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Featured Book Review
by Daniel R. Murphy
Category: Success/ Personal Development Wealth Building
Title
and Author: 7
Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim
Rohn
Synopsis
of Content:
7 Strategies is Rohn's synopsis of his complete
philosophy as it applies to wealth and happiness. He found the two inextricable. One could not
likely find true happiness without some financial success and if done right, the pursuit of
financial success can be fulfilling.
Rohn sets forth his core philosophy here of the
fundamentals. He teaches you how to unleash the power of goals, the importance of continually
seeking knowledge and why this is critical, and the need to learn how to change.
He teaches the importance of controlling your finances,
mastering how you use your time, the importance of surrounding yourself with winners rather than
whiners, and the art of living well.
In a mere 156 pages Rohn discusses all the fundamental
skills, habits and beliefs that are required to succeed with money and to be happy. His last
chapter, on living well, focuses on how to be happy without constantly seeking more.
This book is the summation of a lifelong search for the
fundamentals, a word Rohn loved to use, which are essential to the genuinely good life.
Readability/Writing
Quality:
This is a very readable book. Rohn's style is
conversational, much like his audio presentations, and yet is concise.
Notes
on Author:
Jim Rohn loved to talk
about how he started in life as a humble farm boy in Idaho and came to be rich and famous. At 26
he was broke and going nowhere fast. He teaches how his first mentor, Mr. Earl Shoaf, began his
education on these fundamentals. For over 40 years Rohn learned more and more about success and
building wealth. He spent those years teaching what he learned to thousands of audiences and
millions of people through an exhausting speaking schedule around the world, through his small
books and mostly through is famous audio programs. Many of today's success authors such as
Anthony Robbins and Success Magazine editor Darren Hardy got their start studying under Rohn.
Three
Great Ideas You Can Use:
1. Surround yourself with people who will not tolerate
mediocrity. Associate with people who are successful and who strive for success and improvement.
This association will have a great influence upon you.
2. Follow the wise words of Rohn's mentor, Mr. Shoaf,
who said, if you want to be
successful study success; if you want to make money study the acquisition of wealth; if you want
to be happy study people who are happy. Only by continuous learning do you open the
doors of success.
3. If you want to be wealthy and happy learn this well:
learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Publication
Information:
7 Strategies for
Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn
(c) 1985, 1996 by Jim Rohn
Published by Prima Publishing
Rating for this
Book
Overall Rating for
Book: Very Good
Writing Style: Easy
Usefulness: Very
Useful for anyone seeking success, wealth and a good life.
Difficulty: Not
difficult to understand; a challenge to implement.
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