UFO Sightings

Leave it to Jim Rohn, motivational speaker extraordinaire, to notice the Ant Philosophy. This is a powerful motivational philosophy that you can start using in your life immediately.

1. Ants don’t quit…ever.

Ants are not encumbered about how they’re going to do something. They just do it. They have a singular focus. Gather food. That’s it. And they don’t quit until they’ve got it.

Ants follow what’s called the “ant trail.” They don’t get lost as long as they follow the line. But sometimes, something obstructs their progress. The ant doesn’t dismay at the lost trail. Instead, the ants look around until they find the trail again. Powerful stuff.

Sometimes things are going great in life. We have a strong lock on the right path in our lives, when something comes up. Something changes. We can’t find the line. When this happens, don’t give up. Look around. The trails can’t be far. Don’t quit until you find it.

2. Ants are thinking about winter all summer long.

They have to think this way in order to survive. It’s easy to think that winter is far away. We don’t need to gather today, because we’ll have time tomorrow, or the next day. Don’t buy into this way of thinking.

The ants think more on the lines of “gather, gather, gather for tomorrow we die.” They know the winter is coming. They prepare while everything is going well, while the weather is beautiful. We winter comes it is too late.

3. During the winter, ants think summer.

Ants are thinking, “This too shall pass.” They know that eventually the summer will come again. Winter never lasts forever.

Of course, some winters are longer than others. But summer always comes. They sun will warm once again. Look forward to the day.

4. Ants think, “Gather all we can now.” Jim Rohn calls this the all-they-possibly-can philosophy.

Summer always follows spring and winter, right? Always. We’re not surprised when the leaves change colors at the end of summer. This is the natural order of things.

But we never know the exact day that a particular season will start on. We never know when the snow will start falling. The time to prepare is now.

So remember the ant philosophy…

1. Keep at it. Don’t give up. Don’t quit.

2. Winter is coming. Prepare during the summer.

3. Think summer all winter.

4. Remember to do all-you-possibly-can.

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