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Welcome to Your Achievement Ezine
Issue 364 - May 21, 2008
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"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get
off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off! You cannot make progress
without making decisions." Jim Rohn
Today's issue includes:
1. Your Achievement Article - Stop Just Writing About Your
Past and Start Writing Your Future! by Chris Widener
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Character, Clarity and Coaching/Mentors
3. Your Achievement Tips - Let's Get Real by Jeff Olson
4. Here's my List...
5. More Information
1. Your Achievement Article
Stop Just Writing About Your Past and Start Writing Your Future! by Chris Widener (excerpted from Chris Widener's book,
Live the Life You've Always Dreamed Of!)
"The history of free men is never written by chance, but by choice – their choice." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Many people spend a lot of time on their history. Some do it purposefully with such hobbies as journaling, while others simply write and rewrite their history over and over in their minds. Depending upon the way you go about this, this can be good or bad. If you are doing it so you can reflect back on your life, that's good. If you are doing it so you can learn from your past, that's good too. Unfortunately, many people do it simply as a subconscious act of running themselves into the ground over and over.
What you "write" in your mind is an act of mental discipline, just as what you write on a sheet of paper is a discipline. Keep that in mind.
So if this is true, that we can make a choice as to what we want to write, both literally and figuratively, we have an extraordinary opportunity!
Instead of going over and over our past, we can choose to write our future! Have you ever thought about writing your future before it even happens to you? Well, now you can – and you will!
Here is a process that will let you determine and write your own future!
Choose to choose your own future. If you don't make the decision to accept responsibility for your own future, then you are choosing to not write your future. You must choose to choose. Do you?
Determine what you want your future to be. Be specific.
What do you want to earn?
Where do you want to live?
What do you want to weigh?
What do you want to do for a living?
What do you want to do in your leisure time?
How much do you want to retire on?
If you don't know the answers to these questions, then you may as well not even begin to write your future. Take some time to answer them fully.
Get a good understanding of your strengths and weaknesses. If you are going to write your future, you will have to have a sober understanding of what you are good at and what you are not particularly good at. Maybe ask a good friend or your spouse to give you an honest appraisal of your strengths and weaknesses.
Focus on playing to your strengths while ever improving your weaknesses. Be sure that what you are doing is utilizing your strengths to their fullest. And you don't want to forget your weaknesses, even while you are trying to stay away from them. Instead, set smaller goals for improvement in your areas of weakness while you set grand goals for the areas you are strongest in!
Get out a three pieces of paper. On the top of one, write, "One year from today I will...
" On the next write, "Three years from today I will..." On the last write, "Ten years from today I will...
" Then begin to fill them out. Make commitments to yourself. As you write them, end each sentence with a transition to how you are going to do it. For example, you may write, "One year from today I will...
Have $4800 in my saving account by saving $400 per month."
Start putting only information into your mind that will benefit the fulfillment of the kind of life you are writing about. For example, if you have a hard time spending money rather than saving it, you should probably cancel all of the catalogues that come each day that entice you to spend. Instead, spend the time you would have spent thumbing through catalogues going through financial growth material instead.
Discipline yourself to spend your time in a manner that will help you get to your goals. For example, cut out five hours of television a week and spend that time on your goals instead. That would be a difference of 260 hours in the next year! Wow! What could you do with another 260 hours? Almost anything!
You do not have to be a paper cup blowing to and fro in the wind! You do not have to live at the whims of other people or circumstances. You CAN choose your future! You can write it out just the way you want it to happen! Yes, ups and downs will come but you will outlast them and eventually arrive at your destiny. Then, when you get to the end of your life, you will know how it all turns out because you will have been the author!
Get going – write your own future!
You are Made for Success!
Chris Widener
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2. Your Achievement Quotes
CHARACTER
"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world." -- Michael Josephson
"Character is simply habit long continued." -- Plutarch
"Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them." -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." -- Dale Carnegie
CLARITY
"Winding up ‘unfinished business´ with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy." -- 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
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- John Lubbock
"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never to be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
COACHING/MENTORS
"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results." -- Anthony Robbins
"That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything." -- Jim Rohn
"To teach is to learn twice." -- Joseph Joubert
"People begin to become successful the
minute they decide to be." Harvey Mackay
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"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game." Voltaire
3. Your Achievement Tips
Let's Get Real by Jeff Olson
"Okay, doubling a penny in a story is all very well. But I don't see anyone offering to double my money every day for a month, not in real life. Besides, even if I could get compound interest on a money account, how am I supposed to add up compound interest in health, or relationships, or knowledge?"
Fair enough. Let's change the question. Forget about doubling for a minute, and let's forget about compound interest, too, for the moment. Let's just add a penny every day, not double the penny. Do you think you could improve yourself-your health, your knowledge, your skills, your diet, your relationships, whatever area of life you want to look at - just one percent?
Wait - before you answer that, let's make it even smaller. What if you were able to improve yourself, today, just three-tenths of one percent? That's a 0.003 improvement - a very Slight Edge indeed. So slight, in fact, you might have a hard time even knowing how to measure it.
Now, what if you did that again tomorrow, and the next day, and kept it up every day for the next year? Remember, you're not going to add up compound interest this time, you're just adding on another three-tenths of one percent each day.
Here's what will happen. The first day you'll improve by 0.003, so little it will probably be impossible to notice. The second day, your improvement will be 0.006; the next day, 0.009, almost a full one percent. And by the end of the year, you will have improved by one hundred percent.
Doubled.
You will be twice what you are today - twice as fit, twice as wealthy, twice as skilled, twice as happy...
twice as whatever it is you've been working on, in whatever areas you apply your daily three-tenths-percent effort. Twice the you, in just one year!
If you give yourself a year to do it, you can become twice the person you are today. Imagine having twice the net worth, twice the personal relationships, twice the health. Making twice the positive impact on the world. Having twice as much fun and enjoying twice the quality of life.
How could you possibly accomplish this? By trying twice as hard? Working twice as many hours? Have twice as positive an attitude? No - by improving three-tenths of one percent at a time.
Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.
But you have to start with a penny. And that's the great and tragic irony of it, the sad and terrible tale of the ninety-five percent: that little penny seems so insignificant, so small, so silly...
why even bother to bend over and pick it up? After all...
Can you imagine walking into your bank to deposit a single penny into a savings account? Can you imagine looking in your savings account, deposit box or piggy bank, and finding a balance of $0.01? It might as well be a balance of zero, right? How much difference is there, right? I mean, we're talking about one penny! What could you buy with a penny?
You just might be able to buy financial freedom for the rest of your life.
Jeff Olson
If you're like me, you believe a first-class library is vital to any achiever's success. After all, it's the physical manifestation of your gathering all the ideas, thoughts, insights, views and advice that reinforce a successful attitude and life.
Buy these 12 personal development books (my book, The Slight Edge is one of them) right now for only $47! Plus get a special bonus for first 100 to buy!
Go to http://books.yoursuccessstore.com to buy now!
"Declarations are powerful. If you declare that you are going to be an optimistic, upbeat person at all times, an interesting phenomenon takes place. When people expect you to be positive, you don't want to let them down. You live your intentions every day – every minute."
Neil Eskelin
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"My philosophy of life is that if we make up
our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that
goal, we never lose - somehow we win out."
Ronald Reagan
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