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

Integrity is the Real Bottom Line

2.  The Champion Within Article

Be Committed to Keeping Your Personal and Professional Life in Balance by Denis Waitley

It is so important to be living in prime time, rather than watching TV in prime time. On your way to success make certain you grow friendships, not just bank and mutual fund accounts. Life is a collection of memories, not of material things. The Egyptian pharaohs were buried with all their treasures, and were mummified in hopes that they could enjoy their bounty in the next life. But we are only caretakers of possessions. There is a big difference between standard of living and quality of life. Standard of living is based on income earned. Quality of life is the enjoyment of the millions of minutes in between accomplishments.

Having money is only one aspect of wealth. To the sick person, wealth is health. To the lonely person, wealth is someone to talk to and share with. To the estranged person, wealth is hearing words of love and forgiveness.

Borrowing the free verse style from Brother Jeremiah's classic poem, I'd Pick More Daisies, here are a few things I'd do, the second time around.

I'd laugh at my misfortunes more. Spend more time counting my blessings than my blemishes. Spend more time playing with my children and grandchildren and less time watching performers in the arena. More time enjoying what I have, less time thinking about the things I don't have. If I could live my life again, I'd walk in the rain more without an umbrella and listen less to weather reports. I'd spend more time looking at trees and climbing them, less time flipping through magazines made from dead trees. I'd spend more time fully involved in the present moment, less time remembering and anticipating. I'd smile more, frown less.

And most of all I'd be more spontaneous and active, less hesitant and subdued. When some spur of the moment idea came up to go hiking, playing Frisbee, coloring Easter eggs, singing in a chorus, going kayaking, or watching an eclipse, I'd be less likely to sit in my chair objecting, "It's not in our plan."

I'd be inclined to jump up and run out the door next time and say, "Yes, we can!" Although I can't live my life again, I'm still going to live the new way every day any way. I'll never have all the moments I've missed, but I do have all the time remaining.

Action Idea – Choose one activity this month that you really want to engage in, but that you have been putting off because it isn't a priority. Schedule that activity in your planner, as if it were a "must do" business or financial commitment. When you have done it, while you are still feeling good, schedule one for next month, and do it as long as you live.

-- 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 Excerpts from The Seeds of Greatness Treasury)

Seeds of Love: The Ultimate Gift

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch.

Love should be a verb, not a noun or adverb. Love is an active emotion.

Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch --- you!

Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.

Only when you set your romantic and business partners free to be all they can be, will you know how attractive and lovable you are yourself; free of the insecurity and self-doubt that spawn envy and jealousy.

To love is to be open and vulnerable, and to receive graciously that which is given.

Value is in the doer, not the deed.

Love yourself and give away, all the love you can today.

Healthy love can't be demanded nor taken for granted. It can only be a continuing give-and-take exchange and dialogue between two independent persons who share many values and responsibilities, yet still feel a childlike magic with each other.

The first words you should speak to the one beside you when you awaken each morning are, "Good Morning, I love you." The last words you should speak each night are, "Good Night, I love you."


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4. The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips

This week's Winner's Edge Coaching Tip comes from Gary Smalley, relationship expert, and he starts with the question: Hey, aren't we on the same team? Here's what Gary has to say about relationships... DW

Good relationships operate like a team! Therefore you have to redefine winning as finding and implementing a solution that people can feel good about. A winning solution goes beyond a plan of attack that seems merely acceptable or tolerable to everyone. That's compromise, and compromises rarely make anyone feel good.

A win-win solution makes everyone feel good, gives positive movement to the relationship, and leaves it in a better place than it was before. You tend to relax when winning becomes finding and implementing a solution that people can feel good about. Why? Because you don't have to worry that the others will accept a solution that makes them feel bad like a loser.

If you walk away from every conflict feeling like a loser, do you think a win-win solution might help?

What will it take to focus on both parties winning?

Blessings,
Gary Smalley


 

5. Featured Product of the Week