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Issue 335 - October 31, 2007

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"The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and recognized or not, lives and works through endless change."  Thomas Carlyle

Today's issue includes:

1. Your Achievement Article - There is No Education Like Adversity by Harvey Mackay
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Miracles, Modeling Behavior and Motivation/Inspiration
3. Your Achievement Tips - Persistence by Les Brown
4. Too much to learn, too little time?
5. More Information

1. Your Achievement Article

There is No Education Like Adversity by Harvey Mackay

One school of business studied 400 executives who had made it to the top and compared them to 400 who fell by the wayside during their careers. The idea was to discover how those who became successful differed from those who didn't.

Education was not the key factor because high school dropouts were running companies, while some MBAs were slamming into dead ends. Experience? Then those at the top should have been older, and that wasn't the case. Technical skills, social skills and dozens of other career-related variables were examined as well. Those factors didn't provide the explanation either.

What is the only single quality that distinguished those who made it from those who did not? They persevered.

Adversity will come to every person at some time. How you meet it, what you make of it, what you allow it to take from you and give to you, is determined by your mental habits. In short, you have to take the cards in life that are dealt to you.

You can train your mind to face life's toughest challenges-and it is especially important to develop this habit before you actually need it.
Little children get their first lesson with "The Little Engine that Could."
Faced with pulling many train cars up an enormous hill, larger engines refused to attempt it. Finally, a small engine agrees to try, repeating the mantra,

"I-think-I-can, I-think-I-can." After reaching the crest, the little engine triumphantly chugs:

"I-thought-I-could, I-thought-I-could."

I'd like to alter the story a bit for the grown-up crowd. Change the chant
to:

"I-know-I-can, I-know-I-can!"

Adversity can actually be a positive thing, even though it certainly doesn't feel like it when we are facing it. Adversity is what defines us. It is easy to have a great attitude, a strong work ethic and a positive outlook when things are going great. But how do we stand up during tough times?

Consider the following phenomenal achievements of famous people who experienced severe adversity:

- When Bob Dylan performed at his high school talent show, classmates booed him off the stage.

- Walt Disney experienced both bankruptcy and a tragic nervous breakdown and still made it to the top of the mountain.

- President Harry S. Truman went broke in the men's clothing store he started.

- Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the "History of the World" during a 13-year imprisonment.

- Martin Luther translated the Bible while enduring confinement in the Castle of Wartburg.

- Dante wrote the "Divine Comedy" while under a sentence of death and during 20 years in exile.

- Handicapped at birth, Helen Keller was not able to speak, hear or see during her long life, yet she became a famous author and worldwide celebrity for her charm and wisdom.

We must push through the adversity we face. If we don't, we will be poorly prepared for winning. People are successful because they face adversity head on to gain strength and skill. They don't take the path of least resistance. Adversity is a powerful teacher.

President Abraham Lincoln said, "My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure." And few people failed in early life as much as Lincoln, yet he is regarded as one of our greatest presidents.

When you get discouraged, when you cannot seem to make it, there is one thing that you cannot do without. It is that priceless ingredient of success called relentless effort. You must never give up. Success cannot be achieved without experiencing some adversity.

An Asian saying advises, "When fate throws a dagger at you, there are only two ways to catch it, either by the blade or by the handle."

There was an old farmer who had suffered through a lifetime of troubles and afflictions that would have leveled an ordinary mortal. But through it all he never lost his sense of humor.

"How have you managed to keep so happy and serene?" asked a friend.

"It ain't hard," said the old fellow with a twinkle in his eye. "I've just learned to cooperate with the inevitable."

"Cooperating with the inevitable" enables us to catch adversity by the handle, thereby using it as the tool that it was intended to be.

Mackay's Moral: Adversity causes some people to break and others to break records.

