Denis Waitley's Weekly
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November 10, 2004
Issue 06
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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
The reason most people spend their time
on low priority "busy work" is that it's easier to do and
does not require additional knowledge, skills or
coordination with someone else. Set your priorities on a
"must-do-now," "should-do-today," and
"need-to-do-when-possible" basis. Set them every day, no
later than the early morning of the day you are beginning –
preferably, the last action of the previous day.
Concentrate your time and energies on the 20 percent of your
activities, contacts and concepts that have proven most
productive to you in the past. Remember the "80/20 rule"
named after Vilfredo Pareto, a nineteenth-century Italian
economist: 80 percent of the production volume usually comes
from 20 percent of the producers. What this means is that
you need to focus your sphere of influence on the most
productive people and actions.
This week focus on doing high priority work first!
-- Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within Weekly Article
How To Stay Motivated by Dr. Denis Waitley
Be willing to say to yourself, "I'm on the right road. I'm
doing OK. I'm succeeding." We too frequently become adept at
pointing out our flaws and identifying failures. Become
equally adept at citing your achievements. Identify things
you are doing now that you weren't doing one month ago… six
months ago… a year ago. What habits have changed? Chart your
progress.
Doing well once or twice is relatively easy. Continuously
moving ahead is tough, in part, because we so easily revert
to old habits and former lifestyles. Over the long run, you
need to give yourself regular feedback to monitor your
performance and reinforce yourself positively. Don't wait
for an award ceremony, promotion, friend or mentor to show
appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts
on a daily basis.
Keep the end result in sight. Always see the big picture of
the ultimate goal you're working for and the benefits that
come with it. During World War II, parachutes were being
constructed by the thousands. From the workers point of
view, the job was tedious and repetitive. (Like making "cold
calls" on the phone or in person.) It involved crouching
over a sewing machine eight to ten hours a day, stitching
endless lengths of colorless fabric. The result was a
seamless heap of cloth. But every morning the workers were
reminded that each stitch was part of a life-saving
operation.
As they sewed, they were asked to think that this might be
the parachute worn by their husband, brother or son.
Although the work was hard and the hours long, the women and
men on the assembly line understood their contribution to
the larger picture. The same should be true with your work.
Each thing you do benefits the health and well being of
adults and children throughout the world, not just
generally, but specifically. These are the visions that
drive us through tedious details to the top.
Set up a dynamic daily routine. Getting into a positive
routine or groove, instead of a negative rut, will help you
become more effective. Why is the subway the most energy
efficient means of transportation? Because it runs on a
track.
Think of the order in your day, instead of the routine.
Order is not sameness, neatness or everything exactly in its
place. Order is not taking on more than you can manage,
without still being able to do what you really choose. Order
is the opposite of complication; it's simplification. Order
is not wasting a lot of time trying to find things. Order is
avoiding a lot of recriminations because you didn't do
something you promised. Order is setting an effective agenda
with others, so neither of you is disappointed. Order is
doing in a day what you set out to do.
Order frees you up. Get into the swing of a healthy, daily
routine and discover how much more control you'll gain in
your life.
To Finding Motivation Through your Daily Routines!
Denis Waitley
3. Seeds of
Greatness - Being Self-Reliant
(These quotes were taken from Denis Waitley's Excerpts
from The Seeds of Greatness Treasury booklet)
To be self-reliant adults, we need to set some guidelines:
Be different, if it means higher personal and professional
standards.
Be different, if it means being more gracious and
considerate to others.
Be different, if it means being cleaner, neater and better
groomed than the group.
Be different, if it means putting more time and effort into
all you do.
And be different, if it means taking the calculated risk.
The greatest risk in life is to wait for and depend upon
others for your own security.
The greatest security is to plan and act, and take the risk
that will ultimately ensure your personal freedom and
independence.
4. The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
Welcome to our final week 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
final Winner's Edge action step:
Choose to see mistakes and rejections as opportunities to
learn. View a failure as the conclusion of one performance,
not the end of your entire career. Own up to your
shortcomings, but refuse to see yourself as a failure. A
failure may be something you have done — and it may even be
something you’ll have to do again on the way to success —
but a failure is definitely not something you are.
Even if at some point over the last six weeks, you've felt
very negatively about yourself, be aware that you're now
ideally positioned to make rapid and dramatic improvement. A
negative self-evaluation, if it's honest and insightful,
takes much more courage and character than the
self-delusions that underlie arrogance and conceit. I've
seen the truth of this proven many times in my work with
athletes. After an extremely poor performance, a team or an
individual athlete often does much better the next time out,
especially when the poor performance was so bad that there
was simply no way to shirk responsibility for it.
Disappointment, defeat, and even apparent failure are in no
way permanent conditions unless we choose to make them so.
On the contrary, these undeniably painful experiences can be
the solid foundation on which to build future success.
So keep practicing these six Winner's Edge tips and make
them your part of your winning way!
DW
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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!
Thanks for sending us the Denis Waitley weekly last week. I particularly
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the author at the top margin on the first page, the fonts and
presentation. It made reading through the issue very fast and easy.
Else, thanks for the fantastic magazine. I always look forward to my
weekly copy. God Bless you and your team mightily.
-- Winnie Jumba
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-- Rajan
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-- Stanley
Dear Denis, I am another fan of yours. I own a bunch of your cassettes
and books. I really can't pick out my favorite since all of your
materials are excellent. My TV. habit has been greatly reduced over the
years. Reading your e zines as well Jim Rohn's et al as the
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and enjoyed that very much. Hope you are doing well at this time. Have a
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-- Albert
I just ordered your booklets as gifts for the holidays along with Jim
Rohn's. I really enjoyed my first newsletter from you and try to live
close to your advise. I look forward to you being part of my Prime Time
and mentoring.
-- Joan Chain
Thank you Ezine readers, for the sincere and kind words of
encouragement and appreciation you sent us this week! -- DW
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