Volume VII, Issue 25
ISSN: 1544-6913
July 1, 2009
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IN THIS ISSUE
(1)
Theme – RESPONSIBILITY
(2) Three
Articles Featured This Week
(3) Creativity
– The One Quality that All Successful People Have Is Being Able
to ...
(4) Powerful Presentations
– How to Get Where You Want to Go
(5) QUOTATIONS
(6) Become an Outrageously Powerful
Presenter. Use This E-Book for Taking the RESPONSIBILITY
(7) Storytelling
Power –
Take on the RESPONSIBILITY of Being Your Tribe’s
Scribe
(8)
Freelance Living – RESPONSIBILITY
Is Always a Sign of Trust
(9) Letters and Feedback
from You, Our Readers
(10) Who Is Chris King
Anyway?
(11) Subscribe/Unsubscribe
Information
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(1)
Theme – RESPONSIBILITY
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and RESPONSIBILITY to give something back by becoming more.” - Tony Robbins, American author
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own RESPONSIBILITY.” - Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady
I chose the above quotations because both Tony Robbins and Eleanor Roosevelt have been great influencers in my life. I chose the theme for this issue – RESPONSIBILITY – because of another influencer that I have been following for the past year – Mike Dillard, master network marketer.
In a recent “Ask Mike” e-newsletter, he pointed out that what transpires in our lives and businesses is our RESPONSIBILITY.
Mike had received an e-mail letter in which the writer was complaining and whining about the fact that his upline had not helped him and he wondered what Mike would suggest on how he should handle this obstacle to success. After all, it was the upline’s fault.
I loved Mike’s answer. Basically, he told the letter writer that it was his own lack of RESPONSIBILITY that was holding him back. In no uncertain terms, Mike talked about the choices we make. He told about his own slow ascent to "making it” in the network marketing industry. It took him five years of RESPONSIBLY working at it, not giving up and learning everything he could to become a success.
If I have learned anything over the years, I know that we are RESPONSIBLE for the choices we make. We can blame others and cite circumstances beyond our control. However, we are responsible for how we handle setbacks and those external events that give us challenges.
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(2) Three Articles Featured This Week
Visit
http://www.powerfulpresentations.net
to read, "Tips
and Tricks for Thinking on Your Feet.”
Visit http://www.storytellingpower.com
to read "Storytellers Unite – Let’s All Spread the
Word!”
Visit
http://www.freelanceliving.com
to read, "Getting the
Word Out by Creating Your Own E-Newsletter.”
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(3) Creativity –The One Quality that All Successful People Have Is Being Able to ...
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept RESPONSIBILITY... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on RESPONSIBILITY.” - Michael Korda, American writer
...Take on RESPONSIBILITY. You and I may have the greatest and most creative idea in the world, but if we procrastinate and don’t become RESPONSIBLE, someone else will.
I know that I have mentioned this before, that no matter how inspiring and motivational an info-product and/or a speech is, many experiencing it never take action.
So, to reap the successful rewards Korda speaks here of, embrace and follow through with RESPONSIBILITY. Even if it doesn’t work out exactly as you planned it, you are still one step closer to success!
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(4) Powerful Presentations – How to Get Where You Want to Go
“Accept RESPONSIBILITY for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”- Les Brown, American businessman
Les Brown, an incredibly powerful presenter, is paralleling Korda’s quotation with his.
Yes, a mentor and/or a coach and/or a mastermind team can offer help and encouragement, but if we don’t accept the necessary RESPONSIBILITY to do what it takes to become a powerful presenter it isn’t going to happen.
Today, I received an e-mail with the subject line, "Happy New Year!” We are halfway through 2009 and the writer was pointing this out and suggesting it is like a new year and time to re-visit our goals and resolutions. Do it. I am!
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________________QUOTATIONS_______________
“In the last analysis, the individual person is RESPONSIBLE for living his own life and for ‘finding himself.’ If he persists in shifting his RESPONSIBILITY to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.”- Thomas Merton, American author “The price of greatness is RESPONSIBILITY.”- Winston Churchill, British statesman “Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take RESPONSIBILITY for forming.”- Jim Rohn, American businessman “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the RESPONSIBILITY for changing them.” – Denis Waitley, American author “The
happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely
terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth
of accepting total RESPONSIBILITY for every
part of their life.” - Brian Tracy, American
speaker and motivator |
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(6) Become an Outrageously Powerful Presenter. Use This E-Book for Taking the RESPONSIBILITY
Here’s what I’ve got: I have written the e-book, “How to Leave Your Audiences Begging for More.”
It
will teach you everything you need to know to become an Outrageously
Powerful Presenter. Whether or not your aspirations are to become powerful
on the platform, or just to communicate powerfully day to day, you will
learn how to be known as a powerful communicator by reading and
working through this e-book. But you must devote your time and courage
to use it use it to become outrageously powerful. Let it answer all
of your questions and take RESPONSIBILITY for your
future.
Go to: http://www.OutrageouslyPowerfulPresenter.com and give yourself the gift of superb communication skills. The perfect way to start this Spring!
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(7) Storytelling Power – Take on the RESPONSIBILITY of Being Your Tribe’s Scribe
“It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the RESPONSIBILITY for being a scribe of your tribe.”-Ajay Naidu, American actor
Stories are so loved and so needed, I relate completely to Naidu’s advice. It is said that when someone dies, a library dies with them. Don’t let that happen to the members of your tribe.
What do I mean by “tribe?” It is your family members, those who belong to your favorite groups and organizations, the others in the company you work for, your neighborhood, your community.
Even if you don’t feel you are a great story teller or writer, still become the scribe. It won’t take long for you to become caught up in it, and be loved for it. We all need scribes.
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(8) Freelance Living – RESPONSIBILITY Is Always a Sign of Trust
“RESPONSIBILITIES are given to him on whom trust rests. RESPONSIBILITY is always a sign of trust.” - James Cash Penney, American businessman
If you have ever done any selling or marketing of any kind, you know the theory that people buy from those they know, like, and trust.
I feel that with the lack of ethics and integrity today, there is more skepticism and less trust of companies, people, and businesses than in the times of J.C. Penney.
When we exhibit sincerity and take on RESPONSIBILITY - especially for unpopular projects - we will build that so needed and revered trust. Those we trust will still be around and thriving long after shaky economics are over. Work to be one of them!
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Letters and Feedback from You, Our Readers
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Who Is Chris King Anyway?
Chris King of Creative Keys loves what she calls her "Portfolio
Career." What is that, you ask? It is a life filled with a variety
of different careers. For Chris, it includes website design and development,
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