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merriest sights in the world." Malcolm Margolin
Today's issue includes:
1. Your Achievement Article
- Creative Goal-Setting for Kids and Teens by Denis Waitley
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Overcoming the Negative,
Parenting/Family and Passion
3. Your Achievement Tips - Take The Responsibility by Vic
Johnson (excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)
4. Seeds of Greatness - The Value-Based Family Enrichment Program for
21st Century Leaders by Dr. Denis Waitley and Dr. Maryann
Rosenthal!
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1. Your Achievement Article
Creative Goal-Setting for Kids and Teens by Denis Waitley
An Indian guide who displayed uncanny skills in navigating the
rugged regions of the Southwest was asked how he did it. "What is
your secret of being an expert tracker and trail-blazer?" a visitor
asked him.
The guide answered: "There is no secret. One must only possess the
far vision and the near look. The first step is to determine where
you want to go. Then you must be sure that each step you take is a
step in that direction."
A dream is what you would like for life to be. A Goal is what you
intend to make happen. A goal is the near look; what, specifically,
you intend to do on a daily basis to get there.
No matter what their current ages, try to determine the sensory
learning style of each of your children: visual, auditory, or
kinesthetic. Visual learners understand and remember best what they
see. Auditory learners prefer to hear and verbalize in order to
comprehend. Kinesthetic learners need to involve touch and movement
into the processing of new concepts, and to learn by doing. All of
these styles have some overlap because we all use hearing, seeing
and doing. But keep these styles in mind when you stimulate your
children’s creative and goal-setting activities.
To build a pattern of positive expectations for your children, they
need a way to keep score. Children know they are doing well when the
task or project is well defined and the goals are clearly stated.
How can a child experience the thrill of hitting the bull's eye,
when he or she doesn't know what the target is? Kids need to see the
end before they begin a task or they will lose interest. When you
are giving your child a task, such as cleaning her room, be specific
in telling her what you want her to do and when you want it done and
stick to it. By providing a clear and specific ending, your child
can look forward to enjoying time with her friends when the task is
completed.
Goals are the target of success! Who you see is who you'll be. What
you set is what you get. Help your kids get the far vision, the
dream. Help them get the near look, the steps and action plans that
pave the road to their dreams. Participate in your children's games,
problem-solving exercises, field trips and creative projects.
Instead of telling them how things work, help them learn to discover
the "hows" and "whys."
Help your children dream about their future. Set the example by
jotting down and cutting pictures out to describe family dreams.
Assist them in defining their own goals and writing them down on
index cards. Post the cards in their bedroom or on a board where
they can see and review their goals daily.
Help your kids prioritize their goals. Have them consider their
goals in the order of their importance. Place beside each written
goal, a proposed target date for the attainment of that goal.
Help your child make plans. Unfortunately, many kids view problems
as insurmountable mountains. Your role as parents is to help them
view problems as opportunities. Teach them to go over, around, under
or to bore a hole right through their roadblocks.
Show children how to prepare a daily "to do" list. In the evening,
help prepare a list of a few important things to do the following
day. At the end of the day, help them review their progress. By
using index cards, you can use a file box to store daily activity
cards. Monthly, quarterly and yearly, let them go through the cards
in the box, to see all they have accomplished through step-by-step
actions.
Help your kids to visualize, in advance, what the accomplishment of
their goals looks and feels like. Bedtime is an ideal setting, where
you can see in their imaginations where they want to be, what they
want to do, and things they will have to work and save for to get.
Build goals and evaluations around the school year. When you go over
your child's report card, discuss the goals that he set for himself
and how he is doing toward achieving those goals. Share with your
child any comments teachers might have regarding his grades.
Kids need rewards and behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated,
especially if they understand that the reward is coming when the
goal is accomplished. Rewards do not have to be strictly financial,
but can be going out for an ice cream or whatever your child enjoys
doing. By rewarding goal directed behavior, you are providing
additional incentive to achieve almost any goal.
