The 25 Keys to Dreaming Big

By David Finkel Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. --Goethe Everything happens because of a dream. If youre not living your dream, youre living someone elses dream. Look at a normal life for the average person today. You get up earlier than you really want to because the alarm goes off. Rush through a work-out (or wish you had time for one) and go to a job that occupies most of your working time. The dreams of your childhood are long past. Now, it's about working, providing for a family, and maybe, someday, you'll have some time for you. If youre working for someone else, chances are youre working on someone elses dream. Now heres the amazing part. The owner of the company might never have purposely chosen the course of his business, so its not even his dream. His mother always had the dream that someday her son would own his own business or his high school math teacher told him he was gifted in math and needed to do something in that field. He might have married someone his family told him he should marry (through spoken or unspoken comments and actions), lived in a city and neighborhood where someone else thought he should live and work. It's a life of chance and passive coincidence. No wonder we go through midlife crises! Its our subconscious waking up and saying, Hey wait a minute! What happened to those great dreams we had once upon a time? Some people decide to start their own business in hopes that this is the way to personal freedom. The entrepreneurial spasm lasts long enough to quit a job and start working for their own business. But, for most people, they run their own business exactly the way they used to work a job. The difference is that instead of just one boss, they now have a whole lot of bosses to keep happy. We call them customers or clients. The business owner still has no control and still isnt following her deepest, most precious dreams. Ask yourself: If you have your own business, is it run exactly the way you want it to? If you work for someone else, are you living your highest purpose? Are you achieving what you wanted in your life right now? A big part to being a Maui Millionaire is purposely choosing the life you want to lead. Then its a matter of setting the game up so you get exactly what you want. If you dont choose where youre going, youll never get there. The dream is the beginning. Its the seed and spark that grows into a life of abundance and wealth. Rediscover Your Dreams As a child, we had dreams. They were in the language of children because we were children. Then we put aside many of those childish dreams and grew up. Of course, growing up meant that we followed what the adults around us said being a grown up was. We gave up on the big dreams. Instead, we started substituting goals for dreams. If you were raised in a typical American household, those goals had to do with success and money. They focused on the outer achievements, not on inner values and dreams. It's pretty ironic that with the primary focus on those kind of achievements, more and more people find their wealth slipping away. Could it be that there is something fundamentally off with how the average person thinks about the future? Of course! And in this section of the book you'll learn how to tap back into your real passion and purpose in life as you clarify your big dreams. The big dreams of a Maui Millionaire are not always brand new dreams. Youre not reinventing dreams. Youre rediscovering the dreams of your childhood. Now, though, youre doing it with the years of experience and education that allow you to use the language of adults, with the heart and faith of a child. Dream No Small Dreams If youre committed to going out there and pursuing a dream, make sure the dream is worthy of your time and attention. Seek the game worth playing. If your current life doesnt have a dream big enough to risk the game, then find one that does. Find a dream so juicy, so appealing, and so powerful that it compels you to work to reach it. It calls to you, sings to you, sinks its hooks into you and won't let you go. Whats a dream that is so powerful that you will live part of your life for it? In the next few chapters, we're going to look at how to rediscover the dreams you've had and then supersize them in Maui fashion to create something even bigger and bolder. We believe that you were born to do something great, and now it's time to rediscover exactly what that greatness is! Dream Big! Corporations pay thousands of dollars to work on articulating their company vision. The corporate vision generally isnt just about making money. It's about the deeper reasons why the business exists and the powerful passions that fuel the organization. The same is true for us. You have a personal vision as well. Sadly most of us dont bother to take the time and energy necessary to articulate our own vision -- the dreams that make everything we do worthwhile. Without a dream to pursue, our spirit wilts and our soul shrinks. Your big dream is your personal vision that taps into the passion you have in your life. Passion is the energy of your heart. It drives you to perform at the highest possible level. It gives you the fuel to keep going when others around you quit. Passion dares you to ask more, to do more, to be more. Passion