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June 20, 2007
Issue 82
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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
Your Own Magnificent Obsession
All enduring motivation must ultimately come from within the individual. That is why the words empower and envision are so vital to team performance. It must be your inner power and your own personal vision that propels you, not that of your leader.
The success of your efforts depends not so much on the efforts themselves, but rather on your motive for doing them. The greatest companies and the greatest men and women in all walks of life have achieved their greatness out of a desire to express something within themselves that had to be expressed, a desire to solve a problem using their skills as best they could. This is not to say that many of these individuals did not earn a great deal of money and prestige for what they produced. Many did. But the key to their successes was that they were motivated more by an inner magnificent obsession, a passion, than by any thought of profit or identity.
You may recall from history that the exquisitely beautiful armless statue of Venus de Milo was carved by an unknown sculptor. When a farmer dug up the soon-to-be world-famous work of art while plowing his field, a renowned museum curator sadly reflected what a great pity it was that the sculptor would never be recognized by thousands of admirers, nor would he or she ever know how valuable the statue became hundreds of years later.
The farmer retorted that it must have been a labor of love for someone to be able to have envisioned such perfection and brought it forth with just a chisel and a shapeless piece of stone. "Just creating something of such quality," said the farmer, "would have been payment in full for me."
You can't commission a masterpiece. Human greatness can't be externally motivated. It must be compelled from within. A magnificent obsession is the way you want to live, not just the things you want to own. A magnificent obsession is the person you want to be, not the title on your office door or business card. A magnificent obsession is the mind-set that you have, not the diplomas or awards you earn. It is the worldview you claim as your own, not the collection of stamps on your passport. It is uniquely yours, like your fingerprint or handwriting.
Ask yourself this question: "If it weren’t for money, time and personal responsibilities, what would I really love to do with my life?" You and I need to answer it from our own individual perspectives, not simply answer "to help my company, family or country." In addition to these shared visions, autograph your career and life with your own signature.
By personalizing your passion, you will experience the unlimited power from within!
Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within Article
Problems are a Normal Part of Change by Denis Waitley (Excerpted from the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Event)
When asked, "How do you develop mental toughness in life?", my response might sound negative at first when I answer, "Always be prepared for a surprise. The surprise might be a negative surprise. Something is going to happen in your day, whether you are late because you got stuck behind a train or your car had a flat tire -- something is going to happen... And the key is your ability not to take mole hills and look at them as mountains."
Problems are a normal part of change. Things are changing so rapidly that there are going to be problems you face. So you must look at failure as an event, not as a person. I'm not a failure. Maybe I've had a failure or a temporary inconvenience. I've had a stumbling block, and the idea is to turn the stumbling block into a stepping stone, and step on it instead of stumble over it. So look at failure as the fertilizer of success.
Fertilizer stinks, it smells. You see that guy putting it on his lawn and you say, "Wow, that guy fertilized his lawn." You fertilize your mistakes. You don't wallow in them, lay in them, roll in them; you pick yourself up off your mistakes and learn from them. You try not to repeat that same thing again. But you look at it as a temporary inconvenience, as a detour -- a detour in life -- not as a failure."
