May 24, 2006
Issue 61

 

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To this issue of the Denis Waitley International online newsletter. My goal is to offer valuable, relevant, leading edge, and interesting content, with some innovative and refreshing differences from the other ezines and newsletters you may be receiving.

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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. Customer Feedback
7. More Information

 

1. This Week's Jumpstart

Adaptability in Action  

In a way, human beings behave like bees. If you place several bees in an open-ended bottle and lay the bottle on its side with the base toward a light source, the bees will repeatedly fly to the bottle bottom toward the light. It never occurs to them to reverse gears and try another direction. This is a combination of genetic programming and learned behavior.

Put a bunch of flies in that bottle and turn the base toward a bright light. Within a few minutes, all the flies will have found their way out. They try all directions – up, down, toward the light, away from the light, often bumping into the glass – but sooner or later they flutter forth into the neck of the bottle and out the opening.

We often allow ourselves to become locked in our present circumstances – even if we are unhappy and really want to be reaching in a new direction. What we're doing may make us miserable, but at least it's familiar. One of the most important factors in achieving personal success is the willingness to try things out, to experiment, to test new grounds. In fact, this is the only way to learn and progress: trial, error, feedback, knowledge, trial and success. It is a far better thing to try to succeed and fail, than to do nothing and succeed.

This week:

* Try it
* Change it
* Do it

Stop stewing and start doing!
-- Denis Waitley

 

2.  The Champion Within Article

Beware the Dream Stealers by Dr. Denis Waitley

Although your own internal measurements are the most important, you will occasionally need to seek external feedback on your progress toward your goals. When you do, be sure it is from people who are truly interested in seeing you succeed. Don't seek feedback from fair-weather friends, competitive peers, or any person who doesn't have your best interests at heart. Neutral doesn't count. Get feedback from someone who is on your side but will still be objective and honest with you.

I've observed time and again that misery truly does love company. Jealousy creates some of the most miserable people I know. Surpass the achievements of your particular social crowd or your business colleagues, and look out for the slings and arrows of those who wish you were back where they are. You have to dodge the snide remarks and catty comments. Let them roll right off you. Don't internalize them.

Only pay attention to feedback from those who have similar goals or who are working actively alongside you to achieve goals of their own. Motives and fears run deep. Study them in others. The sympathetic fair-weather friend who supports you and comforts you when you're down, may like you best when you are in just that state: down and dependent.

Ultimately, nobody else is responsible for your life but you. Nobody else is accountable for your actions but you. Therefore, nobody's expectations for you and opinions about you are as important as your own. So make sure those take precedence in your mind over all others, and if you do need to consult with someone else, think very carefully before you choose exactly who.

Equally important, be prepared to sell your ideas to an indifferent world. As passionate as you are about your business and the fact that your products and services will have positive, life-changing benefits to everyone you meet, you are going to find resistance every time you tell your story.

People are most interested in their own dreams and goals. They have difficulty believing that you have found a better way than they have to reach them. They are suspicious and guarded when anyone tries to sell them or change their minds. Rather than have others steal your dreams by raining on them, ask questions and find out about their dreams before you launch into your sermon. People buy what they want first, then what they need. Find what turns them on. It may not be what turns you on. By helping others get what they want, you’ll get what you want too!

-- Denis Waitley

This article is by Denis Waitley, author of the best-selling personal development program of all time, The Psychology of Winning. This week take advantage of our special pricing for this amazing CD series and receive a Free Bonus with you purchase. For more information or to purchase, go to http://waitley.jimrohn.com below or call 800-929-0434.

 

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3. Seeds of Greatness by Denis Waitley

If You Think You Can, You Can (This excerpt was taken from Denis Waitley's Seeds of Greatness Treasury)

You can be a total winner, even if you're a beginner
If you think you can you can, if you think you can you can
You can wear the gold medallion, you can ride your own black stallion
If you think you can you can, if you think you can you can

It's not your talent or the gifted birth
It's not your bank book that determines worth
It isn't in your gender or the color of your skin
It's your attitude that lets you win

You can live with "coulds" or "shoulds," or be like Tiger Woods
If you think you can you can, if you think you can you can
Even if you're hesitant, you can be a woman President
If you think you can you can, if you think you can you can

It doesn't matter what you've done before
It makes no difference what the halftime score
It's never over 'til the final gun
So keep on trying and you'll find you've won

Just grab your dream and then believe it
Go out and work, and you'll achieve it
If you think you can, you can
If you think you can, you can






4. The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips

Welcome to our current coaching topic for the next issue. We cannot teach our children self-esteem, we can only help them discover it within themselves by adding positive marks and strokes on their slates. All positive motivation is rooted in self-esteem – the development of which, just as with other skills takes practice. We are looking at self-esteem as a four-legged chair. Last issue we covered the third leg of the "Self-esteem" chair -- a sense of worthiness. The last leg is: A Sense of Control and Competence.

