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Where to Go from Here

Jim Rohn’s

One Year Success Plan

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© 2010 Jim Rohn International One-Year Success Plan 665

Hello, Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan members!

Week 52 has finally arrived. In many ways, it feels as though, like life, we have come full circle. Just as we did 51 weeks ago, we are attempting to find the best, most effective way to make a contribution and help create positive results for our one-year enrollees. Today’s edition is broken into five parts:

1. Letter from Darren Hardy

2. Letter from Chris Widener

3. Letter from Jim Rohn

4. 52-Week One-Year Weekly Lesson Outline

5. Where to Go from Here

1. Letter from Darren HarDy

Congratulations on Your Completion of the Jim Rohn one-YeaR SucceSS Plan!

for the past year, you’ve committed yourself to a journey of self-development and discovery. You’ve been introduced to the 12 Pillars of Success, wherein you learned the power of setting and reaching higher goals, the importance of going for your dreams, the necessity of changing things about yourself and the value of making a significant difference in the lives of others.

Now, with your one-year journey through the plan complete, a more important journey lies ahead of you in consistently implementing and taking action on all that you have learned.

As Jim Rohn said, “Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”

I encourage you to continue your journey of self-development by taking advantage of the many incredible resources available to you. There are tens of thousands of books, CDs, DVDs, MP3s and more from respected experts in time management, goal setting, motivation, inspiring others, staying healthy, balancing work and family and other essential life skills. Jim often reminded us, “Lifelong learners grow intellectually and improve their chances for success.”

Of course, I recommend SUCCESS magazine as a tremendous resource for helping you get the competitive advantage in life. And you may consider continuing your journey with The Jim Rohn

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Week 52Success Plan Year Two, a comprehensive yearlong follow-up program to The Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan that features a detailed curriculum created specifically to enhance your financial mastery.

Wherever your life leads, I hope that you will continue to practice what you’ve learned in your dedicated studies of the past year. If you haven’t already, it’s time for you to take action and watch the miracle process take hold in your life!

Darren Hardy

SUCCESS Publisher and editorial Director

As Publisher and Editorial Director of SUCCESS magazine, Darren Hardy follows in the footsteps of industry icons such as Orison Swett Marden, W. Clement Stone, Napoleon Hill and Og Mandino. An author and highly sought-after keynote speaker, Darren has been a leader in the personal-development industry for more than sixteen years. He has mentored thousands of entrepreneurs, advised many large corporations, and serves on the board of several companies and nonprofit organizations. Darren’s passion for personal development is at the core of his business and life philosophy. He is committed to helping others achieve their potential in order to live richer, more fulfilling lives.

“Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.”

—James a. Ray


2. Letter from CHris WiDenerWow—a whole year has passed! It seems like just yesterday we began!

But here we are. I have thought long and hard about my final words to you and what encouragement and challenge I could give to you. In the end, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to keep it simple. I believe that life is simple, and that by living out simple truths, we give ourselves a much higher chance for success.

So I want to talk to you about the two simple actions to keep in mind in order to ensure your success and accomplishment.

When it comes to achieving accomplishments, there are two foundational actions that must take place. When these two actions take place, and take place in the right order, you will become unstoppable. You will also enter into an elite group of people who actually do both.

You see, most people are given to only one or the other, and in doing so, they negate their opportunity to accomplish what it is that they want to accomplish.

What are these two actions?

intake anD outPutThink about it. Do you want to have a healthy body? You must take in proper food and output vigorous exercise. Do you want to be financially fit? You must intake income and output investments.

The same is true in our personal and professional lives. But what specifically do we intake and output?

We intake information and we output effort through the exercise of our will.

The twin actions of accomplishment then are the intake of information and the exercising of our will.

As I said, most people do one or the other. They are simply information addicts or they are action addicts. You have some who go to every seminar in the world and then never exercise their will to put it into practice. Others are simply a flurry of action but going in no specific direction.

When you only intake information, you become fat! Not physically fat, but personally fat. You become lethargic. You become frustrated because all of this information was supposed to change your life!

When you only exercise your will and become a tornado of activity, you become spent. You become tired because you aren’t achieving anything but a busy schedule!

But when you put these two together—wow! Look out, because you will turn the world upside down! So let’s look at these two a little closer.


Week 52How can you intake information?

1. Choose as close friends people who will challenge and stimulate you intellectually and personally.

2. Go back to school.

3. Buy success products and listen to them.

4. Read books.

5. Go to a seminar.

6. Get involved in an ongoing discussion group with people who want to grow.

7. Have a coach or mentor

How can you exercise the will? This is a bit simpler but not so easy.

