Do What You Love

By Gary I Cooper

One of my favorite subjects is on finding or choosing your true passion. One reason it's one of my favorites is because I'm the worst case there ever was of when-to-do-it! When is the best time to make your move? How are you going to tell your boss? How are you going to tell your wife? What can you say when your not happy with the $75,000 a year job? Of course the amount is not important. It could be $25,000 a year or $180,000 a year.

The important thing is it's just not you. You're always working for someone else. There is always a ceiling on the dollar amount. You're not calling the shots. How many times have you had to bite your cheek; I better not say anything or I might get fired! My mistake to me was I waited too long. I felt I would wait until the time was right! I wish I had not waited until twenty-five years later, instead of a couple.

I'll mention a few lines here just in case you had not heard my story. I'm sure it's floating around on the internet somewhere. But, anyway. I quit high school at the age of 15 and ran off to Sunland Park a racetrack in El Paso Texas. Now mind you that was a long way from Dallas Texas. You know, just a kid, it could have been just as well the circus or board a ship to be a sailor, or be a rock star, but whatever, it's what I decided to do! And, no one the face of the earth could change my mind once I decide I'm going to do something. How do you say it? Hard heads!

I rode up until I was about twenty-six. When I started I weighed about 95 pounds. I was a late bloomer just one to not finish growing until a later age. It just got to where I couldn't make weight any longer. Then, they came out with digital scales making it harder and harder to cheat. You know two fingers on top of the scales trick.

I was what you call a free-lance jockey. I didn't just ride for one stable. I rode for many. I never wanted to be tied to just one stable. One source of income. My checks came from eight to twenty or more different sources. If I and a trainer didn't see eye-to-eye about something, there was always another trainer down the shed role. It wouldn't break my bank. I hand my exercise-money coming in.

Some jockey's thought they were too good to exercise day mounts. They just rode the races. Then I had my race checks coming in. I also did a lot of off the main racetrack circuits at training farms. Breaking the yearlings and two-year olds getting the young ones ready for the racetracks.

This was another bad habit of mine that the injuries have came back to haunt me in later years. I would always ride the crazy's, the mounts that no one else would ride. One to not have very good sense (me). Go find that Coop guy, that's what they called me. He'll ride anything!

One thing I did do is to prepare myself for another occupation because I knew I would not always be able to ride. One winter I took up a technician school for the day I could no longer ride. The only problem is, there is a limit to how much you can make. There are, just so many hours in a day.

So as a young man I knew to have your income coming from multiple sources. I was far more a better businessman then. What happened to my own theory? Well, listening to other people and not doing my own passion. Of course I can no longer ride. But, it took me more than twenty-five years to come back around to what I want to do!

In network marketing, another jungle in itself, but with specialized knowledge it can be learned. And, there is no limit to your income. You can take any hobby or skill or art or whatever! There is a way to turn, that to income. I myself, the absolute worst at writing, see what I mean? It gets better with practice.

Turn your passion into bucks. I thought I would share some of my path, to the internet. And, hope that some of my reader's take from my experience, because I spent thousands in trial-and-error on the internet. Whatever your deepest core desire will surface. Until next time . . . the rest of the story!

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Be Youself

Okchukwu Chigbu


Let us stop comparing ourselves with others in personality or status.
It is amazing how some people spend their life trying to be like someone else.You are created an original,dont be a fake.
In 2Corinthians 10:12 we are told not be comparing ourselves among ourselves..
One question we should ask ourselves is :If i be like him or her,who will be like me?
God created everyone to be different from one another and endowed us with different gifts and talents .Study identical twins carefully,you will find out that there are some traits different from both of them.
Know this for sure, you can only be the second best of whomever ever you are imatating.
Be yourself and you will stand out . Originals are always scarce,but fake(immitations) are everywhere.
Be happy with what you are and whom you are,God has a purpose for making you the way you are,and once you are trying to be like another person,you are devaiting from the purpose of God in your life.
" The copy adapts himself to the world,but the original tries to adapt the world to him" - John Mason
You are the most qualified person on earth to do what you are destined to do,but when you are wasting your time trying to copy or look like another person,you will miss your purpose.
One bad thing about copying or imitating is that it results to envy and jealousy, and i know as well as you know that envy is among the works of the flesh in Galatians 5:21.
Today , determine to be yourself,use all that God has endowed in you, and you will see a change in your life.

License to Create Wealth

By Hyacinth Fraser




Mindset

One of the main things we have control over is our mindset. The extent to which you believe this to be true - it is true for you, the extent to which you believe it to be false, it is false for you. And to quote Henry Ford - "Whether you think you can or can't, either way you're right".

The question is - are you prepared to take control of your mind. Things could be going terribly badly wrong in your life - the question is, how are you viewing it and what are you prepared to do to make things right again. R Buckminster Fuller puts it in this way, "Wealth is the progressive mastery of matter by mind".

Anthony Robbins tells a wonderful story about how he was once poor, then rich and then poor again. This second time of poverty was through the actions of an associate. He realised he had a choice - he could either roll over and 'play dead' or grasp life and draft a plan for success and this is exactly what he has done to date. He clearly adopted a 'can do' mindset in a most challenging place in his life.

When we think, we are creating things. We create what we think about. What if you found you had no money to pay your bills, to buy food, to take the next bus to go to that much needed interview, to get that much needed job, to put that much needed food on your table and to pay those bills? What would you do? It seems to me there are any number of options: you could find yourself on the street without food or shelter or you could say, well I've got nothing to lose - I have some skills, I have some ideas, I have a wider view of myself than this, I'm going to jump start my life. Throughout history and certainly with some of the millionaires we know of today they have had to do exactly that. It's no secret and well documented in his books that Les Brown lived in his place of work for a time, with no one knowing about it. Robert Kiyosaki tells us, at one time in his life he lived in his car and I could go on.

