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Bibliography: Schuller, Robert H. ‘TOUGH TIMES Never Last, But Tough People Do!’ Bantam Books. 1983 Points To Ponder 1. You can always share your own story. 2. People who never take a chance, never get ahead. 3. Great people are ordinary people with extraordinary amounts of determination! 4. You can do anything you want to do. You can be anything you want to be. You can go anywhere from where you

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He concludes his great book with an Alphabet For Action. 'Winning starts with beginning, and beginning starts with a single action.' he assigns positive, possibility-thinking verbs - action words - to each letter of the alphabet to help us get started with simple positive actions to change our lives. A... Affirm that you can do it... affirm that you deserve to succeed. B... Believe that '...

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Schuller shares a fantastic piece of philosophy - that has had an enormous impact on this writer for many years - that he discovered in the Readers Digest, December 1982, entitled 'ANYWAY'... it reads: People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred... Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives... Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will false

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Robert Schuller reminds us that the key ingredients in the recipe of success are: 1.) Put your problems in proper perspective 2.) Apply the 12 principles of managing problems effectively 3.) Take charge and control of your situation 4.) Tackle impossibilities with the Ten Commandments for Possibility Thinking 5.) Count to 10 and Win 6.) Apply the Faith that will move your mountain 7.) Apply the

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Schuller goes on to talk about the importance of living a life of unbending, mountain-moving faith. 'Faith is indeed the greatest miracle-working power imaginable. Faith never fails a person; we fail when we give up on our faith.' He suggests that there are five phases to developing faith, and if any one of these five phases is ignored we will not get the results we are looking for. He writes: '

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In playing the Possibility Thinking Game, Schuller came up with a very simple strategy to begin to solve seemingly impossible problems. He discovered that when he '...listed ten possible ways to do what was impossible at that moment...' he ultimately came up with a solution. He described how he needed to raise $1,000,000 (One Million Dollars) and began to list his possibilities on a piece of

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This section is perhaps the most illuminating in this book, in that it opens one's mind to the awesome power of managing ideas effectively. Says Schuller: 'Impossibility thinkers are people who instinctively react negatively to a possibility-laden idea. They impulsively look for reasons why it can't be done. They quickly abort an idea and forget about it.' 'The possibility thinker looks at every

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He outlines 18 Leadership Principles For Maintaining Control. These principles, as summarised in the extracts below, have made an enormous impact on this writer's life and should be studied in full by reading the book to really gain maximum value. 1. Don't surrender leadership to outside forces... take charge of your destiny. 2. Don't surrender leadership to faces... more particularly the looks

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And... what if you can't solve the problem? Well, the good news is... you can manage it! Schuller gives us '...twelve principles for managing problems creatively and constructively!' Twelve Principles for Managing Problems Positively1. Don't underestimate. 'Never underestimate a problem or your power to cope with it. Realise that the problem you are facing has been faced by millions of human

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Says Schuller: 'People who win over tough times are people who never stop believing. They have faith in themselves and their Lord and in the ideas that God gives them. These winners, survivors, pray for God's guidance and when they know what it is they have to do, they take action. They do something about it.' 'I say to you: you can do anything you want to do. You can be anything you want to be.

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Schuller goes on to share the story of some tough people who chose to rise to the top in tough times. Mary Martin... a sixty-nine year old member of his congregation... nine-times Life magazine cover-girl... who lost her dearest companion in a horrendous car crash that almost crippled her. Schuller asks: 'What gives some persons the power to fight on after the loss of a precious loved one after

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As he relays the thought process that went through his mind, we learn that Robert Schuller has himself experienced TOUGH TIMES. From being the son of a '30’s Depression era farmer whose farm was flattened by a tornado... escaping with their lives from this very tornado... struggling to get through college... losing all his possessions in a fire... struggling to start a church with just five

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The book begins in the summer of 1982 with Schuller facing a very negative audience of 3500 depressed agricultural-industry delegates, who were experiencing the disastrous effects of one of the severest recessions in U.S. history. Says Schuller, 'In recessive times the tendency is to react negatively.' He knew that his audience was facing TOUGH TIMES..! The speech that he had prepared seemed to

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Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!Author - Robert H. SchullerBook Review - How To Turn Problems Into Exciting Possibilities Review by Trevor Nel – March 2001 ---------------------------------------------------'Lord, give me the guidance to know when to hold on and when to let go... and the grace to make the right decision with dignity.' To me, this is the opening prayer of a man who has

