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July 28, 2009 Welcome!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 e-zines and newsletters you may receive. Warm regards, P.S.: Today's issue is going out to more than 106,446 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 visit www.DenisWaitley.com for easy and convenient signup. 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 90-day seasons. In many areas of life, 90 days is regarded as an appropriate growing cycle. The business world operates on a quarterly basis. 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 90-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 Super Bowl. These gaps present a problem in any given month. To sum up the concept of the 90-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 90-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 90-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 1: Review your life-forming goals, and update your personal mission statement for your life or career. Exercise 2: Take 15 minutes and write down your most important priorities personally and professionally for the next 90 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 3: Now review your list from Exercise 2, and spend another 15 minutes adding things to that list that you want to do for your own personal entertainment or enlightenment. Exercise 4: 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 5: Create your “Seasonal Success Focus.” Review the specific goals and images of achievement you want to accomplish during the next 90 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 ArticleDream Torture by Denis WaitleyPerhaps the greatest torture that could be devised would be for us to be forced, in our later years, to watch a continuously repeating movie of the lives we could have led, had we dared to believe in and pursue the dreams and goals that were available and attainable in our lifetime. DON’T BE A SPECTATOR A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. It is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what, specifically, you intend to make happen. However, many individuals become spectators, resigned to experience success vicariously through others’ accomplishments. They can see success for others, but they can’t imagine it for themselves. Dreams and goals are previews of coming attractions in your life. You can be the script writer, the star and the producer of an Oscar-winning epic life or an extra in a “B” movie that someone else wrote and directed for you. Which is it to be? STAY FOCUSED ON YOU When you make comparisons in which you place yourself beneath others, you’re in for a discouragement that will keep you procrastinating, and perhaps even from seriously pursuing your goals. You can also find others who don’t measure up to what you have become or are aspiring to be. Avoid the tendency to compare yourself with them as well. You will lower your goals and settle for average when you could have excellence. You may come to think that you deserve more success than others or that success lies ahead for you no matter what you do. Both are false assumptions. Success isn’t a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your own success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm or downturns. Neither is your success measured by what others say or accomplish. Only you can truly define your success, and only you can measure it. -- 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 WaitleyOne way to make it clear that you are listening to your child is to repeat what you think your child has just told you. You can use phrases like, “Sounds like you are saying...” or “Are you saying...” Ask your child questions—lots of questions! Encourage creativity, thinking skills and problem solving. Learning how to find answers is a lifelong skill. Ask who, what, when, where and why. It’s not pestering; it’s parenting! Take advantage of every little, daily opportunity to express pride in what your children accomplish. Parents indicate by their approval, or lack of it, whether their child is a winner or loser. Teach your kids time-management skills by helping them set priorities and balance their time. -- Denis Waitley
4. The Winner's Edge Coaching TipsWelcome to our coaching topic for the next three issues. As I stated in the last edition, 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. In the last issue, we covered the first leg of the “Self-esteem” chair: a sense of belonging. The next leg is a sense of individual identity The second leg, which complements the sense of belonging, is a sense of individual identity. No human being is exactly like another, not even an identical twin. We are all unique combinations of talents and traits that never existed before and will never exist again in quite the same package. (This explains why most parents believe their children came from different planets!) Observe your children as they grow and play. Watch their learning styles. Notice what they love to do in their free time. Help them discover their unique positive talents and help nurture them into skills. Report cards don’t necessarily measure talents. They often are a measure only of discipline, memory and attention span. Look for ways to help your children develop their own sense of individual identity and reinforce their healthy self-esteem! -- Denis Waitley
5. Inspire Self-Confidence in Your Kids!Does your child have trouble fitting in on the playground? Are her friendships fleeting? Do his teachers give him unsatisfactory participation grades? Is shyness and lack of confidence holding your child back? Parents have enormous power to influence their children’s lives and directions. So, how can you and your children achieve the goals of self-confidence and self-esteem? Denis Waitley has recorded a special DVD program that tells you how! By watching Raising Confident Kids, you’ll understand: • Authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved parenting styles Remember: What you leave in your children is more important than what you leave to them. Order Raising Confident Kids right now for only $15 (50% off its regular price)! Or choose to order Raising Confident Kids as part of a special set of 10 Family & Relationships DVD programs with proven personal-achievement strategies from some of the most respected and recognized experts in their fields. Save 68% off regular price when you order now and receive a special bonus!
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