Thankfulness

If you read enough of y stuff you know I tell stories about myself to make a point. Basically I do a lot of funny thing, not because I try to I just do.

Here is a short story about why I am so thankful. Last May I had cramps in my chest and started sweating like I was in sauna. Micki didn’t think this was normal and called our doctor. The nurse asked to speak to me. She asked couple of questions and told me to give the phone back to Micki. She knows we lived a couple of block from the hospital, so she told Micki to take me to the emergency room. My Doctor was already there.

This really made me feel great. When I walked in was asked to fill out a form. Now I am soaking wet. A lady in the middle of the room said are you looking for the Doctor. I said yes and she told me come over to her. When she saw me close up she said” Your look a lot worse than I thought you would” Then she loaded me in a wheel chair and off we went.

I am going on to long so I’ll shorten the story. They put in a large stent in a main artery, because it was 90% blocked. When it is blocked like that it can be referred to as the Widow Maker.

Everything came out fine but there were two smaller arteries that were 80 and 90% blocked. The doctor said there was no reason at this time to repair them, but we should talk about what to do in six months.

If you could have seen Micki’s face in the emergency room, it was full of terror. I would not want to see that face like that again. So when it was time to revisit the doctor we had both decided for me to have two smaller arteries repaired.

The time came and the repair job was taking place. The stints could not be put in, put both of the clogged arteries where ballooned open and as the doctor said “they look beautiful.

Being thankful is so important. People know when you are truly thankful and they respect you for it. But what is more important is makes you realize howimportant of all those around are to you . I fell liked a blessed person.

Do you think I feel thankful -YOU BET

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Knowledge to Wealth

The world knowledge base is growing so fast know one can keep up with it. In fact I have read that the knowledge base is doubling every five years. Now that’s a lot of knowledge. How do we chose out of all this knowledge what we feel is important to grow our financial wealth.

Here are some ideas that might help you. Start with something that you really have an interest in. Now I know that none of you are at ground zero as far as knowledge is concern, so we have a lot of decisions to make. How can we take what we presently know that will be of help to others? When we find that then we should start to build our knowledge base on the subject.

If you just took thirty minutes a day and studied the subject that you felt could help others, within six months you would be an expert on the subject. This is not my ideas but on of Napoleon Hill’s steps to grow rich.

Just think you can be an expected on a subject. Now you can write about it, help others with the knowledge you process. Just because you are an expert on a subject and others are starting to come to you for this knowledge doesn’t mean you are done. You still have to put in your daily time to expand your knowledge base on you given subject.

You might find that you will have to move in other direction to have others continue to need you. When I say need you I mean that people are willing to pay you for your knowledge.

Change is the operative word in our world. Nothing stays static. So you will have to continually expand your knowledge base on your chosen subject. It could be soft ware development, being a plumber, or an anything that serves others.

If you haven’t already start building you knowledge base that can help others or if you have a good base of knowledge keep growing it, it will help you reach your goals.

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To Sell yourself or not

Let’s start out with what we like in others. Do you like someone who keeps telling you how great they are? Or if you read something they have written and all you see is I did this and I did that. Did that turn you on or off? I don’t think I am very different from most people and those things turn me off. Maybe they think by dazzling you with how good they are well turn you on.

Dazzling might impress you and I if the person was doing a high wire act with no net, but on a one on one and the person can only tell you how great they are doesn’t dazzle me or most other people.

So if that is the case how do you sell others or better yet how do you let them know that you have talents that can help them. First things is don’t do the above. It is best to first listen to people and find out their needs. I t is amazing how people will tell what they need. Now you have a starting point on helping people. The operative word is helping people. If you start by telling them what they need or what their problem is, you have all ready lost the other person in most cases.

When you can help the other person and they know they need help now it is time to start with your possible solutions to their problems. This cannot be a one way conversation; you have to make sure they can add their ideas. In the end you have the best results when the other person knows they have been part of finding the solution to their issue.

It sounds easy and it is and it is if you listen and involve the others person helping solve their problem.


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Not enough time

When you feel you’re out of time, stop and evaluate where you’re spending you time. Yes this will take some time, but in the long run you will save time. Why you might ask should I take time to save time.

Here come the guts of the solution. Put a list of everything you spend doing. The big things and the little things they all eat up your time so don’t miss anything you do. Now that you have your list, note how much time you spend doing everything on your list. Make sure you put down the time it takes for each item.
I’ll give you some examples.

My daily time list

1 hour doing my blog
1 hour doing my podcast
1 hour on my marketing program
2 hours working with clients
½ hour calling important people
½ hour planning next day and review my progress.
1 hour on research for my new book and podcasts
1 hour for creative time for ideas development

Rest of the day with friends and family

There can be variation but that would be my typical day.

