Monthly Archive for April, 2009
I believe the purpose of your life is to find and do the purpose of your life - your truest passions. For me, it’s writing self-help books. For others, it’s creating new technology, designing various products, learning medicine — and at least one person was put on this planet to invent that little plastic doohickey which holds up the pizza box.
I recognize there are many challenges on your path to greatness, and you can offen grow discouraged. But far too often it’s not outside circumstances which stop you - but your internal beliefs. Far too many people get in their own way of greatness - by telling themselves what I call “Blame Excuses” and “Mythtaken Thinking.”
For example, right now you might be telling yourself you’re too old, too broke, too inexperienced to snag your passions. If so, let me tell you about a guy named Colonel Harland Sanders.
When the Colonel first tried to sell his chicken recipe he was 65 years old — with only a small pension — a tiny bit of money in the bank — and an old Caddie roadster. His first plan was to sell his chicken recipe to restaurant owners, who’d give him a residual for every chicken piece sold — a nickle per chicken.
He knocked on the first restaurateur’s door, and was greeted by a NOPE. Second door: NOPE. Third door: NOPE. In fact his first 1008 sales calls all served up a NOPE. Still, the Colonel continued to call on owners as he traveled across the USA, sleeping in his Caddie to save money.
It wasn’t until prospect number 1,009 that the Colonel received his first YES. Then, after two years of making daily sales, he had only signed up a total of five restaurants. Still the Colonel kept knocking on doors, staying passionately focused in the belief that his golden fried chicken would create a big pile of gold.
Finally by 1963 the Colonel procured 600 restaurants across the country to sell his Kentucky Fried Chicken! In 1964 he was bought out by a multi-millionaire — who made The Colonel a multi-millionaire himself.
I love this story - because it’s an “against all odds” tale. The Colonel was a senior citizen, with no money, entering a new field - and yet he succeeded! How? He knew how to fuel his greatness instead of fueling his fears, insecurity and excuses.
Robert Louis Stevenson said it well when he said: “To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
Below are some soul-energizing, FUEL YOUR GREATNESS Tips:
1. WRITE MAKES MIGHT: I’m a big believer in the power of writing lists, writing in a journal, writing in a schedule book. Writing helps to clarify and organize your scattered thoughts and goals. If you never write down your thoughts and goals, they remain wishy washy vague ideas. And wishy washy vague ideas become wishy washy vague plans which bring wishy washy lousy results. It also helps to put your motivational lists and crystallized goals in places where you might see them often — and thereby not fall off the Greatness Bandwagon
2. KNOW THAT “SEEDING IS BELIEVING.” Overnight success rarely happens overnight. But it doesn’t mean it’s not a-comin’ when it’s slow in a-comin’. You know how if you plant seeds, it takes time for the fruits of these seeds to grow — push up through the ground’s surface? Ditto on your new thought seeds and habit seeds. They take time to manifest into the change you are seeking. Hence, while you’re on your path to greatness, it’s important to keep reassuring yourself that what you see with your limited short-term lens is not necessarily what you are getting in your long-term future. It’s essential to recognize that seeing is not always believing. However, SEEDING IS BELIEVING. What you seed is what you get. If you are seeding positive thoughts and positive habits, then success will eventually blossom. Remember: The universe’s delays are not necessarily the universe’s denials.
3. REMEMBER: MONEY DOESN’T BRING YOU HAPPINESS, BUT HAPPINESS BRINGS YOU MONEY. Studies show that the more positive you are, the more positive results you achieve in life. Some of this is because of “The Law of Attraction.” And some of this is simply “The Law of Logic.” After all, happy people have more energy and positivity to jump over obstacles in a single bound - or a few bounds. Plus other people prefer to work with positive peeps. Whatever the reason being happy literally PAYS. A recent study reported by Marci Shimoff stated: “People who are happy earn $750,000+ more in their lifetime than others.”
How can you keep yourself joyful during your challenging pursuit of greatness?
a. Eat lots of fish, for starters. Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln preformed a study which showed that high fish-eating countries like Japan and Taiwan have very low rates of depression, while low fish-eating countries like Germany and the U.S. have high rates. Indeed, overall, major depression is 60 times more prevalent in countries where little fish is eaten. Preferably eat your fish in a “supercharged meal” - which means having your healthful fish, with some healthful carb (brown rice), and some healthful greens (salad or spinach).
b. Plus whenever you’re stressed/depressed it’s especially important you take empowering vitamins, minerals, herbs and supplements. I particularly recommend supplementing with NatureMade’s SAM-e. Basically SAM-e is a naturally occurring molecule produced in your body that is there to help regulate your mood. When you’re stressed, SAM-e gets depleted, which increases moodiness and irritability — two success-busters you want to avoid!
If you do all the above, you’ll be destined for greatness for sure. And not only will you achieve absolute pride in your fabulousness, you can also achieve a little added fame (be in a documentary film) and fortune (win one thousand buckeroos) by submitting your tale of greatness story in this Fuel Your Greatness contest here: www.NatureMade.com. Go get ‘em, tiger! Remember: No Blame Excuses and Mythtaken Thinking allowed!
When you think about money, what thoughts comes into your mind first?
For far too many people, money brings up fear, worry, concern, conflict, failure, disappointment, scarcity and stress. Especially these days.
However money doesn’t need to bring these associations to mind. Especially if you begin applying my 10 Golden Rules For Extreme Success, which I will be teaching in my new Golden Touch coaching sessions.
