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There's at least one in every crowd. You know one or two of them yourself. We call them "
naysayers." No matter how terrific an idea may be that they are presented with, these people invariably have something unpleasant to say... about the idea, and/or the person who presented the idea. Day after day, you'll find these self-styled critics putting down someone else's thoughts, ideas, and actions.I cannot remember meeting one single "naysayer" who had achieved whatever it is they were derogating... nor even one successful person who had this type of negative attitude!! Not once in all of my travels. This reminds me of a clergyman, famed for his wisdom, who wrote,
"We are offended by a fault in someone... only after, or because, we have identified that fault... in ourselves."
Perhaps this is why we are often unwilling to open up to potentially valuable advice and suggestions from others: it's easier to do so than to face up to the fact that we haven't gone ahead and fixed up that particular area of our lives. After all, if we downgrade the suggestion, or the person issuing it, we successfully avoid looking at our own performance AND effort levels. Strikes me as a fine method of deflecting attention from our own laziness, hmm?
When Richard Little, a high school football star, was crippled in an accident, he quickly realized how much he disliked being with himself. Asking questions, he learned that most people get into their car, turn on the radio, go home and turn on the TV, and otherwise avoid spending time with themselves & determining WHAT needs fixing or improving, and creating a plan for doing so. He developed a course on learning how to get along better with self AND others, how to better prepare for job interviews, and how to set plans for one's life; but when he sought financing from various foundations, they all laughed at his multi-page applications, pointing out that he had no college degrees, or other "credentials" for justifying a grant.
I'll bet that 95% of the people who read this would "take the hint" after 30 different foundations rejected their applications. But not Rich. He waited until an amazing
seventy five foundations sent him rejection letters. Then he got really busy. Thirty more turned him down...forty more, & yes, fifty.A total of a hundred and forty foundations called to tell him it was a "no go." Do YOU have the fortitude to keep on going in the face of so much failure? Rich did. When the Kellogg Foundation called to tell him "Sorry, Rich, there's just no way we can see you starting this type of program for eighty thousand dollars, his heart sank yet again. The voice on the phone continued. "
Rich, it seems to us that a program like this just wouldn't work with eighty thousand dollars; so we're giving you a hundred and forty thousand dollars to start with."Last I heard, Rich Little's Skills Quest program was being taught in more than 5000 high schools around the world. He simply had no time to pay heed to the "
naysayers."This so-called 'semi-educated' kid even went on to secure the single largest grant of its type in history: more than 135 million, I said MILLION dollars in a single shot.
What is still inside of YOU?
Mom used to tell us kids, "
If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."The next suggestion I hear? I think I'll just stop without saying much, beyond "Thanks," or, "I see."
If the advice or suggestion seems to apply, or have value, I'd be silly not to take some action upon that advice. If not, I have no trouble remembering the phrase, "If it doesn't apply, let it fly." I'm inclined to look at whether or not the person issuing the advice or suggestion has recently, or ever, applied the recommendation themselves. If so, I'm certainly inclined to ask for some more details... because I've no wish to be a naysayer.
A great shortcut you can use? At least five times per day, preferably ten..at LEAST five times per day, catch somebody red-handed, in the act of doing something right.
We all have enough people -- parents, siblings, spouses, bosses, etc... who are just excellent at catching us in the act of doing something wrong. Most of these people are not very happy in their lives; and they probably don't realize that they pick on the people around them as a way of avoiding the task of looking at what THEY THEMSELVES are not doing towards reaching their goals and dreams.... It's always easier to point your finger than it is to realize that, every time you point your finger of blame... there's one finger pointing away... and three pointing back at us. Go ahead, point your finger at the screen, & look at your hand. See what I mean? One finger pointing away; three coming back at us.
There are enough experts at catching people doing something wrong. Become an expert, starting this very hour of your life if possible, at catching people doing something right. Let them know you've caught them.
I promise you.... As long as you do it sincerely, within a couple of weeks more and more and more people are just going to be thrilled to help you make your dream come true. Be sincere; be real; make sure they actually deserve your praise. The fruits of this one shortcut have brought me perhaps a thousand separate instances of 'extra cooperation' from people JUST IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS ALONE since I learned this shortcut.
CATCH PEOPLE IN THE ACT OF DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!!
Whenever she'd hear one of her 5 children degrading or making fun of someone else's efforts/dreams/input to a subject, my mother would quickly say
, "Don't knock it... unless you can do better."Isn't it funny how our mother seems to get wiser... as her children get older?
