9 things more important than capital

Jim Rohn is a man I draw so much information,wisdom and guidance from, His teachings are second to none. You tube the guy. Buy his programs. Read his books. Learn what he knows.

Here is a post Jim Rohn sent out and I loved it so I thought you guys might like a read to.

Again the below are not my words, they are the words of Mr Jim Rohn.

9 Things More Important Than Capital  by Jim Rohn When starting any enterprise or business, we all know the value of having plenty of capital (money). But I bet we both know or at least have heard of people who started with no capital who went on to make fortunes.How? you may ask. I believe there are actually some things that are more valuable than capital that can lead to your entrepreneurial success. Let me give you the list. 1. Time: The time you set aside not to be wasted, not to be given away. Time you set aside to be invested in an enterprise that brings value to the marketplace with the hope of making a profit. Now we have capital time. How valuable is time? Time properly invested is worth a fortune. Time wasted can be devastation. Time invested can perform miracles, so you invest your time.

2. Desperation: I have a friend Lydia whose first major investment in her new enterprise was desperation. She said, “My kids are hungry, I have to make this work. If this doesn't work, what will I do?” So she invested $1 in her enterprise selling a product she believed in. The $1 was to buy a few fliers so she could make a sale at retail, collect the money and then buy the product wholesale to deliver back to the customer. My friend Bill Bailey went to Chicago as a teenager after he got out of high school. And the first job he got was as a night janitor. Someone said, “Bill, why would you settle for night janitor?” He said,“Malnutrition.” You work at whatever you can possibly get when you get hungry. You go to work somewhere—it doesn't matter where it is. Years later, Bill is a recipient of the Horatio Alger award, rich and powerful and one of the great examples of lifestyle that I know. Desperation can be a powerful incentive when you say, I must.

3. Determination: Determination says I will. First Lydia said, “I must find a customer.” Desperation. Second, she said, “I will find someone before this first day is over.” Sure enough, she found someone. She said, “If it works once, it will work again.” But then the next person said, “No.” Now what must you invest?

4. Courage: If you've only got $1 and a lot of courage, I'm telling you, you've got a good future ahead of you. Humans can do the most incredible things no matter what happens. Haven't we heard the stories? It's humans. You can't sell humans short. Courage in spite of, not because of, but in spite of circumstances. Now once Lydia has made three or four sales and gotten going, here's what now takes over. 5. Ambition: “Wow! If I can sell three, I can sell 33. If I can sell 33, I can sell 103.” Lydia is now dazzled by her own dreams of the future. 6. Faith: Now she begins to believe she's got a good product. This is probably a good company. And she then starts to believe in herself. Lydia, a single mother with two kids and no job. “My gosh, I'm going to pull it off!” Her self-esteem starts to soar. These are investments that are unmatched. Money can't touch it. What if you had $1 million and no faith? You'd be poor. You wouldn't be rich. Now here is the next one, the reason why she's a millionaire today. 7. Ingenuity: Putting your brains to work. Probably up until now, you've put about 1/10 of your brainpower to work. What if you employed the other 9/10? You can't believe what can happen. Humans can come up with the most intriguing things to do. Ingenuity. What's ingenuity worth? A fortune. All you need is a $1 and plenty of ingenuity. Figuring out a way to make it work, make it work, make it work. 8. Heart and Soul: Money can't buy heart and soul, and $1 million without heart and soul? You have no life. You are ineffective. Heart and soul is like the unseen magic that moves people—moves people to buy, moves people to make decisions, moves people to act, moves people to respond. 9. Personality: You've just got to spruce up and sharpen up your own personality, just develop it to where it is effective every day, no matter who you talk to—whether it is a child or a business person, a rich person or a poor person. A unique personality that is at home anywhere. My mentor Bill Bailey taught me, “You've got to learn to be just as comfortable, Mr. Rohn, whether it is in a little shack in Kentucky having a beer and watching the fights with Winfred, my old friend or in a Georgian mansion in Washington, DC as the Senator's guest.” And lastly, let's not forget charisma and sophistication, charisma with a touch of humility. This entire list is more valuable than money. With $1 and the list I just gave you, the world is yours. It belongs to you, whatever piece of it you desire, whatever development you wish for your life. I've given you the secret. Capital. The kind of capital that is more valuable than money and that can secure your future and fortune. Remember that you lack not the resources.

Brad Smith Named in Top 50 entreprenuers list - Australia

http://www.shoestring.com.au/2014/03/top-50-australian-male-entrepreneurs-40/

Hey Guys,

Honoured to be named as one of the Top 50 entrepreneurs in Australia. 

I was asked to take a minute to give a few thoughts on what the list means to me, thought I'd post it up so y'all can have a read.

We live in a  time in history that allows us to learn almost anything we want to learn for free. If your hungry enough to find an answer I’ll bet youtube or google have an answer for you, if they don’t have an answer I’d bet facebook, twitter, instagram or a forum will be able to connect you with some one who knows what you need to know, or has the means to get the answer your seeking.

My point is that we live in the most abundant time in history.

We are not restricted by our education, heck if we want to learn something we can learn it, usually from the best in the world, from a video on youtube that we pay nothing for.

We are not restricted by Location. Geography has absolutely no relationship to success at this point in history. If your reading this then your on the internet, Im not in your office telling you my thoughts, where you are right now in the world has almost no relationship to where your going.

We are not restricted by opportunity. Opportunity is everywhere. We have the ability to sell an idea to the world from our living room, from our computer, We have the ability to seek opportunity, from our computer, we can meet people with opportunities, help people with opportunities or be entertained by opportunity. we can learn how to create opportunity and share our opportunity.

We live in the most abundant time in history, the most privlidged.

We are only restricted by our ability to think, Our ability to take action and our ability to persist.

There is 1 thing I've found in common among people who in my opinion have created successful lives. People who I seek to model my life after, people who have contributed to the world, people who have add value to society, people who have created lives of abundance, not just financial abundance, real abundance, abundance emotionally, career abundance, family abundance…. you get the picture.

The habit that Ive found common among these people is their ability to think.

I noticed they have dedicated time to think.

They have a dedicated place to think.

And maybe most importantly they have a group of people who challenged them, imspire them and demand from them higher levels of thought.

They know that people are power, we are who we spend time with. Everything we do is influenced by the people we surround our selves with.

Im honored to be surrounded by some great people, to be named in the Top 50 under entrepreneurs in Australia feels pretty cool. 

I'm curious to know the stories of the people on this list, to learn from them.

As human beings we are creatures that can learn through association, I can learn from your experience and you can learn from mine.

We don’t have to learn from our own mistakes, if I see you touch fire and get burned, I don’t have to touch it. I know its going to burn, I can see and feel through your experience that touching fire is going to hurt like hell.

I use this as an opportunity to challenge you to create your proximity list.

A list of people who you need to learn from, people who are going to inspire you to be more, to do more, and to give more, people who have done something you want to do.

A list of people you need to surround yourself with. Your proximity List.

The fastest way to get to where we want to go is to find some one who has done what we want to do, learn what they did, then do it.

Its 2014 surrounding ourselves with these people doesn’t mean we need to go to the cafe and high five each other, we can surround our selves with our proximity list on social media. My social media feed is a huge resource to me, I constantly have people who I aspire to be like posting up things they find important.

So follow your proximity list.

Read about your proximity list.

And seek to meet your proximity list.

Prxoximity is power.