We Have to Understand the Success Stories

We can make our life much easier if we follow the rule: "learn from the mistakes of others". The other point of view is to forget about this rule, because only a few people know exactly how to use it. The rest of us, as usually - learn from our own mistakes; who knows, maybe it's a part of our personal self-improvement? But there is another strong tool; it is called "We Have to Understand the Success Stories". There are thousands such stories of great achievement, and their number is growing every day. In other words, every man who reached his life goal or reached financial independence making a huge sum of money has his own success story. And now, the secret is that studying these examples makes you successful, because with every story like that, you understand the principles of becoming rich, you understand the way people are growing their wealth, you become really inspired, and you just accumulate experience, the experience every one of us needs most of all.

There is a saying: "we are that we eat". Think about it and you'll realize that this is very true. Also you can refer this quote to your intellectual and spiritual food which may come from different sources, like books, good movies, discussions with clever and intelligent people. As we are speaking about success stories, you should realize that consuming such meals everyday, gives you the spirit of a winner. It happens so because, involuntarily, by reading such positive material we are being influenced in an indirect manner, we begin to be modified through our subconsciousness.

It's the best school of becoming rich and successful in your business. These stories will teach you all the best qualities a real businessman should have. Why? Because the people from these beautiful stories already possess all these qualities. You just have to read carefully, understand the moral, and make the story become your reality. Believe that it's easy. Who said that you can't possess all these good qualities? Just think that all of them were made for people just like you. Just imagine that punctuality, organization, motivation, optimism, wisdom, desire for money, success - it's a part of you and your life. This great school is here, it's free, just go and read it, study it, everything depends on you.

Let's see what exactly can you learn from these success stories: First of all you get inspired, and inspiration is the fuel which gets you through all the difficulties you meet on your way to wealth. After inspiration comes the motivation: make a plan of the things you wish to own after earning your first million. The next is knowledge; the knowledge of the principles of becoming rich and successful. You'll understand the way a rich man thinks, the way he works; you will assume all the good qualities that such a man possesses. You'll find the straight way in order to gain an immediate success. And the most important is that you'll get the experience which will show you the shortest way to your dreams.

Success stories leave their prints on us. These prints lead to self-confidence and self-confidence increases our power of influencing people and things around us, to attract the things and events we need in order to become what we want to become. Move on, go and write down on a piece of paper your own success story. You have all the right to do it. Nobody can stop you. Go and become successful, rich and happy.

Visit success.com">http://www.money-and-success.com in order to find out everything you need to know to become rich and successful.

Dalai Lama

Keeping in Touch with Your Customers Online

All of us like to feel that the businesses we frequent understand our deepest desires and dislikes. One way that they do this is by keeping in touch. Since most business can not afford to call or send someone to your home or office, this is accomplished via mail or email.

Doing it Like it's 1999

For the sake of cost and efficiency, most customer contact has moved to the Internet. This started by identifying leads, contacts or prospects in your CRM system (if you were lucky enough to have one) and sending out a bulk "targeted" email. The email would take the form of an invitation to a seminar, or perhaps a new product announcement.

Enter Email Marketing 2007

Unfortunately, due to abuse of email by unsolicited marketers or "spammers", our customers now guard their inboxes like Castle of Carcassonne. Many of these policies are set by their personal ISPs, like AOL, or by internal corporate email filters. What are we legitimate marketers to do to get our legitimate messages through?

Make Sure You're in the Address Book

It is a good idea to contact all of your current customers and ask them to add you to their Outlook (or other) address book. Messages coming from these addresses tend to not get rejected. If you use a special email address for email marketing or "e-blasts", advise them to add this address as well in advance of your next campaign. If you collect email address from a web form, place this address book message on your "thank you" page, as well as instructions to "whitelist" you if their email provider allows this feature.

Train Your Customers to Opt-In

"Opting-in" is the email marketing term for voluntary addition to a campaign or mailing list. An automatic response system will automatically generate one of these confirmation emails and send them to your customer. Although not absolutely required, opting-in is a good practice as an email marketer, as it almost assures your customer will not accuse you of spamming. Just make sure to unsubscribe them just as easily.