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Now, how long do you think it would take you to double your R20? One day? Two days? Three? Four? Five? What if I gave you a week, do you think you could do it? Most people, I think, should be able to find a way to double R20 in a day, or at least two days! Well, let’s do some theoretical thinking. Let’s divide Month 1 into four working weeks:Week 1:a) R20b) R20c) R20d) R20R 80 X 2 = R160In this

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I was really struck by Charles’ personal story of trying to make good off a monthly income of about R1400 after tax. From what I can recall, Charles supports eight family members out of this income. Three of whom are school-going kids with on-going expenses for books and school-fees. Three others are unemployed, but employable, adults whom he helps to feed. One adult is too old to work, and the

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How To Turn The Struggle Into SuccessThe answer to this question will kick-start our economy Review update by Trevor Nel – October 2002A few years back, at a Sunday lunchtime presentation for one of our dynamic leadership groups, I was humbled by a discussion with one of our members - Charles. He shared with me his real excitement for the It’s So Simple! concept ...and then told of how his past

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Article Review by Trevor Nel – February 2004 I woke up in pain this morning, with my thigh muscles as stiff as a post, a fairly hectic weekend of moving heavy furniture and tons of books around from room to room. All in the quest for conserving space… as my years of collecting information threaten to see me drown under tons of books, magazines and papers. Not what you would call ‘earth-shattering

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Pilzer believes the First Law of Business is no longer... ‘Find a need and fill it’, but rather “IMAGINE A NEED AND CREATE IT.” True to form, his own company in Dallas is busy applying C.D.ROM technology to what he believes will be the biggest industry of the next century: Education and Retraining.Right now, in the field of Retailing, he see’s the system of Multi-Level Marketing as offering ‘The

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Given the current concern over oil supplies, I went back to this review of a 1990 book:-Show me an economist who is prepared to debunk the entire basis of economics as it is taught at college, and he’ll get my precious reading time. Show me one who says “...the entire field of economics - based on the concept of scarcity - contradicted my entire belief in a true and just God, for such a God would

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by Nancy SimmsWinners take chances.Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.Winners don't give up.When life gets rough, they hang in until the going gets better.Winners are flexible.They realize there is more than one way and are willing to try others.Winners know they are not perfect.They respect their weaknesses while making the most of their

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Far too often we get well-meaning social engineers and lesser-intentioned rentboycotters and strikers who tend to convey the message that profit is something akin to an evil in society. How often have we seen these foolish antagonists tearing down the buildings, ideas, and concepts that have been developed by others in protest against the gains they are making. But, quite plainly it is the

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But, let’s consider what might have happened had the creative thinker been turned down when he first approached the other 99 villagers. Let’s retrace our thoughts back to the moment after he had completed his mountain-side canal and offered to share it with them for 10 minutes of their time. Imagine if they had said, “There’s only one of you and 99 of us. We’ll take whatever water we want from

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With his ever increasing time available to ponder ways of saving time and energy, he develops new concepts which saves the other 99 villagers enormous amounts of time. In return he asks for just 10% of their time saved. So everybody wins!One day he notices that one of the villagers is an outstanding shoe-maker. He arranges to share some of his new found profit to feed and clothe the aspirant

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Realising the wealth of time he now had available to himself, he offered to share this new found freedom with the 99 others. He offered to let them draw water from his dam, instead of spending one hour drawing from the spring, if they would each give him just ten minutes of their daily production time. He worked out that by giving each person in the village an extra 50 minutes each of additional

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Imagine a lost tribe of 100 primitive folk living on an island somewhere in the mid-Pacific. They are basically lacking in organised intelligence and know nothing of the technology we have today. They just go through their daily lives trying to gather the bare necessities for living on a day-to-day basis.Picture, for yourself, this primitive tribe living at the foot of a mountain, from the top of

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Too many people in our world today live under the impression that our lives are governed by an apparent scarcity of resources. These are the people who believe that the only way you can make money is to take it from someone else. This has given rise to the extremely vulgar description of one, who takes advantage of other peoples necessity and hardship, to make unduly large and unjustifiable

