Birthdays Can Be Dangerous
Walk into any store and look at the “Humorous” birthday cards about how people are getting old, their boobs are dropping, losing their hair, and can’t remember anything. Notice how women, especially, have a “thing” about getting old or mentioning their ages, which sells lots of Botox, hair dye, and all sorts of contraptions and systems to make people look younger. Mutton dressed like lamb. Men are getting just as bad with their pathetic comb-overs, pony tails, and hair implants. Even worse than regretting one’s age or even fearing birthdays, is the fact that they tend to have people looking backwards instead of forwards. “When I was younger…” We need to be architects of the future we can create, instead of archeologists looking back into a past we cannot change.
A birthday should be an exciting time of new beginnings, new horizons, and the celebration of success, survival, and wisdom. It is, after all, the first day of the rest of your life, pregnant with powerful possibilities, a launching pad of wisdom, experience, understanding, and the acknowledgement that we have no limitations. Right now, do yourself a favor. Watch this amazing video of Jim Stovall, whose life really only started when he went blind – the Christopher Story. Also see this video of his.
As Independence Day dawns tomorrow, how about creating your own Independence Day – “Independent of the Past”. We can rise like the phoenix out of the putrid swamp of our past hurts, bad choices, and failures. What doesn’t kill us does, indeed, make us stronger, IF we allow it to. Every day is a potential birthday – the day you give birth to a new, “Can Do” attitude that says, “Enough of the past – I am creating a wonderful new future, starting today. I have unlimited potential and I won’t drive my car looking in the rear-view mirror. Wear your age like a medal of honor – a reflection of your learning and wisdom, experience and understanding. Birthdays should be like graduation ceremonies, not funerals.
The best way to remember “YAHOO” – You Always Have Other Options – is to hook up with people who are successful, excited about their futures, and busy creating wonderful, new lives. Mixing with losers who spend their time talking about the past, their kidney stones, their grandkids, and their problems is like drinking poison served up by a granny in a greasy spoon diner, wearing a miniskirt, with dyed blond hair, tramp stamps (tattoos), and a cigarette behind her ear. You’re as old and vulnerable as you want to be. Mix with winners, set new goals, stop feeling sorry for yourself, and grab life by the horns. The best is yet to come, and the opportunities to make money and have a great life have never been better.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
No commentsYour Free Gift
It’s Shawn here, Technical Director of JVWisdom.com.
Robin J. Elliott’s video ‘Creating a Bulletproof Mindset’ has been available to purchase as a DVD for 65 bucks. For the next 15 days, it will be available to view at no cost.
The feedback we’ve gotten on this DVD has been incredible. Some people have told us they’ve watched it over 5 times in the course of a week. It’s been a solid seller since it’s release, and we feel it’s one of the best pieces of ‘mind mastery’ material we’ve seen. Obviously we’re a bit biased however, so I encourage you to see for yourself.
http://www.jvwisdom.com/bulletproof
We actually released this video at a Bootcamp Robin did in Edmonton. We played the trailer (http://www.jvwisdom.com/bulletproof) and then before we could even give anymore info people wanted to buy their copy.
The thing was, we were only taking pre-orders because we hadn’t even gotten them printed yet!
95% of the attendees ended up pre-ordering their DVD. We had a special price for them that day, but I can guarantee you the special price wasn’t what it is right now (nothing).
Like I said above, we’re only keeping this up to watch for the next 15 days.
Till Next,
Shawn Christenson
Technical Director
JVWisdom.com
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No commentsDo You Present a Professional Image?
First impressions count, whether we want to believe it or not. Dean Ponak, creator of www.JVWebPartners.com, says, “Does Your Email match Up to your domain? When you receive a business card from a so-called ‘professional’, what is the first thing you look for? (or at least you should be looking for!)
Check to see if (1) they have a website on their business card and (2) they have an email that matches their domain name. If they don’t, then they’re not as professional as they’re trying to make out. I personally throw out their business card when I get home unless they let me know that they’ve just started a new business or they’re changing their business card because they have a new website!
There is nothing that turns me off more then somebody at some networking event trying to pose and tell me how much they’re making or how much I can make and they don’t have a website listed on their business card or even worse, their email is joe@hotmail.com or carol@gmail.com.
Now look at a professional business card that has the domain AND email matching… what kind of feeling does this give you? It shouts ‘I’m a Professional’ to me and I am willing now to take a serious look at this person.
Here at JVWebPartners you get your own domain name, website, and unlimited emails for $20 per month. That means that if your domain name is www.mygreatsite.com then you can have emails like joe@mygreatsite.com, info@mygreatsite.com, sales@mygreatsite.com… as many emails as you would like.
Finally, if you really want to be professional, you’ll want to not only receive emails to e.g. joe@mygreatsite.com but you’ll also want to send emails from joe@mygreatsite.com and I will show you how to do this if you ask.”
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
No comments“I Don’t Feel Like It”
How many times have you said, “I don’t feel like it”, but you go ahead anyway and do it, and you’re very happy you did? In life and in business, feelings are not always the ideal indicator, especially when they involve a spot of sloth or discomfort on your part.
Recently, my amazing daughter urged me to go for a ride with her on a wild-looking machine at the fairgrounds that whirled people around upside down, high above the ground. The last time I rode on one of those things, I was a teenager. Now I’m 56, but I agreed to accompany her. I didn’t feel like it, but I thoroughly enjoyed it! My wife persuaded me to go to Disney World for the first time. I certainly didn’t feel like that, but I did it, and I loved it. After that, we visited Disneyland as well! Yesterday, my two friends suggested we jump off the boat and swim in the cold waters of Howe Sound off Horseshoe Bay. I didn’t feel like it, but I dived in, and it was great.
Do you think athletes feel like training for hours every day, in all kinds of weather, enduring constant pain? How about that awful food they eat on their special diets? Don’t you thing they feel like gobbling fatty burgers or lining up at the trough for ice cream? How often do they feel like quitting? Those who do quit don’t win the gold medals. The same goes for entrepreneurs. Someone once said, “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”
Note, in the above quote, that the author says, “Reached and KEPT” – it’s OK to win once, but to keep on winning, you have to discipline your feelings and urges. Ross Perot said, “Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.” Beware – pride comes before the fall.
Lee Iacocca said, “I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.” And Jim Rohn said, “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. One discipline always leads to another discipline.” That’s good news – doing the right thing instead of the easy thing becomes a good habit.
Small habits that get good results need to be developed and maintained in order to reap long-term rewards. Those who quit easily and seek the fast buck never get anywhere, and they develop a reputation for excuses and for not being reliable. James Allen said, “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.” That self-discipline to do the right thing in spite of what you feel, is what separates the men from the boys.
Champions don’t make excuses, and they fight on, regardless of their feelings, comfort zone, or the opinions of others. When losers tell them, “Don’t work too hard, take it easy, rest more, dress down, don’t be so aggressive, don’t upset people”, winners simply go deaf. They associate with other winners and hear only their mentors and coaches. Do the right thing, continuing in good and bad times to do the right thing, in spite of what you feel. Conquer yourself, and you can reach any goal you wish.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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