Denis Waitley's Weekly Ezine
November 3, 2004
Issue 05

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Welcome!

 

To this week's issue of the Denis Waitley International online newsletter. I appreciate your interest in receiving this information, with my compliments, and promise you that we will endeavor to make it both timely and timeless in content designed to help you reach your professional and personal goals now and in the future.

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 Denis Waitley

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In This Issue.....

1. Weekly Jumpstart
2. Champion Within Weekly Article
3. Weekly Seeds of Greatness
4. Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
5. Featured Product of the Week
6. Customer Feedback
7. More Information

1. Weekly Jumpstart

Stop watching and Start Living in Prime Time!

"Prime Time" is every weeknight when the TV ratings are measured because most Americans are glued to their favorite "Reality" or "Sitcom" shows. The average family watches over 30 hours of television per week, more than kids spend in classrooms and about the same number of hours that workers in Germany put into their jobs. One of the greatest travesties of our culture is to forfeit our own dreams in favor of watching performers making money and having fun in their professions. We are paying them for the privilege of escaping from the frustrations of not achieving our own goals. It's no coincidence that commercials are the most expensive during Prime Time.

Starting this week, and from now on, take this advice as some of the best you may ever receive that will help you and every family member enjoy more success and fulfillment in life:

Stop doing things that are "tension relieving" and begin doing more things that are "goal achieving." Limit your family's TV viewing to a maximum of 7 to 10 hours per week. Sure you'll watch some sports, news and stimulating shows. But start living in Prime Time, rather than being a spectator. Read, talk with family members, write books, go to different ethnic restaurants, have a "manners'" night out with the kids, take a class, improve your computer skills, engage in community service, call a lonely friend, exercise, participate in a sport or hobby. Treat the TV set as it should be treated. It's an appliance, not a lifestyle!

Each of the fifteen books I've written, have been written in Prime Time. When you stop to think of it, it is really the only free time you have for yourself, except for weekends, which are full of "to do" lists and responsibilities as well.

Why is Prime Time so important, precious and expensive? Because it's about the only time you have to spend on your own personal growth.

So this week, start making your Prime Time count towards achieving your dreams!

Make the Most of Your Prime Time!
-- Denis Waitley

 

2.  The Champion Within Weekly Article

Take a Proactive Approach to Your Health by Dr. Denis Waitley

Think of your body as a high-powered, finely engineered transportation vehicle, like a space shuttle. Instead of liquid hydrogen, your body is powered by your own intake. The food you eat is the fuel that energizes the vehicle. What you put in your fuel tank is burned by your high performance activity or - in the case of low-octane, junk food - is deposited in your engine. Think of your mind as the driver who takes control of and steers your body to victory or hits the wall. Your body is very much like a car. Drive it without proper fuel or maintenance and it will fall apart. You take it for granted to get you where you want to go, until it breaks down. Then it disrupts your way of life.

Like your car, your body only speaks to you by exception. You only notice it when it is damaged or inoperative. But, unlike your car, the spare parts business for your body is not a viable option at present.

To combat disease and aging, you need to keep your bones, joints and muscles flexible and strong. The right exercise means weight-bearing exercise, not simply aerobics. The International College of Sports Medicine has now added exercise with weights to its long-time recommendation of aerobic exercise. First, check with your physician who can assess your general condition and advise you about healthy levels of activity. Second, be aware that the effectiveness of exercise depends as much on enjoyment as on the nature of activity itself.

Just as important, if not more important than daily exercise, is proper nutrition. What you eat has a major impact on degenerative diseases. Do eat a low fat diet. Keep your fat intake to 15 percent of all daily calories. This will keep you lean and boost your immunity. Do eat a low salt diet. Use a potassium-based salt substitute on the table and in cooking. Do eat a high-fiber diet. Fiber protects the colon from cancer, lowers cholesterol and stabilizes blood sugar. Eat 40 to 50 grams of mixed fibers daily, as in whole grain breads and cereals, especially those containing oat bran, vegetables and fruits. Do eat a low-sugar diet. Use a little fructose in place of table sugar. Eat complex carbohydrates in place of sugar and look for carbohydrate drinks sweetened with zylitol. Do drink clean water. Drink bottled or home-distilled water, as much as eight glasses per day.

Do eat an alkaline diet. Our high-fat, high-sugar diet creates acidity. So many people are now acidic that we spend hundreds of millions of dollars on antacids every year.

