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September 7, 2006
Issue
68
Welcome!
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
Life's Batting Average
Baseball's greatest hitter grew up near my neighborhood in
San Diego. When Ted Williams slugged for the Boston Red Sox,
my father and I kept a record of his daily batting average.
And when I played Little League ball, my dad told me not to
worry about striking out or not getting a lot of hits. In
Williams' finest year, dad reminded me, he failed at the
plate 60 percent of the time.
Football's greatest quarterbacks complete no more than 6 of
10 passes. The best pro basketball players make only half
their shots. Actors and actresses auditioning for roles are
turned down 29 out of 30 times. And stock market winners
make money on only 2 out of 5 of their investments.
Since failures are a given in life, success takes more than
leadership practices and a positive outlook. It also takes
an appropriate response to the inevitable, including an
effective combination of risk-taking and perseverance.
You must risk to gain security, but never seek security.
When security becomes a major goal in life – when
fulfillment and joy are reduced to merely holding on,
sustaining the status quo – the risk remains heavy. It is
then the risk of losing the prospects of real advancement,
of not being able to ride the wave of change today and
tomorrow. Had the founders of Google, Yahoo, and Amazon.com
been concerned with immediate profits and return on
investment, we would not be enjoying those Internet services
today, each of which has a greater market capitalization
than IBM or General Motors.
This week take a calculated risk!
-- Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within
Article
Making the Most of Today by Dr. Denis Waitley
What each of us is doing this minute is the most
important event in history for us. We have decided to invest
our resources in THIS opportunity rather than in any other.
It is helpful to remember this when we consider the passage
of time. As I write this, my mother is in her eighties and I
will never see fifty again. As the years pass, I am acutely
aware that the bird of time is on the wing. At my fortieth
high school reunion, I saw people who claimed to be my
former classmates. We all had big name tags printed in
capital letters so we wouldn't have to squint with our
reading glasses on trying to associate the name with each
well-traveled face. It was only yesterday that I was really
enjoying high school. What had happened to the four decades
in between? Where had they flown?
To the side of the bandstand, where the big-band sound of
the late 1940s and 50s blared our favorite top-ten hits,
there was a poster with a printed verse for all of us to
see. I read the words aloud: "There are two days in every
week about which we should not worry, two days which should
be kept free from fear and apprehension."
"One of these days is YESTERDAY, with its mistakes and
cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the
money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot
undo a single act we performed or erase a single word we
said. Yesterday is gone."
"The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW, with
its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise,
and its poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our
immediate control."
"This leaves only one day, TODAY. Anyone can fight the
battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the
burdens of those two awful eternities - Yesterday and
Tomorrow - that we break down."
"It is not the experience of Today that drives us mad, it is
remorse and bitterness for something which happened
yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us
therefore… Live this one full TODAY."
Malcolm Forbes believed the important thing is "never say
die until you're dead," and he lived that example to the
hilt. It is, as we realize when we suddenly attend our
fortieth high school reunion, a short journey.
But it is difficult to be depressed and active at the same
time. So get active! Live TODAY.
-- Denis Waitley
With over 10 million audio programs sold in 14
languages, Denis Waitley is one of the best-known personal
development leader/teacher of our time. If you would like to
be the be the next World Champion "coached" by Denis Waitley!
as part of this week's special offer, scroll down to #5
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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
SEEDS OF DETERMINATION: It's Up to Me by Dr. Denis Waitley
(These quotes were taken from Denis Waitley's Excerpts
from The Seeds of Greatness Treasury booklet)
Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.
Stop stewing and start doing! Take action TNT. Today, Not
Tomorrow.
Life is not accountable to us for meaning; we are
accountable to life!
Don't put success and happiness on layaway. Do it now!
Everything that is past is either a learning experience to
grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating
factor to act upon.
You have been given the greatest power in the world, the
power to choose.
Giant oaks do grow from little acorns; but first you must
have an acorn!
By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you
will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire
life.
You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never
finished, no matter what your age or position in life.
4. The
Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
Here's a question for you: Can you think of a successful
relationship without mutual trust?