allows you to make mistakes, get knocked down, and get up for another round. Passion is the limitless energy that allows you to achieve extraordinary results. It's the juice that makes life so sweet. What is so important to you that you would invest part of your life going after it without any direct reward or compensation, just because you felt so powerfully moved by that dream? Thats a first step in determining the dreams that arent just merely financial. If your most compelling desire right now is to create a certain amount of money or passive cash flow, ask yourself -- why? Imagine you have all the money and financial success youve ever wanted, then what? When you achieve that level of wealth, what are you going to do with the money? Who is the person you dream of being? Thats how you can tap into the most compelling aspect to those dreams. Three Ways to Re-Discover Your Dreams Sometimes finding out what our dreams actually are can be the hardest part. Here are some ideas to jump start the process. Technique One: Do a dream download. Consider who would you love to be . . . what would you love to do . . . to have. Thats your passion. Think about what you are good at. Thats your talent. Reflect on whats most important to you. Those are your values. Now, what were you born to do? Thats your destiny. Take a blank piece of paper and put it in front of you. Set a timer or ask someone to time you for 10 minutes. Pick up a pen (not a pencil!) and write. You might make a list of dreams. Or you might describe your dream life. Or, perhaps you just answer the questions above. Whatever it is, keep writing. Don't stop until the timer stops. Technique Two: Make a dream collage. Assemble a stack of magazines, blank poster board, a glue stick and a pair of scissors. Cut out pictures and create a poster of your dream life. Include pictures of whatever speaks to you. Supersize your dream collage. Get a few friends together and each work on the project individually. Each person will create a collage of his or her life today on one side of the poster board. Assemble a dream collage on the other side of the poster board that will show your life five years from now. Technique Three: Talk to your friends. Chances are your friends, family and business colleagues know things about you that you dont even know. We tend to look at ourselves through the eyes of others who have been critical of things weve done. Have you ever noticed how you remember the one bad comment you got about something you did and cant for the life of you remember the dozen good comments you received? Were conditioned to look for the fault in ourselves. That helps us find the things we need to improve on, but it also means that we overlook the things we do well. Spend a lifetime working on your faults and youll live a lifetime being mediocre. Instead look for those things that you have a talent for and that you are passionate about. Chances are the things you do well will unlock the secret of your dreams. How can you find out what those dreams are? Your friends might hold the answer -- ask them. Send them a letter or e-mail and ask for their help. David Finkel is one of the nation's most respected wealth masters. A former Olympic-level athlete, he is a self-made multimillionaire and the cocreator of Maui Mastermind, the world's most exclusive wealth retreat. 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The Summer: Great Career Enhancers

By George F Franks III People think of summer as a time to leave work early, take vacations, visit the beach and read a good book. Summer is good for all those things. But it is also the perfect time of the year for evaluating your professional life and addressing areas in need of personal development. Evaluate The first and most important step is to evaluate where you are versus your career and professional goals. Are you on track? Falling behind? Ahead of your peers? These apply not just to titles and compensation but also experiences and responsibilities. Where to you see yourself in a year? Five years? Are you on track to meet those career goals? If not, identify, as specifically as possible, the gaps and what steps you must take to address the gaps. Education Education, whether a college degree, an advanced degree or a professional certification is one of the most common gaps identified during the evaluation process. Young professionals and junior executives are often too busy and put off taking on additional coursework. This is a huge mistake. If it is not done early in the career it is never done. And bosses and more senior executives not only are forgiving when the educational work is taken on by workers early in their careers, they often cut them some slack in terms of their day-to-day workload to off-set it. Find a program, register for it and start in September. If too late for September, register for the winter program. Skills Everyone has skill gaps. Whether it is technology, writing, public speaking or analytics and financials, evaluate your specific areas of skill deficit. Summer is an excellent time to take classes, do reading or on-line work to fill in those skill deficits. Summer is also a good time to practice your newly enhanced skills at the workplace. Reading Professional journals and books abound. Find those that are most directly related