Dr. Denis Waitley is one of the most respected authors and keynote
lecturers in the world. His audio program The Psychology of Winning
is the all-time, best-selling program on personal success. He has
studied and counseled leaders in every field from top executives to
astronauts, from Olympic champions to youth groups. He is the author
of 16 non-fiction books including NY Times' best-sellers Seeds of
Greatness and Being the Best. A founding member of the National
Council on Self-Esteem and the President's Council on Vocational
Education, he recently received the "Youth Flame Award" by the
National Council on Youth Leadership for his contribution to teen
development. As the former chairman of psychology on the US Olympic
Sports Medicine Council, Denis is responsible for performance
enhancement of all Olympic athletes. He is the father of six
children and eleven grandchildren.
This article was excerpted from Dr. Denis Waitley and Dr. Maryann
Rosenthal's newest release, The Seeds of Greatness - The
Value-based, Family Enrichment System for the 21st Century to learn
more go to http://parenting.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434.
"It gives me great pleasure
to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that
all of us must travel and know where it is rough and
difficult and where it is level and easy." Plato
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2. Your Achievement Quotes
OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station,
who did not do better work and put forth greater effort
under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of
criticism." -- Charles Schwab
"You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal
powers that you didn’t know you possessed." -- Napolean Hill
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you
cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot
"We are never more discontented with others than when we are
discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrongdoing
makes us irritable, and our heart in its cunning quarrels
with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the
clamour within." -- Henri Amiel
PARENTING/FAMILY
"What you leave in your children, is more important than
what you leave to them." -- Denis Waitley
"Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is
life." -- Denzel Washington
"I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could
be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like
that, you learn to believe in yourself." -- Rick Schroeder
"Take time out every day for the important people in your
life." -- Brian Tracy
PASSION
"It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in
the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be
out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts
not to win it." -- Andre Agassi
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you
had bloody well better find some way that is going to be
interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around." --
Katharine Hepburn
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes
the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when
you have found that attitude, follow it." -- William James
"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your
profession is what you were put on earth to do with such
passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in
calling." -- Vincent Van Gogh
"Trust your instincts.
Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone
else's." Billy Wilder
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"The good times we put in our
pocket. The hard times we put into our heart."
Les Brown
3. Your Achievement Tips -
Take The Responsibility by Vic Johnson (excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)
"A Person is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes
himself to be the creature of outside conditions." - As A Man
Thinketh
One of the great weaknesses of our society today is the growing
attitude of victimization. Many people claim themselves to be
victims of some outside force. "I had to file bankruptcy because of
my ex-wife…", "If my company hadn’t laid me off…", "If that driver
hadn’t pulled out in front of me…"
When we are victims of circumstances, or as James Allen says, a
"creature of outside conditions", we have no power. We have given
over the power in our life to the circumstances. The longer we give
power to our circumstances the worse or circumstances become.
In his book, "Above Life’s Turmoil", Allen writes, "You imagine your
circumstances as being separate from yourself, but they are
intimately related to your thought world. Nothing appears without an
adequate cause."
To get control of our circumstances we must first acknowledge
personal responsibility for being where we are. That was the hardest
part for me because the "victim" in all of us doesn’t want to take
that responsibility.
When we take the responsibility we must then take control of our
thoughts. And, yes, in the beginning that can be hard. It seems
sometimes that it’s our nature to first think negatively. But that’s
just because it’s the habit we’ve developed. And like any habit, it
can be changed by replacing it with the habit of thinking the right
way.
One of my favorite teachers, Emmet Fox, writes: "You are not happy
because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are
not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come
because you were depressed. You can change your thoughts and
feelings, and then the outer things will change to correspond, and
indeed there is no other way of working."
And that's worth thinking about.
Vic Johnson
Vic Johnson is a St. Augustine, Florida-based Internet
Infopreneur, author, speaker and founder of a host of personal
development websites. To find out how to receive Vic's newest
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"Don't let the learning from
your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing
it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long
enough!" Jim Rohn
4. Seeds of
Greatness - The Value-Based Family Enrichment Program for 21st
Century Leaders by Dr. Denis Waitley and Dr. Maryann Rosenthal!
