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the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms." Thomas Moore
Today's issue includes:
1. Your Achievement Article - Sentenced to Success by Chris Widener
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Creativity, Courage and Contentment
3. Your Achievement Tips - Thinking by Charlie "T" Jones
4. Hot off the Press - Chris Widener's New Book!
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1. Your Achievement Article
Sentenced to Success by Chris Widener
I once heard a speaker use the statement, "I have been sentenced to
success!" I heard that almost twenty years ago, yet it still sticks in my head.
Imagine that. What if we had been given a life sentence to serve, say 75 years,
and the sentence was to do time in a place called "Success"? The truth is that
we have.
Let me back up. We have been given a life sentence. But, unlike a sentencing in
a real life courtroom, we get to actually choose where we will "do our time."
Here are some of the choices people make:
The prison of poverty.
Poor people are no better or kinder or anything else than people with money.
People are people regardless of how much money they have. Frankly, I have had
little and I have had a lot, and yes, I will choose having a lot! When you
choose to live in poverty you are in a prison that does not allow you the
freedoms we were intended to experience. We are unable to help others as we
desire. My advice? Don't choose a sentence to the prison of poverty.
The prison of depression.
Depression is like a blanket that overwhelms you and eventually smothers you.
Now before you go accusing me with, "Chris. You just don't understand." Yes I
do. I have had a history of depression. Depression is rampant in my family of
origin. I know firsthand what a prison depression is. When you are locked up in
depression you cannot live life as it was intended. But you can get out! My
advice? Don't choose a sentence to the prison of depression.
The prison of the lack of health.
Lacking health is a real pain! The freedom we lose when we choose to live in a
state of a lack of health is terrible - and unnecessary! We don't have to live
in that prison. We can choose a different sentence! We can choose health! My
advice? Don't choose a sentence to the prison of the lack of health.
The prison of doubt, worry, and fear.
This is a dark, dark prison. It is one that haunts you the whole time you reside
there. It makes you believe that the surroundings are worse than the really are.
It keeps you from enjoying life and becoming the kind of person you were
intended to become! My advice? Don't choose a sentence to the prison of poverty.
My advice? Don't choose a sentence to the prison of doubt, worry and fear.
There is another option. You can choose to be sentenced to success! You can
choose to actually be set free! You can choose to walk out of that courtroom and
live the life that you choose!
What can you experience when you are sentenced to success? How about these:
Good health
Financial abundance
Emotional freedom
Positive relationships
A career you love
Spiritual liberty
And how will you experience these? By choice. Your choice. You choose exactly
what kind of life you will live. You choose the sentence you will serve here on
earth and the experience that you have.
Will you languish in a dark prison or in the open freedom that comes from the
sentence of success? That depends on the choices you make.
I challenge you to choose this day to:
Pursue financial independence
Develop yourself spiritually
Make a change so you are in a career you love
Re-commit yourself to loving relationships
Achieve emotional health
Make a choice TODAY. Do not spend another day in a prison where you do not
belong!
Where will you serve your sentence? You get to decide.
As for me?
I have been sentenced to success!
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host. Chris is the author of five books including is newest release, The Image
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"I've learned that everyday you should reach
out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the
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2. Your Achievement Quotes
CONTENTMENT
"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is
what makes the view from the top so exhilarating." -- Denis Waitley
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like." -- Will Smith
"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad,
content when I cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress." --
Elizabeth Montagu
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." -- Henry David Thoreau
COURAGE
"Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste of death
but once." -- Shakespeare
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -- Mark
Twain
"A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things." -- Jacques Maritain
"Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership." -- Brian
Tracy
CREATIVITY
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous
mind." -- Samuel Johnson
"A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a
child, at play." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the
outcome he or she desires." -- Tony Jeary
"The principle of using interactivity as a creativity-builder is not restricted
to computer games. Once we become fully conscious of this principle, we can find
ways to become more interactive everywhere. We can make conversations with our
family and friends more interactive than they once were. The more thoughtful our
questions get to be, the more interactive the conversations." -- Steve Chandler
"There are two kinds of people in this
life. Those who walk into a room and say, 'Well, here I am.' And those who walk
in and say, 'Ahh, there you are.' Let us each strive to be an 'Ahh, there you
are' person." Leil Lowndes
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Denis Waitley
3. Your Achievement Tips -
Thinking by Charlie "T" Jones
• People who know the most, know they know so little, while people who
know nothing want to take all day to tell it you.