1. You simply must act on the information.

2. Eat better foods—put down the ice cream.

3. Save more money—stop spending on superfluous items.

4. Lose weight—start walking every day.

5. Manage your time—shut off the TV.

All of these things we know to do, but we must simply do it.

Are you a person who has all the info? Then act.

Are you a person who acts but doesn’t get anywhere? Then learn.

Intake information, exercise the will—the twin actions of accomplishment. Now that you have finished this year, you have the rest of your life ahead of you. That is exciting! Just remember that the key is to take in new information and to continually act upon it.

On a final personal note, I want to thank you for the opportunity to come into your life each and every week. Jim and Kyle have been very gracious to allow me the opportunity to participate in and contribute to what I believe has become the best one-year personal-development plan ever created. For most of you, mine was a new name. I am glad we have made the acquaintance that we have, and I would love to hear from you as you continue your life journey!

I hope for you all the best and God’s biggest blessings,

Chris Widener

“Feed your mind with healthy, nutritious intellectual protein, not mental candy.”

—Brian tracy


3. Letter from Jim roHnHello, and welcome to the final leg in our one-year journey of The One-Year Success Plan. I must say that there is a unique mixture of pride and excitement, along with some sadness (much like a teacher would feel on Graduation Day as he watches his students move to the next phase of their lives) as I labor to find the words and language to express this week’s message to you. As I think of you today, I lift my glass in a toast to you!

Together (you, me, Kyle and Chris), we’ve reached a high summit. You are in the top 1 to 2 percent of the marketplace and in the top 5 percent of those participating in the miracle of personal development because you invested your time, energy and passion in this yearlong commitment. Do you remember when we started on this journey one year ago? Did the path up the mountain of self-development seem unclear and undefined, too high, too rocky or too steep? And yet today we stand together on the summit; we’ve reached the top of our mountain. Perhaps we are a little dusty and somewhat bruised from our journey, but what a triumphant feeling to know that we’ve labored and that our efforts were not in vain, that they have paid off, and now we can look down at the path we’ve taken with the satisfaction of knowing that we have persisted in developing our unique gifts and skills.

I’m reminded of a phrase found in the Old Testament that says if you will use your gifts, they will make a place for you. With the last year behind you, you’ve become a good example of where your gifts have brought you. You’ve worked hard on your gifts, you’ve struggled with building new skills, and you’ve disciplined yourself to apply this new knowledge in order to create the life you’ve designed and wish to accomplish. What an incredible gift you’ve given yourself, your family, your business and your community. Now the labor you’ve invested over the past year is not only making a difference in your life right now, but it is also working to creating an incredible legacy that you will leave—a lasting impact for those who will follow you. What an incredible accomplishment; it’s one deserving of celebration!

And now is the time to celebrate your success. Celebration is a special but often neglected part of life, so I encourage you to take some time this week to reflect on your journey and then find a unique way to celebrate your accomplishments. Life is too short not to take a moment to reward yourself when you have accomplished something you set out to do. Half the fun in achieving success in any area is planning the reward or celebration you’ll have once you’ve reached the goal. You have earned it—now take a moment to pause on your journey to enjoy it and to say to yourself, “I’ve arrived, I deserve the reward!”

But my wish for you today is that after you’ve had your celebration that you would continue on your journey. For though the completion of this year is an end, it is also the exciting beginning to the next part of your journey of self-discovery and self-development. I want to leave you with a challenge today. Because you invested in yourself this past year, you have enabled yourself to move on to the next phase of your journey, to take larger steps toward your goals and stronger steps toward your vision, and to have a new pride in your stride, a new light in your eyes, and a new faith in your heart and soul. So my challenge for you today is twofold: The first is to find that extraordinary balance of being both content and ambitious. I want you to be content in knowing that you are blessed to live where you live, in enjoying the freedoms and conveniences you possess, and in having achieved some level of success. But


Week 52I want you to be ambitious in moving forward to pursue the lifestyle you’ve worked so hard to define this past year and to enjoy the success that goes along with accomplishing your goals. Now here’s the second part of my challenge: Do not let this stop with you. Instead, gather the experiences and new skills you’ve learned, and continue your growth by investing in others. Help others by teaching them to set goals, to become dynamic, sophisticated individuals, to be kind as well as strong, and touch them with your skills and knowledge from the rich experiences you’ve had.

