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Issue 316 - June 20, 2007
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"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle
yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." Leonardo da Vinci
Today's issue includes:
1. Your Achievement Article - 6 Steps to a Stronger Mind by Mark Victor Hansen
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Clarity, Coaching/Mentors and Commitment
3. Your Achievement Tips - You Are a Powerful Medium by Nido Qubein
4. Marketing, Creating Wealth, Writing and Speaking
5. More Information
1. Your Achievement Article
6 Steps to a Stronger Mind by Mark Victor Hansen
Our minds are all we've got. They are the source of who we, both personally and professionally, are. They determine our success or failure. They are our strength and our weakness.
With the quality of our entire lives resting on our minds, it's unbelievable that we choose to fill them with so much garbage. The amount of negativity from television, newspapers, tabloids and other media that bombards us on a daily basis is amazing. We would never think to fill our bodies with only junk food, right? Heck no. We know that if we ate nothing but French fries and ice cream we would experience negative consequences like skin blemishes, weight gain and rotting teeth.
But with mental junk food we don´t see the physical consequences right away. When our minds are constantly filled with negativity and bad news, our minds begin to decay. That´s why we need to develop a strong, Herculean-esque mind.
Developing your mental muscles will give you the power to accomplish anything you want in life. Sure, it takes some discipline on your part, but look at the world's greatest bodybuilders. They don't show up at the gym every once in a while. They create a workout schedule and they are at the gym every day, no matter what.
Hire yourself as your "mental manager". Figure out how much you're going to pay yourself and make up a job list. Here are six jobs to assign to yourself to create a stronger mind.
1. Read Right
How much good news do you see in the newspapers? Editors usually say, "If it bleeds, it leads." Not much chance of positivity there. So, read something else. Read books – good books. Books that motivate you. Books that inspire you. Look up some of the great inspirational authors online or in your local bookstore. Read them every morning and/or every night, before you go to sleep.
2. Share Your Mind
Find someone, or a group of someone's, who have the same desire to share positivity. This is called masterminding. Great successes are created when great minds come together and think about the same things.
3. Find A Mentor
My mentor was Buckminster Fuller and I learned more from that man about life than I ever hoped to. Who are the people you admire most, whether you know them or not? Figure out whom you'd like to emulate and study them. If they offer seminars, attend them. If they've written books, read them. Just a few I´d recommend are: Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Dr. Wayne Dyer and Zig Ziglar.
4. Listen to Motivational/Inspirational CDs and DVDs
This is one of the most important habits you can create for yourself. Find inspirational audio messages and listen to them over and over. Earl Nightingale, one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time, had this to say on the subject: "Tape listening is the most important advance in technology since the invention of the printing press." With CDs speakers can reach 10 times as many people as the printed word ever could.
5. Sign Up and Attend Seminars
The motivational messages you hear at seminars, and the inspirational people you meet, reinforce your self-esteem and positive thinking. You can search out seminars via the internet, newspapers or local colleges and universities.
6. Turn Off the Television
On average, the television set in an American home is on over 7 hours a day. Just like any bad habit, it needs to be broken. I'm not saying that all television is bad. Heck no. I'm simply recommending that you cut back on your television viewing. Decide how long you're going to watch television and then turn it off when you're time is up. Try cutting back your television viewing one hour every day at first. You can use that time to read a book, listen to a motivational tape, walk your dog or spend time with your family.
After reading these six steps maybe you're saying, "But Mark, I can´t do it. I just don´t know if I can be this dedicated to bettering myself?" Who else are you going to be dedicated to if not yourself? Because when it comes right down to it, folks, you are all that you've got. Jobs and relationships come and go. Children grow up, leave the nest and get lives of their own. Then there you are, alone with yourself. Why not create a "you" you can be proud of.
'Amaze yourself; manifest your full potential.'
Mark Victor Hansen
Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, has for more than 25 years, uniquely focused on the vital elements of human behavior that most affect our personal and professional lives and has influenced society's top leaders and the general public on a global scale. Mark is offering 6 of his best-selling programs at 40-60% less than he even sells them on his site (but only for a very limited time), also free shipping for the first 50 to order (see details online). For more details on these programs go to
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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." Abraham Lincoln
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"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
2. Your Achievement Quotes
CLARITY
"Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.'" -- Brian Tracy
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
"When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life." -- Mark Victor Hansen
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- John Lubbock
COACHING/MENTORS
"The world needs role models, instead of critics." -- Denis Waitley
"We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything." -- Jim Rohn
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." -- Harold S. Geneen
"No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself." -- Conrado I. Generoso
COMMITMENT
"If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider." -- Joyce Brothers
"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep." -- Denis Waitley
"Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being." -- Nido Qubein
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." -- Madame Marie Curie
"Give me a lever long enough, and a
prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world." Archimedes
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3. Your Achievement Tips
You Are a Powerful Medium by Nido Qubein
You can't find a more powerful medium of communication than yourself -- your character, your personality and your principles. If you want to send a powerful, positive message to the people with whom you work, or to whom you sell, follow these principles:
(1) You manage the process, but you LEAD people.