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Preface 15 – The Ultimate Gift – ‘In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own Ultimate Gift.’Red Stevens’ gave his final message from his video: ‘ Jason, I want to tell you how proud of you I am. You have completed each element and received each part of The Ultimate Gift I had planned for you. I wish that I had come into possession of all twelve gifts as early in life as you have. Now that

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Preface 14. The Gift of Love – ‘Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.’Month 12… the final month. Says Red Stevens: ‘Jason’ in this last month, I’m going to introduce you to the one part of my Ultimate Gift to you that encompasses all the other gifts as well as everything good you will ever do, have, or know in your life. That is The Gift of

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Not being Catholic, I still cannot help being hugely caught up in the admiration of a truly GREAT man's passing. From all the documentaries of his life and times, it seems that Pope John Paul II has left one of the most significant legacies of the past 20th Century. His is a fine example of intellect, courage, action, humility and lately, personal suffering borne so bravely. He may well be only

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Preface 13. The Gift of a Day – ‘Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day!Month 11, Red continues: ‘As I have been going through the process of creating my will and thinking about my life and my death, I have considered all the elements in my life that have made it special. I have reviewed many memories, and I carry them with me like a treasure.’‘When you consider

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Preface 12. The Gift of Gratitude – ‘In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.’Month 10 and the small gathering was back in front of the video with Red Stevens: ‘I have always found it ironic that the people in this world that have the most to be thankful for are

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Preface 11. The Gift of Giving – ‘The only way you can truly get more out of life for yourself is to give part of yourself away.’Month 9 sees Red Stevens proclaiming: ‘Conventional wisdom would say that the less you give, the more you have. The converse is true. The more you give, the more you have. Abundance creates the ability to give; giving creates more abundance. I don’t mean this simply in

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Preface 10. The Gift of Dreams – ‘Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.’Month 8 and Jason heard Red Stevens say from his video: ‘Jason, this month you are going to learn about a gift that belongs to all great men and women – The Gift of Dreams. Dreams are the essence of life – not as it is, but as it can be. Dreams are born in the hearts and minds of very special people, but the

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Preface 9. The Gift of Laughter – ‘Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.’Month 7 and Red Stevens opens his video message with some sage words… ‘This month you are going to learn about the Gift of Laughter. It is the ability to look at yourself, your problems, and life in general, and just laugh. Many people live unhappy lives because they take

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Preface 8. The Gift of Family – ‘Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.’Month 6 sees Jason arriving on the doorstep of the Red Stevens Home for Boys in the State of Maine. The burly driver of their large limousine stepped out into the cheering arms of a herd of young

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Preface 7. The Gift of Problems – ‘Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgement. Good judgement may only be gained by experiencing life’s problems.’Month 5 saw Jason being given the challenge to find people with problems in each stage of life – a child, a young adult, a full-grown adult, and an older person.Said Red Stevens from his video, ‘When we can learn from our own problems, we

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Preface 6. The Gift of Learning – ‘Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.’Month 4 and Jason’s progress is described thus: ‘He had shown many signs of improvement, but his belligerent, arrogant, and selfish attitude – borne of a life of idle privilege – still showed through from time to time.’Red Stevens appeared on video and said, ‘Jason, the next element of The

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Preface 5. The Gift of Friends – ‘It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.’Month 3 and Jason is having an impetuous attack of impatience. ‘Look. Why do I have to go through all this stuff? This is ridiculous. You must know what it is that I am going to inherit. Why don’t we just cut through all the garbage and get down to the bottom line?’Mr Hamilton

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Preface 4. The Gift of Money – ‘Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply be idle.’Month 2 and Jason learns that he is to be taught the value of money. ‘That is not your fault,’ says Red Stevens from the video. ‘That is my fault. I am hoping that in the next thirty days, you can begin to understand what money means in the lives of real people in

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Preface 3. The Gift of Work – ‘He who loves work never labours.’Month 1 arrived and Jason learnt that he was to pack his bags and prepare for a little stay on the farm of Red Steven’s old friend – Gus Caldwell – in Austin, Texas. Gus Caldwell was an old-school disciplinarian and took cityslicker Jason through a gut-wrenching process of adapting to the working life of a farm hand. From the very

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Preface 2. ‘In the end, a person is only known by the impact they have on others.’Red Stevens has instructed young Jason Stevens to follow the tasks laid out in a series of 12 videos… one for each month. It appears that he was well prepared for the response of his nephew in his message to the lawyer and his assistant: ‘Ted, I want to thank both you and Margaret for dealing with all of my in-laws,

