SUCCESS
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a little bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
--- Emerson
Do you have everything in your life that you think is necessary to be successful and happy?
What are you seeking? Time and financial freedom?
Here is a good definition of financial freedom - Having enough money to maintain the
lifestyle you desire without having to work or depend on anyone else to contribute to
your support.
The key words here are not "having to work" and not "depending on anyone else". This means
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required to support your chosen life style. It also means that if you can work if you
choose to do so, but it is choice - not necessity that determines whether or not you work.
To me, having financial freedom means - being able to do what I want, when I want, with whomever
I want without having any concern about money.
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Have you ever heard the story of the frog in the cooking pot? You see, you can put a pan of
cool water on the stove and put a live frog in the pan, and as long as the water is
comfortable the frog will stay right in the pan.
You can then turn the heat on real real low. So low, that as the water begins to heat
up the frog can not notice the difference. As the water gets warmer and warmer the frog
gets sleepier and sleepier and finally falls off in a deep sleep.
Meanwhile the water is getting hotter and hotter and hotter. Finally when the water begins
to boil the frog wakes up but the heat of the water has relaxed its muscles so much that
the frog can not jump out of the pan. It tries, it strains and lurches this way and that
way but by the time it wakes up . . . . it is too late.
This happens to people in much the same way. They just settle for life the way it is and
hope that when they retire things will somehow take care of themselves. And the sad result
is that 85 out of 100 people age 65 do not have $250 when they retire.
And just like the frog when the water started to boil . . . they woke up! And no one thought
it would happen to them. But it really does not matter because just like the frog . . . it
is too late.
You probably do not believe, in your wildest dreams, that this could happen to you either.
Could you be off in a deep sleep while the water is getting hotter and hotter and hotter?
Consider this, in the richest country in the history of the human race, after working 40
years at age 65 only 1% of Americans are actually wealthy.
How does this happen? Don't you want to be different?
People get so caught up in the hassles of day-to-day survival that life ends up passing them by.
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Before showing you that there are many proven ways to make a sucessful online business,
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A couple of things to remember
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We all are better able to move in the right direction when we know that we are
on this path of personal achievement with others. The following quotes and short
stories are included for your encouragement and insipration.
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
"Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one is looking."
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is
Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed.
"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other
"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take
"All human beings are born with the same creative
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."
Senagalese proverb,
In America today, you cannot be truly free if you are enslaved by debt.
"Close friends and relatives...often handicap one through
"The things that come to a man who waits seldom turn out to be
"You must have your own fun. No one can do it for you"
Albert Einstein:
Risk: Don't be afraid to go out on a limb---
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start
Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work.
Your present situation doesn't determine where you can go,
Our final destination will be determined by our goals today.
The following words were said to have been found on the crypt of an
Anglican bishop at Westminster Abbey.
When I was young and free and my imagination had no
limits, I dreamed of changing the world;
Choose to ignore the little annoying behaviors of others and no one will be able to annoy you.
Get Off the Nail by Jerry Clark
Over the years I have met and observed thousands of people and each and every last one of them say they want some improvement in certain areas of their lives. In fact, most of them flat out confessed that they hated certain
situations they were in. But after further evaluations, I discovered that they weren't willing to do anything about
it. It seemed to be good enough for them to just sit there and wallow in their pain, anguish and misery.
Last year, motivational speaker Les Brown and I were chatting after we had both conducted trainings for a Network Marketing Company. We were talking about the number of people who say they want to make changes but don't seem to ever do anything about it. I told him it reminded me of a story I heard him tell an audience over 10 years ago.
Here's how the story goes...One day a man was walking down the street on his way to work. As he walked down the street, there were dogs on just about every front porch and they all would bark as the man walked passed them. However, there was one dog that he remembered, because this dog was just sitting there and he was whimpering and whining and moaning, you know the little whimpering sounds dogs make when they are wounded or in some sort of pain. Well this particular dog was just sitting there on the front porch making those sounds.
The man was curious as to why this dog wasn't barking like the other dogs and why he was whimpering. He couldn't figure it out, so he just kept walking to work. The next day he was in the same situation where he was walking down the street and saw the dogs once again and this same dog that was moaning and groaning the other day was doing the same thing today and he just couldn't figure it out. Well, he walked past for an entire week and every day the dog would be there moaning and groaning. So, finally, the guy got fed up, he said "let me find out what's going on."
So he went and knocked on the door and a guy came out and said, "Yes, how may I help you?"
He said, "Sir,is this your dog?"
"Yes, that's my dog."
"Well, what's wrong with him?"
The owner of the dog said, "What do you mean?"
