dream, a good clear picture of the future – the people perish. Unless we can see the rewards, the harvest, we aren’t motivated to plant or to work. There are two ways to face the future with apprehension, or anticipation.
If dreams are strong enough they become like magnets; they pull you in their direction. A good list of goals will not only pull you, it will pull you through. Pull you through bad times and difficulties.
Set goals.
Make a list of all your life’s goals.
List everything that you want to do, to achieve. The go through it and mark the ones you can achieve in one year. Then mark the ones that will take three years. Then mark those that you see as five year goals, and finally any that are ten years in the future.
When the why gets strong, the how gets easy.
Purpose is stronger than object.
Ask yourself, “What kind of person must I become to achieve all I want?” Write another short paragraph in answering this question. This philosophy can be life changing.
What is the major purpose in setting goals? To entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
Set the kind of goals that will make something of you. If you set them too low, so that you don’t have to read or take classes or learn anything, you won’t grow. Don’t join the easy crowd. Go where the demands, the expectations are high.
The book ends with a series of wonderful advices, I will mention some of them:
Be strong but not rude
Be kind but not weak
Be bold but not a bully
Be thoughtful but not lazy
Be humble but not timid
Be proud but not arrogant
Reward people for small steps of progress
Have faith
Let your people borrow your vision until they can see for themselves.