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Issue 351 - February 20, 2008

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Today's issue includes:

1. Your Achievement Article - The Power of Faith by Vic Johnson
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Service/Customer Service, Skills and Slight Edge
3. Your Achievement Tips - Abandonment is Tremendous by Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
4. The Most Quoted Book of Success of All Time
5. More Information

1. Your Achievement Article

The Power of Faith by Vic Johnson (excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)

"By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished. Faith in the Supreme, faith in the overruling Law; faith in your work, and in your power to accomplish that work - here is the rock upon which you must build if you would achieve, if you would stand and not fall." - Path to Prosperity

James Allen makes a pretty bold claim: "By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished." He doesn't say some enduring works or many enduring works, but EVERY enduring work.

A Duke University research study, among many others, found a link between religious faith and illness prevention, coping and recovery. Those with a strong faith tended to be ill less often and when they were ill tended to recover more quickly. We all know stories of people who experienced some type of miracle in their life because they had the faith all along that they would.

In Think and Grow Rich, the number one success classic of all time, Napoleon Hill wrote the following about the power of faith: "Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles" and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for Realize that the only things that can keep us from having the kind of faith that Allen and Hill describe are fear, doubt and worry. These are the opposite of faith.

Fear that your car won't start this morning, that you're going to be in the next group of layoffs, that you can't possibly save enough now to ever retire. Doubts that you'll ever own that business you've always wanted, that your children will grow into happy, well adjusted adults. Worry that you won't have enough money to make it until the end of the month, that the medical test is going to come back with bad news. The list goes on and on.

Fear, doubt and worry rob us of a real life and keep us from moving forward. But more than anything, they rob us of faith - and without faith we are powerless.

How do we overcome fear, doubt and worry in order to maintain faith? Hill says that "Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith." In other words, we can literally think and talk ourselves into faith just as easily as we think and talk ourselves into fear, doubt and worry.

And that's worth thinking about.
Vic Johnson
 

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"Read something positive every night and listen to something helpful every morning."  Tom Hopkins

2. Your Achievement Quotes

SERVICE/CUSTOMER SERVICE

"Know how to serve in terms of the customer. They don't care what your situation is -- they only care about their situation, their problem. Are you serving them in terms of them or you?" -- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success." -- Brian Tracy

"The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be." -- Og Mandino

"Make your career a life of service to others and all the good things you desire will come to you." -- Tom Hopkins

SKILLS

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." -- Larry Bird  

"Develop the art of being exceptional." -- Patricia Fripp

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -- Charles Darwin

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." -- Pablo Picasso

SLIGHT EDGE

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." -- Marian Wright Edelman

"Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power." -- Paul J. Meyer

"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller." -- Paul Klee

"Good work done little by little becomes great work. Your house of success will be built brick by brick." -- Max Steingart

"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books." Bell Hooks

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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." Abraham Lincoln

3. Your Achievement Tips

Abandonment is Tremendous by Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

There just isn't time to do all you want to do and all that you need do. It is easy for us to teach abandonment to others, but the leader knows the price of abandonment, beginning with his own thought processes.

What do you think about? Let's go a step further, what do you talk about? Someone once said that little people talk about things, medium sized people talk about people, and big people talk about ideas. Which kind of people do you like to be around?

How are your reading habits; how many books have your read this year, how many are you reading now, how many of the ideas you've received from the books have you shared? The power of a single book at the right time in a life is unlimited.  

The leader leads the way, showing that leaders are readers. You should not only keep a flow of books for yourself, but give them away. Paperbacks are inexpensive and popular. I share a book list that points out the books that have been the most influential of my life.

The leader is constantly learning to abandon the things that come naturally, like DISCOURAGEMENT. Discouragement is, without a doubt, the most expensive luxury we can afford. When I become wealthy, I plan to get discouraged for a week at a time, but I can't afford but a few minutes a day right now. Most people I know must really be wealthy now, for all the discouragement they seem to be enjoying. Sometimes I'm asked if I ever get discouraged, and I reply, "yes, often." But I never let anyone know about it, because if I allow you to know how discouraged I am, you'll become discouraged, you'll discourage me more than I am, and I can't hardly stand how much I have now. So abandon discouragement and all the other attitude killers as you become the leader you are meant to be!

Tremendously,
Charles "T" Jones

 
Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones, in addition to breaking many sales records in the insurance industry throughout his career, is the founder and CEO of Executive Books. Choose from some of Charlie "Tremendous" Jones's best selling books. To purchase go to http://ctj.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434.

"There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read."  G.K. Chesterton

4. The Most Quoted Book of Success of All Time

My family and I had the good fortune last summer to be invited, by an incredibly successful business associate and long time friend, to stay at his private beach house in Florida. We go every single year to the Destin area, but had never experienced the privacy and proximity to the beach that this house had.

Toward the end of our stay, my friend came through town and we all had dinner together. He is very passionate about personal development and in particular Jim Rohn, but over dinner I found out a new piece to the puzzle of his success.

He never graduated from college... okay (neither did I), but then we found out he had never graduated from high school. In fact he was constantly in trouble and eventually was expelled. But in the process he found a mentor and was given the book Think and Grow Rich... and the rest is history. He has built close to a 100 million dollar company and pretty much does whatever he wants to do when he wants to do it.

This is a very familiar story. The book Think and Grow Rich, I would assume, is probably the most quoted book on success of all time, next to the Bible.

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"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves."  E. M. Forster

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