Listening to Jim Rohn

As I travelled in the car today, I was listening to a CD from a seminar that Jim Rohn gave in 2004. Jim has been on the motivational speaker circuit since the mid 1960s and is still active today even though he is almost 80 years old.

He talks about life and business as being like the seasons of the year and how every season has its time but you can always know what is coming next. I think it's fair to say that in the current times we are going through an economic winter period, a time to hunker down, stay warm and plan what to plant in the spring.

I like this approach to looking at the current economic difficulties because it reminds us that even after the worst of times, there are good things that can and do follow. Life is, as he says, "a drama" and without that drama there would be no striving to make things better.

Winter of course is followed by spring when we plant the seeds that will later blossom into fine sources of harvest in the autumn. The summer is a time to both nurture and protect the crops that will provide that harvest.



If all this sounds a bit 'down home' then remember that not that long ago a Chancellor called Gordon Brown proudly announced "the end of boom and bust". He was wrong and if he had listened to Jim Rohn I don't think he would have said those words that came back to haunt him with such ferocity.