What will you do to access the power of your great positively focused, forward thinking, creative, agile mind in order to move you to the next level?

How could you create the mindset wealth, the spiritual wealth, the physical wealth to take you to the next level? What is going to work for you to take you to your next level?

**Will you be changing the way you think about life?**
**Will you be creating business partnerships?**
**Will you be creating an at home business?**
**Will you be tapping into a skill that you love and had never thought before that you could make a business out of it?**
**Will you be going off and reading some empowering books and listening to some motivational tapes?**
**Will you be creating a mastermind group to support you in your endeavours?**
**Will you be going out and making new friends (and dare I say, letting go of some old ones)?**
**Will you be watching some great motivational and business programmes on TV?**
**Will you be listening to self-development guided meditation CD's to support you on your journey?**
**Will you be attending self-development workshops?**
And the list could go on and on and on.

Your Licence to Create Wealth is in your hands and no one else's. What will you do?

John Keats said, "The colour of the rose lies within us, not in the rose" I wonder what this means for you? For me, it suggests, I can create my reality. I have the power and some choice in creating the life I wish.

Here are some other things to think about in accepting your Licence to Create Wealth (fill in the blanks):

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**The way I build lasting business and other relations is..**
**The way I gather information that leads to my success is..**
**The way I create my today is..**
**The way I spend my tomorrow is..**
**The way I understand tomorrow is..**
**The way I handle my dreamstate is..**
**The way I handle disappointments is..**
**The way I choose to use my time is..**

To download your free 200 page Licence to Live Self Development e-book -which is Jam packed with development tools and techniques, quotes, thought provoking ideas. And most of all it challenges you to lead your best life - please go to http://www.answerlife.co.uk/productsnew.html

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Hyacinth is a Master Practitioner of NLP and a Master Hypnotherapist. She is a Coach, Consultant and Trainer. Highly regarded and ensures that her solutions are informative, exciting and presented in such a way to ensure all learning styles are catered for. She works with personnel at the highest levels in the private, public and voluntary sectors, up to and including members of the board as well as front line staff.

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The Power of Action

By Mark Tewart

I was recently invited to be a guest lecturer for an entrepreneur class at the University of Cincinnati. In the question-and-answer portion of the program, the professor asked me to sum up what I felt was the most important message I could stress to the class. My reply was one word - ACTION.

At a sales seminar I was giving, I was going over low- to no-cost marketing strategies designed to increase leads for sales people. At the first break after the marketing section, one of the sales people in attendance who had fl own across the country to attend, got on the phone and called a list vendor I had suggested during the class. Before the break was over, he purchased a large list for a small cost, created an outline and had begun to write the letter based upon proven copy writing techniques and marketing strategies. Afterward he was able to express the value of the campaign to the dealership management and they agreed to cover his costs of his campaign.

At the end of the day, I was having a conversation with the promoter of my seminar and I asked him how many people would take action on that one idea. His answer was few, if any, other than the one sales person. He asked me why I thought that was the case, and my answer was simple and scary - I didn't know.

From my days as a general manager and leader of people in dealerships to my now many years of training, consulting and sharing with people in dealerships all over the world, I have constantly been stumped by the lack of action by the masses. The truth is indisputable that a small minority will move through their fears and excuses and begin to take action on the necessary steps for success.

In the last few years, I have begun to unlock and share some of the secrets to taking action and achieving success. Unfortunately, even when I share these ideas and suggest simple steps that can guarantee massive self-improvement and eventual success, I know that most people are comfortable being comfortable. Even when that means being comfortable with below-average results. Is my statement negative or just recognition of reality?

Successful people create their own reality. Most people who would take the time to read articles like this are part of the minority of action-takers. For your action takers, let me share just a few ideas on action, the reasons for a lack of it and some corrective measures.

1. Write down the first 20 ideas and teachings that you learned about money. Did you hear these typical messages? "What do you think we are, rich?" "Money doesn't grow on trees." "We can't afford that." "Money is the root of all evil." You are more influenced by early learning than you might believe. Many ideas and messages you hear from TV, teachers and even parents are negative and rooted in scarcity. The root of the word scarcity is scare. When was the last time you saw a movie or TV program in which the rich guy was the good guy?

2. Are you clear in your goal of what you desire? Have you written it down? Less than 5 percent of people will ever write their goals and begin to focus on their desires and action plans to get there. Clarity of thought creates questions that bring answers.

3. When you write a goal, you are making a conscious choice. Your actions, however, are often directed by your subconscious messages. Often the goals you have chosen with your conscious thought and the actions you take directed by your subconscious are in direct conflict and opposition. This is why at times you can feel such an enormous state of struggle. The only way to get past the struggle and create positive action is to remove the negative and opposing messages and images in your subconscious. When you write your goals, what are the limiting thoughts and feelings that pop up that are implanted in your subconscious? Once you have identified them, rewrite them to erase the limits and negatives. Create a conscious and subconscious that acts in unison.

4. Write down your top five largest fears. Fear can be described as false evidence appearing real. We can escalate fears or goals to reality. Both are simply a choice. What are your most dominant thoughts? Do your thoughts lean toward action, achievement, success and abundance or toward lack, scarcity and fear?

Only through action can you make the necessary mistakes that will lead to success, rewards and happiness. Nobody has ever sat and watched their way to success.

Mark Tewart - Speaker, Consultant and Author of "How To Be A Sales Superstar: Break All the Rules and Succeed While Doing It" published by Wiley - Order a copy now at http://marktewart.com

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