Now you have to rank the items in your list by their importance for you to achieve your goals. Let’s say working with my clients is the number one most important thing I need to do, so I have to decide if 2 hour s is enough to not enough. That will be my call, then I keep going down the list and find the things that take time but really don’t help me achieve my goals. Not only do I need to drop the item from the list but I should stop putting any time to that items. Sounds easy but it is not.

The hard part of this to make sure your list is accurate. Both in items and time spent.

You might have some tuff decisions to make but you have to do it. By spending time on the important things you will find you can have enough time to achieve you goals.

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Time for reflection

It is a good time to reflect on where we have been, where we are now and where we want to go. Most of us had things that we wanted to accomplish last year and this is a good time to see how we have done. For me I look at relationships, personal and business results, and how I compared to what i wanted to accomplish.

In relationships the most important one to me is with Micki, my wife. She is and has always been the darling of my life. One thing I don’t want to do is take her for granted. What I mean by that is she is such a caring person and at times it could be so easy to not appreciate all the things she does for me, without me ever asking. After making sure I am doing the right things for Micki I look at how I am dealing with my good friends. I consider good friends ones that are there to help without asking. Give you a call for no reason other than to say hi and make sure everything is going OK.

Then I look at how I am treating the world in general. In these times it so easy to be pessimist, so I make sure I always see the silver lining in the bad news we are bombarded with daily.

Once I’ve checked out those items I check out my personal results. Let me tell you I have had a good personal year. I wrote a book and got it published. I do a blog five days a week and do a podcast also five days a week. The Blog is on Happiness in Eight Steps and the podcast is Happiness with Wealth. This coming year I want to get better at writing my blog and greatly improve my podcasts, then I want to write another book as well as speak more on the topic of happiness. If you are or some group you’re involved with is looking for speaker that is an author, please let me know.

Last year was a building year for my new business, which is writing, speaking, consulting and coaching. I have gone from working with corporate clients to working with individuals that want to be more than they are today. I love people like that.
Lastly I want ot help people become more than they are today and in some small way have a positive impact on the world we all live in.

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Steps to Wealth

So you want to be wealthy and there is nothing wrong with that. One of the first steps to wealth I my opinion is to be happy. Why would I say that? You just have to look at those that have wealth. You don’t see them working all time and those the work all the time in later years have said they missed so much in life.

So I don’t recommend that you spend all your time trying to be wealthy so when you old and have few friend you say “I wish I learned to be happy and enjoy life more”.
I have given you tips on being happiness in my book “Happiness in Eight Steps”. Here is one so easy you don’t even have to study to learn how to do it. Here it is so listen up.

All you have to do is want to be happy. Now that doesn’t seem too hard. Just wanting to be happy can make you happy. Think about happy things that you have done and want to do again. Think of all the wonderful things in nature, rivers, mountains, the Great Plains and all of the other natural beauty that abounds in this fantastic world we live in.

If you do this on regular bases you will be happy. Then follow my eight steps and you not only make you self happy but you will be making others happy.

Why does this help you to wealth? To be wealthy you will need the help of others and when you’re happy people want to be around you. Now you have to find, if you haven’t already, what you really good at and then turn the thing that you good at into what you like to do. With your many friends you can now search for thoughts that can help you. Remember as you gain in wealth you have to make sure thorough that have helped you are also gaining in wealth.

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The plan

We all plan in one way or another. Plan a vacation, a party, a visit to the zoo or any family event. What I am saying you don’t have to be IBM to plan in the future. All organizations have some form of planning. Though I must say some do it better than others.

Even when the plan is worked out with great detail and thinking it might not always come out as planned. I think that happens is most of the cases.
Back to IBM they worked very hard at planning and many times the plan would change. Then why did the keep planning. Will the planning process helped the organization look at many different outcomes, so when things didn’t work as planned they were ready to adjust to the new environment.

What I am telling you that even the best laid plans don’t happened as was thought when first developed. That is OK. That is because we are in an ever changing world and what was thought to be the right thing to do yesterday is not the thing to do today.

How do we use this in our personal world? It is all right to have goals and plans to achieve the goal, but we should not get so caught up in the plan that we miss new opportunities. What I mean by this if we get too fixated on the plan we can be inflexible. When that happens we can’t see that we should rethink how we were going to achieve our goal. In the last few months the whole financial world turned upside down. If you didn’t rethink your plan you could have been swept away by the changing times.

Planning helps us to anticipate the future and that is good, but we have to remember that at times we will have to modify those plans so we can achieve our goal.
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