© Steve Rubin
ON WINNING
Remember when we were kids, and our parents, a relative, or perhaps a favorite elderly neighbor told us, "
Nothing is impossible when you set your mind to it?" Well, it's taken me a long, long time to think of something substantial that is impossible: It's impossible to learn less about anything. No matter how hard we might try, we cannot learn less about how to raise our children; do our jobs, expand our vocabularies; or any other area of human endeavor.
ANY TASK that you practice for 10 minutes per day is 3000 minutes per year.
ANY TASK that you practice for 10 minutes per day is 3000 minutes per year.
Let's be honest: Are all of us that happy with our performance levels? Vince Lombardi used to say,
"The quality of our lives is in direct proportion to our commitment to excellence -- regardless of our field of endeavor."Pat Riley is described as the "winningest coach in the history of pro basketball." After barely losing the 1986 World Championship to the Boston Celtics, the Lakers hired Pat to be the team's coach. The players felt that they'd given their best, & had squeezed out every last ounce of effort... yet had lost anyway. Pat's response? "Gentlemen, there are, as you know, five major areas of basketball play. Can each of you, superstars that you are, at superstar salaries, commit to increasing your performance just ONE percent in each of these five areas?" They agreed this was a reasonable goal for 12 of the world's greatest basketball players.
Pat noted that each player improving just 1% in each of the 5 areas would result in 12 men becoming 60% more effective as a team... and since 1% is such a tiny increase, you'd be correct in guessing that the actual improvement of each player was more than 1%: Every man on the team increased
5 to 50% in each area!! After the 1987 season was over, the new World Champions claimed it was their easiest year in memory. He did it again in NY, and now, 11 years later, Pat Riley is creating a similar environment with the Miami Heat basketball team: and they're winning!You 'blew it' when you tried to walk...hundreds & thousands of times, yet you never stopped trying!!! Do you realize that it took you two or three years just to learn how to tie your shoelaces, despite thousands of tries & knots?
ANY task you practice for 10 minutes per day is 3000 minutes per year.
You took at least a few minutes per day learning how to tie those laces, didn't you? Describe just one or two areas of life you'd like to have people recognize you as being very, very good at.
WRITE IT DOWN!!!Produce just 10 suggestions for improving your performance & satisfaction in each area. If you really think you can't, you're thinking like an idiot, because if I personally offer you two thousand dollars for each idea, you'll produce a whole stack of them. I'm trying to tell you that there'a a whole lot more than 2 grand waiting for you:
you have excellence awaiting you. Excellence consistently attracts money & raises. Along with your ideas, ask someone who IS doing better than you in that particular area. Obviously, they're doing something right, and in most cases, they'll be pleased that you think enough of them to ask; and will be happy to help...BUT
DO IT TODAY !!!!ANY task you practice for 10 minutes per day is 3000 minutes per year.
An astonishing total of 84 banks turned down Walter's idea of creating an animated feature before the main event in movie theaters across the country. How impressive that he didn't stop after 4 banks turned him down, or even 40 banks, or 70 banks... or 84. Bank #85 lent him $1500, he changed his puppet's name from Steamboat Willie to Mickey Mouse... and moved right into history. Walt Disney simply refused to quit.
There are tapes, books, magazines, & more.... designed to help you help yourself & those you care for. Friends,
you can't possibly learn less about ANY area of your life. And since you and I will only have one go-round on the road of Life, aren't we... aren't YOU... worth at least a touch of excellence?Henry Ford:
I assure you: excellence cannot occur accidentally;
it's all about
© Steve Rubin
EASY STREET, USA
Shortcuts to Power
Everything new that we learn and do, is a result of overcoming a powerful natural force called inertia... and then using a powerful natural force called inertia. Think about it: double use of a single power. This will bring serious, excellent changes in your life in the next 100 minutes. No kidding. You don't have to buy the books, the tapes, the videos. I'm here to tell you that the magic of using real, genuine power that you develop within minutes is here., & now: a condensed version of the best words out of the mouths of nearly 10,000 human beings in history whose names are well-known, long-dead or still alive. I release them in thousand-word chunks, more, no less. These are the magical Power Shortcuts, the true Power Gems of Life... because they work every time you use them. Use each one of them for 15 minutes pr day. Huge progress in days...every single time!!!