These Golden Rules have worked bigtime for me. In the last 8 months they’ve landed me 5 book deals and 1 liscencing deal - during the midst of this wacky economy. And in the past, they’ve made a best selling author with over 1 million books sold — with fans like Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Jon Stewart, Marissa Tomei, Peter Guber - to namedrop a bit!
People are always asking me how I managed to accomplish so much so quickly. And so I’ve decided to gather all my Golden Touch principles into a series of miracle-creating empowering coaching sessions — to help YOU boost YOUR income and overall happiness.
These Golden Touch Coaching Sessions are a combo of:
1. THE SECRET (where I will train you in the science of THE POWER OF FOCUSED INTENTION)
2. INSIDER BUSINESS SECRETS (where I will train you in the art of marketing yourself to be irresistable — including unusual tips to increase productivity, aid problem solving, lower stress, increase energy, persuade buyers into buying, etc)
Golden Touch Coaching can be done by phone - if you’re outside of NYC. Or at The Soho House on 9th ave and 13th St, if you’re here in NYC. You can sign up by writing to me at karen AT notsalmon DOT com.
If right now you are stuck in a dark place about money and career - I WILL HELP YOU DIG YOURSELF OUT OF THIS HOLE - AND DIG UP A HIDDEN FORTUNE OF GOLD IN THE PROCESS!
Which reminds me of A GOOD GOLDEN TOUCH STORY:
Back in the gold-rush days there were two men — Darby and his Uncle - who were very much bitten by the “gold fever” bug, who decided to go west to dig and grow rich! After a few weeks of digging, Darby and Uncle happily discovered the first signs of potential gold: shining ore. They just needed to buy the machinery and bring this trove to the earth’s surface.
Darby immediately returned home and persuaded his family and neighbors to lend him the necessary cash to buy the machinery. Once bought, Darby and Uncle excitedly began their digging. Then something unexpected happened. Something bad. The vein of gold ore suddenly disappeared! Their pot of gold no longer appeared to be waiting for them!
At first Darby and Uncle continued to feverishly dig. But there was nada gold in sight. Ultimately the two accepted defeat, and sold their machinery to a local junk man for a few mere hundred dollars.
The junk man was no dummy. He immediately sought the advice of an engineer, who explained how fault lines can sometimes separate a vein of gold. The engineer suggested that if the junk man were to return to this land and dig even just a wee bit deeper, plenty of gold might be found.
And so the junk man returned — and dug and dug and dug. Or rather simply dug. It didn’t take long to hit gold. A mere three feet below where Darby and Uncle had stopped digging, there lay a huge resource of gold — the greatest gold stores the nation had seen to date.
Imagine Darby’s reaction when he heard this news — how a mere three feet away from where he’d once stood there lay a tremendous fortune! Are you imagining Darby’s reaction? Remember: Not only did Darby miss out on all this amazing gold - he now also owed relatives and neighbors lots of money for the machinery.
Are you imagining a man who’s filled with anger, resentment, failure, defeat, humiliation — a man lying face down in bed, drivel leaking from his mouth onto pillow case — a man feeling as if his entire life had been ruined?
If so, imagine again! Darby was far from defeated. He not only went on to pay back every dollar owed — he recouped his loss many times over! How is this possible? Darby cashed in on this first golden rule.
GOLDEN TOUCH RULE #1
A POWERFUL DESIRE CAN ALCHEMIZE DEFEAT INTO GOLD
After Darby found out about the junk man with the golden touch, he immediately took a job selling life insurance — so as to stay very focused on paying back his loans.
Darby was passionately determined not to be a failure. Each and every day, when Darby hit the streets to sell insurance, he’d push himself forward with a rousing reminder about how he should not have given up that time before — how quitting had cost him a huge fortune. If Darby ever felt ready to give up on a sale, he’d repeat the same motivational mantra: “I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop now because men say `no’ when I ask them to buy insurance.”
This mantra worked. Eventually Darby became one of a small group of fewer than fifty men who were able to sell more than a million dollars in life insurance annually - a very rare feat back then.
Alchemy is a great metaphor to keep in mind when dealing with adversity and setbacks. After all, often it’s after you’ve gone through the proverbial fire that you come out with the most valuable lessons.
DARBY’S LESSON IN A SINGLE VALUABLE GOLDEN NUGGET: A mind focused on gold is worth a mine of gold.
Best selling author Ekhart Tolle said it well when he said: “The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly. You usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.”
Translation: No matter what your monetary situation — no matter how much disaster and defeat you’ve been dealt — you can turn it around — by re-focusing your mind on your fire of desire.
All successful people share in common this fiery determination to master the game of life. There are no wishy washy Nobel Peace Prize Winners, no wishy washy CEO’s, no wishy washy rock stars.
Of course it’s difficult for the average person to remain passionately determined when greeted by bumps and roadblocks. But YOU are not an average person. Right? You are an EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL PERSON SNAGGING EXTREME SUCCESS — at least you will be ON MY WATCH while I’m coaching you!
I’m sure right now you’re convinced of the wisdom of golden rule number one. But as we know, there’s a thick line between KNOWING and DOING. Which is why Golden Touch Coaching can be so empowering. My Golden Touch coaching will keep you excited, optimistic and focused as you head towards snagging your goals - and gold!
I want you to build your beach house right near my beach house!
I want you to giggle your way to the bank as you make more money than you’ve ever made in your life — having more fun working than you’ve ever had in your life!
Find out more about Golden Touch Coaching today. Write to me at karen AT notsalmon DOT com to set up your first Golden Touch appointment now!
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