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2. Your Achievement Quotes

MIRACLES

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein
        
"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen." -- Arland Gilbert

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human sprit." -- Bern Williams

"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness." -- Percival

MODELING BEHAVIOR

"We learn by observation, imitation and repetition." -- Denis Waitley

"Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it." -- Greg Anderson

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." -- George W. Crane

"You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively." -- Nido Qubein

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION

"Love is a better master than duty." -- Albert Einstein

"Motivation is said to be an inside job... actually it's an inside career for very successful folks." -- Doug Firebaugh

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily." -- Zig Ziglar

"Instinct is untaught ability." -- Alexander Bain

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."Harry S. Truman 

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3. Your Achievement Tips

Persistence by Les Brown

I believe there are three kinds of people. There are winners, who know what they want and understand their potential and the possibilities. They take life on. Next are losers, who don't have a clue as to who they are. They allow circumstances to shape their lives and their self-image.

I believe there is a third group as well. This consists of potential winners whose lives are just slightly out of alignment. I call them wayward winners. It may be that they just need to learn how to be real winners. Perhaps they've hit a bump or two that has knocked them off course and they are temporarily befuddled. A failed relationship, a lost job, financial problems, unformed goals, a lack of parental support, illness„many things can send us off course temporarily.

Wayward winners are not lost souls; they just need some tweaking and coaching and nudging to get them back on course. A map might be nice. Many of these wayward winners are easily identifiable because they are always searching.

Right now, there are many wayward winners out there braving rain, sleet and snow because they, too, still believe that they have untapped talents. They attend motivational seminars and listen to inspirational tapes and they plunge onward, believing that sooner or later they will find their way again.

Other wayward winners have temporarily given up. They are damaged and disoriented, their confidence badly eroded. They tend to drift through life numbly. The friends and relatives and loved ones of wayward winners see that they are out of sync and wonder why they can't be satisfied, why they don't settle down. They wonder how people who have such obvious abilities and great potential can be so disoriented and unsure.

It is difficult for others to understand the rawness of a broken heart or the aching emptiness of an unguided spirit. You and I know. We have been there. Wayward winners know that there are possibilities out there, but too often they feel locked out from them. Some are afraid to risk any more because of what they have risked and lost already.

I know now that as difficult as it may be for you wayward winners to do, it is necessary to continue to test yourselves. Even though you have been hurt before, it is the only way to grow. We all have the capacity to change, to lead meaningful and productive lives by awakening our consciousness.

You know there are going to be tough times as you go about changing your life, so brace yourself and you will be able to handle them. When you get into your seat on an airplane, what is the first thing they tell you to do? Fasten your seat belt. Brace yourself for the turbulence.

When you decide to move your life to the next level of accomplishment, you must fasten your mental and spiritual seat belts because it is going to be a while before you reach that comfortable level again. You will reach it, but you must endure the turbulence of change in order to grow.

Try this technique to help you through the difficult times of change and growth. Find four reasons why you cannot succumb to your fears and your troubles. Find those deep sources of motivation that can lift you out of the turbulence and above the clouds. You must change your life because, for example:

You have not yet tapped the talents given you.
You want to leave something more for your children.
You want to live life rather than letting life live you.
You want to do what makes YOU happy.
It is in these rocky early moments of bringing change to your life that you discover who you are. In the prosperous times, you build what is in your pocket. In the tough times, you strengthen what is in your heart. And that is when you gain insight into yourself, insight that leads to self-mastery and an expansion of your consciousness as a life-force in both your personal and professional lives.

Les Brown

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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." Rene Descartes

4. Too much to learn, too little time?

Success can definitely be learned. And with so many books out there on the subject, there really isn't any reason why people aren't getting more out of life.

... Except it takes too long to find out the secrets!

I'm sure you're familiar with how long it takes to read a book. About 5 to 8 hours… less if you speed read. That's just one book, for one topic!

What's worse is we forget 80% of what we learn within 24 hours if we don't constantly review what we've read or watched or listened to. And with our busy schedules and deadlines due yesterday, we simply don't have the luxury of patiently learning and relearning.

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"Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."  Flannery O'Connor

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