Let me also leave you with a few simple, yet profound, principles that have governed my life. Follow them, and I assure you that your life will continue to move in the direction you desire. Here they are:

Continue to Learn. Do not neglect to learn everything you can as you go through life. Let life teach you, touch you and move you. Let the experiences and seasons you go through make you stronger and wiser. Gather knowledge from a variety of sources, take the class, read the books, listen to the CDs. Learn from the relationships that you have, find unique teachers and mentors. Continue to pursue knowledge and learning. Each time we master something new, we position ourselves to go and grow further. This skill will prove to be a rich treasure for you.

review What you’ve already Learned. In this past year, Kyle, Chris and I, along with all of the incredible guests we have had on the conference calls, have given you massive amounts of information that can help you take your life to the next level and beyond. And here’s what is exciting about that: The ideas you’ve gained are not only free—they are priceless! Sure, you paid a fee to join the one-year plan, but the fees go to pay for the administrative cost of maintaining a program like this. But how can you place a value on the ideas you’ve received? Here’s what else is powerful: You now have the convenience of accessing this incredible information any time you desire; it is yours to use and refer back to as often as you need. G.K. Chesterton once said that people “need to be reminded a lot more than they need to be instructed.” How true. So remind yourself of the things you have learned by going back through the material and revisiting the life-changing truths you have learned. Go through them so you can understand them better and apply them in a deeper way to your life. Repetition is the mother of skill.


Continue to set new Goals and reach Higher. You have attained a certain level of success in your life. Every one of you who participated in this yearlong commitment is in a different stage of life, career and wealth-building. No matter where you are in your life, you can go further. It doesn’t matter if you are older; there is still time left for you to make a difference in the world around you. Set your sights on the heights you can reach; determine to set and achieve new goals. When you travel, you look forward and see the horizon ahead. Yet, as you continue, the horizon seems to stay ahead of you and continues to beckon you forward. Life is like that. Don’t just look to a fixed spot in the distance and determine that is the end of your journey, that when you reach that spot you’ve arrived. Instead, take time to look to the horizon beyond you and keep moving forward. What an exciting prospect to know that no matter what success we’ve achieved, there are always new possibilities, new horizons waiting to be explored, and that we can keep growing, improving and succeeding!

remember the tortoise. You remember the old fable—the speedy hare sets out on his race against the tortoise. He starts fast but then gets distracted and doesn’t keep at it. The tortoise, on the other hand, starts slow, plods along and eventually wins the race. Many successful people are the plodders, like the tortoise. They slowly but surely grow and make progress. They keep on keeping on. And they win; they reach their goals. They succeed. It’s OK if you are going slower than you think you should; the key is to invest in the disciplines that keep you continually moving toward your goals and will help you win the race.

Develop a Vision for your Life—and keep it in front of you at all times. If you don’t have a plan for where you want to go, how will you get there? You’ve got to have a plan! This year should have helped you decide a number of things and brought clarity to your vision in many ways. Constantly refine your goals, your direction. Keep asking yourself, “Is this the direction that I want to go? Is this what I want from my life?” If it isn’t, then change it! Remember, you can redefine your direction, and thus redirect your destination, at any time. If you haven’t already done this, I want to encourage you to write out the vision of your life. Then keep it in front of you at all times so that it is continually fresh in your mind of what you hope to accomplish in your life—lifestyle by design!

Guard your Heart. Ancient script says, “Guard your heart above all things, for it is the wellspring of life.” Our hearts are the center of our beings. I do not mean the physical heart. This heart is not tangible—but it is the center, where everything begins. It guides who we are. It is your passion. Guard what passions capture your heart. Let good and noble ideals inspire you, because from those passions will come the direction of your life. Fill your heart with wonderful things so that out of it will come results you can be proud of and ones that will speak well of your life. Keep the door closed to the negative influences and things that can nudge you off course, because rest assured, they will affect you. Protect your heart from the negative pull and nourish it from positive sources. Keep it strong and pure so that at the end of your life you can stand and say that you ran the race and you ran it to win.

It is my hope that you reach all of the goals you’ve set, that you master the skills you’ve learned and that you have the exploding satisfaction that you’ve used your gifts wisely, that you’ve blessed yourself, your family, community and your business along this journey that life has set before us.

Let’s continue doing the remarkable!

Jim Rohn

“What you become directly influences what you get.”

