Denis Waitley's Weekly
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July 7, 2005
Issue
40
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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. More Information
1. Weekly Jumpstart
Most Americans don't understand what it
takes to become financially independent, or even
self-sufficient, yet alone wealthy -- and it shows. Only 3
percent of the American households have a net worth of a
million dollars or more. Only 1 percent of the population
become multi-millionaires. The average American has a net
worth of less than $15,000, not including home equity. More
than half of Americans living today would be destitute
without their social security retirement checks. Yet there
is more personal wealth in the world than at any previous
time in history, and the wealth creating opportunities in
the 21st Century are staggering. In America, there is over
22 trillion dollars in personal wealth and more than half of
that incredible amount is owned by just 3.5 percent of the
population. And, if you think that 3.5 percent of us have
inherited their wealth from the estates of their families,
think again. Only 20 percent of today's millionaires are
from second-generation wealth. The bottom line is that 80
percent of all wealthy people in America are self-made in
their own lifetimes. That's part of what this Jumpstart is
all about -- to ensure that you are in that top 3 to 5
percent of being healthy, wealthy and wise.
Understanding the compounding of interest, over time, via
the use of discretionary income both as debt and assets, is
one of the most critical components in building financial
security. Financier Baron de Rothchild said, "I don't know
what the seven wonders of the world are, but I know the
eighth wonder of the world is compound interest. Manhattan
Island was sold by the Manhattan Indians in 1626 for about
24 dollars worth of cloth and beads. Had they invested that
24 dollars, at even today's very low interest rates, the
tribe would have accumulated enough money to buy back all of
the properties in Manhattan at today's market prices.
We Americans, typically, save less than four percent of our
take-home pay. We view extra money as disposable income and
hasten to dispose of it. We buy now and pay later, if ever.
We owe more on our automobiles than they're worth when we go
to sell them. If you want to be a multi-millionaire, you
need to get rid of disposable income thoughts. Never again
ask how much the monthly payments are. Monthly payments are
full of interest and finance charges. Embrace the
discretionary income attitude of Asians, Canadians, British,
Europeans and newly arrived immigrants. They save an average
of 14 to 25 percent of their incomes. Here are some action
ideas to make compound interest work for you instead of
against you:
- Make a commitment to pay 10 percent, if possible; or if that's not possible, at least 5 percent of your take home pay to your future as your first mandatory payment each month.
- Put that amount into a mutual fund or a money market account, or a combination of the two, and consider that account untouchable. No vacations from it. No gifts. No down payments on homes or cars. No college tuition. Call it your life mortgage payment, amortized over 30 years. If you don't pay it on the first of every month, your future will go into foreclosure and you'll end up living in a senior center or in a relative's home as a stowaway.
This week, and every week from now on, pay into your "financial freedom" account as your most urgent bill that needs a partial payment.
-- Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within Weekly
Article
Seeing is Believing, or Is It? by Denis Waitley
(excerpted from
The Seeds of Greatness Treasury)
When your eyes are open, you see the world that lies outside
yourself. You see the items of the room you're in, the
people, and the view of the landscape through the window.
You take for granted that the objects are real and separate
from yourself.
However, successful individuals see the act of achieving in
advance -- vivid, multidimensional, clear. Champions know
that "What you see, is who you’ll be."
When you close your eyes, images and thoughts flow through
your mind. You may review memories of past events, or
preview future possibilities. You can daydream about what
may be or what might have been, and your imagination will
take you beyond the limits of space and time. Most people
attach little importance to these inner visions. They may
seem pleasantly irrelevant, or uncomfortably at odds with
the accepted external reality.
If you're like most people, you grew up with the idea that
"Seeing is Believing." In other words, you need to
physically see something with your own eyes to believe that
it's real.
I know many successful individuals who live this way.
But there's an attitude that suggests, "Before you can see
it, you have to believe it." This premise holds that our
belief system is so powerful that thoughts can actually
cause things to happen in the physical world.
I also know many successful individuals who live according
to this notion of reality.
So which concept is nearer the truth? Do you have to see it
before you believe it, or believe before you can see it? The
answer is: both are basically true. If you can see something
in your mind's eye, and you imagine it over and over again,
you will begin to believe it is really there in substance.
As a result, your actions, both physical and mental, will
move to bring about in reality the image you are
visualizing.
