Jim Rohn said, “If you want to become more successful, study success.”
How do you do that? By studying successful people. People who have accomplished what you want to accomplish. People who inspire you. People you would like to learn from and emulate.
Lawyers who have done what you want to do. Entrepreneurs. Business leaders. Great speakers and writers and philosophers.
You can find successful people in your city or on the Internet, in biographies and the pages of history, and even in fiction.
Read their books. And books about them. Listen to their presentations and interviews. Most of all, watch what they do because their actions will tell you more than their words.
Reflect on what you learn. Ask yourself, why are they successful? What are their philosophies? What are (or were) their daily habits? What advice would they give you if you spent an hour with them?
Think about them often. When you have a problem, ask yourself what they would do about it. If you have an important decision to make, ask yourself what they would advise you to consider.
But don’t just read and think about them, write about them, in articles or in your journal, and talk about them and their philosophies in your presentations. Tell others their story and why you admire them.
If you want to be more successful, study success. And successful people.
