April 6, 2005
Issue 27
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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
Human Capital: Skillpower in the Digital Age
Whether you own your own business, hope to start your own
business or are a major player on a corporate or professional career team, this
message is for you. From now on, you will be paid for your "human capital," your
knowledge, skills, experience, creativity and adaptability, not on your past
education, resume, number of years in the organization, rank, and position.
You earn an income by trading hours for dollars with a fixed salary. You create
your fortune and your future security by selling your ability and creativity.
You must act self-employed from now on, moving from employee to entrepreneur. No
matter what organization you work for, you must take responsibility for your own
career security and advancement by constantly improving your skills and
contribution. You must consider yourself a permanent student and lifelong
learner. The shelf-life of your formal education is about 18 months. So more
than graduation from a university, you need a lifelong learning commitment. This
means constantly upgrading your computer literacy and understanding of
electronic commerce and the awareness that customer satisfaction will be the
critical edge in personal branding of products and services in the new
millennium.
This week, enroll in a language or other skill-building class that will make you more employable in the advancing world economy.
-- Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within Weekly
Article
Chase Your Passion (Not Your Pension)! by Dr. Denis Waitley (excerpted from Reader's Digest)
When, Lisa, our youngest daughter, earned her master's
degree to start a career as a high school English teacher. I
doubt she was more excited about her graduation than her
parents were. As we entered the stadium for the commencement
services, it dawned on me that after putting seven children
through college and graduate studies, I'd finally be able to
fund my retirement plan.
It was very hot in the concrete arena. A midday sun beat
squarely in our faces. I suspected that the exercises would
be long and merciless. As the graduates filed in, I was
amused to see slogans taped to their tasseled caps. "Will
work for food!" "Get my room ready, Mom!" Our daughter's
read, "Thanks Mom and Pop." Some wore bathing suits beneath
their gowns. Some blew bubbles with a pipe and soap. Most
were ecstatic about finally leaving school, visibly
impatient for that night's parties and for freedom and the
opportunity to earn.
Olmos "Stood and Delivered"
As the warm-up speakers droned on about politically correct
issues, I wondered whether any time would remain for the
main speaker. In fact, his address lasted barely ten
minutes, which may have set a national record for brevity.
(Winston Churchill holds the international record: thirty
seconds to repeat, "Never give up!" nine times.) That main
speaker was Edward James Olmos, the actor-activist who
played Jaime Escalante in an inspiring movie about
inner-city students called Stand and Deliver. Olmos stood
up, removed his cap, and regarded the graduates. "So we’re
ready to party?" he asked. "Yeah, let’s party!" they
answered in unison. "I know, thank God it's Friday," he
resumed. "But commencement means to begin, not finish.
You've had a four-year sabbatical from life, and now you're
ready to go out there and earn. You're only beginning Real
World 101 in your education."
"One more thing before we leave," he continued. "Please
never, ever work for money. Please don't just get a job. A
job is something that many of you had while you worked your
way through college. A job is something you do for money.
But a career is something you do because you're inspired to
do it. You want to do it, you love doing it, you're excited
when you do it. And you'd do it even if you were paid
nothing beyond food and the basics. You'd do it because it's
your life."
What he was saying, which I have tried to recall and
interpret in my own words is that many of you will go out
and try to get the highest-paying job possible, regardless
of the industry, regardless of the opportunity, regardless
of the service or product the company may provide. If you
chase money, it may catch you – and if it catches you,
you'll forever be its slave.
By letting money pursue you but never catch you, you'll
always be its master. By always doing what you love, loving
what you do, delivering more than you promise, you'll always
be underpaid – which is how it always should be.
For if you're paid more than you're worth, you may be
restructured, reengineered, replaced, fired, declared
obsolete, disposed of. Overpaid people are overdrawn in
their knowledge bank account. People who are underpaid for
the level and quality of the service they provide are always
in demand and always ahead of the money in their knowledge
and contribution. So money and opportunity are always
chasing them. This is what I got out of the commencement
speech that day.
Olmos concluded with a charged voice and moist eyes. "Chase
your passion, not your pension! Be inspired to learn as much
as you can, to find a cause that benefits humankind – and
you'll be sought after for your quality of service and
dedication to excellence. This passion will make you
oblivious of quitting time and to the length of your
workday. You'll awake every morning with the passion of
pursuit, but not the pursuit of money….
Those who do more than they're paid for are always sought
for their services. Their name and work outlive them and
always command the highest price. Chase your passion, not
your pension!"
The graduates were stunned. Many cried with joy. I was
speechless, which is rare indeed. Olmos was no actor
speaking for an honorarium. He was all passion, pure and
simple. "Maybe we should have taught that in a class," I
heard a faculty member say.
This week, chase your passion, not your pension!
