2269 | Jim Rohn: “If You Try, You Just Might Succeed; And If Not, Try Again.”

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Sean Croxton

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Jim Rohn shares the “Four Ifs” that make life worthwhile: if you learn, if you try, if you stay, and if you care. With his trademark wisdom, he shows how persistence, sincerity, and deliberate practice create success and fulfillment.

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0:00.0	See, my first seminars, they were not that good. I'll admit that. But guess what? I did it again
0:07.0	with the thought in mind of getting better. I did it again with the thought in mind of getting better.
0:14.9	Okay? I practiced it some more. I did it some more. I went over it again. I went over it again.
0:56.6	And sure enough, if you do it over and over and over consciously with the thought of getting better, guess I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com. We got Jim Rohn back on the show. Today, Jim is going to share the four ifs that make life worthwhile.
1:03.0	He's also going to share some really good communication tips for us that all of us can use.
1:11.4	I think that sometimes when we listen to these speakers that are on the show, we don't, we don't think about the first day,
1:14.5	like the first time they stepped on stage.
1:22.9	And the juxtaposition, right, between the first time they presented versus how good they became because they kept on showing up and they kept on learning based on their experiences
1:29.6	and feedback from others. You know, sometimes when I'm looking for the throwback Thursday
1:35.3	episode, I have to listen to episodes from like, what, 2016? And I'm like, ooh, because I'm
1:42.2	super loud. I'm talking super fast, right? And it's just like, that is not, not that I'm like, ooh, because I'm super loud. I'm talking super fast, right? And it's just like,
1:46.8	that is not, not that I'm polished now by any means, but that was very unpolished work back
1:52.1	then. But here's the thing. You have to keep showing up. You got to keep doing it. You got to keep
1:56.1	pressing record. You got to keep walking on the stage. You got to keep doing the presentation over
2:00.0	and over and over and over again in order to get better.
2:04.5	So we have to remind ourselves of that every once in a while.
2:08.2	Jim Rones coming up.
2:11.7	The four ifs that make life worthwhile.
2:15.0	I think I got this when I was in the Carmel Library, Carmel, California,
2:21.3	one of my favorite places to study and do a bit of research. And I remember that day when I
2:29.0	put this together, the four ifs that make life worthwhile. Speaking of preparation, here's what I said.
2:37.0	The four ifs are, number one, if you learn, that makes life worthwhile. You've got to learn.
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