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In Search of Excellence
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Miami Heat
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better perspective and action steps for successfully managing
change than Denis Waitley. Harvey
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Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
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August 18, 2005
Issue 43
Welcome!
To this issue of the Denis Waitley International online
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edge, and interesting content, with some innovative and
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Denis Waitley
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In This Issue.....
1. This Week's Jumpstart
2. Champion Within Article
3. Seeds of Greatness
4. Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
5. Featured Product of the Week
6. More Information
1. This Week's Jumpstart
It was a stormy night many years
ago when an elderly couple entered the hotel lobby on the
outskirts of a mountain resort area and asked for a room.
"I'm very sorry," responded the night clerk. "We're
completely full and so are all the other hotels in the area,
but I can't imagine sending you out into the storm again.
Why don't you stay in my room?" the young man offered with a
smile. "It may not be a luxury suite, but it's clean. I need
to finish my bookkeeping here in the office."
The distinguished-looking man and woman seemed
uncomfortable, but they graciously accepted his offer. When
the gentleman went to pay the bill the next morning, the
clerk was still at the desk and said, "Oh, I live here
full-time, so there's no charge for the room. You don't need
to worry about that."
The older man nodded and said to the clerk, "You're the kind
of person that every hotel owner dreams about having as a
staff member. Maybe someday I'll build a hotel for you." The
hotel clerk was flattered, but the idea sounded so
outrageous that he was sure the man was joking.
A few years passed and the hotel clerk was still at the same
job. One day he received a registered letter from the man.
The letter expressed his vivid recollections of that stormy
night, along with an invitation and a round-trip ticket for
the hotel clerk to visit him in New York. Arriving a few
days later in Manhattan, the clerk was met by the
distinguished gentleman at the corner of Fifth Avenue and
Thirty-fourth Street, where a magnificent, new building
stood.
"That," exclaimed the man, "is the hotel I've built for you
to run! I told you at the time that it might happen and
today you can see that I was serious."
The clerk was stunned. "What's the catch? Why me? Who are
you anyway?" he stammered. "My name is William Waldorf
Astor. And there is no catch. You are the person I want
managing this property for me."
That hotel was the original Waldorf Astoria, and the name of
the young clerk who accepted the first managerial position
was George C. Boldt.
This is a true story, and there's a personal message in it
for us. Why do we need a benefactor to come along and make
us believe in our dreams? How is it that an outsider can
perceive more potential in us than we can sometimes see in
ourselves?
Usually, we hold ourselves back because of a little voice
from the child of our past that recalls foolish mistakes we
made or rejections we experienced. Don't listen to those
doubts and fears.
This week, don't put your big dreams on layaway. Focus on
believing you are worth the effort.
-- Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within
Article
Lessons from My Father by Denis Waitley
My dad had a keen imagination, and we would often play a
little good-night game that became our special ritual. He
would come into my room to talk to me and listen to the
triumphs and tragedies of my day. As he was leaving, Dad had
a way of leaning back against the switch by my door and
rubbing against it to "magically" blow out my light like the
birthday candles on a cake.
As he did his little routine, Dad would say: "I'm blowing
out your light now, and it will be dark for you. In fact, as
far as you're concerned, it will be dark all over the world
because the only world you ever know is the one you see
through your own eyes. So remember, Son, keep your light
bright. The world is yours to see that way. I love you, Son.
Good night."
When I was very young, I used to lie there in bed after Dad
left and try to understand what he meant. It was confusing
to think that the whole world was dark when I was asleep and
that the only world I would ever know was the one I would
see through my own eyes. What Dad was trying to tell me was
that when I went to sleep at night, as far as I was
concerned, the world came to a stop. When I woke up in the
morning I could choose to see a fresh new world through my
own eyes -- if I kept my light bright. In other words, if I
woke up happy, the world was happy. If I woke up not feeling
well, the world was not as well off.
My father's guidance about self-perception and the power in
the eye of the beholder was invaluable. What he was trying
to teach me with his little light show was this: "Denis,
everything depends on how you want to look at what happens
in life. It doesn't make any difference what is going on
'out there' -- What makes a difference is how you take it."
Instead of teaching me "my glass was half-empty," my father
taught me "my glass was more than half-full." He taught me
to view life as something that was continually opening and
expanding with new opportunities and events to enjoy.
Somewhere he picked up a bit of quantum physics theory.
Depending on the kind of experiment you conduct, a particle
of light can become a light beam or a light wave. It all
depends on how you want to examine it. The light can change
form, not because of it's properties -- it still remains
light -- but because of how you choose to behold it. My dad
taught me that ugliness or beauty is in the eye of the
beholder. Want and abundance are in the eye of the beholder.
Being mediocre or being the best depends on the eye of the
beholder.
Those good-night rituals with my father taught me that it
didn't make any difference what the other kids said, what
the other kids wore, or what they did. Their opinion of me
wasn't that important. What was important was the way I
handled what they might do and say.
And the same is true for both you and me today... People's
opinions of me isn't what is important, it's the way I
handle their opinions and actions that makes the difference.
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley has studied,
counseled and trained leaders in virtually every field
including Apollo astronauts, Olympic gold medalists, Super
Bowl champions, returning POW's, heads of state and Fortune
500 top executives.
Denis is recognized as a world class speaker and author and
has traveled the globe sharing success ideas and strategies
to thousands of companies the past 25 years. To book Dr.
Waitley to speak for your company or to be part of your
upcoming Regional or National Convention send an email to
speaker@deniswaitley.com or call 877-929-0439 and ask
for Hilary.
3. Seeds of Greatness by
Denis Waitley
(Excerpted from Denis Waitley's latest
book, Safari to the Soul)
Guideposts in the Savage Paradise
With only two days remaining on my first safari, I made
myself a check-off list of skills I needed to develop around
a knowledge-base to graduate from being a cautious "tourist"
in life to becoming a courageous "guide" for myself and
family. The next-to-last morning I wrote:
- Know your environment
- Know the participants
- Know your own strengths and limitations
- Know your purpose and inner motives
- Know that others have a different agenda, often hidden
- Know that there are givers and takers, prey and predators
- Know how to be a giver, but not a prey for predators
- Know enough to say "I don't know."
- Know that change is the rule, but not the ruler
To receive Safari to the Soul by Denis Waitley as a bonus
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4. The
Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
Welcome to tip number nine of our Ten Action Steps to
Optimism. Internalize these tips to create the optimism
within and as you do, let it radiate outward, illuminating
not only your life but also those the lives of those around
you! This week's tip is:
Call, visit or write to someone in need, every day of your
life. Demonstrate your optimism by passing it on to someone
else. And in doing so, you'll do something positive for two
-- you and the other person!
DW
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