Deliver Your Message While You Sleep

Now back to those automatic response systems or "autoresponders". Autoresponders allow you to write a multi-stage marketing campaign in advance and deliver this to your customers over a series of days or weeks. So by the time your customer reads the final installment of the "Top Five Benefits of Widgets" campaign, her credit card is already in hand.

Keeping Things on Track

Perhaps the most important part of any marketing campaign is measurement. Even direct mail campaigns in the late 1800's used postcards with different messages to test effectiveness. Some of the better commercial autoresponders support built-in tracking, so that you can test slightly different campaigns and adjust your marketing accordingly for the next campaign.

Summary

Autoresponders can be a powerful tool in your email marketing tool kit. They are flexible information management and delivery systems that can do a lot of the "heavy lifting" in a complex campaign. Bringing autoresponders into your business may just bring you enough new business that you are ready to party like it's 1999!

Andrew Morris covers unlimited automatic responder technology.

Conceptions Of God

Can Your Beliefs Change The World?

Beliefs shape and mold your life. Sometimes all it takes to change your life in an instant is to adopt an empowering belief.

When you adopt empowering beliefs, you can change your world and even influence the whole world, too.

When Bill Gates found out that an Albuquerque company needed BASIC software to develop a personal computer, he called them up and said he would deliver what they needed. He committed himself, then took massive action. He had a belief, an irrational one, that he could invent what he had promised to deliver. Within a few weeks, he and his partner had written up the program. They made the personal computer possible. This singular belief made him a billionaire by the time he was thirty.

His belief in what was possible, despite a complete lack of evidence, changed not only his reality, but that of the entire world.

Belief-shifting can even shatter permanent and pervasive world-views.

In 1954, when Roger Bannister broke the global and historical belief that the human body could not complete the mile in under four minutes, he changed the entire world-view about what was possible. Prior to his feat, the permanent and pervasive belief was that the laws of physics and physiology limited such an endeavor. After his feat, thinking people began to question the idea of anything labeled impossible.

After he broke the four-minute barrier, amazing things started to happen. Within a year, 37 other runners had done the same. The next year, 300 runners did it. The impossible suddenly appeared possible.

Beliefs are not necessarily true nor false, because evidence can always be marshaled in either direction. When we have experiences, both pleasurable and painful, we create generalizations on what they mean, and these then form beliefs. Yet, it is our interpretation of the experience that determined the meaning we got from it, and that, in turn influenced the generalizations that went to shape our beliefs. Someone else could have had a similar experience and interpreted it in a completely different way. In a war, one person could see all human life as worthless; another could see the sacred element in all human life; yet both are witnessing and suffering through the same carnage.

The important thing, then, is not to focus on whether a belief is true or false, but to focus on whether it is empowering or disempowering.

Here is an example:

When Marva Collins was a teacher of second-grade students in what was considered the ghetto of Chicago, she made the observation that her students did not like to learn. In fact, they actively resisted the process of expanding their little minds. This observation was in line with what the other teachers also experienced. However, her interpretation of the situation was completely different. The school district viewed the children and the neighborhood as the cause of this antipathy toward learning. Marva saw it as the result of an archaic and unstimulating learning curriculum.

She began to teach children as young as four-year-old, classic works of literature like Shakespeare. Since this upset the Chicago city school system, she had to form her own school to carry out her own curriculum. She founded a private school called Westside Preparatory School. To everyone's surprise, her young students thrived on this challenging and demanding work. Instead of becoming confused and inarticulate, their thoughts became more lucid and expressive. They became versed in the literature of ancient Greek, the revolutionary ideas of Leo Tolstoy and John Steinbeck, and other works that American culture usually reserves for college Freshmen.

Literally anything is possible for you--if you believe in it. All you have to do is believe. The act of belief will create the means to carry out your plans. The process of consistent belief will furnish the evidence to prove your belief as true. When your beliefs become a conviction, then you will move heaven and earth to achieve your objectives. And nothing and no-one can stop you.

