June 15, 2010
Issue 158
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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
- Time for a Success Checkup!
- More Information
1. This Week's Jump-Start
Mini-Goals to Maxi-Achievement
One of the best escapes from the prison of procrastination is to take even the smallest steps toward your goals. People usually procrastinate because of fear and lack of confidence and, ironically, become even more afraid when under the gun.
Experience has shown that when people go after one big goal at once, they invariably fail. If you had to swallow a 12-ounce steak all at once, you’d choke. You have to cut the steak into small pieces, eating one bite at a time. So it is with prioritizing. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it into bite-sized pieces. Each small task on the way to the ultimate goal becomes a mini-goal in itself. Using this method, the goal becomes manageable. When mini-mistakes are made, they are easy to correct. And with the achievement of each mini-goal, you receive reinforcement and motivation in the form of positive feedback. As basic as this sounds, much frustration and failure is caused when people try to “bite off more than they can chew” by taking on assignments with limited resources and impossible timeline expectations.
This week, make your mantra, “By the inch it’s a cinch, by the yard it’s hard!” —Denis Waitley
2. The Champion Within Article
Allowing Setbacks to Spur You On by Denis Waitley
Many times, we look at high achievers and assume they had a string of lucky breaks or made it without much effort. Usually, the opposite is true, and the so-called superstar had an incredibly rough time before he or she attained any lasting success.
It may motivate you more toward your own goals to know that some of the most famous and well-known people in modern times had to overcome as difficult obstacles as anyone before they finally reached the top. It takes persistence and total commitment to your goals, but it’s possible!
You may not know the background of a certain laundry worker who earned 60 dollars a week at his job but had the burning desire to be a writer. His wife worked nights, and he spent nights and weekends typing manuscripts to send to publishers and agents. Each one was rejected with a form letter that gave him no assurance that his manuscripts had even been read. I’ve received a few of those special valentines myself through the years, and I can tell you firsthand that they’re not the greatest self-esteem builders.
But finally, a warm, more personal rejection letter came in the mail to the laundry worker, stating that although his work was not good enough at this point to warrant publishing, he had promise as a writer and he should keep trying.
He forwarded two more manuscripts to the same friendly-yet-rejecting publisher over the next 18 months, and as before, he struck out with both of them too. Finances got so tight for the young couple that they had to disconnect their telephone to pay for medicine for their baby.
Feeling totally discouraged, he threw his latest manuscript into the garbage. His wife, totally committed to his life goals and believing in his talent, took the manuscript out of the trash and sent it back to Doubleday, the publisher who had sent the friendly rejections. The book, titled Carrie, sold over 5 million copies, and as a movie, became one of the top-grossing films in 1976. The laundry worker, of course, was Stephen King.
The main message: believe in your ability to turn obstacles into opportunities. Too often people try to storm their obstacles as if they’re forts that need to be taken. It’s better to step back and ask yourself, “Did I cause this obstacle by my own actions or lack of them? Did someone else cause this obstacle? Is this obstacle one that grew out of the natural progression of circumstances?”
This last question may seem complex, but it holds a secret to the way you can set and reach your goals and achieve your destiny!
3. Seeds of Greatness
Look Inside (excerpted from Denis Waitley's The Seeds of Greatness)
When the prize seems high above you
And your mirror doesn’t love you
Look inside
When the road to gold gets steeper
And your diamond’s buried deeper
Look inside
Light a candle in your mind
Untold riches you will find
When you look for treasures
Look inside
When you’re running low on laughter
And can’t reach the goals you’re after
Look inside
When your body starts complaining
And the clouds of doubt keep raining
Look inside
Close your eyes and then believe it
Trust yourself and you’ll achieve it
When you’re seeking answers
Look inside
—DW
4. The Winner's Edge Coaching Tips
My good friend Chris Widener, best-selling writer and expert on the art of influence, is a featured author and counselor in The Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan. He’s often asked how motivators stay motivated. Here’s a special nugget from Chris. —DW
What Motivates the Motivator?
I focus clearly on my goals. I know where I am going and what I want to accomplish. They are firmly rooted in my mind and heart. Because of this, my mind and heart are in an attitude of motivation all of the time. I want to hit my goals and since they are present in my heart and mind, I put my energies into them. —Chris Widener
5. Time for a Success Checkup!
It’s mid-June and the first half of 2010 is almost in the books.
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