A former youth pastor shares his practice of journaling business principles and scripture since 2004, inspired by Jim Rohn's advice on building a home library. He pairs success books with the Bible, keeps detailed journals as reference tools, and has transformed his dining room into a functional library to pass down knowledge to his children.
Hey guys. Wanted to shoot this quick video about building a library. I was just looking and I've got this journal here. Actually, this isn't the one I was looking for. This one right here. And this was the first journal I ever started as far as, you know, just putting business principles and things like that in it. And I would take this thing everywhere with me at work, any kind of sales meetings. If I would read a book on marketing or whatever it was, and I would take notes and I keep it in here. As a matter of fact, we were youth pastors for a long time. So what I would do is a lot of these motivational type success books. I would find the scriptures because a lot of this stuff is biblical principles. I would find the scriptures that go with them. And that's what I would teach in youth. I would just use the scriptures and talk about how to be successful and have vision and goals and things like that. But it was probably back. This dates back to 2004, so eight or nine years ago now when I first started doing this. And Jim Rohn talks about the importance of journaling, but he also talks about the importance of building a library. And just to show you, this is our house. And Jim Rohn says that, you know, isn't it funny? This was probably recorded back in the late 80s, early 90s. And he said, you know, isn't it funny how every house over $200,000 has a library? Well, you know, prices of houses have changed. And I don't know if that's true now. Probably more like over 300,000. But I had a goal of wanting a library, wanting something in my house that wasn't just a bunch of books, but it was actually stuff I've read, I've poured into, that I've kept. And now when you walk in our front door, this is actually what you see. This is our four. Well, was a dining room, but now, you know, you can see that there's got a desk area and even I can get out of the way. Underneath there are boxes full of books. We just don't have any more, any more places for bookshelves right now. But what's great about these is it just. I'd be given a meeting or having an idea about something and I can run in here and grab a book because I remember reading about having a good attitude or whatever it is. But also I want to encourage you to start building your library, but also journal. I mean, every church service I sit through, every book I read, I take notes in it, write it down in here. And I look at these as. And here's just some of them. I have a couple more in some other bookcases, but these are four journals right here that are completely full. But whenever I'm writing something down in there, I think of it. If you can imagine these thoughts going through a filter, like, I'm writing to my grandkids, because one day when I'm gone, all these books will be left to my kids or my grandkids. And I want these journals to be one of the most important parts. You know, looking from somebody who grew up from a broken home, lived in foster care for a while, and was able to, without a college degree, create all this. And I want them to go through these and look and see what my mindset was and what it was that I learned that brought me to where I am today. So I encourage you to do the same thing. Start with a library. Invest in it. Good books, books that are going to teach you stuff. That's it.