"Well, he's been sitting here moaning and groaning, whimpering and whining for an entire week. The rest of the dogs are barking, your dog should be barking too, why is he moaning and groaning?"
The owner said, "Well, he's actually sitting on a nail."
He said, "What! Your dog is sitting on a nail. Why doesn't he get off?"
"Well, it just doesn't hurt him enough."
On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City.
If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches. To see him walk across the stage one step at a time, painfully and slowly, is an unforgettable sight.
He walks painfully, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair. Then he sits down, slowly, puts his crutches on the floor, undoes the clasps on his legs, tucks one foot back and extends the other foot forward. Then he bends down and picks up the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and proceeds to play.
By now, the audience is used to this ritual. They sit quietly while he makes his way across the stage to his chair. They remain reverently silent while he undoes the clasps on his legs. They wait until he is ready to
play.
But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his
violin broke. You could hear it snap - it went off like gunfire across the room. There was no mistaking what that sound meant. There was no mistaking what he had to do.
People who were there that night thought to themselves: "We figured that he would have to get up, put on the clasps again, pick up the crutches and limp his way off stage - to either find another violin or else find another string for this one."
But he didn't. Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra began, and he played from where he had left off. And he played with such passion and such power and such purity as they had never heard before.
Of course, anyone knows that it is impossible to play a symphonic work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, but that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. You could see him modulating, changing, recomposing the piece in his head.
At one point, it sounded like he was de-tuning the strings to get new sounds from them that they had never made before. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. There was an extraordinary outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium. We were all on our feet, screaming and cheering, doing everything we could to show how much we appreciated what he had done.
He smiled, wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to quiet us, and then he said, not boastfully, but in a quiet, pensive, reverent tone,
What a powerful line that is. It has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the way of life - not just for artists but for all of us.
So, perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.
Imagine. . . .
There is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400.
It carries over no balance from day to day.
Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day.
What would you do? Draw out ALL OF IT, of course!!!!
Each of us has such a bank.
To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
Let me tell you a story.
Mark Yarnell, minister in a small town in Texas, was headed for bankruptcy and just about to lose his car and home. He looked for a way out and discovered Network Marketing. Luckily, he had a wise sponsor.
The sponsor gave Mark "THE PROMISE" - THIS BUSINESS CAN SET YOU FREE FINANCIALLY IN ONE TO THREE YEARS.
But he also gave him "THE PRICE" - TO SUCCEED, YOU WILL HAVE TO FACE AND CONQUER 4 MAJOR ENEMIES.
Mark said, "It's a deal."
He then invited 200 friends over to his house to watch a video. 80 said "No, not interested."
Mark had encountered ENEMY #1: Rejection.
He thought, "No problem. My sponsor warned me about that. I've got 120 people still coming over."
Guess what? 50 didn't show up. He had just met ENEMY #2: Deception.
Mark thought, "No problem, my sponsor warned me about that. I've got 70 people who watched the tape."
Guess what? 57 said, "Not interested." He had just encountered ENEMY #3: Apathy.
Undaunted, Mark thought, "No problem. 13 people signed up."
Guess what? 12 of them dropped out of the business shortly. ENEMY #4: Attrition had left Mark with just one serious associate.
To this day, that single distributor earns Mark over $50,000 per month.
You may have heard of Bill Britt, one of the most successful distributors in Amway. Some years ago, 20/20 did a feature story on Amway. They spent 19 minutes interviewing whiners and complainers - several distributors who had failed and showed the garages full of products they couldn't sell.
During the last minute of the show, Mr. Britt was interviewed in front of his palatial home. He was asked, "Mr. Britt, this business has obviously worked for you. What's your secret?"
He replied, "There is no secret. I simply showed the plan to 1200 people. 900 said, 'No.' and only 300 signed up. Out of those 300, only 85 did anything at all. Out of those 85 only 35 were serious, and out of those 35, 11 made me a millionaire."
Like Mark Yarnell, Bill worked through the numbers. Jason Boreyko, now president of New Vision, told this story recently.
When he was a distributor in Matol, he signed up 50 people. He heard a lot of "Nos." on the way to those 50. Jason took one man, who he knew would be terrific in the business, to lunch, told him about the business and the man said "No."
Jason took the man to lunch again the next month and told him the updates.
Once again the man said, "No."
Jason sent him some more information and took him to lunch again the next month. And again the man said, "No."
That went on for six months. The seventh month, something had changed for the man, and he said, "Yes." That man made Jason over one million dollars.
Jason also worked through his numbers.
According to Richard Poe in "Wave Three", while starting Amway, Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel, America's eleventh richest people, recruited 500 people. 495 dropped out. The five that didn't quit built Amway.