Saleem Rana would love to share his inspiring ideas with you. Hunting everywhere for a life worth living? Discover the life of your dreams. His book Never Ever Give Up tells you how. It is offered at no cost as a way to help YOU succeed. http://www.theempoweredsoul.com/enter.html Copyright 2004 Saleem Rana. Please feel free to pass this article on to your friends, or use it in your ezine or newsletter. It's a shareware article.

Shaman

How to Convert Telephone Calls into Powerful Presentations

You can multiply your ability to persuade by 400%, whether your audience is 1 or 100. Web-based presentations add a visual element to teleconferences. Instead of just talking to prospects, you can simultaneously show them and tell them. According to a Wharton Business School study, this dual mode communication makes your message up to four times more effective than using just your voice. Present from your office:

Web-based presentations can be as effective as in-the-same-room presentations, but are free from the costs and frustrations involved in traveling.

Talk to your prospects using your current telephone orfor large groups a rented bridge line. You and your audience view your visuals using a standard web browser and Internet connection. You control whats displayed on your audiences computer screen! Your screen contains a menu listing available visuals. You control presentation content, pace, and sequence. You can spend as much or as little time as desired on each visual. You can show all of your visuals, or just those needed to respond to attendee concerns or questions. No limits on audience size:

No audience is too large or too small for a web-based presentation! You can easily and cost-effectively show and tell 1-to-1 as you speak to individual prospects, or you can present to hundreds at a time. No advance scheduling:

Your visuals are available 24/7. No reservations are required to present. Convert any telephone call into a presentation by inviting your caller to immediately access your online visuals while talking. More than one set of visuals can be prepared and ready for instant use. Preparing your visuals:

Use Microsoft PowerPoint to create your presentation. Presentations can be as simple or complex as desired. In addition to creating visuals for your core presentation, consider creating contingency visuals available for showing as needed. This permits you to customize your presentation on the basis of questions from the audience or callers.

You can easily add and edit visuals. This permits you to customize the title or specific visuals with your clients name or client-specific contents and prices.

After completing your presentation, upload it to the server where your visuals will be available online to you and your clients, prospects, or employees. Access:

Only those who know the specific location of your presentation on the web will be able to access your visuals. You can communicate the URL during the phone conversation or you can send it to a group via e-mail before an event.

Unless you are also online, visitors will not be able to navigate through your presentation. Applications:

Any presentation task you would normally accomplish in-person can now be done on the phone and online:

Demonstrations. Do a better job of describing the benefits of your product or service by showing as well as telling. Interactively walk prospects through the steps youll use to help them solve a pressing problem or achieve a desired goal.

Previews. Increase attendance at teleseminars and live events by previewing the contents and benefits of attending.

Proposals. Deliver client presentations in an interactive environment. Use your voice to build enthusiasm and address concerns or questions as they arise.

Continuous contact. Keep in close touch with clients and prospects while helping them make informed purchase decisions and best use of their purchase.

Training. Keep employees and your sales staff motivated and up to date on your latest products and services.

Its all about relationships. Web-based presentations are just another way you can put todays low-cost technology to work building and maintaining close ties with customers and prospects. At low cost, you can communicate with added impact from your office.

Let Roger C. Parker show you how to attract qualified prospects and retaining clients by creating the right messages and choosing the right tools. Visit www.onepagenewsletters.com or call Roger at 603-742-9673 for information

Martin Luther King

Three Sweet Poems, and Two Not So Sweet [now in: SPANISH and English]

1) End Poem

Wherever you are today
Is where you were meant to be;
Its where God, dotted the
i and the t!

2) Gods Angels

God asked his angels:
Why do you look so sad?
Responded one angel:
Sir, we cant find the shade.

3) An Empty Space

Out of wisdom one will wait,
travel far for love; the thirst
will not kill them. When death
arrives what will you tell it
explain: why the empty space?

Shyness and fear will not
explain your surrender to your
mysterious veil. Out of wisdom
one will wait, travel far for love;
the thirst will not kill them. But
they will find it, be it in a winter
blizzard, or a cozy restaurant.