That's one reason we have thousands of millionaires in America. Oh, did I say thousands? Actually, you can accurately state that 35
groups of one hundred thousand people in this country claimed million-dollar INCOMES, not just net worths, actual income, for 1997. We have a total of 4.8 MILLION people in America who are millionaires (along with 172 of the world's 463 known billionaires ). In Suffolk County, NY, according to a front-page story by Newsday, more than 21,000 residents of the country claimed a million or more dollars in income to the IRS for 1996.... While 'next door,' in Nassau County, the number of residents claiming a million or more dollars' income on their tax returns for 1996....was more than FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND!!Can you imagine? Have you even HEARD of these two counties? In this tiny little corner of America, on an island perhaps 100 miles long by 20 miles wide, there are more than 65,000 people reporting a million or more dollars of income... each year!!!
If you filled every single professional baseball stadium in America with self-made millionaires, you'd have quite a few huge groups, wouldn't you? Well, guess what? NOW, in addition, fill every single professional football stadium in America with more of our US millionaires.... And you would REALLY have many, many stadiums filled with millionaires, wouldn't you? Put this in your pipe and smoke it: Even after all that, you'd still have more American millionaires with nowhere to sit.
Money is not THE measure of success; it's just one of them. We are living in the richest country in the richest era in all of human history. It's time for YOU to go for the gold, isn't it? TODAY is the only possible day in your life that you can perform with excellence, because
Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift... which we know
Because it's called... The
present.
The
present: a 24-hour gift in which the clock never stops, there are no time-outs, a 24-hour gift that you can accept as being just like yesterday or accept as a very special, ONE-TIME OPPORTUNITY to make it the single most exciting day of this entire year. What's so wonderful is that,Provided you're reaaaalllly putting forth your best effort every single day, at least a few of the next 20 days will indeed become remarkable, lifetime-memory kind of days of excellence... with the attending fruits and benefits.
I'm willing to make you a trade
: I'll give you a magical power in the next paragraph that will radically improve YOUR life in the next 3 to 30 days if you'll agree to just shut up. That's right. Act like a kid who wants to learn.You give me a brief, unrestricted belief in your brain's ability to solve a human problem,
& I'll remind you of your magical powers.
Give me a moment, & I'll give you a life. It comes from the mouths of so many, many people who have gone from rags to riches in sports, business, the arts.
If you don't get it directly from the horse's mouth, maybe you're spending too much time at the wrong end of the horse. Whether you are smart or stupid is NOT based on what you think or say. Your intelligence is based on what you do with your time. Do you fix the blame, or do you fix the problem? Here's my clear offer: For 20 days starting this minute, every single event in your life becomes an opportunity for mutual benefit. Ask yourself for better answers. You play pretend, as if you're a huge genius who can produce any answer given enough time, and you will begin producing answers that will rock your foundations with their excellence. It never fails, it works with every single person who uses these gems: I promise you immediate progress. Can you handle this simple task? Or does your doctorate/master's/life's experience get in the way of play? EVERY human achievement begins as a repeated fantasy.In the back of your head there is a very specific picture of where you would be & what you would be doing if you had a magic genie with 10 wishes custom-built just for you. Go ahead. Put yourself in that place as you read this. What would you have family-wise? Career? Money? Fitness? Socially? If you're doing it, then you feel what I am right now... I'm smiling as I think of my own, personal dreams come true.
We know that the human brain moves towards its most dominant thought, we know that the human brain never fails to give answers when repeatedly asked a question. What you're about to read will blow your mind because it works every time, according to a thousand role models who do it regularly: Each day, put down on paper 10 new ideas on how you would go about getting whatever it is that YOU most want in this life. Get compelling results w/in 22 days, or we buy you a new car.
I realize you're having a hard time realizing that this power is instant, and it all boils down to that simple statement:
"10 written ideas every day on how you'd go about getting whatever it is you most want."
Now, you want to guide your brain into higher gear? Pretend your very life depended upon it, or that you'll earn 100,000 dollars cash for every great idea.
Whatever you repeatedly pretend becomes closer to reality in a single day... w/in 22 days, you have huuuuge progress. In 100 days, you double your income. This powerful shortcut works every single time; therefore, when you repeatedly pretend two Items, you are guaranteed to have at least one of them be 20 steps closer to reality every 20 days. Pretend SOMETHING! Many of your ideas will be silly, just like mine. Maybe 4 or 5 of your two hundred ideas will be genius-like. Don't worry: by the time you get 200 ideas, you'll produce at least a few hugely excellent, affordable, effective ideas, & a dozen decent ones.Just try it once... ...10 ideas pr day... ...even if you're brain-dead, and can only produce 5 pr day, the laws of mathematics tell us that, in 20 days, you'll have 100 new ideas.
