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March 13, 2008 Welcome!Unbelievable, but this week marks the 100th issue of the Denis Waitley Ezine! This is an exciting milestone for our Ezine; its been fun watching our subscribers grow, and I consider it a great privilege that you allow me into your inbox on a bi-weekly basis. As always 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. So in order to celebrate, for the next 4 days you will receive an additional 20% off all Denis Waitley products! This includes best-sellers, DVDs, CDs, books and downloads! Simply go to http://yoursuccessstore.com/waitley To receive your ADDITIONAL 20% discount you MUST enter the number "100" (without the quotation marks) in the Coupon box on the Order Page (where you fill out your name and shipping information). Warm regards, P.S. Today's issue is going out to more than 91,473 weekly subscribers. If you've enjoyed this edition and found it to be valuable, then if you would do me the favor of forwarding it to your friends, family and associates, it would be very much appreciated. If they would like to subscribe, have them send an email to: subscribe@deniswaitley.com Many Thanks! In This Issue.....1. This Week's Jumpstart
1. This Week's JumpstartIn my work with Olympic athletes, astronauts, top business executives and other winners, I've discovered that most of them have approached their success in ninety-day seasons. In many areas of life, ninety days is regarded as an appropriate growing cycle. The business world operates on a quarterly basis. The sports world, to a great extent, operates on a seasonal basis in which the majority of league games are played during a ninety-day cycle, not including post season playoffs. The academic world, in many universities, is set up on a quarterly basis, with the fourth quarter usually being summer. Even academic institutions that operate on a semester schedule usually have nine-month terms, or three quarters of the year spent in class. I've found a ninety-day cycle of success to be a wonderful unit of time. It's a time period that is long enough to plan for, begin, work hard at, and accomplish certain objectives. At the same time, it isn't a year from now or forever. It is a short enough time to generate a sense of urgency. One of the problems with focusing on monthly goals is the gap in a month caused by events and holidays. Tax time in April, vacations in June, July or August, Christmas and other religious holidays, the World Series, the playoffs, and the Superbowl. These gaps present a problem in any given month. To simply sum up the concept of the ninety-day season of success: It is a long enough period of time to accomplish something significant, yet it is a short enough time that there is urgency to act now. Your ninety-day season of success will build your motivation because, often, yearly or five-year goals are so distant that it's easy to get discouraged and give up on them in frustration. When your goals are proximate and positively pressing, you're more likely to muster the motivation necessary to achieve them. Before you begin your next ninety-day success season, take an evening to go through the following exercises. To do this, I recommend you download the text from this newsletter, and block out some time for yourself when you're alone and can think without being interrupted. Exercise One: Review your life forming goals, and update your personal mission statement for your life or career. Exercise Two: Take fifteen minutes and write down your most important priorities personally and professionally for the next ninety days. Get your calendar and planner out and start sequencing your action steps. Write down a list of "to-dos", phone calls, e-mails and appointments you need to make. Exercise Three: Now review your list from Exercise Two and spend another fifteen minutes adding things to that list that you want to do for your own personal entertainment or enlightenment. Exercise Four: Take five minutes and record three things that tend to slip through the cracks in your professional life; then do the same exercise for your personal life. These are things that you always mean to accomplish, but somehow never get around to doing. Exercise Five: Create your "Seasonal Success Focus." Review the specific goals and images of achievement you want to accomplish during the next ninety days in order to further your life's mission. As you write these goals on paper or in your electronic diary, put a short statement as to the major benefit of accomplishing these goals. Once you have done this review, determine what the present reality is. Where are you right now in relation to the accomplishment of these goals. This week, start thinking about your goals as "quarterly quotas." Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within ArticleCarpe Diem! Seize this Day! by Denis WaitleyWhat 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 the years pass, I am acutely aware that the bird of time is on the wing. At my fiftieth high school reunion, I saw old 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 five 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 out loud: "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; we cannot 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 poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow's sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds; but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is as yet unborn. 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 to say die until you're dead, and he lived that example to the hilt. It is, as we realize when we suddenly attend our fiftieth high school reunion, a short journey. But it also is difficult to be depressed and active at the same time. So get active! And make today your best day ever! Denis Waitley
Unbelievable, but this week marks the 100th issue of the Denis Waitley Ezine! So in order to celebrate, for the next 4 days you will receive an additional 20% off all Denis Waitley products! This includes my best-sellers, DVDs, CDs, books and downloads! Simply go to http://yoursuccessstore.com/waitley To receive your ADDITIONAL 20% discount, you MUST enter the number "100" (without the quotation marks) in the Coupon box on the Order Page (where you fill out your name and shipping information).