4) Onto the Mountains
(The Andes)

I shall blend-in, into the

Mountains
Into the faintest thin

Shadows

of the mountains!
Like the moss on moistened

Stone

Like a leaf blown far from

Home

(freshly fallen)!
I shall blend-in, clinging

To the mountains
Into its faintest thin

Shadows

5) Dead Children

Breaking stones
Who breaks stones?
Only shadowy faces
With grieving bones.

I have lost my
Children to the devil
All but one; and
Now I break stones
With a grieving face
And aging bones.

You can visit Mr. Siluk's site http://dennissiluk.tripod.com, and see his travels, books, and likes and dislikes; also you can visit most of the internet book dealers, as well as ebay for more information on his writtings.

In Spanish

Translated by: Nancy Penaloza

1) Poema final

Dondequiera que t ests hoy da-

Es donde se propuso estar;

Esto es donde Dios apunto la

i y la t!.

2) Los ngeles de Dios

Dios pregunt a sus ngeles:
Por que parecen tan tristes?
Respondi un ngel.
seor, nosotros no podemos encontrar la sombra.

3) Un espacio vaco

De la sabidura uno esperara,
Viajes lejos para el amor;
La sed no los matar. Cuando la muerte
Llegue que le dirs de esto?-
Explicando: Por qu el espacio vaci?
La timidez y el miedo no
Explicaran tu rendicin a tu
Misterioso velo. De la sabidura
Uno puede esperar, viaje lejos para el amor;
La sed no los matar. Pero
Ellos se encontraran, ser ello en una ventisca
De invierno, o en un restaurante acogedor

4) Nios Muertos
Rompiendo piedras

Quin rompe piedras?
Solo caras sombras
Con huesos penosos.
He perdido
A mis Nios para el diablo

Todos excepto uno; y
Ahora rompo piedras
Con una cara penosa
Y huesos envejecidos.

Nota: Estos cuatro poemas [junto con la Sombra de Andes,] fueron recientemente publicados por la Revista Ezine; lectores anuales, tres millones [junio y julio de 2005]; y fue ledo por ms visitantes que cualquier otro poema publicado por aquella revista dentro de aquel perodo de tiempo.

Mr. Siluk lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Lima Peru with his wife, Rosa.

Anthony De Mello

Approaching Women: The Simple Event That Changed My Life

It was a perfectly normal Saturday afternoon. I was going to visit my girlfriend later in the day, but until then it was time to run the usual slate of typical, mundane errands.

Even though I was in a relationship at the time, I had learned from my research on men and women that style was importantso I had some nice jeans and a button down shirt on. My belt and my shoes matched, and I was in Successful Guy Saturday Casual mode.

After a quick trip to the post office and a stop at the bicycle shop, it was time to go to Target. I needed several things, so I got a cart.

I had checked off toothpaste, light bulbs and a couple items from the automotive department when I happened to see someone I knew at the end of the aisle. I had only met her once, but she was a friend of my girlfriends. So I knew I had better say hello. After all, making nice with the girlfriends friends is always a plus.

She didnt appear to notice who I was, so as I reached where she was I tapped her shoulder with the back of my hand and said (simply), Hey!. She turned and responded back with a reciprocal Hey!, with a warm smile and that classic eyebrow flash that the body-language books talk about.

So it looks like even superheroes like you and I still have to shop for normal, everyday stuff at the Target, right?, I said, noticing a few stray items in her shopping cart.

I suppose!, she acknowledged with a laugh.

I continued with very typical small talk after that. As the conversation continued, I started feeling something strangeif not downright creepy.

My girlfriends friend, if my mind wasnt playing tricks on me, was starting to behave in a manner that I would ALMOST callFLIRTATIOUS.

I was caught off guard. After all, if what I was seeing was really happening, it was COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE. After all, not only was I dating this woman's friendthis woman was MARRIED!

So I maintained that 18 distance that social mores dictate is proper, while continuing with perfectly normal conversation. But soon, there was no denying the body language. She was clearly enjoying the interaction, and eventually made a comment or two that were unmistakably forward.

