The significant challenges that we face today cannot be resolved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Hi there! I hope everyone had fun over Christmas. We kept it pretty quiet around here this year but still managed to get out and visit and socialize. It's wonderful seeing friends and family over the holidays.

Now that you've written out your goals and have an idea of what it is you want to accomplish, I want you to visualize yourself - the person you would need to be to accomplish those goals. As you feel the excitment and the enthusiasm, this will carry you towards accomplishing those goals. When you believe in your ability and can visualize it - nothing will stop you.

Our Feature Article exemplifies our discussion about having a vision of what we want to accomplish in The Five Secret Motivational Tools That Ensure Success and comes to us from Peter Murphy.

Today's Special Feature, Leaving Great Legacies by Steve Goodier, is a terrific example of how you can make a positive difference in people's lives.

And if I don't talk to you before - Happy New Year and all the best to you and yours in 2005.

Have a great day and keep smiling.

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The standard for success across the globe is having a vision that compels you to succeed. Motivation is the key in accomplishing all your goals and with the right motivational tools you can achieve just about anything.

No matter how many years you spend in a classroom or from what social class or lifestyle, motivation is the common factor among those who are high achievers.

Finding the tools to put meaning and purpose in your life, developing a vision, and becoming highly motivated can lead you towards a successful and exciting life. While recognizing obstacles and learning to remove them can make your vision a reality.

Here are five powerful motivational tools that will accelerate your success:

1. The individual who is extremely motivated and successful has been motivated by a vision. The quest for freedom is the basis for motivation. Total freedom is not necessarily desirable or possible, but the pursuit of that ideal is what motivates us to succeed.

People who develop a vision control their own life and destiny. With no vision, your life and destiny are controlled by outside forces. You must change your thinking habits in order to change your life, and you change your habits by keeping the desired results in sight.

2. Develop a major goal, but take a specified path to get there. You'll have many smaller goals to reach before you get to the final result.

By learning to accomplish these smaller goals, you'll be motivated to take on the larger challenges. Get into the habit of finishing what you start. An unfinished project is of no value. Leaving things unfinished is a habit that must be changed.

3. Find support through friends, acquaintances, and co-workers. If you surround yourself with motivated, visionary people you will naturally develop the attributes that helped them get that way. Mutual interests and like-minded associates can be excellent motivational tools.

4. Another motivational tool is failure. Failure teaches us to keep trying until we get it right. No one ever became successful without prior failures. Failure is a by-product of imagination and creativity. It challenges you to take risks and teaches you to keep trying until you get it right.

The fear of failure is a common factor among those who procrastinate. If you want to succeed in reaching your goals, you must be willing to take a risk and lose.

Many people trade joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment for a job that is considered conventional and safe. The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.

5. The power of your dreams is the primary factor in becoming motivated. Productivity will be the result of developing habits and attitudes that keep you on the right track.

By changing bad habits and focusing on your specific goals, motivation will come to you even when you wish you could quit and times are tough.

By identifying the behaviors that you need to change, developing a vision of what you would like to achieve, and striving to attain that goal, you will become a naturally motivated, highly efficient, productive person.

Do not let fear of failure stop you from having the freedom to choose the lifestyle and destiny you desire. True motivation is not a learned skill; it is developed due to a need or desire to make our dreams a reality.

If you want to find inner motivation, you must identify your goals and set out on an unwavering path to achieve them.

Peter Murphy is a peak performance expert. He recently produced a very popular free report that reveals how to crush procrastination and sustain lasting motivation. Apply now because it is available for a limited time only at: http://www.getmotivatedstaymotivated.com/special.htm

You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.

You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- William Adams

Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
- J.C. Watts

Edwin Hubbel Chapin once said, "Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." That is the definition of a legacy. Wouldn't you love to do something that might strike a beautiful chord that will "vibrate in eternity"?

I've discovered something about legacies.generous people leave great legacies. I read about a couple in Canada who stopped to help a motorist who had run out of gasoline. It was a regular occurrence in their part of rural Canada. After they got him on his way, they bought a new fuel can, scratched their initials on it, filled it with petrol and stored it in the trunk of their car.

A few months later they again stopped to assist a stranded motorist. But this time they GAVE him their gas can and told him to fill it up, keep it with him and pass it along to the next motorist he sees who has run out of fuel.

Though they never expected to see their can again, in a couple of years they spotted it being passed along to a grateful motorist on the road. They recognized it several more times over the years, and each time they asked its owner where it had come from. They ascertained that the can had traveled across the continent at least two times!

They never intended to leave a legacy. When they bought the fuel can they never dreamed that their action might strike chords that could vibrate in eternity. But that container may still be traveling around the country!

And it might not seem like a big thing, but many motorists have been saved by the generosity of complete strangers who stop to help. Then each in turn has taken the container, re-filled it, and diligently looked, perhaps for days or weeks, for an opportunity to pass it along. Good will generated by a humble can of fuel has no doubt been multiplied many times in countless ways, striking beautiful chords that vibrate forever.

It's true - generous people leave great legacies. Even that small piece of yourself you generously give away may thrive in surprising ways throughout eternity.

Steve Goodier's books & newsletter: http://LifeSupportSystem.com.

One of the definitive rules of marketing is to focus on your target market; get them in your sights and them BAM! You've got a mighty fine sale to put food on the table.

But many businesses would rather blanket the population with mass mailings, operating under the assumption that out of all the recipients, some of them have got to be part of their targeted prospects.

Don't assume anything! Increase your chances of reaching the right customers by executing targeted mailings, not mass smotherings.

One way to figure out who you should target and what your message should be is to dig through your receipt files for names. Check all kinds of documents, including purchase orders and invoices.

With these documents you can determine who is likely to buy from you, where you are making the most money, and what product lines or types of business can be put on the back burner, or eliminated altogether.

After classifying which customers are and are not buying from you, tailor letters to fit each group of targeted prospects.

You will find that you can execute targeted mailings as often as mass mailings, and your response rate will almost definitely go up.

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