—Jim Rohn


Week 52

4. 52-Week one-year WeekLy Lesson outLine

PiLLar one—PersonaL DeVeLoPmentWeek One: Part One—The Journey

Week Two: Part Two—The Plan

Week Three: Part Three—Influence and Association (Month One Conference Call—Jim Rohn)

Week Four: Part Four—Learning and Education

PiLLar tWo—GoaL-settinGWeek Five: Part One—Evaluation and Reflection

Week Six: Part Two—Establishing Dreams and Goals

Week Seven: Part Three—SMART Goals (Month Two Conference Call—Vic Johnson)

Week Eight: Open week

Week Nine: Part Four—Accountability

PiLLar tHree—HeaLtH-sPirituaL/ PHysiCaL/emotionaL

Week 10: Part One—Spiritual Health

Week 11: Part Two—Emotional Health

Week 12: Part Three—Physical Health-Nutritional (Month Three Conference Call—Greg Landry)

Week 13: Part Four—Physical Health-Exercise

PiLLar four—finanCesWeek 14: Part One—Getting Out of Debt

Week 15: Part Two—Saving

Week 16: Part Three—Investing (Month Four Conference Call—Loral Langemeier)

Week 17: Part Four—Giving

PiLLar fiVe—reLationsHiPsWeek 18: Part One—Basics of Healthy Relationships

Week 19: Part Two—Family and Spousal Relationships

Week 20: Part Three—Friendships (Month Five Conference Call—Les Parrott)

Week 21: Part Four—Business Relationships

PiLLar six—time manaGementWeek 22: Part One—Philosophy and Values

Week 23: Part Two—Creating a Proactive Schedule

Week 24: Part Three—Breaking Through Barriers (Month Six Conference Call—Brian Tracy)

Week 25: Part Four—Gaining More Time


PiLLar seVen—netWorkinG/referraLsWeek 26: Review of the past six months

Week 27: Part One—Developing the Attitude for Networking

Week 28: Part Two—Becoming a Person of Influence

Week 29: Part Three—Working Your Network (Month Seven Conference Call—Bob Burg)

Week 30: Part Four—Getting the Referral

PiLLar eiGHt—seLLinGWeek 31: Part One—Attitude of Successful Salespeople

Week 32: Part Two—Prospecting

Week 33: Part Three—Building Relationships (Month Eight Conference Call—Zig Ziglar)

Week 34: Part Four—Getting Referrals/Negotiation Skills

PiLLar nine—CommuniCation/PresentationWeek 35: Off week; included link to Month Eight Conference Call.

Week 36: Part One—Fundamentals of Effective Communication and Overcoming the Obstacles of Communication

Week 37: Part Two—Improving Relationship and Business Communications

Week 38: Part Three—Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Listening Skills (Month Nine Conf. Call—Nido Qubein)

Week 39: Part Four—The Essentials of Powerful and Effective Presentations and Using Communication to Further Your Dreams

PiLLar 10—LeaDersHiPWeek 40: Part One—The Foundational Principles of Leadership and Developing

a Powerful Vision

Week 41: Part Two—Character: The Core of Leadership and Leadership Mistakes to Avoid

Week 42: Part Three—Skills Needed for Effective Leadership and Developing Potential Leaders in Your Organization (Conference Call—Mark Sanborn)

Week 43: Part Four—Becoming the Best Leader You Can Be

PiLLar 11—memory/sPeeD-reaDinGWeek 44: Part One—You Are a Genius

Week 45: Part Two—Six Stages of Learning and Learning Styles

Week 46: Part Three—Reading and Memory (Conference Call—Ron White)

Week 47: Part Four—Lifelong Learning

PiLLar 12—LeGaCy/ContributionWeek 48: Part One—The Importance of Leaving a Legacy

Week 49: Part Two—Principles for Leaving a Legacy

Week 50: Part Three—The Importance of a Spiritual Legacy and an Impact Legacy

Week 51: Part Four—Financial Legacy (Conference Call—Jim Paluch)


Week 52

5. WHere to Go from Here

The natural question from many of you has been, “Is there a year 2?” Great question. The short answer is that we believe that the information has been so broad and yet detailed that it is applicable no matter where you are in life - from newbie all the way to those in the top 1%-2% of their industry. So yes, there will be a Year 2 -- we will be sending out a formal invitation along with detailed information to you soon. But for now, celebrate your accomplishment. You did it! We all did it! Great Year!

Jim, Chris, Your Jim Rohn International Team and JRI Staff

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