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I am particularly struck by the neat little one-line statements prefacing each chapter which, by themselves, contain a mountain of wisdom.Preface 1. ‘A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.’The story unfolds, in Og Mandino-type parable style, in the boardroom of octogenarian lawyer – Theodore J. Hamilton – now into his fifty-third year as one of the

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I see that folks are enjoying the snippets from my book reviews, so here goes with another one... :-)I am always amazed at how the most inspiring of events seem to arise out of the most ordinary of moments. I was sitting with my family, having a leisurely Sunday morning bacon and eggs breakfast, when the quiet was shattered by a loud banging on the front door. Wondering who had the audacity to be

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Bibliography McFarland. Lynne Joy. Article ‘Leading The Way’ - Entrepreneur January 1994. Daniels. Peter J. ‘How To Be Happy Though Rich’ World Centre For Entrepreneurial Studies. Covey. Stephen R. Author of Principle-Centred Leadership. Article written for Executive Excellence Publishing. Points To Ponder 1) I have a clear vision of the person I want to be. 2) My purpose in life is to ... 3) I

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Peter Daniels offers the last words on this subject of leadership, ‘You can be a leader in the area of your vocation, by being the best in your field. You can be a leader in sports, academics, or home life. You can be a student, a pensioner, or a gardener. You can be in bereavement or achievement. Whatever your circumstances, you can show others the best God-given way to handle, and excel in,

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Writing for the Entrepreneur January 1994 edition, Lynne Joy McFarland - chairperson of LINC Corporation in Irvine, California - concluded her article, ‘We must invest wisely in leadership for our current and future generations. As entrepreneurs, we must empower ourselves and others to go forth and lead as never before. We must act as role models and inspire our teams to tap their enormous

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Leaders develop plans, set goals, and actually work them - The essence of great leadership is to have a clear vision of what you want to get done and keep all your actions focused on that vision. Leaders go about their actions with uncommon passion due to the clarity of their vision. Leaders get things done! They don’t just talk about getting things done. These action steps - your plans, goals

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Responsibility for their lives, and responsibility for their actions. Leaders recognise that God does not help those who do not first strive to help themselves. Peter Daniels - the Australian billionaire - puts it like this, ‘The attitude amongst Christians today is that they just want to “jog along” in business without competition, pressure or accountability! I have to disagree with that

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When leaders are knocked out, flat on their back, all they see are stars! Leaders are filled with eternal hope, a belief in the unbelievable. Not wishful thinking! But rather, positive believing based on sound personal research, and an intimate knowledge of a Supreme Creator having created a world of abundance by design. More tomorrow:

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Covey has identified that this sense of stability and security ‘comes from having a changeless set of principles at the core and getting our security from integrity to those principles.' 'And since we live in a dizzying world of change, we can actually thrive if we have a changeless core.' 'People who don’t have that changeless core, who have never gone to bedrock, who have never visited their

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Leaders are always testing new frontiers, going where others fear to tread, walking on the edge, often in the dark, where it is very easy to fall off. They recognise that we all live in a fast changing world, where one has to be flexible to adapt to new and different circumstances and then to continuously improve to excel with the new technologies.More tomorrow:posted by Trevor Nel: Developer -

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Often, leaders are led to develop solutions which are not immediately apparent to, or distinguishable by, the masses. Many times these solutions are seen as ‘too-good-to-be-true’ or just plain unbelievable. Leaders recognise the failure of the masses to readily adapt to new technologies and change. They willingly persist through the stages of disbelief, criticism, and tentative trial, through to

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Leaders develop businesses, projects, ideas, and concepts which brings together people who share a common vision, under-pinned by natural laws and principles. They recognise that such people, working towards a common vision are personally-inspired and self-motivated. Stephen Covey - the guru of Principle-Centred Leadership - says, ‘When we focus on principles... we become submissive and obedient

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By first valuing themselves so highly, leaders recognise the right of others to achieve their own personal dreams and enjoy their lives. They have enormous respect for the deep-seated integrity and unlimited potential of people. Such leaders are always successful in creating new business because they are always looking for ways to help meet the needs of people. More tomorrow:

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Just what will it take to become recognised as a leader? What characteristics are we likely to see exhibited by ‘leaders of leaders’? In my personal opinion this is the list of characteristics present, or that we will need, in quality leaders: Leaders consider their own priorities first and foremost - Such people are driven by a personal mission, a clear vision of their future, a sound or higher