What
every leader needs to teach,
what every child needs to learn!
Dr. Denis Waitley and Dr. Maryann
Rosenthal have created a masterpiece! It is without
a doubt, one of the Most Comprehensive, Effective
Parenting Programs Ever Created!
The instruction
manual that should have been delivered with each
child.
What are we
referring to?
The Seeds of
Greatness -
The Value-Based Family Enrichment Program
for 21st
Century Leaders!
Subjects Include: Your Parenting Style - Money
Management for Kids - How to Master Creativity - How
to say "No" - Your Children's Learning Styles - The
Power of Faith - How Your Children View You -
Strength Through Adversity - How to Discover
Children's Potential - Seven Steps in Goal Setting -
Four Cornerstones of Self-Esteem - Becoming a
Win-Win Parent - Internal vs. External Values -
Children as Win-Win Leaders - Discipline as the
Success Key - Practice Makes Permanent - We Become
What We Watch - Dealing with Risky Behavior -
Building Healthy Habits - Problem Solving with Kids
- How to Instill Self-Determination - Leading in a
Blended Family - How to Delay Gratification -
Parent/Child Communication - Honesty Begins at Home
- Technology and Media Impacts - Effective Anger
Management - How to Reduce Family Stress - Methods
of Positive Motivation - How to Live the Golden Rule
- and Much More!
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This system is designed to reinforce the
best practices of a nurturing leader that
you already know and utilize. It will also
give you many fresh ideas on making your
home a place your kids will want to come
back to, rather than get away from. This
system also applies to organizations and
teams, where the team members learn
leadership skills from their own coaches and
role models within a company or work group. |
Researched and
Developed by Two of America's Most Talented and
Trusted Authorities on High Performance Human
Behavior and Achievement!
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Dr. Maryann
Rosenthal
is a national authority
on family dynamics and life achievement
issues. A highly-regarded clinical
psychologist, she is a much sought-after
keynote speaker and seminar leader on how to
instill self-discipline and self-leadership
skills in adults, adolescents, and young
children. Maryann is a champion for women,
children and the elderly. She is a member of
the Domestic Violence Council and a founding
member of the Elder Abuse Prevention
Project. Dr. Maryann is a member of the
American Psychological Association and the
Association of Christian Therapists. She is
the mother of seven children and five
grandchildren.
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Dr. Denis Waitley
is one of the most respected authors and
keynote lecturers in the world. His audio
program The Psychology of Winning
is the all-time, best-selling program on
personal success. He has studied and
counseled leaders in every field from top
executives to astronauts, from Olympic
champions to youth groups. As the former
chairman of psychology on the US Olympic
Sports Medicine Council, Denis is
responsible for performance enhancement of
all Olympic athletes. He is the father of
six children and eleven grandchildren.
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"It
is far better to give your children your time and
nurturing in the form of
Roots and Wings instead of trying
to buy their affection with Loot and Things. What do
we mean by Roots and
Wings? We must have roots
in order to grow strong and weather the buffeting
winds of unforeseen storms and the challenges of
weeds and droughts. These are character traits
fundamental to long-term success, regardless of
future environmental conditions. By wings,
we mean the motivation, goal orientation and
optimism to soar and fly, becoming independent, high
achieving adults who make a positive difference in
life."
"I just
listened to Denis' and Maryann's new Roots and Wings
program. It is Phenomenal! The CD of music could be
marketed on its own. I had Liz listen to some of it
also and she thought it was great too. Just after
what I have listened to, every parent out there
needs to hear this message and every grandparent
needs to be buying it for their kids to listen to.