At this point I was going OUT OF MY WAY to not appear romantically interested in return. Yet, I couldnt help the thoughts that were racing in my mind. This woman was CLEARLY ATTRACTED to me. On top of the impropriety of it all, I was struck by the IMPROBABILITY of it all. This woman was 15 years my junior and at least FIVE INCHES TALLER than me!

Now, let me level-set here. My girlfriend at the time was a beautiful woman, and her friend was likewise very attractive. So here we had a situation where a woman who was NOT MY TYPE AT ALL, and indeed not one of the ones I would immediately picture going after a guy like me, was UNQUESTIONABLY INTERESTED.

At that point I realized that this conversation needed to endand SOON, for obvious reasons. To that effect I said, Well, time to get back to shopping. But Ill tell [my girlfriends name] you said hello.

There was a slight pause. Then a quizzical look from the woman.

Uhwhos [my girlfriends name]?, she wondered. I looked back with an equally querulous expression. Arent you Jennifer?

Umnooooooomy name is Felicia.

With my mind racing in several different directions, I happened to look down and noticed there was no ring on her left hand.

I spontaneously laughed, and explained to her what had just happened. The woman really was a dead ringer for who I thought she was.

She responded with warm eyes and a feminine giggle. So thatsIT...?, she said with one raised eyebrow and a motion of the hand to indicate continuation. I politely ended the conversation there anyway, of course, because I had a girlfriend, and returned to shopping.

But I was changed forever.

Why?

I had read time and again about how something like 90% of men have some fear of approaching women. Furthermore, I had read about how the single most important factor in GETTING OVER that fear is to simply GO OUT AND MEET WOMEN. The problem is that most of the time we as guys can't get out of our own way when doing soassuming we get up the guts to even try.

So, in one brief exerciseand by TOTAL ACCIDENTI had unequivocally proven what it takes to law of successfully meet women. Ironically, the law of success was OVERWHELMINGLY due to the fact that I wasn't trying to "pick this woman up".

So whats going on there?

Lets outline the key principles and components of that experience at the Target:

1) I had started the day making sure I looked my best. I was READY for an interaction with a womanif not the woman at the Target.

2) I had NO HIDDEN AGENDA with this woman from a sexual perspective. There was nothing about my approach that caused her to put her guard up. I was just making normal conversation. As such, there was a comfortable atmosphere surrounding the whole thing.

3) Based on the fact that I believed I already knew this woman, I was 100% CONFIDENT that I wouldnt be flatly rejected when I spoke to her. Think about it. If you behave as if you are sure that talking to someone will be met with a positive response, you will not be nervous or sketchy about it at all.

4) My opener with her was a simple Hey! with a light, backhanded whack on the shoulder. No fancy, contrived "lines".

5) This was not a bar or some other special pick up joint. This was the TARGET!

Bear in mind that this woman, although very beautiful, was not at all the type of woman I would ever see myself approaching or see myself with. And consider that it took virtually no direct effort to impress her. What appeared to impress her was the sincerity and confidence portrayed in simply wanting to talk to her.

THATS IT.

There is no doubt that this woman perceived my approach as being related to her being a woman and me being a man. Although I was not even close to who the media would match her up with, the combination of facility, confidence and a low-pressure approach WORKED WONDERS. Ladies, that kind of attitude is what you look forward to when it comes to men approaching you, is it not? Dont shout me down for telling the truth!

After that day, I made sure that my accidental discovery became firmly embedded into my conscience. After that, talking to any woman I wantanywherehas been all about considering her someone I already know, and affording her the simple respect that goes along with it. No woman has ever been a stranger, ever since.

Guys: If you have any trepidation at all when it comes to meeting a woman you find attractive, learn from this lesson and I assure you your life will be radically transformed. You have the ability to meet any woman you choose to. Make it so.

Ladies: Heres to more guys learning what I learned that day. I know you all are patiently waiting

Copyright 2006 X & Y Communications

Want to hear more? Scot McKay is a dating coach in San Antonio, TX and founder of X & Y Communications, a one-stop-shop for dating resources. He is the author of the new book Deserve What You Want, and hosts the popular podcast series X & Y On The Fly. He may be reached at scot@xandycommunications.net or on the Web at http://www.deservewhatyouwant.com/.