Granted, 50 to 80 of your ideas will be ridiculous, and/or unaffordable, etc.
Approximately 20 ideas will be very good... and three of them will be brilliant.
This technique, this hypershortcut, never, ever, ever, ever fails.
ANY
task you practice for 10 minutes per day is 3000 minutes per year.It works 100% of the time, and you'll have adequate proof....
One of the huge extra benefits that come with this? You'll love it:
It causes your brain to be exponentially more opportunity-conscious.
Never mind what that means...
you'll see extraordinary results in a matter of days with just this ONE shortcut.You have an unconditional guarantee:
Success at anything can be duplicated by you. Period. What do you most want? The human brain can only move towards its most dominant thought. Instead of allowing external events to rule your day-to-day responses, take control of them for just 20 days. No matter what happens, your brain is guided right into "RESOLUTION" mode. We have a choice: fix the blame or fix the problem. Use your magnificent brain to get past the problem & move to solution, solutions, solutions!! It works every time, & everything in your life doubles, from love & money, to islands in the sun.Inertia is tough. If you're not pursuing great dreams in today's environment, you're a flaming idiot. Why not change into a smart, successful person in this next month, guaranteed to last forever? That's the only thing standing between you and living your dreams. It begins with a single moment of decision!!!! IT'S THAT SIMPLE !!!!!! Overcome inertia and take Step One: Identifying 200 ideas within a single month (I prefer to do 20 per day every day for 10 days, most folks seem comfortable with 10 ideas per day, you'll do as you wish, just shut up & do it!!
Even if it's just 5 new ideas... EVERY SINGLE DAY for 20 days...
Your mind will literally,
AUTOMATICALLY find itself focused upon and finding more and more and more opportunities that are directly related to your dream.You'll be pleased to see people noticing over the next couple of days, months... happy life. And if you think this isn't a life-changing instant Power Tool, take a look at your own life. If it's not a dream life, now...
maybe you'd benefit faster than you think with just 10 ideas per day.
ANY
task you practice for 10 minutes per day is 3000 minutes per year.
ON WINNING
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I know that 90 or more percent of you will fill in the blanks later. You lose. About 10% of you are smart enough to fill them in now.
So, you want to have _____________ and learn how to ______________ or get that _______________.
Until you actually pick up a pencil & jot some answers,
please don't read any further.For those of you who wrote any detailed answers, or who do so in the next few seconds........ I can and will UNCONDITIONALLY guarantee that those who WRITE answers in the lines above by page's end will see marked, observable progress within 10 days of today; you are proving that you are willing to take a step.
Dozens of the greatest minds in history have observed that the smartest people are those who tap into the deep, unstoppable power found in the word "now;" not merely once, but many times many times over.The power of "NOW" starts kicking in as soon as you want:
10 minutes, 3 days, or 20 seconds.
If you practiced something for 1000 minutes, would you be better at it than if you did not practice? Dumb question, right? If it's so dumb, what was the last thing important enough for you to practice at for 1000 minutes? If you can put down on paper just one thing you'd really really like, I will give you a magical secret that will bring you closer to your dream, in just days or minutes than you've ever been in your life all added up to this minute. No kidding. Here's the magical secret, and it is more powerful than you have ever understood up until this minute: First, write down 1 or 2 things that you really, REALLY want: ____________________ ____________________________. Now use another sheet, and write down 5 to 10 ideas, crazy or not, for turning it into reality. Do this for 15 minutes per day for 20 days. Long before you get to idea # 300, you will see some amazing things going on in your mind, and your life. Hey, it's your choice. I'm only here to remind you of the incredible powers you developed as a child to learn how to tie your shoelace (I had a smart dog, a German Shepherd, yet I never once saw him chew gum, or heard him say, "Excuse me" when he burped
). Your brain executes many thousands of decisions just in the course of tying your shoelace!! WAKE UP! It took you a whole lot longer to learn how to speak English or to drive a car than it does to create a list of what you want to do in this next year, and how you can go about doing it!!
Creating sentences, & deciding what words come out of your mouth? Show me a computer that can create and state a given desire. As you read these words, you are right now capable of performing many thousands of tasks, from steering a bicycle, to talking your way into or out of something.