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So, what is this thing called leadership? What will it take to be a truly successful leader in the years ahead? Let’s go to one of the world’s richest men - multi-billionaire Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of Microsoft - who says, ‘...leaders will be those who empower others. Each individual can make a difference and play a leadership role. Empowering leadership means bringing out the energy and

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Review update by Trevor Nel – April 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ed.'s Note: I first penned these comments back in July 1996. It will be interesting to see how far we have come... and how far WE have progressed in that time. The sentiments expressed then, in the main, still hold good for today. In fact, they are timeless… and priceless.As

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Wendy identifies the four main personality styles you will come across in marketing your business. The enquirers (analytical types); the aspirers (entrepreneurial types); the admirers (administrative types); and the inspirers (visionary leader types). The trick is to understand what personality type you are, and when you understand yourself you will understand how to relate profitably with others

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As far as I am concerned, this is one of the essential ingredients of success in life and in business - PERSISTENCE! Says Wendy, “Almost anyone can put these steps into place, but not many people will keep on keeping on for days, weeks, months, years afterwards. Nothing replaces persistence. Persistence is what makes the other steps so powerful”. She points out that... “The commitment time is a

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The problem of effective time management affects almost every entrepreneur I know. Wendy advises you to manage your time to meet your business plan objectives. Does whatever you are about to do help with meeting your chosen goals? She warns that your new-business contact calls are high-priority, because... “if you are not growing your business you are standing still and... if you are

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Here Wendy discusses the importance of making effective and continuous special offers to stimulate and bring forward the decision to purchase. She has had great success with promotional offers that include the wording “two for the price of one”, or “free gift with purchase”, or “buy one get one free”. When it comes to the art of negotiating a contract, Wendy points out that “closing the sale

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Wendy warns that the secret of great marketing and prospecting is consistency. No matter how bored you might be, “never give up on your basic central message. Stay with it”. You will be the only one regularly contacting your clients every 90 days with the same regular message. Coca-Cola has done it for decades, so why not you? This section also deals with the art of writing press

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Nothing puts a potential customer off more than a poor impression over the phone. Wendy builds on this important theme of sounding good with a great section on telephone etiquette. I was particularly impressed to learn that “it makes a difference whether you listen to a caller with your right ear or left ear, believe it or not!” If you want to evaluate complicated facts you need to hold the

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Appearances are everything! Do you want to look solid and stable, or new and exciting? It’s all in the image you convey in your office decor and written materials. This is where Wendy excels. From laying out the contents of your letter to selecting the right colours for your image, this section is essential reading for every business-person. Listen to this classic example: “The location

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Can you answer a simple question for your new-business prospects? In one sentence... what do you do? What will your product or service do for the buyer? Wendy offers another great idea to help you work this one out. She says to... “Imagine that you have paid for a huge highway sign at the cost of a million dollars a day. Passing motorists have one second to see your message and come and

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Once you have identified who your priority new-business prospects are then you can apply Wendy’s stunning business secret - “...keep in touch regularly and relentlessly within ninety days - more often if you wish, but never let ninety days go by without contact - which is approximately sixty working days”. I love it! It makes fantastic sense and none of your competitors will be doing it. I am

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The very best new-business prospects should match the profiles of your “existing best clients and the best clients of your competition”. Wendy has designed an excellent Commonality Survey to help you identify the clues you can get from your current clients that will help you identify new prospects with similar needs. She advises that you should... “constantly research your clients, customers

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Every business succeeds or fails on its ability to generate new sales prospects. Wendy describes an exciting process of gently nudging new prospects into doing business with you. She points out that building new business is much like developing relationships in our private lives. With someone you love, perhaps a family member... “We might send them a magazine cutting. Meet them at an

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Say’s Wendy: “You must have a set of goals with actions and costs for the future, a strategic plan by which to guide your business and promotional plans for your individual product or service”. Like myself, Wendy has a high regard for Stephen Covey’s simple principle... “Begin with the end in mind”. Her advice is for you to project yourself into your personal vision of the future. At least..

