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04/10/2005: "What Is Your Definition of Success? # 359"
| Good Morning Freedom Fighters and Truth Seekers, Well, it going to be a very busy but quiet weekend around this house. Lynn is in Florida with her family and I am here with the animals. It has been a great week with lots of progress on lots of fronts. The new CashDoctor.com HSA-PowerPlan has launched which you can see at www.HSApowerplan.com. It is the perfect complement to your high deductible HSA qualified healthplan. The plan is a sponsored benefit of the National Alliance of Consumers and Healthcare Professionals. It is part of the growing resource system that will bring consumers and professionals together and remove the government bureaucrats and politicians who want to take control, for their advantage, of the $1.7 TRILLION dollar U.S. healthcare industry. I had the pleasure of meeting and conferring at length with Dr. Robert Hertzka, the immediate past President of the California Medical Association (CMA). He has offered his strong support of the CashDoctor.com system of resource development and consumer education since our mission and that of the CMA are so well aligned. If a few minutes, I will be spending some time on the telephone with the director of operations for our new national Consumer Directed Healthcare Plan system that will be launched in California on May 1st . The plan will initially serve the mid-sized (51-1,000) employer market but we hope by the end of the year to have programs for small firms. Have a great weekend and watch for tomorrow's Essays on Excellence newsletter. It will have more information on our new legal, tax, financial counseling and identity theft program. Words of Wisdom...Food For Thought and ACTION "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure." -- Jim Rohn "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals." -Jim Rohn An empty purse frightens away friends. -- English Proverb "One must be poor to know the luxury of giving." -- George Eliot "The word 'inspired' means 'in spirit'. When you are inspired to action, everything falls into place naturally." -- Eva Gregory, PhD "The pursuit of truth shall set you free, even if you never catch up with it. -- Clarance Darrow "Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it." -- Jesse Owens 1913-1980, Gold Medal Olympic Track Athlete "Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing." -- Robert Bresson, film director "When our light is shining bright, we have the opportunity to make a difference by fanning the flame of another whose light may be dim." -- Eva Gregory, PhD "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." --Will Rogers "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all." -- Sam Ewing (1920-2001) American writer & humorist "Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship." -- Patrick Henry "The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear." -- Maya Angelou Writer "We have two ears, but only one mouth, so that we may listen more and talk less." -- Zeno (c. 334-262 B.C.) Philosopher "There's no reason to wait until the rest of the world is balanced to achieve balance and fulfillment in your own life. Not one other person needs to understand what you know for you to have what you want in your life." -- Eva Gregory, PhD "Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer "Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us." -- Sidney Powell "It is in the serving, that the fruits of our labor are returned to us." -- Karen Koenig Franks "Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved on." -- James Oliver "When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take-- choose the bolder." -- W.J. Slim "Your life may have been a certain way until now, yet it doesn't have to stay that way. Your life can be the way you want it beginning NOW. You have the power to make it different. Make the decision to have the life you want and do it NOW!" -- Eva Gregory, PhD "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British statesman and prime minister "Do not let time pass without accomplishing something. Otherwise you will regret it when your hair turns gray." -- Yue Fei (1103-1141) Army general "All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." -- Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) Publisher "There are many who fear the unknown. It's important to remember that the unknown is full of adventure that will surprise and delight you. You get to choose!" -- Eva Gregory, PhD “For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth – to know the worst and provide for it.” – Patrick Henry "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -- Anne Frank, diarist "Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day." -- Booker T. Washington 1856-1915, Educator "What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) American novelist "No matter what situation you find yourself in, you are always at choice. Always! Tap into your inner wisdom and deliberately choose your response from a higher consciousness, rather than reacting unconsciously." -- Eva Gregory, PhD "The spirit, the will to win, and the the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." -- Vince Lombardi "Very few of us are authorities on the truth. About the closest that any of us can get is what we hope is the truth or what we think is the truth. That's why the best approach to truth is probably to say, 't seems to me...' -- Jim Rohn "There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, 'I've got a new fundamental.' That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques." -- Jim Rohn "Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you." -- Jim Rohn "There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take." -- Peter Drucker "Dare to risk public criticism." -- Mary Kay Ash "When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder." -- William Joseph Slim "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom." -- Anais Nin "When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer." -- Gene Hill Writer and editor "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994) Educator "The life so short, the craft so long to learn." -- Hippocrates, founder of medicine "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." -- Jim Rohn Motivational speaker "The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. -- Evenius (42 B.C.-13 A.D.) Writer "Let goodness go with the doing." -- Marcus Ayrelius "May Your doing be overflowing with goodness." -- Karen Koenig Franks "Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before." -- Herodotus, BC 484-425, Greek Historian "We are what we repeatedly do." -- Aristotle (384bc-322bc) Greek philosopher, physician & scientist "Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen." -- Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist and Sculptor "Accept that abundance is rightfully yours and release any guilt about having money. Abundance is your birthright." -- Eva Gregory, PhD "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -- Helen Keller 1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author & Lecturer "If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else." -- Nikki Giovanni American Poet "Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. -- Wayne Dyer American Psychotherapist & Author "It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1819-1892, American Poet "Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done." -- Jim Rohn "It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." -- W. Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright "It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing of the little things, the common duties, a little better and better." -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1844-1911, Writer "Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunder- stood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence." --Orison Swett Marden, Motivational author "What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them." -- Jane Adams "When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying. "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too. -- Michael Hirsch, person with AIDS "The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility." -- Charles Kettering "If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain." -- Charles B. Newcomb "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -- Arthur Rubinstein "Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment." -- Maxwell Maltz A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. -- Chinese Proverb "The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others." -- Doug Larson "It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minority of one." -- E. Paul Torrence, creativity researcher William Prouty, CLU RHU CBC CEC MBA PhD CEO and Founder Champions For Life Foundation PO Box 989, Sun City, CA 92586-0989 Phone 951-301-0605 FAX 951-301-0606 Skype account: williamprouty wprouty@aol.com www.gewdc.org www.maie.org www.cashdoctor.com www.caltrade.com www.benefitstech.com |
