July 13, 2010
Issue 160
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In This Issue...
- This Week's Jump-Start
- The Champion Within Article
- Seeds of Greatness
- The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
- Learn the Secrets of Elite Performers!
- More Information
1. This Week's Jump-Start
More Conscious Control of Our Habits and Lifestyles Leads to a Rich, Balanced life
To live a rich, balanced life we need to be more in conscious control of our habits and lifestyles. Actualized individuals have a regular exercise routine. They pay attention to nutrition, with lean source protein and fiber-based carbohydrates as their basic food choices. They relax through musical, cultural, artistic and family activities. They get sufficient sleep and rest to meet the next day renewed and invigorated.
In addition to blocking periods of time for recreation and vacations, they also schedule large, uninterrupted periods of work on their most important projects. Contrary to popular notions, most books, works of art, inventions and musical compositions are created during uninterrupted time frames, not by a few lines, strokes, or notes every so often. Every book or audio program I have written has been done with the discipline of 12 to 15 hours per day during a specific block of time.
True enough, I may have sacrificed a ski trip or an escape vacation once or twice. But by trying to focus on prime projects in prime time, the opportunity costs have been outweighed by the return on invested resources. With your material, time and energy resources allocated well, you should be able to use your innovative powers to focus on goal achievement. Effective priority management creates freedom. Freedom provides opportunity to make decisions. We make our decisions and our decisions, over time, make us.
So this week, concentrate on making the decisions that make your goals! —Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within Article
Great teams, great companies and great families have great leaders. Real leadership is the process of empowering others by abdicating one's power over them.
It means to set others free to become all they can be in an atmosphere of inspiration, innovation and mutual respect.
The real challenge is to maintain balance and harmony, while excelling in one professional endeavor. After the season is over, the champion must change into street clothes and become a parent, companion, spouse, citizen and neighbor. The greatest mark of the authentic champion is the way he or she relates to society beyond the arena or stadium, and translates superb performance in a specialized field into a global perspective to benefit this and future generations.
My mission is to be a role model for these words I have altered slightly from My Creed by Dean Alfange:
I do not choose to be a common man or woman. It is my right to be uncommon, if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk, to dream and to build, to fail and succeed. I will not trade freedom for beneficence, nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master, nor bend to any bully or terrorist threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid, to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly, and say, "This I have done."
And, whatever I do, I do in the spirit of win-win. If I help others win, then I win too. I will win with others, not win at the expense of others.
3. Seeds of Greatness
Seeds of Honesty: Integrity is 24/7
(quotes taken from Denis's The Seeds of Greatness)
If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.
It is not what you get that makes you successful; it is what you are continuing to do with what you've got.
Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.
It is not so much what the job gives you; it's what you give to the job.
Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.
4. The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
Jim Rohn, legendary personal-achievement author and business philosopher, was well-known for his ability to "turn a phrase" and motivate with time-honored truths. Here are a few powerful quotes from Jim on the subject of reputation. —DW
Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.
Accuracy builds credibility.
The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples—do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings—don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.
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