You know, I have listened to a lot of our products
as well as others, and I think it's the best
product I've heard! The message is great, it's
specific, the music it has in it breaks it up and
gives a great message in another media. It is
awesome!" -- Cheryl Gillette-Shaw
Here is a sample of
what is on just the first CD alone (1 of 19)
Knowing Yourself - Your Own Childhood
Background, The British Study - Your Natural Gifts,
Circle of Multiple Intelligences, Personality &
Behavior Assessments - Your Two Most Important
Traits as a Parent, Your Parenting Style -
Responsiveness vs. Demandingness, The Four Parenting
Styles: Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive and
Uninvolved - Parenting Style Self-Test - How Your
Kids See You (The Parent Report Card) - Knowing Your
Children - Observation and Interaction - Help Them
Discover and Develop Their Natural Talents - Your
Children's Learning Style: Visual, Auditory,
Kinesthetic - Assess Their Learning Styles - Empathy
Reality Check
Denis Waitley shares - "To
understand other adults requires intelligence,
openness and experience. To understand our children
requires patience, empathy and effort. To know
ourselves requires introspection, honesty and
wisdom, and is one of the key roots in effective
parenting. One of the most important elements of
success is positive self-awareness. "
The Complete
Seeds of Greatness Value-Based Family Enrichment
System Includes:
Ten CD Modules covering the 10 core Roots and Wings,
with 67 subject tracks:
CD 1 - Positive Self-Awareness, Knowing Yourself
CD 2 - Positive Self-Esteem, Core Values
CD 3 - Positive Self-Discipline, Healthy Habits
CD 4 - Positive Self-Determination, Personal
Responsibility
CD 5 - Positive Self-Honesty, Non-Situational
Integrity
CD 6 - Positive Self-Motivation, Want to/Can do
CD 7 - Positive Self-Expectancy, Resilient Optimism
CD 8 - Positive Self-Image, Creative Discovery
CD 9 - Positive Self-Direction, Focused Goals
CD 10 - Positive Self-Dimension, Balanced Living
Three
Coaching Tips CDs with 15 subject tracks:
CD 11 - Tips for Younger Kids (including
Communication, Discipline, Technology, Money
Management, Creative Goal Setting, Telling the
Truth, Problem Resolution and Stress Management)
CD 12 - Tips for Teens (including Communication,
Risky Behavior, How to say NO, Managing Money, Goal
Setting & Decision Making, Stress Management and
Problem Resolution)
CD 13 - Tips for Blended Families
Plus:
CD 14 - Journey to Relaxation, a special stress
reduction audio CD program by Dr. Maryann Rosenthal.
CD 15 - Music for Winners, an audio CD featuring the
original inspirational lyrics of Dr. Denis Waitley
in 16 different vocal presentations.
PLUS
the printed Achievement
Lifeguide (265 pages with detailed exercises and
lessons - it's remarkable!).
Plus an
easy-to-use 365-day perpetual, Coaching Calendar
with daily tips on how to interact and communicate
effectively with your kids whether they are entering
grammar school, middle school or high school. This
will help to internalize the principles and concepts
in all family members.
Plus, in
addition to sequencing original music throughout the
program, we also have 4 special, scientifically
designed classical music CDs, from Advanced Brain
Technologies, to help you and your kids study,
concentrate, relax, and be more motivated and
inspired to pursue healthy lifestyles.
CD 16 - Music for Inspiration - Designed to kindle
the imagination and uplift the soul, this classical
CD helps you tap into inner wellsprings of creative
expression and insight.
CD 17 - Music to Relax - An instant remedy for
tension and worry, creative arrangements of
classical masterworks with gentle improvisations
envelop you in a rich tapestry of soothing sound.
CD 18 - Music for Concentration - A musical
springboard to intellectual achievement, this CD
uses streamlined baroque masterpieces to sharpen
focus and enhance mental endurance.
CD 19- Music for Motivation - Inspiring peak
performance, this classical CD instills the
enthusiasm you need to get the job done and have fun
doing it.
The Complete
Seeds of Greatness Value-Based Family Enrichment
System Includes:
Ten CD Modules covering the
10 core Roots and Wings, with 67 subject tracks
Three
Coaching Tips CDs with 15 subject tracks
Plus 6
relaxation and music CDs
PLUS the printed Achievement
Lifeguide (265 pages with detailed exercises and
lessons - it's remarkable!).