Every computer chip on this planet all added up together is but a fraction of the 100 billion-plus neurons you've got; each capable of a million functions. Your Reticular Activating System is nothing more than a fancy secretary. It filters roughly eight million bits of info per second, deciding what to send "Upstairs" to the conscious mind, and what to send "Downstairs" to the memory storage department. When you decide that you're hungry, the Reticular System searches your brain for all stored info: Burger King? Chinese? Do I have $$? Do I have time? What do I feel like eating? You suddenly remember a new pizza place a mile back. You saw it when you passed; the Reticular System decided it wasn't important enough to send "Upstairs," so it simply stored the information until you needed it again. It searches AND FINDS the info we look for, & brings it "Upstairs" so we can make a conscious choice.
With a phone to your ear, taking a drink, slipping off of your shoes: you're making thousands of tiny, yet super-sophisticated decisions. Find a cat, or a giraffe that can hop in the car & go buy some milk! I promise you, no matter who you are, from President of the United States, to a guy in the group home: Ask a question with repetition, and belief, and you will always, always, always and without fail produce many answers to that question. I'm giving you a huge power to tap right now. This is true power. Power is the "ability to act." You have the equipment for first-class thinking.
At all times, you are using billions of separate computers within your brain that know how to work together.
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Since you use such incomprehensibly sophisticated methods for understanding what a "$" sign means, automatically and with little "conscious" thought, don't you see the logic in tapping into those same powers, ON PURPOSE, for accomplishing things you haven't done yet but would like to? Reality is proof that The chances of it happening accidentally are not as good as when there is specific and direct effort toward achieving it. That's agreeable, isn't it? Tapping into the power of NOW is your first step. Even if it's just writing down precisely what you want and why you want it, it only takes minutes for things to happen. You think I'm kidding? Prove me wrong. Prove me right. With deeds, not words. Just stop talking and DO IT! Ooookay? Just 5 to 10 ideas per day until you have 300 ideas; some silly, some great, some cheap, some outrageous. Do it. Apply just this one power shortcut for 14.4 minutes pr day. Within 30 days you will have ample evidence that your income is increasing. Within 100 days, you'll see at least a doubling of your income. You should have no problem with my statement that you are offered an u n c o n d i t i o n a l guarantee that these power shortcuts are universally applicable, from developing new skills for learning guitar, getting top grades with MUCH less effort, a new language, making more money, running five miles... or learning to tie your shoelaces. Do it, and then opine.
Of all the powers that only humans possess, I suspect the two greatest powers of all are, simply enough: the power to create a customized, personalized desire... & secondly, the ability take a set of planned steps toward attaining that desire... from a date with that dreamboat, or losing 30 lbs... or finding a way to invest in quality time with loved ones... or owning your own home within 36 months. As always, the choice is exclusively yours.
I know you've got more than 200,000 temperature detectors in your body, and 107 million visual receptors of incredible sophistication in each eye, more than 500 THOUSAND touch detectors, 48,000 hi-tech receivers in each ear, more than FOUR MILLION pain-sensitive structures in your body... and literally tens of thousands of millions of computers to handle all that information at a rate that makes lightning speed look like a crawl. With all this and so much more at your command, are you really trying to tell me that you can't double your income in the next 100 to 200 days? Oh, you're a slowpoke, and it might take you 300, or even 400 days. Gee, what a bummer. Four hundred days to make a dream come true... Are YOU capable of committing to a dream come true? 330 days x 15 minutes pr day = 5000 minutes of practice.
"But if I've never done it before, how am I supposed to know how?"
Power Shortcut: find people who are already doing it.
In 31/2 years, I was able to study 5,200 of the most successful people in history (yes, mostly modern history). Tapes, books, research, experimentation reports, videos, & more, full time! Throughout this period, I tried to list every single commonality I could find among these people. At the same time, I experimented with some of the commonalities in my own life. I was supposed to be in a whellchair for life, thanks to a drunken driver at 100+ MPH. It seemed to me that nooooooobody knows better about how to do something..... than people who have done it. Not talked about it, advised about it, suggested, demanded/offered; no, no, no, we're talking about PEOPLE WHO SHUT UP, WENT OUT AND DID IT.I specifically looked for people who wanted something specific, & did it not just once, but numerous times. Boy, was I in for some surprises! (EXAMPLE: Of more than 5000 people who hit the top in their field, they all, without exception, had a long history of screwups, failures, and/or inactivity prior to becoming superexcellent). Like it or not, 90% of you, no matter what your education levels are, are so stupid that you will read only one chapter of a book, let alone use the magic found in so many pages. It's just a fact of life. I know you're smart enough to know HOW, I'm merely observing that more than 90% of you are not smart enough to DO.
