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In This Issue.....

1. Weekly Jumpstart
2. Champion Within Weekly Article
3. Weekly Seeds of Greatness
4. Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
5. Featured Product of the Week
6. Customer Feedback
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1. Weekly Jumpstart

Go the extra mile. Instead of saying: "Why don't they do something?" Say, "Here's what I'm doing about it." Instead of, "Why me?" Think, "Try me!" Look for rainbows in thunderstorms, and instead of worrying about the icy streets, put on your ice skates. Live out the story of the little boy who bought a new pair of ice skates with his allowance so he could skate on the frozen pond. His mother and father, watching him slide, slip and fall every time he tried to stand up, ran to his rescue, cautioning: "Let's put them away, son, before you get hurt!" The boy continued struggling and replied: "Mom, Dad, I didn't get them to give up with – I got my skates to learn with!"

So this week concentrate on doing more than you are asked and contributing more than is required.

-- Denis Waitley

2.  The Champion Within Weekly Article

Be Responsible For Your Own Financial Security by Dr. Denis Waitley

There is no job security. You can’t rely on staying with the same company through retirement. Pension plans, when available, are woefully inadequate. Social security benefits won't come close to covering your living expenses in retirement.

The only way to reach financial security is to plan for it now, regardless of your age. You have to define financial security in your own terms. Have you defined the amount of assets that you need for financial independence?

Financial security is that amount of assets that will give you a specific income, after taxes, to live like you want to, without having to depend on day-to-day employment.

What is that amount for you? I believe it is more than you think. And, I feel that if you define it, you can reach it in ten years or less. Do you have a financial plan and the assistance of a financial planner? You need both. Always retain a financial planner on a fee-for-service basis. Don't mix financial planning with an investment broker or insurance agent. What are your financial goals and what is your time line? Because I started late in my quest for financial independence, I have a maximum five-year period remaining for capital accumulation.

Action Idea: Wealth is not only based on income, but also on expenditures. Are you spending or investing? Are your purchases goal-achieving or tension-relieving? How do you use credit cards? Use your credit cards for services or purchases that retain their value or that build your business. Don't use credit cards for vacations and personal entertainment, unless you plan to pay the entire balance in one or two months. Try to pay all your balances in full monthly. In this way, you avoid the ridiculously high interest payments. Realize that paying minimum balances, at high interest rates, means that you are paying two or three times what the original purchase was worth.

Most importantly, save at least 6 to 10 percent of your take-home pay each month, by writing a check into a savings account or mutual fund for that amount, as if it were a utility bill or house payment. The secret of most self-made multi-millionaires is compound interest. If parents saved one dollar each day for their newborn infant, by going without a cup of Starbuck's coffee, or a Big Mac, or a soft drink for that day, by the time the child reached age forty, he or she would have a million dollars cash. No lottery windfall. No brilliant investment strategy. Just compound interest, which Baron von Rothchild labeled, "The Eighth Wonder of the World."

To Defining and Achieving Your Financial Independence!
Denis Waitley

3. Seeds of Greatness - Winning Is...
(These quotes were taken from Denis Waitley's Excerpts from The Seeds of Greatness Treasury booklet)


Winning is never whining.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

Winning is being glad you’re you.

Winning is a feeling, there is no ceiling.

Winning is beginning, and by beginning, the game is half won.

Winning is all in the attitude!

 

4. The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips

Welcome back to our Winner's Edge Coaching Tips. Over the next six weeks we'll cover seven techniques for overcoming the tendency to procrastinate. But first a few thoughts... The science of physics recognizes two kinds of inertia - both of which can be related to procrastination. The first law states, "Standing objects tend to remain stationary." The second law is the inverse: "Moving objects tend to stay in motion."

Procrastination is stationary inertia. We aren't moving, and we therefore don't move!

Overcoming procrastination, however, moves us into the arena where the law of motion takes over. We frequently find that once we've started a project or process, we stay with it until completion. One of my favorite sayings from my friend Dr. Robert Schuller is posted on my word processor: "Beginning is Half Done!" (I've modified it to say, "Beginning is Half Won!")

So here are the first two of our seven techniques to overcome procrastination:

1. Take five minutes to identify what you are putting off.
On a blank sheet of paper, note several important activities that you realize you are delaying or have put on hold.

2. Look at your list of tasks and do one of them right now.
Put the energy you've been directing toward excuses into the activity you've been avoiding. You'll discover that action eliminates anxiety.

Next week we'll cover technique three to conquer procrastination. Until then practice this week's Winning Edge tips one and two to move you from procrastination to proactive motion!

DW
 

5. Featured Product of the Week