Break that trust and you break the relationship. Subvert it
and it's almost impossible to put together again. Creating a
long-term relationship takes two or more people – whether
they're executives, representatives of labor and management,
or husband and wife – who are grounded in and operating on
the same non-situational honesty.
The central secret of good communication is bringing the
other person over to your side by satisfying one of every
person's most fundamental emotional needs: Make him or her
feel valued. With rare exceptions, people who feel valued –
who are allowed to feel important in the sense that they are
recognized – answer with openness, cooperation and
reciprocated respect. If you want respect, be respectable.
If you want to be loved, be loveable. If you want to be
trusted, be trustworthy. If you want a life-long
relationship, listen openly to the other person's needs.
Much more than trying to accumulate money and power, leaders
in the new era will acquire good will by helping their
associates, customers, neighbors, and loved ones to win.
Instead of what can you do for me, we need to embrace the
new stewardship role of what can I do for you.
Action Idea – At the beginning of each workday, do something
special for someone you work with or provide a service for.
At the end of each day, say or do something positive for a
family member or friend.
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Want to be an Astronaut?
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Just want to be the best YOU can be?
With over 10 million audio programs sold in 14 languages, Denis Waitley's
message has transformed lives across the globe.
Learn more today at http://dw.yoursuccessstore.com or call 877-929-0439.
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!
Your ezines are great. I read them every morning and it
reminds me what life is all about - a journey an
adventure where one seeks to grow and contribute more
and more everyday.
-- Alex Monsour
Dear Mr. Waitley, WOW!!!! I have just spent the past 48
hours trying to come up with a word that best describes
what I have just experienced this past weekend. Whilst
the word Wow does not nearly do the experience justice,
it is the nearest I could come up with in my limited
vocabulary. Mr. Waitley, I sat third row centre in the
Sydney Convention Centre Darling Harbour, this Sunday
just gone and experienced the awesome amazing insightful
inspirational presence that is you Sir. I am NOT a Real
Estate Agent. I am a 35 year old stay at home mother of
four young daughters. You may be wondering why then I
was at AREC 2006? Well Sir in brief; YOU were my reason!
My husband Jason is an Agent and has attended AREC every
year since 2000. And every year he has come back
invigorated, fired up and ready to perform, and each
year he has outperformed himself over the previous year!
But none more than after AREC 2001, the year he first
sat in the auditorium and absorbed the teachings of both
yourself and Mr. David Knox. As a former Property
Manager myself, each year my husband would come home
from AREC and fill me in on all that happened during
that 48 hours, we would sit for hours and discuss what
he had learnt and how we were going to implement his new
findings and strategies into his business, and what
benefits we would gain from his new found knowledge. The
six months after AREC are always exciting times for him
professionally. But Sir nothing could have prepared me
for the effect that you were to have on my husband as a
husband and more importantly as a father. Sir; the
lessons my husband took away from your speech in 2001,
made him a better man, more than they could ever have
made him a better "salesman". And this Sir is the reason
I had to attend AREC 06, I needed to see and hear the
man who opened the door for this amazing change in the
man I love. Mr. Waitley, my appreciation for you is
infinite, I feel honoured to have been in your presence,
and I will forever be in your debt for giving my husband
the permission to excel, to not accept mediocrity, and
to expect nothing less from himself, than the best he
can be. In turn, I too thank you for imparting these
gifts on to me. I wish you joy, love& happiness, and
that the only pain you suffer is sore cheeks from
smiling. May your God keep you and yours in his care.
-- Maureen S.
Hello Mr. Waitley, I was introduced to your great
insights just clicking the website... sir, I believe you
are coming the Philippines soon...but I pray you would
visit the beautiful Islands of Alaminos City, Pangasinan....I
moved here from Hawaii in 1991 and have remained here
with my husband and family...anyway, if you have a
chance I call 100 Islands my little Hawaii...praying you
and your group would come and enjoy the special
'ambiance' located in this beautiful
Philippines...aloha.
-- Venjie L. A.
Thank you Ezine readers, for the sincere and kind
words of encouragement and appreciation you sent us! --
DW
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