An organization runs smoothly when its people function smoothly. Dealing with problems in engineering, production, marketing and sales without dealing with the human element is like dealing with a flat tire without dealing with air. The finest steel-belted radial is worthless without the air that holds it up. The finest engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales and servicing systems are worthless without the people who keep them functioning.
I once read an interview in the Harvard Business Review with Robert Haas, chairman of the board of Levi Strauss. He called production-management "the hard stuff" and people management "the soft stuff."
Under the old philosophy at Levi Strauss, he said, "The soft stuff was the company's commitment to our work force. And the hard stuff was what really mattered: getting pants out the door. What we've learned is that the soft stuff and the hard stuff are becoming increasingly intertwined."
So pay careful attention to the human side of your business.
(2) Inspire people, don't just drive them.
We can inspire people by showing them how to be their very best. Ed Temple, the Tennessee State track coach who worked with some of America's top women's track stars, liked to say, "A mule you drive, but with a race horse, you use finesse." Treat your people like Thoroughbreds instead of like mules. They'll get the message and respond.
(3) Be easy to respect and look up to.
You don't gain respect by sitting in an ivory tower and looking down on the work floor. Be accessible to employees and let them see your human side.
Employees are turned off by executives who pretend to be infallible. Observe high standards of personal conduct, but let your employees know that you're human. Talk to them about your bad decisions as well as your good ones. When you blow it, grin and admit it. Your employees will respect you for it.
(4) Be easy to like and get along with Employees like leaders who are human -- who make mistakes and acknowledge them.
It's all right to let them see your vulnerability. If you made a bad decision, talk about it with the people you lead. Let it be a lesson for them as well as for you.
Don't feel that you have to know everything. Acknowledge that the people you lead may know much more than you do about certain things.
(5) Help people to like themselves.
Robert W. Reasoner, a California school superintendent, who headed a statewide task force on self-esteem, identified five basic attitudes that foster self-esteem. They are:
A sense of security.
A sense of identity.
A sense of belonging.
A sense of purpose.
A sense of personal competence.
Secure people are comfortable with who they are and with what others think about them. They know their roles in the organization and are confident that they can fill them.
People with a sense of identity know how they fit into the work place and how the work place fits into their lives. To them, work takes its place among family, friends and community as an important and fulfilling component of their lives.
When employees have a sense of belonging, they identify with the company's vision and goals, because these things have personal meaning for them. They personally share in the success and the prestige of the company.
Employees obtain a sense of purpose from knowing the company's goals and knowing how their efforts contribute toward those goals. Management needs to take employees into its confidence and give them a role in planning and goal-setting. You can give employees a sense of personal competence by educating them for their jobs and giving them the freedom to succeed or fail on their own.
(6) Help people to believe that what they're doing is important.
My friend Stew Leonard, the grocery-store wizard from Connecticut, once told me that he refused to use job titles that he perceives as demeaning. Once he noticed a job listed as "popcorn maker." He immediately ordered a more dignified title.
"How would you feel if someone asked you what you did for a living and you had to answer, 'I'm a popcorn maker'?" he asked me.
Are there any demeaning titles in your organization?
Medtronic, Inc., has a heartwarming way of dramatizing the importance of what its employees do. Each year at Christmas time, the company holds a party for employees. Guests of honor are people whose lives have been prolonged by Medtronic cardio-pulmonary devices.
Can you think of ways of dramatizing to your employees the importance of what they do?
(7) Be responsive to people. Listen to people. Read people. Respond; don't react.
Leaders should be accessible to the people they lead. Let your staff and associates know they can come to you with problems, concerns, ideas, suggestions or complaints. If they bring you usable ideas, adopt the ideas and give the employees credit.
Welcome bad news as well as the good. What you don't know can hurt you. Don't ignore complaints. Listen to them. Find out what you can do to rectify matters, let the employees know what you plan to do -- and do it.
If you put these principles into practice, you will be constantly sending out a powerful and positive message: Yourself.
Humans have a variety of ways to send messages. We "speak" with our eyes, our facial expressions, our posture, our clothes, our grooming, our lifestyles, and many other aspects of our persons. But the most familiar and most explicit form of communication is with words.
Nido R. Qubein came to the United States as a teenager with no knowledge of English, no contacts and only $50 in his pocket, yet ended up a multi-millionaire. Nido Qubein is one of the featured speakers in one of Mark Victor Hansen's 6 best-selling programs. This week Mark is offering, at 40-60% less than he even sells them on his site (but only for a very limited time), and free shipping for the first 50 to order (see details online). For more details on these programs go to
http://mvh.yoursuccessstore.com or call 877-929-0439.
"He who is firm in will molds the world
to himself." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4. Marketing, Creating Wealth, Writing and Speaking
Mark Victor Hansen is offering 6 of his best-selling programs at 40-60% less than he even sells them on his site (but only for a very limited time), also free shipping for the first 50 to order (see details online).
For more details on these programs go to
http://mvh.yoursuccessstore.com or call 877-929-0439.
"People do not lack strength; they lack
will." Victor Hugo
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