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12/29/2005: "What Are Your Greatest Fears? # 393"
Good Morning Freedom Fighters and Truth Seekers,
This issue deals with a wide variety of challenges. It closes with a bounty of wise words from Jim Rohn, one of my favorites mentors.
FEAR...False Evidence Appearing Real has restricted the growth and development of individuals and organizations for thousands of years. Enemies create fear to immobilize their prey. The Islamic terrorists have used this method to strike fear into the hearts of millions of Americans, Asians and Europeans with the homicide bomber and attacks like that on 9/11.
Look your fears clearly in the face and many will simply vanish. Being safe and cautious is not a bad thing but, in reality, being immobilized by fear is a very cheap victory for the terrorists.
At this time of year, there are often concerns and fears about what the new year will bring. This is a great weekend to build your 2006 development plan for success. A strong plan will beat a weak fear any day of the week.
I just started a new book, Hitting The Highest Notes by Beverly Sallee. It provides an extraordinary symphony of ideas to help you reach your full potentials. Its primary focus is on helping women reach for the stars...and get there. Beverly is part of the leadership team of our I-Commerce business system and has built business networks in 35 countries.
Let us know if we can be of help and support in the development and execution of your 2006 Success Plan.
Words of Wisdom...Food For Thought and ACTION
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
-- Babe Ruth, baseball player
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
- David Lloyd George, British Statesman
"Do you know more about the things you Fear than the things you desire?"
- Rick Beneteau
"Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal."
- Brian Tracy
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
-- Madame Marie Curie
"If you embrace possibility thinking, your dreams will go from molehill to mountain size, and because you believe in possibilities, you put yourself in position to achieve them."
--John C. Maxwell Leadership expert
"Most of this world's useful work is done by people who are pressed for time, or are tired, or don't feel well."
-- Author unknown
"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
-- Pablo Picasso
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it."
-- Rene Descartes
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
-- Leonardo da Vinci
"You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter."
-- Ralph J. Bunche
"You can have big plans, but it's the small choices that have the greatest power. They draw us toward the future we want to create."
-- Robert Cooper
"Optimism is an intellectual choice."
-- Diana Schneider
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved."
-- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) U.S. congressman, secretary of state,
presidential nominee
"There is no greater mistake than to be afraid of change, and yet many intelligent people dread it and cling to what is customary and familiar. To be afraid of change is to doubt the presence of God. It is an unintelligent fear of the unknown. If it were not for the blessing of change, people would still be primitive savages living in caves, and you yourself would still be a child mentally and physically, would you not? Welcome every change that comes into any phase of your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the betterand it will."
-- Emmet Fox
"We know most days will be regular days. Our lives will include some highlight days that stay with us forever, like family celebrations or personal triumphs, but almost every day this year will be a regular day, with nothing particularly astounding about it. Yet within these regular days are many opportunities for enjoyment, many of which we dont even think about or really appreciate. Take a moment every day to think about the simple pleasures of your daily life."
-- David Niven
"Chance favors the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895, French Microbiologist and Chemist
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal."
Albert Pike, 1809-1891, American Author
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, hes in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
Charles Kettering, Inventor
"Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act . . . The vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or dont see."
Charles Koch, Koch Industries Chairman and Chief Executive
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look
back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't
build on it; it's only for wallowing in."
--Katherine Mansfield
"Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an
inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some
philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity,
forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said: 'War is
an evil inasmuch as it produces more wicked men than it
takes away."
--Immanuel Kant
"We lift ourselves by our thought. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
-- Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, Author and Founder of Success Magazine
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist, inventor
Rohn's Roamings
by Jim Rohn
"Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got."
"How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you've done the best you can."
"If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there are just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed - when there is just a few."
"It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it."
"The man says, 'If I had a fortune, I'd take good care of it. But I only have a paycheck and I don't know where it all goes.' Wouldn't you love to have him running your company?"
"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."
"The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, 'I wish someone would come by and turn me on.' What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."
"Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times."
"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."
"Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot."
"Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and a 'want.'"
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes."
"Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life."
"Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'"
"You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes."
"Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility; it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do."
"It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts."
"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
"Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'"
"You must get good at one of two things: sowing in the spring or begging in the fall."
"There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way."
"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."
William Prouty, CLU RHU CBC CEC MBA PhD
CEO and Founder
Champions For Life Foundation
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