Don't Send You Ducks to Eagle School

[An excerpt from Leading an Inspired Life] JIM ROHN

The first rule of business is this: don't send your ducks to eagle school. Why? Because it won't work! Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.

Motivation is a mystery. Why are some people motivated and some are not? Why does one person wake up at seven in the morning while the other wake up at eleven in the morning? Why would someone just keep working while others just keep dreaming? I don't know. Call it "mysteries of the mind."

I give lectures to a thousand people at a time. One walks out and says, "I'm going to change my life." Another walks out with a yawn and says, "I've heard all this stuff before." Why is that?
The wealthy man says to a thousand people, "I read this book, and it started me on the road to wealth." Guess how many of the thousand go out and get the book? Answer: very few. Isn't that incredible? Why wouldn't everyone go get the book? Mysteries of the mind...

To one person, you have to say, "You'd better slow down. You can't work that many hours, do that many things, go, go, go. You're going to have a heart attack and die." And to another person, you have to say, "When are you going to get off the couch?" What is the difference? Why wouldn't everyone strive to be wealthy and happy?


Chalk it up to mysteries of the mind and don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles
Keep knocking and find people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.