During my university years at the U. S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis, I underwent training in aircraft recognition. All
of us midshipmen sat at one end of a hall while silhouettes
of American and foreign military aircraft were flashed on a
screen at speeds similar to combat situations. We were
supposed to write down the numerical designations and names
of the planes, such as A-4, F-ll-F, F-4, MIG-21, and so
forth. But the task became more difficult each week, because
they kept adding more planes, scrambling the order, and
speeding up the projection.
Finally, it got ridiculous, because the images were going by
faster than an MTV music video so that most of us saw only a
blur, and some didn't see anything. I began to see planes
that weren't even invented yet.
When it came time for the final exam, I didn't know for
certain which planes I was seeing. I wrote down hunches,
intuitions, and reflex responses. But when the test results
were announced, virtually everyone had scored a perfect 100
percent. We had seen the planes, even if we didn't
necessarily believe it. For me, that test proved that images
can be stored and retained, unconsciously, at incredible
speeds. And those stored images, when recalled, can enhance
performance.
What about the thousands of flickering images we see on a
TV, computer or movie screen? What about commercials? Do we
have to believe the products really do all those amazing
things before we buy them? Do viewers have to think that
violent scenes in movies and TV are actually occurring in
real life for there to be a negative effect on their
behavior? Many people believe that violent fantasy has no
impact on their lives whatsoever, because they think they're
too intelligent to be swayed by it.
Well, I've got news for them. Whatever you see or
experience, real or imagined, consciously or subliminally,
when repeated vividly over and over, does affect your
behavior, and definitely can influence you to buy a product
or buy into a lifestyle, good or bad. Your attitude and
beliefs are, quite simply, functions of what you see day in
and day out. Information can be taken in almost unnoticed.
You won't react to it until later, and you still won't be
aware of what lies behind your response. In other words,
what you see really is what you get, regardless of whether
you know it or not.
You don't need to be watching slides of airplanes, or TV
shows, or music videos, video games, or commercials. You can
be just lying down, or commuting to work, or walking through
a park, and by seeing from within, in your mind's eye, you
can change your life.
By rehashing fears and problems, you can make yourself
depressed. As a result you can botch a business deal, hurt a
relationship, or lower your performance. By forecasting a
gloomy outcome in your mind's eye, you can act as your own
witch doctor and practice a modern-day kind of voodoo that
will fulfill your negative prediction with uncanny accuracy.
On the other hand, by replaying in your mind's eye the best
game you ever played, you can repeat that best game again,
when the stakes are even higher and the pressure is on. And
by mentally pre-playing the best game you've ever imagined,
you can set the stage for a world-class performance. This
"instant replay" and "instant pre-play" applies to anything
from a successful sales call or athletic event to the
effective motivation of your teammates and children.
Choose your role models and inputs carefully. Your attitudes
and beliefs are the software programs driving you every day
on life's journey.
Denis Waitley
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3. Weekly Seeds of Greatness by
Denis Waitley
(This excerpt was taken from Denis Waitley's latest book Safari to the Soul)
When we were five years old, one year represented twenty
percent of our total lives. At fifty, a year represents two
percent, or one fiftieth, of our life experience. No wonder
it took so long for holidays to arrive when we were in
grammar school -- and little wonder also that after age
fifty, when a year represents such a small portion of the
time we've already spent, it goes by in a seeming blink of
an eye. It's a little like a videotape speeding up as it
rewinds and accelerating almost wildly near the end of the
reel. So goes your remaining time as it dwindles down.
Take time to hear a robin's song each morning
Take time to smell the roses as you go
Before you leave, please say "I love you"
To the ones you know
Take time out for a sunset
And its afterglow
Take time to climb a tree with kids this summer
Explore each country back-road you can find
And take a moment now and then
To build a castle in the sand
Take time to hike that mountain
When you can
Take time to play, your work can live without you
Give up the urgent for the afternoon
And take a loved one by the hand
And slowly gaze at that full moon
Don’t let this minute pass you
For the years go by too soon
And make each day "safari" day
Before this moment slips away
Take time to live.
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4. The
Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
Welcome to week six of our Ten Action Steps to Optimism.
Internalize these tips to create the optimism within and as
you do, let it radiate outward, illuminating not only your
life but also those the lives of those around you! This
week's tip is:
Get high on your expectations. Instead of, "Relief is just a
swallow away," think of, "Belief will help you follow the
way." The people you associate with, the places you go, the
things you listen to and watch, all are recorded in your
thoughts. Since the mind tells the body how to act, think
the highest and most uplifting thoughts you can imagine.
This week think high and aim high!
DW
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