What Creates Us

‎”If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” – Jim Rohn

Good or bad, what we focus on and surround ourselves with creates us. What we decide to be – or fail to decide… – is what we become.

I recommend that we follow Mr. Rohn’s excellent advice and choose well and live lives of intention.

Look at each area of your life, decide exactly what you want and when and let your goals and desires go to work (as you work your butt off… ).

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