to not only where you are today but where you want to be professionally in five to ten years. Read all you can at the professional and technical level. White papers on professional topics are always good to have in your arsenal of knowledge for meetings too. Find out what the movers and shakers who are above you in the organization are reading. Read those books and journal and then read others in addition to those. Networking One of the biggest mistakes that employees of corporations and large organizations make is failing to network OUTSIDE of their company or organization. During the summer, make the time to find the top professional organizations in you field and geographic area. Many are less active in the summer but still look for new members. Talk to colleagues and also search on-line. Belonging to one or two top local professional organizations is a smart move by establishing yourself outside of your company or organization in additional to expanding your professional knowledge. Mentor Everyone needs a mentor. Whether you are in the mail room or the CEO's office. Find someone inside your company or organization who has more experience and is at least two levels above you (if you are the CEO, you already have mentors). Ideally the personal should work for the same company or organization although they may be in the same field or profession and work elsewhere. Summer is an excellent time to find and establish a mentor relationship. Be candid about your goals and objectives and what you are looking for from your mentor. Experience, candor and chemistry are crucial for the relationship to be productive. Special Projects Most businesses and organization have too much work and too few people due to vacations during the summer. It is an excellent time to volunteer for additional work outside of your area of expertise. The goal is to gain additional professional experience and exposure to more executives and other contacts. Business planning, new marketing plans or new product launches are all terrific opportunities for meeting these goals. But remember that special projects are almost always in additional to rather than in place or the normal day-to-day responsibilities and workload. While other co-workers are relaxing on the beach or fishing at the lake, you can more effectively prepare for where you want to be in five years. Effectively use the opportunities provided by the different pace of the workplace during the summer to your professional advantage. George F. Franks, III is the founder and President of Franks Consulting Group - a Bethesda, Maryland management consulting, leadership coaching and speaking practice. George has over 25 years of experience with businesses of all sizes globally plus non-profits and other organizations. He is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants (USA) and the International Coach Federation. He can be contacted at:
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If You Can't Answer This Question Your Business is Doomed!

By Stephanie Ward How do you answer the seemingly easy question, What do you
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How do you do that? Dont wait another minute. Get started now, grab a piece
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Relationships: Minding Your Manners

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12 Keys To Keep Love Alive In Marriage

By Rebecca Osborn Weather you are 3 months married or 3 years married, the busyness of life and the stresses of work can take their toll on your relationship. Everyday hundreds of people file for divorce. Why? One reason is that their marriage has became dull, boring and routine. This articles contains simple things that will reignite the spark that has disappeared from your relationship. 1. Firstly, you have to make your marriage your priority. Make a decision with your spouse to sit down and review this list of practical ideas for making your marriage great. Add anything that you think will work for you both that I have omitted. 2. Keep in touch. Check in on each other during the day. Even it you happen to work in the same building, it is always nice to get a text or email saying 'You are still as beautiful as ever,' or 'You still give me butterflies.' Sometimes it is nice to know that your wife or husband is thinking about you. 3. Do the unexpected. Surprise your spouse with flowers, a gift, or a night out on the town with no alternative agenda and expecting nothing in return. Planning something special is an excellent way to infuse romance into your relationship. Sometimes even the smallest surprises can feel like the biggest. 4. Talk about your personal goals. Sit down together and talk about what you want out of life, what you want o achieve as a couple and personally. Write these down. Review them and modify them every few months. This makes you aware of what your spouse wants and their goals. 5. Develop and nurture friendships. Have friendships outside of each other. Do not become an exclusive couple that never do anything with anyone else! We all need friendships to develop and grow us. 6. Do not criticise. Do not put down or criticise your spouse in front of other people. Instead, decide that you will both commit to build up and support each other when talking to other people. 