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Issue 318 - July 5, 2007
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"The future belongs to the risk-takers, not
the comfort-seekers." Brian Tracy
Today's issue includes:
1. Your Achievement Article - From Making a Living to Creating a Lifestyle by Jim Rohn
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Courage, Creativity and Credibility
3. Your Achievement Tips - A Sense of Urgency Is Tremendous by Charlie "T" Jones
4. Today is the day to turn your life around!
5. More Information
1. Your Achievement Article
From Making a Living to Creating a Lifestyle by Jim Rohn (excerpted from the Day That Turns Your Life Around)
After having struggled for so long, it took a shift in attitude for my family and me when success started to happen. When I started making a little extra money at age 25, Shoaff taught me to also let it serve as a new inspiration for lifestyle. To take my family to dinner after I'd had 2 or 3 pretty good weeks and it looked like it was going to continue. I would say, "Today we get to order from only the left hand side of the menu, we don't have to look at the right hand side". Didn't cost much, just a little extra. But you can't believe the effect on the family, wow, that these are new days.
It's called changing your life as well as changing your skills and earning more money. It's best to invest some of that early money in lifestyle. Go to the movies. Take two vacations instead of one. Just some little extra things that now the family gets inspired by this new commitment to earning more and becoming more and learning more, taking some night classes, whatever you have to do. Now you make it more worthwhile for the family by thinking of lifestyle changes that now become very exciting. Go to the concerts. My parents said don't miss anything. Don't miss the play, the music, the songs, the performances, the movie - whatever is happening.
When I started making some extra money I opened up an account for my wife and I called it the "No Questions Asked Account". I said, "here is the checkbook for a new account and it's called no questions asked". I'll just keep putting money in there and you spend it for whatever you wish. It was life changing. It wasn't a fortune. But she didn't have to ask for money any more. I could sense that it was a little embarrassing at times when she had to ask me for money. I thought, that's not good, so the first time I get a chance, here's what I'm going to do. And sure enough, I did it. The "No Questions Asked Account". You can't believe what that did. It was absolutely amazing.
With that little extra money, work at creating lifestyle. Social friendships, church, community, country. All those things that make a composite of our overall life. Start furnishing that with new vigor, vitality, money, whatever it takes to expand your life into what I call the good life as well as economics.
And it doesn't always take a lot of money. How much is a movie? Even for a person of modest means. $8 or $10? It might cost $60 million to make it and it only costs $8 to see it.
When I discovered those kinds of concepts at age 25 you can imagine it was hard for me to sleep nights that first year. I got so excited about changing everything. And one discipline leads to another. One change leads to another. Feeling good about yourself and starting to make the turn to do something you've never done before, then it starts to work, wow, and then you get excited about changing other areas of your life as well.
Now after you have made your fortune, the money and extravagance might not seem as big a deal. And fortunately you can then create even more powerful opportunities, in particular, opportunities for benevolence, philanthropy and giving.
Now I'm certainly not saying to focus only on external pleasures and rewards. Your relationships, health and spirituality are all of more consequence.
But in the beginning, when the rewards of your hard work begin paying off, make sure and treat yourself and those closest to you to a new world of lifestyle and celebrations.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Every day is the day that turns somebody's life around forever. Is TODAY that day for YOU? Think about the successes you've experienced so far in life, and I'll bet you can point to a particular moment in time when each one began, just like the heroine of this brief but powerful story:
One evening, not many years ago, a young housewife realized she didn't have enough cash on hand to buy some of the groceries she needed for the rest of the week. As a stay-at-home mother and wife, she was entirely dependent upon her husband for income. So, when he arrived home from work that evening, she asked him for an extra 10 dollars. Hearing the question, he turned to her with visible irritation. He heaved a sigh, rolled his eyes, and asked, "What for?" To finish reading this note please go to
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go
instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2. Your Achievement Quotes
COURAGE
"There is true courage in the acts of every day living." -- Rick Beneteau
"Courage means to keep working on a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods." -- Denis Waitley
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed." -- Bernard Edmonds
CREATIVITY
"The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up… Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground without thinking about where they're going. They trip, they fall down, and then they get back up again and run some more. They have a wonderful belief: that everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go; they play…Not matter how many facts and figures you have, you can't predict the future. There will always be surprises… Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something - feel it and use it - without ever fully comprehending it." -- Faith Ringgold
"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem." -- Rollo May
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." -- Samuel Johnson
CREDIBILITY
"What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know." -- Jim Rohn
"It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant." -- Don Herold
"Create a story of WOW that will be retold." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside." -- Brian Tracy
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair.
We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense.
You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way
down." Ray Bradbury
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3. Your Achievement Tips
A Sense of Urgency Is Tremendous by Charlie "T" Jones
Perhaps my findings are not the only solution, but with all my heart I believe the fires of greatness in our heart can be kept aglow only after we develop a sense of urgency and importance for what we are doing. I mean a sense of urgency to the extent that we feel it is a matter of life and death; and it is a matter of life and death, for in growing we are alive and in quitting we are dying in a sense. If you don't believe this, talk to anyone who has lost the sense of urgency of getting things done and has been drifting in complacency, mediocrity and failure. If you are without a sense of urgency in your work, you know what I mean.
A sense of urgency is that feeling that lets you know yesterday is gone forever, tomorrow never comes. TODAY is in your hands. It lets you know that shirking today's task will add to wasted yesterdays and postponing today's work will add to tomorrow's burden. The sense of urgency causes you to accomplish what today sets before you. Thank God for the sense of urgency that can change a dull, shabby existence into a sparkling life. Right now, ask God to give you a sense of urgency. Believe that He did, and then act accordingly.
Tremendously,
Charles "T" Jones
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"The person who will risk nothing does
nothing, has nothing, is nothing. Only a person who risks becomes truly
free." Denis Waitley
4. Today is the Day to Turn Your Life Around!
Every day is the day that turns somebody's life around forever. Is TODAY that day for YOU? By the end of this note, you'll know the answer.
Think about the successes you've experienced so far in life, and I'll bet you can point to a particular moment in time when each one began, just like the heroine of this brief but powerful story:
One evening, not many years ago, a young housewife realized she didn't have enough cash on hand to buy some of the groceries she needed for the rest of the week. As a stay-at-home mother and wife, she was entirely dependent upon her husband for income. So, when he arrived home from work that evening, she asked him for an extra 10 dollars.
Hearing the question, he turned to her with visible irritation. He heaved a sigh, rolled his eyes, and asked, "What for?"
To finish reading this note please go to
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"Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
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