Plus an easy-to-use 365-day
perpetual, Coaching Calendar
For the first 200
to order, a special price of only $179 plus free
shipping* in the US and only $25
International (does not include customs or duties
charged by individual countries).
If you would like to be one of the first 200 to take
advantage of this special offer go to
http://parenting.jimrohn.com or call
800-929-0434.
A
Final Word from Denis and Maryann:
We are
excited to offer you our labor of love, The
Seeds of Greatness: The Value-based, Family
Enrichment System for the 21st Century. You
are investing in the most precious natural resources
on earth: the lives of your children and those who
look to you for guidance. We plan to share with
you time-tested principles, and timely tips on how
to plant the seeds of greatness at home and raise
winning children, regardless of their ages.
This system is designed to reinforce the best
practices of a nurturing leader that you already
know and utilize. It will also give you many fresh
ideas on making your home a place your kids will
want to come back to, rather than get away from.
This system also applies to organizations and teams,
where the team members learn leadership skills from
their own coaches and role models within a company
or work group.
You're about to experience the result of 25 years of
education, training and field-testing. A value-based
learning system and format that will give you
maximum benefits and long-term results. This is not
a quick-fix, Band-Aid program. It is based on
scientific studies and practical applications.
Rather than a fad program, it is a fact program you
can try and trust with your own family. Parenting is
perhaps the only full-time, lifelong profession for
which there is no formal education. Parenthood comes
naturally. Parenting, however, most often is
experienced by trial and error, with many trials and
an abundance of errors -- many handed down to us by
our own parents. This comprehensive, value-based
family enrichment program, The Seeds of Greatness,
is dedicated to give you the self-management traits
that every leader needs to teach, and every child
needs to learn. It has been called, "The instruction
manual that should have been delivered with each
child."
We cannot teach our children the seeds of greatness.
We can only help them discover these seeds within
themselves by adding positive marks and strokes on
their slates. Being a parent is a 24/7 assignment.
Every day, in every way, we want to help you plant
the seeds of greatness in every family member. Our
children are in our care, but are not our clones.
Kahlil Gibran is our favorite on the subject: "Your
children are not your children. They are the sons
and daughters of Life's longing for itself. You may
give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they
have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies,
but not their souls. For their souls dwell in the
house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even
in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but
seek not to make them be like you. For life goes not
backward, nor tarries with yesterday."
We hope you will gain from and enjoy this journey
into self-discovery with us for the most noble of
all causes in human development: that of preparing
your children to fulfill their highest aspirations
in their own lives. The seeds of greatness are not
dependent upon the gifted birth, the inherited bank
account, the intellect, the skin-deep beauty,
ethnicity, or status. The seeds of greatness are
attitudes and beliefs that begin in children as baby
talk, as do's and don'ts, as casual family chatter,
bedtime stories, and observations - like flimsy
cobwebs, at first - then with years of practice,
become like unbreakable roots or cables to shackle
or strengthen our characters throughout the rest of
our adult lives. We are planting shade trees for
future generations under which, we ourselves, can
never sit. As you and your children experience
this program, keep in mind that parenting is like
gardening. You plant, and you wait. Some seeds take
a long time to sprout and develop. Be patient, be
persistent, be there in person, and be proud of the
legacy you are creating for your family. Our
only mission in this gift to you is to demonstrate
that loot and things will never be as valuable to
you and your children as roots and wings, and a
fulfilled life as the harvest from planting the
seeds of greatness.
With faith and optimism,
Denis Waitley, Ph.D. and Maryann Rosenthal, Ph.D.
To take
advantage of this special offer go to
http://parenting.jimrohn.com or call
800-929-0434.
The first 200 to
order receive a special price of only $179 plus free
shipping* in the US and only $25 International (does
not include customs or duties charged by individual
countries). |
"As we advance in life we learn the
limits of our abilities." James A. Froude
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