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 WaitleyTake A Moment (This excerpt was taken from Denis Waitley's The Seeds of Greatness Treasury) Take a moment to listen today Listen to their problems, listen to their needs If we tell our children all the bad in them we see, So tell them that you love them every single night; Take a moment to listen today to what
4. The Winner's Edge Coaching TipsThis week I came across something from Chris Widener that I felt would be valuable and relevant to share with you... It's called, A Little Equation that Creates Big Results. Enjoy! -- DW "The purpose of man is in action not thought." - Thomas Carlyle Often people will ask me how I get so much done in my life. They wonder at how I am able to accomplish so many things. The answer is found not in what a great person I am, but in an equation I came up with a few years ago and remind myself of on almost a daily basis. And when I live this equation out, it produces big results. What people don't seem to grasp is that this equation will work for anybody! Anyone can see results in their life if they will live it out! This little equation, when it is understood, and acted upon, is perhaps the most powerful equation there is in regard to long-term achievement and accomplishment. Yet, this is not a complex equation. In fact, it is rather simple. So what is it? Your short-term actions multiplied by time equals your long-term accomplishments. If you want to see change in your life, see big results, the first thing you must do is change your current actions. Otherwise the old saying becomes a reality: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got!" But if we change our actions, we will see different results! Most people want to accomplish a lot in their lives. Yet very few actually do. Why is this? It is because what they believe will equal their long-term accomplishments are wrong. Here are some of the things that people believe will create great accomplishments for them: Beliefs The truth is that while these things are very important, they are not enough in and of themselves. We need to have the above underlying all that we do, but we need to actually do something! And this is where most people stop. We need to take action on our dreams and beliefs every day. Here are some examples of how this works. Who loses weight? The one who knows all about the benefits of exercise or the one who walks 3 miles a day? Who retires early? The one who dreams of a house on the beach, or the one who invests $300 a month? Who writes books? The one who desires to become a best-selling author, or the one who gets up early and writes for half an hour a day? Who has the best marital relationship? The one who knows how much spending time with their spouse can improve their relationship, or the one who sits down and talks with their spouse every night? Who makes the most sales? The one who believes they can become a great salesperson, or the one who makes 10 sales calls a day? I think you get the point. When it all comes down to it, we must act upon our vision, beliefs, and ideals or we won't see them come to fruition. I see too many people who know what is right, but don't ever do anything about it. Imagine what a difference we could make in our own lives and the lives of others if we would simply begin to act upon on our beliefs! When I get to the end of my life, I want to know that I have done all that I can to make this world a better place and to enhance the lives of those around me. I want to know that I gave it my best shot. And I am sure that you do to. I remember reading an interview with an author who has written numerous books that have sold in the tens of millions. They asked him how he did it. His answer was that he got up every morning before anyone else in his family and wrote, long hand, with a pencil, for an hour. Then he quit and went about his day. But his short-term actions piled up. 7 hours a week. 30 hours a month. 365 hours a year. After a while, he had lots of books! Some questions as we leave: What long-term accomplishments do you want to see come to pass? You can have an awesome future, filled with great achievements and results if you begin today to take action and make it a reality! One more time, so you can plug it in, memorize it, and live it. Your short-term actions multiplied by time equals your long-term accomplishments. You are made for success,
5. Featured Product of the WeekIt's our 100th Issue Celebration!! Unbelievable, but this week marks the 100th issue of the Denis Waitley Ezine! So in order to celebrate, for the next 4 days you will receive an additional 20% off all Denis Waitley products! This includes my best-sellers, DVDs, CDs, books and downloads! Simply go to http://yoursuccessstore.com/waitley To receive your ADDITIONAL 20% discount, you MUST enter the number "100" (without the quotation marks) in the Coupon box on the Order Page (where you fill out your name and shipping information). 6. More InformationEzine Archives - To review previous issues of Denis Waitley's Ezine, please go to: Ezine Archives Printer-Friendly Version - Denis Waitley's Ezine: Issue 100 - Printer-Friendly How to Subscribe - Subscribe at Denis Waitley International or send an email to subscribe@deniswaitley.com How to Unsubscribe - Use the automatic link at the bottom of this issue, or email unsubscribe@deniswaitley.com Booking Denis Waitley - Send an email to speaker@deniswaitley.com and include your name, company, date and location of event, along with anticipated audience size and composition. No Spamming or List Sharing! - You can rest assured that your subscription email address will be kept in the strictest confidence. We do not divulge, nor make available to any third party, our subscription list. Your privacy is paramount to us! Therefore, it receives the respect it deserves! Copyright/Reprint Info - The contents of this Ezine may be copied, reproduced, or freely distributed for all nonprofit purposes without the consent of the author as long as the author's name and contact information are included. Example: Reproduced with permission from the Denis Waitley Ezine. To subscribe to Denis Waitley's Ezine, go to www.deniswaitley.com or send an email with Join in the subject to subscribe@deniswaitley.com Copyright 2008 Denis Waitley International. All rights reserved worldwide. All contents Copyright 2008 Denis Waitley International except where indicated otherwise. All rights reserved worldwide. **Duplication or reprints only with express permission or approved Credits (see above). All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Contact Information: Denis Waitley International |
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