7. Keep yourself in good physical shape. This may not seem important to you, but I am sure it is important to your spouse! Keeping yourself healthy not only will decrease the risks of diabetes and heart problems, but also help to keep the attraction alive between both of you. You do not have to spend alot on a gym membership, you can go walking or jogging together each evening. 8. Plan weekend getaways. At least once a year plan to go away for a weekend. Team up with another married couple and they can babysit your children while you are away and then you can return the favor. It does not have to be an expensive weekend but it is vital that you get this time alone to spend with each other. 9. Do not let the sun go down on your anger. NEVER go to bed harboring offence or hurt with your spouse that you have not already discussed. If you were disappointed, hurt or upset with their behaviour, discuss it. Do not enter into an argument but talk openly about what it was that bothered you and why. 10. Be quick to forgive and quick to say sorry. Bitterness and offence is like cancer. If left alone it gradually keeps growing and growing until it takes over. Do not let bitterness or offence at your spouse take over the love you once had. Talk things through. If you need to seek outside help like counselling, do so. 11. Compliment your spouse. Take time to notice everyday things that your spouse does like preparing a meal, cleaning the house, doing the shopping. This shows your spouse that you appreciate them and the things that they do and you do not take for granted the effort they put into it. 12. Be there. Sometimes all your spouse needs is someone to be there, not to shout, order or demand, but to love and support. If they are having a difficult day, respect that and give them space if needed. Is there greatness on the inside of you but you don't know how to achieve it? Jason has just completed his brand new 7 part e-course, 'Find Your Greatness' Get it free when you subscribe at: Find Your Greatness Jason and Rebecca Osborn have dedicated themselves to changing thousands of lives by helping people find their greatness and true potential through their Find Your Greatness Newsletter. Also log onto http://livingword.ie for more inspirational messages. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rebecca_Osborn http://EzineArticles.com/?12-Keys-To-Keep-Love-Alive-In-Marriage&id=500314 purchase phentermine 37.5
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The Money Making Secret of "The Toll Booth Position"

By Dan Kennedy Im a marketing consultant and at one of my client-companies, a company that, in less than 10 years, has gone from a $10 million to a $100 million dollar business one of the people I work with frequently has jokingly given herself the title, 'Vice President, Back-End.'
Although that clearly opens her up to be the butt of many jokes, it does very accurately describe her very, very important area of responsibility, in direct marketing parlance. At least 80% of the companys profitability depends on her contributions.
If the term "back-end" is new to you, it means everything you sell your customers after their initial purchase (that first order is called the "front-end"). For instance, lets say you sell instructional video tapes to golfers on how to play better. You advertise in golf magazines and your lead product is a $25 video on putting strategies. Thats your "front-end" because thats what people buy first. But then once people purchase that first video, you send them a catalog offering them over 50 other golf videos ranging in price from $50 to $99. Those follow-on videos are your "back-end."
In many businesses, there is a relatively brief period of time during which there are significant, exciting profits on the front-end, that is the very first sale to a customer.
But that happy situation dissolves over time, as you "cream" the market. And, as you go deeper and deeper into a market, the cost of making the first sale (acquiring a customer) goes up and up. For instance, in the above example of the golf videos the first time you run a magazine ad you might pull 100 orders. But if you keep running it every month, your order volume will probably drop off steadily. Within six months, youd be lucky to be selling 30 videos from the same ad in the same magazine. As some point, it gets so high it is no longer practical to advertise and sell that product to that market.
Nothing is forever. This fact of life is what mandates being smart about making all the money that you can from the back-end.
The good news is that your satisfied customers are probably willing to buy other things from you -- and they dont even have to be your own products/services. You can make deals with other companies to offer their products/services to your customers in exchange for a piece of the action.
For instance, lets go back to our example of the golf video company. You might do a "joint venture" with a manufacturer of special golf clubs which sell for $1,500 a set. Youll mail a letter to your customers telling them how well these clubs will improve their golf game and youll get $750 on each order placed. If your customers trust you, theyll be much more likely to respond to your letter than they would be if the golf club manufacturer mailed to them directly.