Remember: It is not what you know, rather, it is what you DO with what you know that determines your success or failure in everything you do from birth to death.
Since you use this huge, huge power every day for minor things, why not apply the same rules to major things?
Obviously, power shortcuts produce results: I walk, run, ride my bikes and live each day with passion and excellence in mind; I've broken or shattered records at company after company. It's not me, kids, it's the Power Shortcuts used by Winners. Identify what you want, and in 20 days, produce 300 ideas for making it happen. You simply cannot comment upon it until you've given it a fair shot. Just brainstorm your way up!About 5% of you are going to get excited, and you'll be smart enough to actually DO IT, while fools won't. Those who write 5 or 10 ideas per day will DEFINITELY accomplish more this month than you have in the past 6 months. In every examined walk of life, top coaches, millionaires, Olympic gold medalists, entertainers, artists, politicians, ball players... literally every examined walk of life... it turns out that roughly 5% of every group on earth rises to the top of their field. Are these people smarter? Better educated? Better connected w/ people in high places? Wealthier? The answer in each category is a flat, distinct, "NO!"
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It's been proven so many times that I'm not even going to waste your time establishing the basis for the statement. I'll simply ask you to accept it as a given. So, what is it about these 5 OF EVERY 100 who rise to the top? Do they have commonalities? Do they do or possess something special that we "regular joes and janes" can tap into? I give you an unconditionally guaranteed "YES!" Yes, they have commonalities. Yes, they possess something special that you and I can tap into. Wait until you hear the best part: you can tap into the same resources that
they are, and begin effecting big changes in your life --- in a matter of minutes! MINUTES!!!Knowing it is insufficient
; the magic is found in doing it NOW.Is there a catch? You bet:
The toughest catch/obstacle to you making radical improvements in your life is nothing more, or less, than making a decision to actually do it!I kid you not. The decision to begin a new effort to get _____ or to be _____ this is where your biggest challenge is found. Not in the 'how.' There are dozens & dozens of ways to do 99% of everything you'd ever want to do. That's a rock-solid promise. Finding the "how" is rarely ever a problem, my friend. The dream-breaking problem is finding a "why." Get through this first step, and you will come to understand IN THE NEXT 10 DAYS that you really ARE making big, big changes in your life. One thing we know for sure: when we have a strong enough "why," we always find a "how." You've done it before when you absolutely had to have a certain amount of money by a certain time, or a report/project that had a ridiculous deadline.... WHEN IT WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH, YOU MANAGED THE 'impossible,' DIDN'T YOU??!!
Most people are, by definitition, too stupid to act upon the information they already possess, let alone new info. They simply don't want it badly enough. What do YOU want? Why do you want it? For example this page contains information. If you understand it, and see its power, big deal. If you see the power, and USE it... you win.Karyn Johnson, aged 15, living in Harlem, being poor & ugly, was a fine example of 'loser.' With a baby daughter, no husband, she had to go on welfare, although she hated the idea. The kid had to eat. Became a drug addict. Did unspeakable things to get drugs, often w/ her daughter present. Ate out of garbage cans; the baby, too. Five long years of welfare. Finally put the kid into daycare, and got a job putting makeup on people in a local playhouse. Didn't take too long to lose the job. Got another job putting makeup on people in a funeral home. Ghastly work, but she was hungry, and determined to make it on her own. Lost that job, too. Karyn talked to her 5-yr old daughter, and said, "Honey, let's change everything in our lives, & start fresh." She began simply enough: taking a step EVERY day.
They moved out of NY, and started again. Three years later, she repaid NY City's Welfare Dep't every single penny she'd accepted. You see, Karyn Johnson really did make a whole bunch of changes in her life, including her willingness to take a step or two every single day. She tapped into the power of
NOW, an amaaaazing power. It's the most powerful reason she became the highest-paid woman in Hollywood... although you might better know her as.... Whoopi Goldberg... If she could do what she did, what about you?What will you do
TODAY?What are the first 4 ideas for getting my wish to become reality?
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Who can possibly help me? ________________________________ _____________________________
See? You're on your way already, you
SUPERSTAR in-the-making!!Go, go, GO!
© Steve Rubin
EASY STREET, USA
WHY IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO CLOSE YOUR MOUTH
Brian Dickinson's head is gripped in a brace because his neck can no longer support it. The only movements he can make are with his facial muscles, which can still smile; & with his eyes. A camera in his computer focuses on that eye movement, calculating his gaze from the way his eye reflects a beam of infrared light. He looks at the screen, the computer types any letter he looks at for more than half a second.
