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Seven Words to Change Your Life: Are You Willing To Take Risks?
Venture capitalists risk a certain amount of money in order to make more money. Women risk the complications and exhaustion of pregnancy in order to have the benefit of a baby. Firefighters risk their own lives to save the lives of others. St...
Seven Words to Change Your Life: Are You Ready to Make a Decision?
Kimberly Anne Evans spent her life using food as a friend, confidant and comforter. She estimates now that she ate about 9,000 calories a day. When she was 39 years old, her weight was 347 pounds, and she knew that she was slowly killing hersel...
Seven Words to Change Your Life: Are You Waiting For Someone To Figure Out What You Want?
Marian married young. She took pride in managing her home and caring for her family as well as contributing to her household income with a part time job in a day care. When she was nearly forty, her marriage ended abruptly, leaving her with three c...
Seven Words to Change Your Life: Can Learning to Trust Lead You to Abundance and Prosperity?
“I’ve had some bad experiences with trust at work,” Jim wrote. “At my last job, my boss didn’t trust anyone, and it showed. He was completely disorganized, but he blamed me when he lost his paperwork. He tried ...
Seven Words to Change Your Life: Can The Truth Set You Free?
The celebrity had two choices. He could either (A) pay the blackmailer or (B) allow the blackmailer to come forward with the evidence, destroying his family, his reputation and his career. He felt frightened and vulnerable. Remember the discus...
Seven Words to Change Your Life: Can Learning to Trust Lead You to Abundance and Prosperity?
“I’ve had some bad experiences with trust at work,” Jim wrote. “At my last job, my boss didn’t trust anyone, and it showed. He was completely disorganized, but he blamed me when he lost his paperwork. He tried ...
Seven Words to Change Your Life: Do You Have A Choice?
Imagine you live in an oppressed nation. Your oppressor overtaxes you, reaps the benefits of your hard work, and periodically brings you and your fellow citizens in line with outbreaks of violence. Must you fight for your freedom? Are you thin...
Seven Words to Change Your Life: How Can You Get Past Your Resistance To Change?
Maybe you’ve seen the video. A heavy storm in the Netherlands stranded over one hundred horses on a small island of raised land, where they suffered from food and exposure for three days as concerned people frantically tried to find a way t...
Seven Words to Change Your Life: What if You Want Your Life To Change . . . But You Don’t Want to Change?
Five hours after Ryan picked his truck up from the mechanic, it stalled in rush hour traffic on the expressway. He called a tow truck and then his wife. “I’ve had it!” he fumed. “This is the third time I’ve been ...
Financial Freedom: Is Multi-Level Marketing A Trap Or An Opportunity?
"I was told I could be bringing in upwards of $100,000 within two years of signing on," Dave wrote. "I went to hundreds of meetings and when I wasn't at a meeting I was on the phone. I was recruiting constantly - my extended family started avoiding ...
Financial Freedom: How Can You Make Money If You Don’t Have a Lot of Money To Begin With?
Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, wrote: "Direct Selling . . . is a revolutionary way to achieve wealth." Selling! If you just shuddered and envisioned yourself carting a carpetbag of brooms from door to door, it's time to update your...
Financial Freedom: Is the Stock Market Too Unpredictable For You?
Last June, Daryl's stock portfolio was worth about $800,000. He had $300,000 divided evenly between two oil companies that have performed very well over the past 20 years, and the balance in an aggressive fund with a well-known Wall Street Investmen...
Financial Freedom: Can Playing the Stock Market Make You Rich?
Paul Elliott of The Motley Fool (www.fool.com) wrote in 2006: If you had invested $2,000 in Pepsi in 1980 - and not another dime after - and reinvested dividends, you'd now have 2,800 shares worth more than $150,000. If you'd invested $2,000 in Phi...
Financial Freedom: Will I Regret Buying Into a Franchise?
"I thought I'd be my own boss," wrote Mike. "They made a big deal about how I was going to control my own destiny. Then I found out the truth. I have to buy my supplies through their vendors, so I can't shop around for the best price. I have to p...
Financial Freedom: Could Opening a Franchise Be Your Path To Abundance and Prosperity?