Denis Waitley
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3. Weekly Seeds of Greatness by
Denis Waitley
(This excerpt was taken from Denis Waitley's
The Seeds of Greatness Treasury)
Life is a magnificent fertile garden plot given you to till,
to plant, to nurture and to reap from. What you grow in your
garden is your choice. How you respond to the process along
the way also is your choice.
Your garden will never be in a state of perfection. It will
always be in transition.
With the end of each season is the anticipation of the next.
No one season is the best, not even harvest. It has its
special joys and frequent challenges, just as each of the
other seasons.
To everything there is a season and place under heaven.
There is a magnificent rhythm and cycle to life.
Seed to sprout. Sprout to bloom. Bloom to blossom. Blossom
to fruit. Fruit to seed.
Success is a process. It cycles again and again. How you use
the cycles to produce what benefits your life and the lives
of others is up to you.
The Seeds of Greatness are the responses or attitudes you
develop as a result of "seeing" the world more clearly. When
you see more clearly, you see yourself as valuable and your
self-esteem grows strong. Seeing clearly enables your
imagination to create and soar. Seeing more clearly gives
you the understanding that you are responsible for learning
as much and contributing as much as you can to life.
When you see life from within, you see faith, purpose and
integrity as cornerstones of your family's foundation. You
see through the eyes of love and reach out to touch and
empower all those with whom you come in contact. Seeing from
within is having the courage to adapt to change and to
persevere when the odds seem overwhelming. Seeing from
within is believing that beauty and goodness are worth
planting every day.
My grandmother had planted the seeds in me as we worked in
her garden, by teaching me how to "see" life. Many people go
through their lives stepping on the flowers, while pointing
out the weeds. Grandma taught me how to pull out the weeds,
while reveling in and savoring the splendor and the
fragrance of the flowers.
Whenever I find myself in a garden, my memory is flooded
with images of that most special person in my life as we
used to sit and talk in the shade of her plumcot tree those
many years ago. I can hear her gentle words:
"You always get out what you put in, my child. Plant apple
seeds and you get apple trees; plant the seeds of great
ideas, and you will get great individuals. Do you understand
what I mean?"
I understand now. I know you understand, too.
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4. The
Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
Hello and welcome back to another week covering our current
topic, From Inside to Outside: Enhancing your self-esteem
and that of the significant others in your life. This
segment of coaching tips will help us master our core values
and learn to accept that we are worthy of the best, but not
more worthy than the rest. Here is our tip this week:
Make a thanks list. Write "I am thankful for the following"
at the top of a page, then three columns for People, Things
and Other. List all the people and things for which you are
grateful. In the Other column, consider items we tend to
take for granted, such as freedom, health, and opportunity.
Read your list twice a day for a week and discuss it with
associates and significant family members. When
disappointment clamors for attention, review your blessings
and your thanks list. Teach the members of your team to like
what they have rather than constantly trying to have what
they like.
Next week we'll move on to our next tip, but for this week,
make your list and count your blessings!
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!
Thank you Dr. Waitley for the Ezine, which is so encouraging and
inspiring and full of such good advice. I love it.
-- Anna-Greta Videbeck
Dear Denis, I want to thank you sincerely for the wonderful job you are
doing in teaching us how to become better in every sense. I always enjoy
reading your weekly issues immensely and today in particular I enjoyed
and made a note of your Section 2, subtitled 'overcoming fear of
rejection, "last paragraph" it was like finding a light in a dark
tunnel. Thank you, again. I look forward to receiving your next issue.
-- Herminda Jones
Oooh that really is a powerful message I have ever read. Thanks a lot
and may God richly bless you.
-- Ndambo, Inutu
Dear Denis, I've been listening to you for over 15 years and I greatly
appreciate your wisdom and insight. Thanks for all you do and keep up
the good work!
-- Dr. J. Matthew Durham
Thanks for sharing these Weekly Ezines with me. I am a counselor at the
Davis Applied Technology College in Kaysville, Utah. I was a military
enlisted Senior Leader for 27 years and have retired from that position
in June of 2003. While I was in the military, I was lucky enough to
watch your video "The Psychology of Winning". I really enjoyed this
video and bought the cassette tapes of this presentation. I have been a
vocational guidance counselor at the college for some 27 years. (I was
in the USAF Reserve Program and was a "First Sergeant"). As such I was
able to make positive influences with the military personnel with whom I
served. I remember in your "Psychology of Winning" video that you were
once a Navy Pilot and I enjoyed some of the references that you made to
yourself in the video. I have enjoyed your weekly newsletters, and as
you suggested, because they seem uplifting to me, I think they would be
uplifting to others. Therefore, I plan to share and forward your
newsletters on to them. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, experiences
and words of wisdom with me. I will forward them on to my friends or
students I counsel who could use some mentoring and uplifting
experiences. Have a nice day.
-- Al Hepler, M.S., M.Ed.
Thank you Ezine readers, for the sincere and kind words of encouragement
and appreciation you sent us this week! -- DW
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