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Welcome to Your Achievement Ezine
Issue 349 - February 6, 2008
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"The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself." Denis Waitley
Today's issue includes:
1. Your Achievement Article - If Only by Jeff Olson
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Risk-Taking, Sales/Selling and Saving/Investing
3. Your Achievement Tips - The 10 Biggest Lies that Stop People from Getting
What They Want by Cynthia Kersey
4. The Slight Edge
5. Did you miss the annoucement?
6. More Information
1. Your Achievement Article
If Only... by Jeff Olson
"You're lookin' good, sir, lookin' good."
The shoeshine woman was grinning at me. Another customer lost in his early morning thoughts. And another job well done. I looked down: I could see my reflection in my shoes.
Indeed I am. Lookin' good... thank you. Thanks very much.
I paid her, gave her as big a tip as I could without (I hoped) having her feel I was being patronizing, and walked away with clean shoes and a heavy heart.
It had taken many years, but I was fortunate enough to have found my way out of my beach bum career. I was no longer cutting the greens of other people's leisurely pursuits. I had found my way to a good life.
She was right; for me, things were lookin' good, sir, lookin' good.
But why the beach bum and not the shoeshine woman?
While my shoes had been getting a shine, the airport had grown busier. I now walked through a growing throng of travelers as I worked my way toward my gate. I noticed all the faces filing past me. Hardly anyone was smiling. Most of my fellow travelers were trudging with their heads bowed down. I saw bored expressions. Vacant. Porch light's on, dog's barking, but nobody's home.
Everyone looked so tired. Failing is exhausting.
I hear angry words.
I stopped for a cup of coffee and heard a young couple arguing with each other. A burly man scolded his young son to the point of tears. A heavy woman complained about the service, then the prices, then her food, and then started back in on the service again. The other people in line nodded their heads. A few joined her in a chorus of negativity.
Why is everyone so... down? Everything these people need to know to change their lives for the better is already available. All the information they could possibly need to put them on a path of extraordinary success and fulfillment is out there, in books and tapes, videos and workshops. There are people to help them - rich, living resources to guide them, be their mentors, teachers, coaches and allies.
I knew that the difference between who they were and who they could be wasn't based on any lack of good information. It was all already available.
But why, if the information is all there, all the resources are there, and these people really do want to succeed, then why aren't they doing it?
I looked around the airport as the early morning rush hour swelled its ranks of busy, hurrying, scowling, unhappy people shambling past with no spark in their faces, no bounce in their step. I wished I could somehow address them all, that I could touch all their lives with my silent soliloquy.
The problem, I shouted out in my head, is that you don't have a way to process the information. There's no framework in place for you to take in all the extraordinary insight that's out there and put it to work in your life.
If only you were aware of the Slight Edge. If only you knew what it was doing in your life and how easy it is to have the Slight Edge working for you - instead of against you.
If only you were making the right choices, doing those simple, little disciplines that would change your life for the better forever... where would you be five years from today?
If only you learned to recognize the Slight Edge...
If only...
But it was only in my head. Not a soul heard my words... nobody, that is, but me.
That day, on the plane, I started writing this book.
Jeff Olson
Do you find yourself missing the one thing in life that would help you achieve a desired goal, realize a long-held dream, or push you up the ladder to success? Then this is the book for you! The Slight Edge will teach you how to achieve success in all aspects of your life -- in your health, your finances, your personal relationships and family life.
You'll learn:
How to tap into the power of daily discipline
How to increase your success by doubling your rate of failure
How to identify habits that serve you and replace those that don't
How to harness the powers of reflection, completion and celebration
How to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be
Successful people do what unsuccessful people do not -- and The Slight Edge will show you how to do what successful people do!
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"Achievement to most people is something
that you do... to the high achiever... it is something that you are..." Doug Firebaugh
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart
so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and
build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be." Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
2. Your Achievement Quotes
RISK-TAKING
"If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances." -- Julia Soul
"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, but by going off the main road; by trying the untried." -- Frank Tyger
"You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." -- Denis Waitley
"There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion." -- James A. Ray
SALES/SELLING
"Dedicate yourself to building and maintaining high quality selling relationships with every prospect and customer." -- Brian Tracy
"In sales there are going to be times when you can't make everyone happy. Don't expect to and you won't be disappointed. Just do your best for each client in each situation as it arises. Then, learn from each situation how to do it better the next time." -- Tom Hopkins
"Don't celebrate closing a sale, celebrate opening a relationship." -- Patricia Fripp
"Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service." -- Earl Nightingale
SAVING/INVESTING
"Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth." -- John Hoeven
"If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five." -- Jim Rohn
"Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money." -- Brian Tracy
"Investing is simple, but not easy." -- Warren Buffet
"You stop being average the day you decide
to become a Champion, because the average person won't make that decision." Tom Hopkins
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"Make a strong and permanent commitment to
invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts." Nido Qubein
3. Your Achievement Tips
The 10 Biggest Lies that Stop People from Getting What They Want by Cynthia Kersey
They say that "everybody's a critic," and that never seems truer than when you're pursuing a dream. There will always be well-meaning people who want to "protect" you from your "unrealistic fantasies." Critics tried to discourage the people profiled in Unstoppable. Everyone ignored the negative input and achieved their goals. Follow their lead and you, too, will be UNSTOPPABLE!