Graduating from Harvard in 1959, one of Dickinson's first jobs was assistant reporter for the New York Times. Then he took a 'temporary' job with the Providence-Journal. Three grown sons later, he & wife Barbara have decided to stay. It was a life of happiness & professional satisfaction, until five years ago, when ALS struck home, as it strikes one in 10,000. It started slowly-a mysterious limp, & increasing weakness in his limbs which led to painful falls. The diagnosis was made within a year: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It destroys nerve cells in the brain & spinal cord, severing their pathways to muscles, but leaves the mind untouched. It has allowed Dickinson himself to witness with total clarity the gradual paralysis of his arms AND legs, his ability to swallow, to speak, even to breathe on his own. He's already passed the point where 95 percent of ALS victims simply choose to stop breathing. But Brian Dickinson has chosen to keep on breathing & to keep on writing. The more his body fails, the better his mind gets. He asks better questions of himself.
With his life's passion & career centered on words, imagine the loss when his speech grew slurred & then stopped altogether.
It defies explanation: this man simply refuses to quit. His columns are becoming nationally famous, even as he battles one of mankind's most mysterious, lethal diseases. Every day he reaches out for one ounce more.
What else could possibly be added to this? Details of Christopher Reeves, & his own inspiring story of struggle, determination, and success? The way Vinnie Pazienza took a broken back, and 'permanent paralysis,' stood up, walked... ran... & returned to being a champion pro boxer?!! Reminders of the teenage girl with polio, & special braces... y'know, Wilma Rudolph and her gold-medal performances at the 1960 Olympics? The fastest woman in all of history... and she wasn't ever even supposed to WALK again, let alone run!! Two grown men crippled by polio.
One became a beggar; one became US President.
Carpe diem, from Latin, translates into English: "SEIZE THE DAY." I could think of worse things, can't you? That's precisely what all of your role models and mine make a habit of doing: they seize the day and make the most of each day, treating every day as an important, exciting event; as an opportunity to live with passion and adventure.
DO IT !!!!!!Ricky Henderson broke 2 records: Stole more bases than any other player... & got tagged out (trying to steal bases) more than any other player. Forget the players who have lifetime totals of 300 strikeouts. Three men alone, added up together, struck out literally thousands of times in baseball: Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, & Mickey Mantle!! As you well know, these 3 men also hit the most home runs. Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times for his 714 home runs. Hank Aaron was close behind. Mickey Mantle actually struck out 3 times for every home run he hit!! Ty Cobb, with 90 broken records, was the greatest hitter of all time, with an astonishing lifetime average of .367, which is better than 99% of all baseball players can do in ONE year... was the greatest of all time, even though he only succeeded one time for every three tries!!! Think about it. Blew it 2 out of every 3x!!
W. Mitchell survived having his face burned off from a gasoline fire. In 2 years he was back, succeeding again. He ran for Lt Gov of Colorado with a button that said, "
Vote for me; I won't just be another pretty face." Then he barely survived a plane crash, which left him paralyzed below the waist....so he let them take off his useless toes to create new fingers (the old ones had also burned off). Now get this.... He gets out of the hospital... AND STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN!! He's got a successful radio show in Denver or thereabouts. What are YOU doing today to get ahead? In the words of the great, great James Earl Jones, "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!"Who cares
what you are capable of doing?What we care about is what you're
willing to do. Today. Now.Forget Carpe Diem
.....
Seize
This
Moment !!!
Compliments of
EASY STREET, USA © Steve Rubin
Golden Losers
William J Blythe IV started out life with an imposing name. His dad was gone too soon. His stepfather, Roger, used to beat Billy's mom when alcohol would take over in the house. Billy, living in Hope, Arkansas, didn't have too much going for him, did he? Well, he did have 2 things going for him: he was a decent student, & his mom preached the value of persistence.
With the Boy's Club, he went to Washington, D.C.; took a tour of the White House, and actually got to shake hands with the President of the United States. A photographer happened to be less than 5 feet away, and took a photo of the US President shaking hands with young Billy Blythe... There's a lot to be said of that photograph, and of the smiling, near-arrogant gleam in the eye of that 16-yr old kid.
I still have a copy of that photograph, and I'd swear you can hear Billy Blythe's thoughts as he smiled into the eyes of JFK: "I admire you, I want to be like you, and someday I'm going to be US President."
