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🗓️ 5 December 2025
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Jim Rohn breaks down why success is a doing, not just a mindset. After philosophy and attitude comes the crucial third piece: activity — showing up, working hard, giving your best, and refusing to drift. He challenges you to adopt a disciplined work ethic, make rest a necessity (not the goal), and measure your days by one standard: Did I do my best?
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| 0:00.0 | A businessman said to me, he said, my kids aren't starving, and he said, I got my bills paid, |
| 0:04.1 | and he said, we're doing pretty good, and I'm making about $50,000 a year. Isn't that enough? |
| 0:08.2 | He asked me. What do you suppose I told him? I said, yes, it's enough if it's the best you can do. |
| 0:15.5 | We don't call any amount enough. We call your best enough. I said if you're capable of making a half million |
| 0:25.3 | dollars a year and you make $50,000 a year, we call you loser. And we don't call you a loser |
| 0:31.5 | because of the difference between $50,000 and a half million. We call you loser because you're not |
| 0:35.4 | doing your best. |
| 0:56.5 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I am your host Sean Croxton of Sean Croxton.com. |
| 1:00.0 | We got Jim Rohn on the show, wrapping up the week. |
| 1:04.4 | Today, Jim is going to drop some philosophy on you. |
| 1:08.7 | And the one that I like the most is when he's talking about doing your best, |
| 1:11.7 | which is why today's feature quote is this. |
| 1:18.1 | Whatever your hands currently find to do, do it with all your might. |
| 1:22.9 | You have to do your very best. Ask yourself, are you doing your very best? |
| 1:28.2 | There's another quote in this talk that was a little bit too long to be our feature quote, |
| 1:33.5 | but this quote kind of messed me up for like a day. Like I couldn't get it out of my mind for a day. And it's really lit a fire under me because he says this kind of toward the end of today's talk. |
| 1:40.7 | If you're capable of making a half a million dollars a year and you make $50,000 a year, |
| 1:47.9 | we call you loser. |
| 1:50.4 | And we don't call you loser because of the difference between $50,000 and a half million. |
| 1:56.9 | We call you loser because you're not doing your best. |
| 2:01.6 | That paragraph messed my whole day up, right? |
| 2:05.6 | And it still is kind of lingering in the back of my mind because when I heard that, |
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