Early in my career in motivational psychology, I thought the chair of self-esteem balanced firmly on those three legs -- A Sense of Belonging, A Sense of Individual Identity and A Sense of Worthiness -- especially since they involved intrinsic core values. It took much time and research to realize that a fourth leg – one of the most important – was missing.

There are many reasons why few Americans currently in high school and college believe they were born to win. The supportive extended family – in many cases, even the nuclear family – is disappearing. Role models are increasingly unhealthy. The commercial media bombards young senses ever more insistently with crime, violence, hedonism, and other unhealthy forms of escape. But whatever the explanation, constructive citizens and leaders in society cannot emerge and develop without the creative imagination that serves them like fuel – which is why the apprehension, frustration, and hesitation I see and hear in the younger generation is cause for concern. At the moment, the future they imagine will help drive neither happiness nor success.

The chair's fourth leg is self-efficacy, a functional belief in your ability to control what happens to you in a changing, uncertain world. A sense of worthiness may give you the emotional means to venture, but you need self-efficacy, the sense of competence and control, to believe you can succeed. That's why it is so important to assign responsibility for small tasks to your children as early as possible so they can learn that their choices and efforts result in consequences and successes. The more success they experience, the stronger their confidence grows – and the more responsibility they want to assume.

Give them specific household chores and duties they can accomplish and be proud of. Teach them that their problems and setbacks are just temporary inconveniences and learning experiences. Emphasize it constantly: Setbacks are not failures.

Armed with a view of failure as a learning experience, children can develop an early eagerness for new challenges and will be less afraid to try new skills. Although they appreciate compliments, they benefit most from their own belief that they are making a valuable contribution to life, according to their own internal standards.

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, each new, young member of the workforce simply must believe that he or she is a team leader, a self-empowered, quality individual who expresses that quality in excellent production and service. With increasing pressures on profit and the need to do more with fewer workers because of e-commerce and changing technology, it is essential that parents and business leaders help raise the value of their childrens' and employees' stock in themselves.

-- DW  

 

5. Featured Product of the Week

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6. Customer Feedback

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

Just a quick Thank you from Winnipeg, Manitoba for your trip to speak at our Usana Event this past weekend. I understand you are heading to Australia and hopefully your luggage has caught up to you by now. You made a difference by coming and I know your mom would be proud. It was a pleasure meeting you and signing my "Psychology of Winning book" that I brought from home. I wanted to just say thank you for all the lessons and good positive energy you've given me. I also wanted to mention how powerful the movie the Secret has been for me and our young business teams ranging in age from 22-28 years right now. I will continue to be a fan and will always be growing. You and others such as Jim Rohn, James Ray, Robert Kiyosaki, T. Harv Ecker, Blair Singer, and great family and friends have helped me bring out this feeling inside me that has been building for up for years. I've used this burning desire to run marathons and triathlons for over half my life, but in day to day life, something has always held me back. Not anymore - this past year has been amazing and I feel unstoppable, energy wise. When I get to my successful place and help others on a larger scale, I want you to know you were a part of it. In five years, you will hear the story of "motiv8d" and remember this email.
-- Ryan Anderson

I receive your ezine weekly along with Jim Rohn's, thank you very much. I live in a small town and the library has a yearly book sale. I came across a cassette package called "Physiology of Winning". It was in perfect condition. I paid $2.00, what a deal! I am honored to add it to my book shelf.
-- Nita Kalousek

Thank you for continually touching my heart and life. You have been my mentor for over 25 years. Your book "Seeds of Greatness" and changed my life. Thank you.
-- Jacqueline

Thank you for writing Seeds of Greatness many years ago. My wise older sister, when I was about 17 years old, gave me the book as a gift, because she had some kind of intuition that such a book would be good, even vital for me. Seeds, those are exactly what the book planted in me, latent as they were for some years. I read the book voraciously. At the time it did make me feel empowered but I failed to convert the feelings into action. I just really didn't get it. Fast forward to today. At the age of 42, I am rebuilding a wonderful family and business life that I set aside for alcohol and self gratification throughout my 20's and most of my 30's. You see, I did learn a lot from the book. I knew intuitively that what my church was teaching me and what other wise literature was saying to me was true because I had read your book so long ago. Had I not read Seeds of Greatness, I believe that I may not have been given a daily reprieve from my self-destructive tendencies three years ago. My mind was prepared enough to accept and embrace the truth and what is good and right and necessary for me to do. Today I am a relatively successful sales executive and loving husband and father of four blessed children. I'm finally putting your words and those of Steven Covey, Jeffrey Gitomer, and most importantly to me, Jesus into action. I look forward to getting to know you all over again through your E-Zine. Thank you for making your work so accessible and useable.
-- Chuck

I recently purchased a CD, "The Psychology of Winning in the 21st Century" I have listened to this CD 3 times in 2 days, its incredible!
-- Webster Bailey


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

 

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