Do take daily nutritional supplements including essential multi-vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. Current research confirms that we can no longer get the essential nutrients from our food alone. We must supplement even the best diet with nutrition to promote resistance to disease. Do eat the right kinds of foods and stay away from the fast-food, fat-food drive-throughs. You are doing yourself and your children a dangerous, long-term disservice by developing the habit of eating high-fat, nutrition-poor meals. Make your health your top priority. You can't buy your health or life back after years of neglecting it while you earn your living.

Action Idea: List one activity you will begin to do tomorrow to improve your health and increase the quality and quantity of your life.


To Achieving Great Health!
Denis Waitley



3. Seeds of Greatness: Seeds of Optimism: The Biology of Hope

(These quotes were taken from Denis Waitley's Excerpts from The Seeds of Greatness Treasury booklet)

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You may not get what you want, but in the long run you will get what you expect.

A good life is a collection of happy memories.

The good old days are here and now!

Happiness is the experience of living a life you feel is worthwhile.

To be enthused is to be infused with life!

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

You are a masterpiece of creation.

Each human being on earth has equal rights to fulfill his or her own potential.

You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

View stumbling blocks as stepping stones to the stars.

Optimism creates energy and is contagious.

 

4. The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips

Welcome to week five in this six weeks of covering six effectively powerful behaviors that increase self-esteem, enhance your self-confidence, and spur your motivation. You may recognize some of them as things you naturally do in your interactions with other people. But if you don't, work to integrate these important steps immediately. Here is the Winner's Edge fifth action step:

Respond to difficult times or depressing moments by increasing your level of productive activity. When your self-esteem is being challenged, don't sit around and fall victim to "paralysis by analysis." The late Malcolm Forbes said, "Vehicles in motion use their generators to charge their own batteries. Unless you happen to be a golf cart, you can't recharge your battery when you're parked in the garage!"

Next week, we'll cover our final tip. Until then, practice this week's Winner's Edge tip and make it your part of your winning way!

DW
 

5. Featured Product of the Week
 

If you are looking for personal development products to give this year to the Special people in your life, that can positively affect the future of the recipient - all at 20-60% off, review the 10 Great Gift-Giving Ideas!

Specials include:

Excerpts from the Treasury of Quotes by Denis Waitley (New Release!), Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar and Brian Tracy!

Best-Selling Hardbound Books by Jim Rohn, Denis Waitley and Chris Widener!

The Jim Rohn Leather Journal (also with How to Use a Journal CD option)

Best-Selling Training Packages (all have 12 or more CDs per set!)

And Denis Waitley's Complete Collection

To review or to order online go to http://gift.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434.
 

Give the gift that keeps on giving and positively affect the future of the recipient!
 

To review all of the 10 Great Gift Ideas or to order online go to http://gift.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434.

6. Customer Feedback

Here are some of the testimonials and comments we received over the past week from our Ezine subscribers. We love receiving comments and feedback from our readers - so keep it coming!

God bless you all and what you do. I met Denis in Minneapolis in 1982. I wore a scarf to cover my hair which I chose not to fix that day. I regretted that I hadn't worked on my appearance before our meeting, chance though it was, after his talk. The meeting did what it was supposed to do. I've never left the house since without getting totally ready for the day. I got the Seeds of Greatness that year and have since given the set to what has ended up to be my best friend when we moved to Denver that year. Thank you.
-- Anonymous

Have recently purchased the Platinum Collection via J Rohn site. I've listened to Zig, Rohn, Tracy and others. Denis yours is the most practical. You've managed to get the motivation with good ways to implement what your talking about. I'm sure your library is huge and the quality of material on your CDs are very good. Keep up the good work.
-- Ashley

I just wanted to say how much I am enjoying your newsletters. You are definitely out of the same school of teaching as Jim Rohn, of which I am a huge fan too, but you have given me new insights into myself, how I think and manage my time - for which I thank you.
-- Joan Woodcock (UK).

Yours is a great contribution to humanity, I really like your ezine and I will always like to receive from you I will like to popularize it here in Nigeria. I will refer it to as many people as possible.
-- Alabetutu Olukunle from Nigeria


Thank you Ezine readers, for the sincere and kind words of encouragement and appreciation you sent us this week! -- DW
 

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