T'would be hard to decry or deny the thought. That young man was adopted by his stepfather, Roger. Naturally, he changed his last name. 28 years after the photo was taken, William Jefferson Clinton was sworn in as President of the United States. Four years later, he took the oath of office for a second time.
On Nov 8, 1970, New Orleans was losing a football game to Detroit, 17-16. Last play of the game. Everyone's wondering who's this 'big old crippled guy' walking onto the field, since it was quite obvious that the man was missing a hand AND the front of his right foot. The announcer advised that they were watching Tom Dempsey, the Patriot's official kicker. It was a kick heard round the world: Tom Dempsey, born with what YOU might call 'handicaps,' kicked the single longest field goal in the history of professional football: an astonishing 63 yards!! Needless to say, New Orleans won the game.
I remember reading of a baseball player who made it to St Louis' professional team many years ago. Never hit a home run, never saved a game with a single play, but by God he was a professional player....even though he only had one arm!!! Like Jim Abbott, I suppose, who recently pitched 90 MPH fastballs for San Fransisco... EVEN THOUGH HE ONLY HAS ONE ARM!!!
What's YOUR excuse for not trying?One thing these people have is the same identical first step:
the ability to describe with exquisite precision what they want.
Most of them have written notes on what they were going for.
Third, they asked for what they wanted more than anyone else they knew.
No matter who you are or what you're doing,
there is literally a 90% chance that you're not performing at your best.
This is a clear challenge to you. What's it gonna be?
© Steve Rubin
EASY STREET, USA (516) EASY STREET
Rubies
Did you know that, carat for a carat,
rubies are worth far more than diamonds?So, you want powerful, IMMEDIATE shortcuts to success?
Interviewing more than 1500 corporate and institutional leaders, I heard most of them, one by one, DIRECTLY attribute their successes to their use of
written goals. Specifically, they refer to them every day. Ask John Leonis, CEO of Litton Industries what he attributes his success to, & he tells you not to let a day pass by without a written plan... and then ask the same question of NY Stock Exchange Director Anton, or Zayle Diamond's CEO, Bob DiNicola... & they all answer almost identically! Either you get it from the horse's mouth, or get caught at the wrong end of the horse.What happens after hundreds of top leaders tell you again & again, "
Lifetime & yearly goals, monthly & daily steps?"Like most of you, I'd say, "
Too much trouble, writing out goals every day... how can it possibly have a direct impact on the quality or quantity of anything in my life?" Yet, I hate to argue with the horse's mouth, for fear of ending up at the other end. I can tell you that there's a 90-1 chance against you personally being smart enough to use the raw, instant power on this page. I refuse to be in that 90%. How about you?
Human beings do not end up
anywhere by accident When you go buy milk, you never get to the store by accident.You have a very specific route in mind, just as you do when you drive a long distance to go somewhere. Whether we arrive somewhere as a result of being blown about by the winds created by OTHER PEOPLE'S DECISIONS, or whether we arrive as a result of own OWN decisions, be certain that you understand that we all end up somewhere. That 'somewhere' is called a destination
. Destination means the same thing as destiny. What is your destination at the end of this year, this month? What is your destination for life? What is your destiny?Either you arrive following your own plan, or you arrive following someone else's plan for you.
It all boils down to this:
Either you have a written plan, or you don't.Create a direction to move in, & a written plan for doing so, or you'll serve a man or woman who does.
In fact, this is already true in your own life, right now, isn't it?
Either you're serving your own goals, or someone else's.
This very page is the place to start.
Play a mental video game for a good long minute, & answer, IN WRITING:"If I had time, money, family support, & belief in myself.. if I knew for sure that I could not fail, I'd definitely:
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WHY do I want it? How will I benefit from this?
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If I do NOT do this, I will have to accept that
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If I only do ONE thing today towards achieving this, I can at least
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Consistently-high producers do indeed have certain commonalties. The simple task on this page is one of the most powerful such commonalties you will ever be aware of in this life. I realize that 95% of the people who read this page are truly stupid. The unassailable proof will be found in the next 100 seconds. You see, most of you will read this page and say, "Great stuff!! I'm going to use it myself, just as soon as _______." Those are the stupid ones.
How sad that you think this probably applies only to other people,
& not the person now holding this piece of paper, hmm?
Of all who read this, only 5 in every 100 will be smart enough to start filling in the blanks above....
As always, we will have perfect proof of YOUR intelligence, or stupidity... in the next 100 seconds.
© Steve Rubin ---
simply because I believe in YOU