1. The timing is all wrong. In 1987, prior to accepting Paramount's offer to host a late-night talk show, Arsenio Hall was told by everyone: "It's too hard to crack into the late-night ratings. Television isn't ready for a black talk show host. This is America, and you can forget it."
2. Why don't you get a real job? Not understanding his desire to become Mr. Universe, Arnold Schwarzenegger's family pleaded with him, saying: "How long will you go on training all day in a gymnasium and living in a dream world?"
3. It'll never work, you'll lose everything. Weeks before she opened her first store, cosmetic tycoon Mary Kay Ash's attorney said: "Liquidate the business right now and recoup whatever cash you can. If you don't, you'll end up penniless."
4. Don't rock the boat. In response to Muriel Siebertís application to be the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, officials responded: "The language on the floor is too rough and there's no ladies' room." She bought a seat anyway and remained the only woman there for nine years.
5. It's never been done before. Upon applying for a job after graduation from Columbia University, announcers for NBC Radio responded to Sally Jessy Raphael: "You have the perfect voice for broadcasting, but you should get a job as a secretary. We're not using women."
6. You don't have enough talent. Responding to his desire to become a recording artist, Ray Charles' teachers said: "You can't play the piano, and God knows you can't sing. You'd better learn how to weave chairs so you can support yourself."
7. Don't even try, you'll just be disappointed. When auditioning for a part
in a high school musical, a teacher rejected Diana Ross saying: "You have a nice
voice, but it's nothing special."
8. You don't fit the mold OR you're not the right "type." Trying to convince her she didn't have the right look, fashion photographer Richard Avedon told Cher: "You will never make the cover of Vogue because you don't have blond hair or blue eyes." When she did make the cover, Vogue sold more copies than it had ever sold before.
9. Don't give up your day job. Commenting on the first manuscript of an unpublished author, a New York publisher told James Michener: "You're a good editor with a promising future in the business. Why would you want to throw it all away to try to be a writer? I read your book. Frankly, it's not really that good." Michener's first book, Tales of the South Pacific, later won a Pulitzer Prize and was adapted for stage and screen as South Pacific.
10. There's no market for it. When hearing his plans to launch Perrier in the United States, several consulting firms advised Gustave Leven: "You're foolish to try to sell sparkling water in the land of Coca-Cola drinkers."
The only opinion about your dream that really counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations --- not yours. There is nothing unrealistic about a dream that aligns with your purpose, ignites your passion, and inspires you to plan and persevere until you attain it. On the contrary, it's unrealistic to expect a person with such drive and commitment not to succeed.
Choose to be unstoppable!
Cynthia Kersey
Best-selling author and renowned speaker Cynthia Kersey tells us: "The greatest natural resource in the world is not in the earth's waters or minerals, nor in the forests or grasslands. It is the spirit that resides in every unstoppable person. And the spirit of the individual benefits us all."
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"You are not here merely to make a living.
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater
vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich
the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson
4. The Slight Edge
Do you find yourself missing the one thing in life that would help you achieve a desired goal, realize a long-held dream, or push you up the ladder to success? Then this is the book for you!
The Slight Edge will teach you how to achieve success in all aspects of your life -- in your health, your finances, your personal relationships and family life. You'll learn:
* How to tap into the power of daily discipline
* How to increase your success by doubling your rate of failure
*How to identify habits that serve you and replace those that don't
* How to harness the powers of reflection, completion and celebration
* How to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be
Successful people do what unsuccessful people do not -- and The Slight Edge will show you how to do what successful people do!
* How to form powerful relationships with positive people
* How to disassociate with negative people who threaten to drag you down
* How to accelerate knowledge by finding mentors and modeling their behavior
* How to use a combination of book smarts and street smarts
* How to recognize the everyday choices that will make the difference between failure and success
It's all in The Slight Edge! Learn how your philosophy... creates your attitude... creates your actions... creates YOUR LIFE!!
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"The average person puts only 25 percent of his
energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who
put in more than 50 percent of their capacity, and stands on its head for
those few and far between souls who devote 100 percent."
Andrew Carnegie
5. Did you miss the announcement?
John Maxwell has been added to the Lineup of the SUCCESS Symposium and re-launch of the all-new SUCCESS magazine. This Historic event has gotten even bigger!
John Maxwell, America's foremost authority on leadership, has been added to the celebrated lineup of speakers for this awesome one-day event!
So in addition to Jim Rohn, Robert Kiyosaki, John Addison, Kim Kiyosaki and Ron White – now add John Maxwell!
Dr. Maxwell, acclaimed author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and
Developing the Leader Within You, will talk about:
- Growing yourself as a leader
- Adding value to yourself and others
- Understanding the value of team unity
Discounted pricing (less than $100, less than $90 if you sign up today)!
To learn more or to sign up today, go to
http://www.YourSuccessStore.com/Symposium
Remember, one moment is all it takes. Will that moment for you happen at the SUCCESS Symposium? There's still time to get your discount tickets and section upgrade!
Go to www.YourSuccessStore.com/Symposium now to register and for more details.
"Never settle for anything
less than your best."
Brian Tracy
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