-- Denis Waitley
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3. Seeds of Greatness by Denis Waitley
(Excerpted from Denis Waitley's book Safari to the Soul)
Prologue: First Night Reflections
Thoughts, in my tent:
No monuments of steel and glass
No golden arches or endless drone
of fossil-burning, mechanized human
ants crawling on concrete trails to
and from cookie-cutter cocoons
Searching for food, diversion
and meaning
Only vastness and silence of
the savanna ecosystem
as far as the naked eye can see
and ear can hear
Now and then the stillness rudely
interrupted by the piercing sounds
of clarion calling,
zebra’s nervous barking,
lion’s guttural proclamations
of royal presence and dominance
And the irritating bleating of
the endless procession of wildebeest
echoing the life and death struggle
and synergy of millennia upon millennia
In the Savage Paradise of Eden –
The Maasai Mara of Kenya
where our early ancestors migrated
with the herds
Coexisting in harmony with all other
living creations playing their part
In the Maestro’s orchestra
Here in my tent
casting a ten-foot shadow on the
canvas, dancing in the August wind
illuminated by kerosene lantern
Armed with journal and pen,
guarded by a young Maasai warrior
standing just outside as my faithful sentry
throughout the eerie
East African night
I began to scribble recollections
and observations of this adventure –
My own, Safari to the Soul
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4. The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
Do you want to be inspired? Well, this week's Coaching tip is from Vic Johnson. Vic Johnson was a guest speaker at the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Leadership event and he "rocked!" Vic is one of those big guys with a big, booming voice you can't miss when you walk into a room and below is what he shared with a group of VIPs at breakfast on Saturday morning before the event started. This is inspiring stuff, so read on! -- DW
The Modern Day (Real Life) Indiana Jones by Vic Johnson (This article was excerpted from the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Event)
One of my life's most valuable possessions is my journal. Why? Because my journal contains my dreams! And my dreams are my future!
I learned this principle from a story about a 15 year old boy by the name of John Goddard. John, one day, happened to hear his parents and another adult talking, and the other adult had been telling John's parents about how miserable his life was and how much he had failed. He wished he was John's age again and could live his life over and do some things differently.
Well, John heard the anguish in his voice, I suppose, and he made a vow that he was going to do something at 15 years old. So at 15 years old he took out a legal pad and began to write the things he wanted to do in his life, what he wanted to accomplish. Before he was finished he had 127 things on his list. He called it, "My Life List".
Today John is in his mid 70's. Of his original 127 goals, John over the last 55-60 years has accomplished 111 of them, plus 400 other ones that he set along the way. And just so you know these weren't some small goals, here are some of the goals that John Goddard has accomplished that were on his list:
- He's climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, he's climbed Mount Ararat, in fact, he's climbed every major peak in the world.
Now just that, how many people just doing that, would be one great life experience? But that's just one of 500+ for John Goddard.
- He took Marco Polo's route through all of Asia and China.
- He ran a mile in five minutes, he broad jumped 15 feet, high jumped five feet, and so on...
- He was the first person to explore the entire 4,200 mile length of the Nile River (that was his number one goal!). When he was 15 years old, no person had ever done it, but that fifteen year old boy didn't know that, it didn't matter to him. He put it on his list and when he did it, USA Today named him the modern day Indiana Jones. He's been down not just the Nile River. He's been down the Amazon, down the Congo, etc.
- He's been to 122 countries and lived with 260 different tribes.
- He's explored the Reefs of Florida, the Great Barrier Reefs and so on...
- He's flown 40 different types of aircrafts. Still holds civilian air speed records. Just that alone would be a great life experience, that was just one of John Goddard's goals.
- He's read the Bible cover to cover.
- He's taught himself French, Spanish, Arabic (who reading this could not learn a foreign language in the next couple of years?).
And that is just a portion of over 500 dreams that John Goddard has accomplished.
I hope we all learn from John Goddard! Here are two major points that were impressed upon me:
1) John Goddard's goals (dreams) were written down. How many of you have heard that before, to write your goals and dreams down? Because for 20 years I heard it and I had never written mine down, until just three years ago. Brian Tracy says if you'll write your goals down you have a 100 times greater chance of success, just by writing them down. Now I look at that mathematically and then by an inverse way, from an opposite way. What it says to me that if I don't write my goals down, I only have a 1 in 100 chance of succeeding. Write your goals and dreams down.
2) His dreams were BIG! I've found that a small dream will not give you the bullet proofing you are going to need. A small dream won't protect you when bad times come. A small dream does not have any power at all - it has to be BIG!
So get started today! Go get a journal (or wipe the dust off the one you have) and write down your BIG goals! And then get started on your life story!
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