All $7 billion of Amway's business was built under those 5 people. Jay and Rich had to work through their numbers. There are many similar stories.
Here's the lesson: Your success is directly related to the degree to which you are willing to work to find others like yourself who are committed to succeed.
Mark Yarnell's odds were 1 out of 200. Bill Britt's were 11 out of 1200. Jason Boreyko's odds were 1 out of 50.
Would you be willing to go through 200 people to find the 1 who will make you $50,000 a month? Or go through 200 people to become a millionaire? Or hear uncounted "No's." to sign up 50 people to find a million dollar person? I hope you will.... It's easier when you know the odds up front. And with the power of the Internet, the job of finding those special people is much easier today than it was then.
But here's the catch: You have your own set of odds and you won't know what they are until AFTER YOU'VE SUCCEEDED. So if you've gone through 50 or 100 people and you haven't found 1 serious person yet, you can either give up and assume the business doesn't work, or recognize that you are working through your own numbers.
THE END ...or is it just THE BEGINNING? You decide! Your homework assignment for now is to understand the importance of the four enemies and realize that this is a marathon, not a sprint.
True success comes from daily activities over an extended period of time.
You will succeed if you DO NOT quit!
To your success!
If you have made it all of the way to this place, congratulations. I hope you were inspired and encouraged by the words that were shared already. This one last bit of wisdom, that has nothing to do with the business of business and everything to do with the business of living. It was very eloquently written by George Carlin, not his usual style, but very appropriate to our times, especially since 9.11.
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
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-- William Connor Magee
work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then
to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves."
--Tom Morris
--Author Unknown
the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
They make you smile and encourage you to
succeed. They lend an ear, they share a word
of praise, and they always want to open their
heart to us.
remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we
dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to
harm us." --Voltaire
unlimited enthusiasm."
--Charles Schwab
it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays
the best interest."
--Benjamin Franklin
potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million
superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one
thing only: my art."
-- Pablo Picasso
(Gloria Pitzer, in Reader's Digest, 1979)
"The opportunity that God sends, does not
wake up him who is asleep".
'opinions' and...ridicule...meant to be humorous.
Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes
with them all through life, because some well-meaning
but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through 'opinions' or ridicule."
Napoleon Hill
the things he's waiting for."
"You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it."
that's where the fruit is.
Author unknown
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have
at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
- Napoleon Hill
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
it merely determines where you're starting from.
The purpose of a goal is to focus your attention on your future.
Real magic begins when you set one.
Your power to accomplish anything
becomes a reality when you have a goal.
Your mind will stretch toward achievement
when it has a clear objective.
A goal is a dream that you've written down.
It gives you a place to start and a final destination.
You'll achieve the success you seek,
if you focus the full power of all you are
on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Act on your goals and they are yours.
You can live your dreams.
Where do we really want to go?
What do we want to do with our lives?
How can we influence our future for the better?
As I grew older and wiser I realized the world would not change.
And I decided to shorten my sights somewhat and change
only my country. But it too seemed immovable.
As I entered my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I
sought to change only my family, those closest to me, but alas they would have
none of it.
And now I lie here on my death bed and realize (perhaps for the
first time) that if only I'd changed myself first, then by example
I may have influenced my family, and with their
encouragement and support I may have bettered my
country, and who knows, I may have changed the world.
How we influence the future is by changing ourselves. And once we
know how to change ourselves, who knows how we might change the world?
The change starts from within, then ripples outward.
___Choice___
Annoyance, after all, is all in your mind.
Choose to be free from worry and anxiety, and your moments will instead be filled with purpose and joy.
Choose to see the beauty in people and you'll find yourself surrounded by beautiful people.
Choose to make the best of every situation and your days will be filled with positive achievements.
Choose to learn from each experience and your wisdom will become more profound with every passing day.
Choose to seek out and enjoy the difficult challenges and you'll find yourself growing strong with each one.
Choose to make a positive difference and the good things in your life will increase in quantity and value.
Each day is a choice.
Each moment is a choice.
Always remember that your attitude, your outlook, your perspective, your commitments, your thoughts and your actions are all choices -- choices which can make an enormous difference in the way your life proceeds.
-- Ralph Marston
"You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left."
(from the Houston Chronicle)
Its name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.
It carries over no balance.
It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you.
Each night it burns the remains of the day.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow."
You must live in the present on today's deposits.
Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!
The clock is running.
Make the most of today.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE-SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have!
And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time.
And remember that time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!!!
THE PRICE OF THE PROMISE
We spend more, but have less.
We buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We've added years to life not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.
We conquered outer space but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.
A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.
Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it.
A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
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