Posted 6/24/2002 by Josh Hinds

Folks, my friend & personal development radio show host Mike Litman has interviewed Alex Mandossian, the creator of Marketing With Postcards on a recent show. It's slap fulll of powerful marketing advice! Remember the old saying "Everybody sells". Enjoy the interview (requires the free realplayer)... Josh Hinds :-)

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Posted 6/24/2002 by Josh Hinds

THE GREAT CHALLENGE OF LIFE
by Jim Rohn

Here's the great challenge of life - You can have more than you've got because you can become more than you are. I have found that income seldom will exceed your own personal development. Once in a while income takes a lucky jump, but unless you grow out to where it is, it will go back to where you are. Somebody once said if you took all the money in the world and divided it among everyone equally, it would soon be back in the same pockets.

However, you can have more because you can become more. You see, here is how the other side of the coin reads - unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. The marketing plan won't do it. It's a good plan but it won't work without you. You've got to work it. It is the human effort that counts. If you could send a sales manual out to recruit - wouldn't that be lovely? The major thing that makes the difference is what YOU do.

In order to have more, you need to become more. The guy says, "If I had a good job I would really pour it on, but I have this lousy job so I just goof off." If that is your philosophy, you are destined to stay there. Some people say if I had a lot of money I would be really generous, but I don't have much so I'm not generous.

See, you've got to change that philosophy or you will never have "the lots of money." Unless YOU change, IT won't change. Amazingly, however, when we throw out our blame list and start becoming more ourselves - the difference is everything else will begin to change around us.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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Posted 6/16/2002 by Josh Hinds

PLUSSING YOUR GOALS FOR OUTRAGEOUS RESULTS
By Mark Victor Hansen

One of my favorite life-changing assignments to have people do is to write down 101 goals for themselves. This helps to create a solid list of what they want to do and to have in their lifetime. Then, after that initial list has been written, I ask them to create 10 outrageous goals by plussing, or adding to, their initial goals. These are things so extraordinary that 10 goals are all they need.

Why should people have 10 crazy goals? In order to come up with 10 outrageous goals you must thinking outrageously. You must expand your mind and your realm of what's possible.

The bigger you think, the bigger your world becomes. You begin to think outside of yourself. The more you think outside of yourself, the more you begin to think and do for others. The more you do for others, the more rewards and benefits come back to you. It's a cycle that works for the betterment of both you and the world.

'Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.'

ACTION STEP - I'd like to offer an exercise to complete in the week ahead:

If you already have a list of goals, we're going to work with that. If you don't have a goal list, take some time before you do this exercise and create a list. It doesn't have to be the full 101 goal list, but write down 10 or so for this exercise.

Once you have at least 10 goals written down, start to plus them to create new extraordinary goals for yourself.

Let's say one of your goals is to feed the hungry in your city. Your action steps include giving canned goods and a bi-weekly check to your local soup kitchen. That is an important and worthwhile goal. But now I want you to plus it. Here's where the crazy, outrageous thinking comes in.

Instead of just feeding the hungry in your city, you're now going to wipe out hungry all over the country. Heck, why not the world? That's your new goal! Now your action steps include: researching the poorest and hungriest countries; contacting corporations and food banks in those countries and asking them to donate food and money; contacting airlines and ground transportation services and asking them to donate their planes and trucks to deliver food to the people; etc.

Plussing your goals allows you to think big, take big action and get big results.

'Achieving your goals will become exciting and provide a meaningful life that's turned on and tuned in at new and higher levels.' - Mark Victor Hansen

I'll see you next time!

Mark Victor Hansen
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Posted 6/12/2002 by Josh Hinds

It was a Very Good Day
By John Harricharan

The day before yesterday was a good day, a really good day. Everything worked well. The weather was fair, the computers worked fine and orders for the "PowerPause" (my latest creation) came in at a much higher rate than usual. My world seemed peaceful and I was filled with exhilaration. It was a good day.

Yes, the day before yesterday was the type of day I always like to see. There are many such days. Sunny, warm days, whether because of the weather or because of the warmth in our hearts are always pleasant.

But yesterday was totally different. It was not a good day. It started with my computer giving me all kinds of error messages. I switched to the backup computer only to have it crash the moment I touched the keyboard.

I turned on the laptop and the screen remained blank. I couldn't get through to anybody on the phone. By late afternoon, I leaned back in my chair and sighed. Yes, yesterday was not a very good day.

Today is better than yesterday, but not quite as good as the day before. At least, not yet, anyway. You see, it's still morning. I've got a while to go before this day is done.

Why am I telling you about good days and bad days? Because in life, there will be good days and there will be not-so-good days. No need to rant and rave at the not-so-good days. They will pass. So will the good days also. They both will pass. Nothing stays the same.

All things change. The seasons of the year as well as the seasons of our lives keep changing. It is the law of the universe. So enjoy good days while they last. And the not-so-good days? Tolerate them. They will not last, either.

An old Chinese proverb says, "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head but you certainly can prevent them from making nests in your hair." Don't let a bad day keep you from looking forward to good ones.

Live life one day at a time. The Universe will sustain you. You do your part and the Universal Forces will always do theirs. You are as valid and as valuable as anyone else in the world. Keep on keeping on.

To modify the words of U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, "Ask not what this day will bring to you. Rather, ask what you will bring to this day."

May your day be filled with all good things.
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Posted 6/03/2002 by Josh Hinds

KEEPING PACE WITH YOURSELF
By Steve Goodier

Who is setting your standards for you?

A true story has it that one older man decided to jog around the local high school football field. As he huffed and puffed along, the team was in practice.

The players soon started running sprints up and down the field. The man told himself, "I'll just keep running until they quit." So he ran. And they ran. And he ran some more. And they kept running. And he kept running until he could finally run no more. He stopped in exhaustion. One of the players, equally exhausted, approached him and said, "Boy, I'm glad you finally stopped, Mister. Coach told us we had to keep running wind sprints as long as the old guy was jogging!"

He was watching them. They were watching him. He was letting them set his standard. They allowed him to set theirs.

My question is this: Are you keeping pace with somebody else? Are you allowing other people to set your standards for you? What about your standards, or principles, for moral behavior? Or guidelines for what kind of attitudes you want, or how happy your relationships should be? Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is... only you are qualified to determine what your standards will be.

Set your standards too low, and you'll know only discontent. But set high standards and you can live an immeasurably full and worthwhile life. For only when you reach for the best that is within yourself, will you experience great living.

Who is setting your standards?

(c) 2002 Steve Goodier
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