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Thought I'd share another book review offering timeless wisdom. First published October 1995. Review update by Trevor Nel – 24 November 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of my greatest joys in life is meeting with those few people who truly practice what they preach. And... this week I was treated to another of those special

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We're back... after a refreshing break... but, what a way to enter a new year year, huh? I thought 9/11 was something that could not beaten for sheer scale of graphic tragedy... and here we see over 150 000 people dead and probably many more to perish from injuries and trauma resulting from this Tsunami. It is two weeks later and we are starting to catch amateur video evidence of the incredible

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Our family will be away for two weeks over the Christmas break period. this will be the last post this year. Wishing you and yours everything you wish for yourselves for 2005. Merry Christmas.

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Found this lovely piece by Nancy Simms on the internet... enjoy: ---------------------- Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them. Winners don't give up. When life gets rough, they hang in until the going gets better. Winners are flexible. They realize there is more than one way and are willing to try others. Winners know they

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Walking… a simple past-time that can fit everyone’s pocket I woke up in pain this morning, with my thigh muscles as stiff as a post, a fairly hectic weekend of moving heavy furniture and tons of books around from room to room. All in the quest for conserving space… as my years of collecting information threaten to see me drown under tons of books, magazines and papers. Not what you would

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Bibliography: Ziglar, Zig. “SEE YOU AT THE TOP” Pelican Publishing Company. Ziglar, Zig. “ZIGLAR ON SELLING” Thomas Nelson Publishers Ziglar, Zig. “SECRETS OF CLOSING THE SALE” A Berkley Book Ziglar, Zig. “CONFESSIONS OF A HAPPY CHRISTIAN” A Bantam Book. Points To Ponder 1. We learn most when we are teaching. 2. Read something of value every day. 3. We can change our lives by

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For example, in a chapter from his book “Confessions of a Happy Christian” he writes : “Broke? Don’t Blame God. If you want financial strength and security it is available if you will follow God’s teachings. (I urge you to read the Book of Proverbs for the greatest lessons on business success ever written.)" "All I’m suggesting is that if you are broke, you shouldn’t blame God for your problem

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Zig Ziglar is famous for carting around an old-fashioned chrome-plated water-pump which, for him, conveys the story of life. At his seminars he demonstrates that before you can get water, you first have to prime the pump. Meaning that if you expect to get something out of life, your marriage, your job.... you have to first put something in. Too many people tend to say ‘If you reward me now,

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But what if you really have tried something new and different... and failed? Well, Zig offers his most meaningful statement: “Failure is an event, not a person”. Meaning that... you may have failed, but you are not a failure... if you look forward with hope in the future. All of which boils down to living your life with the right attitude. Zig offers seven specific action steps for finding

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Zig believes the answer is simple but not easy: “You cannot control the circumstances in your life, but there are many things you can do to control your mental attitude as you deal with those circumstances!” “You begin by understanding this: You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes

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Today, before Zig walks on to a public platform to address an audience he admits: “I ask God to make me a P.C. Merrell in the life of each person there”. Through his many books and tape recordings he tries to convey this personal message to the reader and listener: “You, (insert your name here) _________ , are rare; you’re special, unique and important. You can make a difference in the lives

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Zig recalls the event that changed his life. He had attended Day One of a sales-training session at which he admits he never learnt a thing. After a late-night sales demonstration and a baby keeping him awake most of the night, he remembers the “alarm clock” (today he calls it an ‘opportunity clock’) going off at 5:30 a.m. to get him off to Day Two of the training session. He looked out of bed

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“I know how it feels to be spiritually adrift in my relationship with God and wondering what really would happen when I closed my eyes that last time. I know how it feels to be broke. I’ve walked in those shoes many times over the years. I know how it is to feel despondent and ‘down in the dumps’. I know how it is to feel you have no purpose and no future.” “I believe I have been as deeply in

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First published February 1996. Review update by Trevor Nel – 20 September 2000 As an avid student of inspirational autobiographies I am often asked which author has had the most profound effect on my life. Well, many come to mind, but one seems to stand out above the rest... Zig Ziglar. I feel as if I have grown successful in parallel with Zig Ziglar as I have followed his writings and

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“Remember that the easiest thing to find on God’s green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do. Someone will always be eager to point out to you - perhaps merely with a look or a tone of voice - that anything new or daring is hopelessly doomed to failure. Don’t listen to them! If you have a dream, whatever it is, dare to believe it and to try it. If you have that flame of a