Stone In Your Home

Understanding Your Life's Purpose

"What is my life's purpose?"
"How do I know what it is when I find it?"
"How can I create my life's purpose so it's 'right'?"

If you are asking these questions, you're not alone - I hear it quite a bit from my clients and other seekers. We are fortunate to live in a day and age where this is not only acceptable, but is possible for us to proactively ponder and then take action accordingly.

In order to have this conversation, there are a couple of things I need to share with you first. Here is a summary of what I know from my experience, teachings and world view:

We are here because we are spirit embodied in physical form we decided to come here and live our life's purpose tangibly. So our purpose is to be here and breathe.

We're supposed to learn and experience ALOT in every way so our spirit can grow and we can contribute to the greater collective consciousness.

Challenges are what help us to grow beyond our comfort zone, and without them, we are pretty boring humans. We're only stuck if we decide not to address them.

In the grand scheme of things, this human life is insignificant and exceedingly important at the same time. We are practicing being creative energy through living our lives.

All that being said, when we're not moving, we feel stuck. And then we feel like we're not living our life's purpose. So we feel vaguely unfulfilled, rather than being present with just being, and which pushes us to experience more, which is good as it is our personal contribution to the whole. We are one within ourselves, with each other, and with the universe. And yet, life's purpose isn't really what we're talking about here, is it?

So few words to express such a humongous concept to bring it back, we are here to breathe, to have experiences that benefit ourselves and the whole, and to practice the art of creation regularly (whether we like or are happy with what we are creating or not is a different issue). That is our life's purpose.

The real question behind the questions: what is my soul's unique expression and how can I be in the flow with it so I can make a difference in the world?

3 Things You Can Do Today:
1. Consider your challenges. What are your learning opportunities right now? If you look at previous challenges in your life, you will see that you probably couldn't figure out at the time what they were about you could only see their purpose post-challenge. Therefore, really see and explore what's in front of you now, and reframe it as your growth opportunity to get through it faster. Embrace it as the way the universe is taking you to what you need to know and the result you asked for because it is you who asked for it. If you don't like your results, it's time to change what you want because all that's happened is you got what you asked for on some level.

2. Look at unexpected comments. That is, look at what "people" have said about you throughout your life, regardless of the environment or circumstances. It's likely that your soul has been peeking or leaking out, and other people may have picked up on it for you. For example, one of my clients is wrestling with expressing who she is through her business. I asked her this question, and she couldn't tell me about any comments. When most of the way through our session, I got a message about her creating her own "law of success program" to teach others how she's achieved her dreams, she said "oh yeah, people have been telling me that". She was missing the messages because she had no reference point for them. What messages from your soul are you missing?

3. Re-examine your core interest areas. When you were a child or young person, it's likely that you had interests or dreams or goals that have lost their place as a life priority now. Take a look at them to find the seeds of your soul. In my case, I was always drawn to the "mysterious", to psychic connections, to understanding the invisible. I read books voraciously about explorers (which I am, only in an unconventional way), life oddities, unusual people and mysteries (I later learned that I was an English bobby/detective in a previous life). Anyway, I liked to understand the bigger picture in every way I wanted to understand people and their inside selves. I remember being about six years old, eating a peanut butter sandwich, and asking my mom "what are we here?". She thought I was babbling, but I had a clear picture of pure energy with a wistful certainty that there had to be a reason we are HERE. And now it's my life's work to help others understand that and to engage fully in being here by channeling cosmic creative energy into personal law of success.

So, my intention is to help you life your soul's expression, not just your life's purpose. It's a lot bigger than that.

Lynn Scheurell, Creative Catalyst, helps entrepreneurs remember who they are so they can align everything they do accordingly. This simple premise helps people create law of success from the inside out and by their own definition. Download a free report to learn "Your 6 Power Points for Personal Success and How What You Dont Know Can Cost You!" at http://www.mycreativecatalyst.com

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