Of course you only want to recommend high-quality products and services which will be of value to your customers. But you get the idea. You could make similar deals with other companies who sell what golfers want -- golf apparel, golf trip and excursion operators, even custom home builders who sell houses near golf courses. Theyd all happily pay you a 'toll' commission to sell their wares to your customers.
No matter what your business, one of the most valuable assets you have is a list of satisfied customer, predisposed to buy from you again. When you control a sizable list of customers who bought from you, know your name/business name, are happy with what they bought and with the ensuing relationship ... and are pre-disposed to read your mail and buy from you again, its like owning your own "toll booth."
A pioneer of direct marketing, Harvey Brody, taught me the power and value of getting into "The Toll Booth Position" and Ive been teaching it for years. Imagine owning your own toll booth on the highway near your city. Anybody who wants to get to the other side of that toll booth has to pass through its gates and pay you money.
As the controller of a responsive customer list, thats exactly where you are; sitting there in your own toll booth and anybody who wants to get their appropriate product or service to those customers you control, has to pay you money.
You can collect a toll through joint ventures, as described above wherein you do an endorsed mailing to your customers and get a piece of all sales that result.
Or, if you build a list of 50,000 or more, through outright lists rentals. I have a number of clients who pay all their overhead expenses every year just with the checks they get from the list broker representing their list to others.
I have often paid others to pass through their toll booths --- and done so cheerfully. I have also been paid by others eager to get through my toll booth, to my customers, with my endorsement.
In the direct marketing business, its a well-known fact that most of the profits is derived from back-end sales to existing customers. Yet outside that business, I rarely encounter a company which comes anywhere close to tapping the potential of establishing their own "toll booth position." Get started building yours right now and start charging others to go down your road. Dan Kennedy is a marketing consultant and copywriter who helps entrepreneurs cut waste out of advertising, end cold prospecting, sell at prices higher than competitors and dramatically increase profits.The author of "No B.S. Business Success" and other books, as a speaker he has frequently appeared on programs with former U.S. Presidents, General Colin Powell, Larry King, Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn. For info on his monthly "No B.S. Marketing Letter" go to http://www.DanKennedyLetter.com
Copyright 2004 by Dan Kennedy, DanKennedyLetter.com.
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1 beef pot roast, 4 to 5 pounds
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
cayenne and cumin
1 cup water
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
2 cups sliced onions
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup ketchup
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce Go ahead and brown the meat either on a grill or in an oven. Add some cayenne and cumin for that added dash of what the hell is that?. Now add the tomato sauce, water. onion, and minced garlic. Cover and simmer for roughly 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Add the remaining ingredients, cover, and continue cooking for 1 1/2 hours longer, or until roast is tender.
Check the recipe every now and then, and add additional water if necessary. Take out the meat and remove excess fat. The recipe serves 5-7. Beef and Pineapple Shish Ka Bobs Otherwise known as sirloin beef kabobs with pineapple
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup soy sauce
3 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 1/2 teaspoons ginger
3/4 cup oil
1 green onion, chopped
2 1/2 pounds boneless beef top sirloin, cubed 1-inch
1 (8oz) can pineapple tidbits, drained
3 red bell pepper, cut in 1-inch chunks
2 jalapenos
2 red onions, cut in 1-inch wedges
8 long metal skewers PREPARATION:
In a large plastic food bag, combine the soy sauce, honey, vinegar, ginger, garlic powder, oil, and green onion. Add sirloin cubes and marinate several hours or overnight. This is the most important step. Whenever you marinate over night, make sure you do NOT leave the marinate uncovered. Sometimes marinades will pick up other smells from food around the bowl, so be aware of that.
Drain the meat when ready and skewer the beef, pineapple and vegetables. Grill over a fire or a barbeque for 16 to 18 minutes.
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Healing Power of Asanas (Part VI)

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