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“What does all this say?” says Rich, “Give things a chance to happen! It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. No life is more tragic than that of the individual who nurses a dream, an ambition, always wishing and hoping, but never giving it a chance to happen.” “Millions of people are that way about having a second

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People spend their time pontificating, over-analysing, identifying all the reasons why it might not work, talking till the cows come home. I have yet to come across a concept or idea that could not have been totally trashed from the beginning because of the negative sentiment of others who were asked for their comment. In fact, this observation has led me to distrust the input of others who

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He recalls being motivated by just one focus in life: “My goal was to succeed in my own business and I believed that I could do it.” Before he and his partner, Jay Van Andel, began their Amway business back in 1959, Rich remembers how they decided to start an aviation business. He and Jay were convinced that, after World War 2, everyone would own an airplane. So they bought a Piper Cub and

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There is nothing much sadder than the individual approaching his or her twilight years who thinks back and says... “If only I hadda...” or “I really shoulda...” or “I wonder what woulda happened if I’d..?“. The sad truth of life is that most people are living precisely the lifestyle they aimed for. “Those people whose aim is always low generally hit what they shoot at: they aim for nothing and

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Yes, success is whatever you want it to be, as long as it makes you happy! Bibliography: Whitman, H. “Success Is Within You” Doubleday & Co. 1956 Strobel, L. “What Jesus Would Say...” Zondervan Publ. 1994 Points To Ponder 1. Do I believe I am a success? 2. If so, why? If not, why not? 3. What would make me feel really successful? 4. Am I working towards this purpose right now? 5. Does

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Lee Strobel of the exciting Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, puts it like this: “Some people trade their entire life for a drawer full of shopping receipts, or a wall full of plaques, or a bedpost full of notches, or a bankbook full of numbers. Is it really a fair trade?” “What’s really important in life probably will get sorted out during our last moments on earth. My guess is that

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“A final basic element of success is spirituality. It is hard to imagine anyone feeling successful without also feeling related somehow to the greater purposes of life and to the Author of those purposes.” Whitman shares his belief that if one “...is to sense the full bouquet of success, then he must have a conviction, however subtle, that he is in tune with God. He must sense somehow the

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“A fourth essential ingredient, without which success is not success, is satisfaction. One man’s meat is, of course, another man’s poison, and so satisfaction to one man may stem from the amassing of a fortune, while to another man it may come from the writing of a poem. But certainly neither man can claim success at all if there is no satisfaction in either the fortune or the poem.” “Success

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“A third constant ingredient of success is the price of it. There is no success for free.” Whitman believes there is no joy or success due to any person in life without a lot of effort first put in to achieve it. He believes that we all have a “constitutional inability to enjoy what we have not earned.” This is why the thief, the ‘rip-off’ artist, the fraudster, is destined to be unhappy

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From yesterday: “The first constant factor is purpose. One must know that in whatever he does he is moving towards a goal. Aimlessness is the worst enemy of success.” Today: This is the common thread that links all of the great men and woman of significance who have ever lived. They have all had a sense of pupose about their lives... a sense of destiny... of knowing why they are on God’s

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Whitman reported on a famous letter written in the mid-nineteenth century by George Sand giving a simple definition of success: “One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all a clear conscience.” “Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now

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I well remember my early real own-business experience of establishing a Stock Market Investment College franchise in Durban. Being newly-married and building our first home I was very wary of borrowing money for a new car. So I borrowed my brother-in-law’s utility bakkie for three months to drive to my potential clients. My first call was to a retired banker in the classy area of La Lucia

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Howard Whitman gave some thought to this subject in his book written in 1956: ‘Success Is Within You’. In a chapter entitled ‘Success Is A Personal Thing’, he writes: “There are two main criteria of success: 1. Do others think you are a success? 2. Do you think so? ” He compares these two criteria to an ice-cream soda with a straw. The ice-cream soda without the straw can still be

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What does success mean to you? Just what is your definition of success? Most people I know just never, ever, think about this very simple, but very serious question. As I look around at the thousands of people I meet each year who attend our seminars, I see people who are working so hard every day to make ends meet each month. Hard-working people... who are just too busy trying to make a

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...one bite at a time. Or so the saying goes. I have just come off the ladder from doing some maintainance work on the house... shirt splattered with white paint. Normally I leave this to someone else to do, but for some reason I have decided to do this task myself this year. Don't know what has come over me. Here's the thing, I'm doing it in small, bite size chunks... and I found myself this

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