With great sadness we share that Jim Rohn, our mentor and friend, left us December 5, 2009 for a better place. These are the first words that you will find today when visiting Jim Rohn International’s website right now.

Jim Rohn was known as a legend as his life’s mission was to change people’s lives and inspire them to live their dreams. From the testimonies that are found all over the internet, it is clear that he achieved his goals.

As we take time to reflect on the impact of Jim’s life on so many people (including our own), let’s also allow Jim’s life to bring challenge to our life.

During a recent trip back to my home country (New Zealand) I found some time to regroup and reflect on the future of my blogging efforts. I wrote a little about my time of regrouping in my personal blog, kiwichamp.com

It is always good to take some time now and again when you can step back and reflect on where you are going and why. This will certainly help to you to:

Eric S. Raymond declares: You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. – Denis Diderot

One great mistake when setting out on a new business venture is to try and plan it without taking into consideration your life’s purpose. Your business is a vital part of our life, but not your whole life.

We may try and deceive ourselves into thinking we can focus on just business goals and make this our whole life but that won’t work. In fact this would end up destroying everything and everyone else around us.

There are at least 7 ways in which your life’s purpose will influence your business goals, planning and development:

There is a well worn cliche: “if you don’t know where you are going, how do you know you have arrived when you get there?”

Years back, I was part of a class of about 20 in a Bible School. From there I went out to the mission field and accomplished some things.

During a vacation time back in New Zealand I met up with one of my companions from this class and he told me that few really did anything after graduating.

Then he told me that rumors were running around