• Self-improvement can be harmful if you are doing it to look better. If you
live your life in helping others look better, you'll to be better without
trying.
• If you give to get something, you're not really giving you are trading. Giving
is never to get, because you have it and are not aware of how much you have
until you give.
• Big people are always giving someone credit and taking blame; little people
are always seeking credit and giving blame.
• Don't worry about having to make a right decision. Make it and then work to
make it right.
• An attitude of gratitude flavors everything you do. Learning to be thankful is
the golden thread woven through every truly successful life.
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"Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao-Tzu
4. Hot off the Press - Chris Wideners' New Book!
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Hot Off
the Press - Chris Widener's New Book!
The Image by
Chris Widener
 Kate Miller was an aggressive young
businesswoman, but something had been bothering her. Every day for the past
five years she had gotten up and commuted to her office in Seattle to engage
in the wheels of commerce. Right out of business school she had secured a
job with a prestigious firm that handled high level business transactions
and business exchanges. She enjoyed her work, but something held her back.
Something kept her from living fully engaged in the process. It was her
questions about how her faith fit with being a successful businessperson.
She wondered if she could be a truly strong person of faith if she was also
trying to be successful in the marketplace. Was it okay to be ambitious? To
set goals? To have increasing wealth and affluence?
This book is compelling, to
the point and addresses questions so many have struggled to answer in their
lives. Chris Widener and his unique ability to weave vital success
principles into a story will inspire you to Go For It and to Reach
for your God-given potential!
Here is an excerpt from The
Image Foreword written by Donna Johnson:
"As a leader in my company
and in an industry that relies greatly on personal growth, I am bombarded on
a daily basis with books and articles from various success coaches and
authors. On one such day last year, Loraine Grover, one of my business
partners from Seattle sent me Chris Widener’s book The Angel Inside. To
be honest, I set it in my “to read” file, and didn’t look at it again. A few
months later, I heard that Chris was graciously opening his home in Seattle
for Loraine, a member of his church, to host a celebration party that
leaders in our company host when others reach the VP level of our business.
When I drove up to this beautiful home, and met
Chris and his lovely wife and children, I knew they were very special. I was
amazed as this young man began to speak, and poured out incredible wisdom
beyond his years. The next afternoon, as I rode the ferry boat to visit my
son on Orcas Island, I devoured The Angel Inside. I
literally could not put it down. It touched me just as the early books of Og
Mandino did early in my career. Chris has an incredible gift of weaving time
tested success principles in a compelling story. Chris’ next book
Twelve Pillars, co-written with personal development legend Jim
Rohn, made just as big of an impression on me and my team. We quickly saw a
classic series developing! Then Chris sent me a preview copy of the
manuscript for The Image. I’m not sure if it’s because the
main character of this book, Susan, is a woman, but this is the one that hit
closest to home. I wondered how these books could keep getting better and
better! The principles Chris talks about in The Image are
principles I have had to learn to get me where I am today, and are key for
anyone who wants to achieve success in business.
It’s never too late to be the person you always
wanted to be, and it’s never too late to inspire others to do the same. We
all have a gift, and a purpose. I can promise you, that once you begin to
read The Image you will not be able to put it down. Like the movie,
Pay it Forward, enjoy it, but pass it on to inspire others. You
have just lit your own fire. Now pass on your torch, and fuel the flame to
ignite others! You can make a difference, and with God’s
strength, you are well on your way!"
This is one book you will refer to again and again and give away
again and again!
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