When Robin got laid off from her supervisor position in an electronics firm, she decided that her days of working for someone else were over. She considered starting a business of her own from scratch, but then decided she liked the support and test...
Financial Freedom: Can Starting Your Own Business Ruin You?
Holly and Jacob Weinstein started a computer sales and service company in February 2007. Jacob cashed out his 401(k) from work (taking the penalty) and used the money to set up shop in a little store front on a busy boulevard. "It's a perfect set u...
Financial Freedom: Should You Start Your Own Business?
Phillip had three Core Desires. He wanted to spend as much time with his family as possible while his children were still young. He wanted to have financial freedom before he was 45. And he wanted to turn his hobby - restoring classic automobiles ...
Financial Freedom: Can You Lose a Fortune in Real Estate?
According to Forbes, last year the world had 1,125 billionaires. Today there are 793. Donald Trump lost nearly half of his net worth - a significant amount of that in real property. If "The Donald" wasn't savvy enough to avoid losses in real estat...
Financial Freedom: Can You Make Your Fortune in Real Estate?
Jeff Greene was the son of working-class Jewish parents from Worcester, Mass. His parents struggled to support their family, and Green paid his way into Johns Hopkins by selling circus tickets over the phone. In 2009, he ranked 559th on Forbes list...
Financial Freedom: The Five Things You Need To Become Wealthy
"My goal is to be wealthy," the man said. "I've been trying different ways since I was nineteen years old. Now I'm forty-two, in debt up to my eyeballs, and no way to pay my kid's college tuition in the fall. What am I doing wrong?" Have you ever...
Keys For Success: Is Your Business Recession Proof?
News sources are saying the recession is coming to an end, but last month showed a net loss of over 200,000 jobs in the US. Manufacturing and consumer confidence rose marginally, but don't send out the invitations for your "The Recession is Over!" p...
Manifest Money: Do Joint Ventures Apply to You?
Walk into a local beauty shop, and you may see dolls made from vintage linens, jewelry, candles, and coupons for other local businesses. You'll almost certainly see shelves of hair care products - shampoos, conditioners and styling gels. As you get...
Manifest Money: Extreme Leveraging, or, What Do You Know About Joint Ventures?
Imagine yourself on the journey toward the fulfillment of your Core Desires. You've determined exactly where you want to go, and you've mapped out your itinerary. Now you're puttering along in your little jalopy ("Core Desires or Bust!"), bumping o...
Manifest Money: Do You Ever Wish You Could Clone Yourself?
You have about 674,520 hours at your disposal (that's the average lifespan: 77 years). Of course, if you're reading this, you've presumably already spent some of those hours, learning to read and walk so that you could get a job and pay for interne...
Manifest Money: How Can You Leverage $1 into $1000? Part 2 (Thinking Big)
Go to work and sit at a desk for 8 hours a day, 5-6 days per week, 52 weeks per year. Give it everything you've got for forty-plus years. Invest in your 401(k). Pray over the stock market and stress over your pension. Sacrifice to pay off your ho...
Manifest Money: How Can You Leverage $1 into $1000? Part 1 (Starting Where You Are)
Stephanie has a goal. Her kids are approaching college age, and she has about twenty years until retirement. She's a single mom making a modest income as a secretary. "I get the concept of leveraging, Jack," she tells me. "But I've got nothing to...
Steps for Success in Online Marketing
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some of the mistakes people make. Remember this one: "going forward without enough information or quitting too soon?" Be clear on your Core Desires, but don't forget to do your research and make a good solid bu...
Blueprint for Success: With All The Advice Out There, How Do You Find the Facts About Finding Success?
Blueprint for Success: With All The Advice Out There, How Do You Find the Facts About Finding Success?...
Blueprint for Success: Why Put Success Off For Tomorrow When You Can Have It Today?
An aspiring writer I know became friends with the creator of a complicated role-playing game. The creator asked him if he could write a novel featuring characters in the imagined world of the game. "It'll promote the game," he said to the writer. ...
Blueprint for Success: Do You Have What It Takes To Succeed?
In my book, DNA of Success, I write about a man in a wheelchair who attended one of my seminars. I had been talking about Core Desires and the resulting Conquering Force when he raised his hand and said, "What you are teaching is a lie - at least it...
