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Keeping In Touch With My Online Family
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Issue #50
Date: May 28th, 2002
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In This Issue
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=> Publisher's Corner
=> Feature Article
=> Review: Products or Services
=> Inspiration
=> Special Feature
=> Hot Tip
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=> Reader's Corner
=> Ad Swaps
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Publisher's Corner
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Hi {FIRSTNAME} and welcome to today's issue of Keeping in Touch.
A big, warm 'hello' to all our new subscribers. Today our
welcome extends as far away as New Zealand.
Did everyone have a great weekend? I hope so. Always try to
take some time for yourself. Quite a few of you have chosen
to start your online business while still holding down a full-
time job. My hat goes off to you! I was just talking with one
of our subscribers this weekend. She's just finished a new
site and like most of us, her direction has changed since she
first started out online.
The biggest 'complaint' seems to be a lack of time. After
putting in a full day at the office, taking care of your home
and family, there just isn't much left for your online business.
A suggestion here would be to break down some of the tasks you
want to accomplish. The amount of work won't change but you
will have created 'pieces' that will be more manageable.
Due to this sense of a lack of time, it's easy to get caught
up in all the things that need doing while forgetting to take
care of you. The bottom line is that you won't accomplish
any of what you've set out to do if you aren't taking time
for yourself. When you are tired and stressed-out, you will
not be effective. It's pretty hard to write a winning ad or
article when you are so tired you can hardly keep your eyes
open. You aren't being productive.
Try to envision the finished 'product'. Picture yourself as
having accomplished all you've set out to do. Keep that big
picture in mind as you complete each task. It will help to
keep you on track. It will also help you to set more realistic,
yet challenging, goals.
Both the Feature Article by Craig Lock in The Recipe For
Success - In Work and In Life, as well as our Special Feature
by Steve Goodier in What We See, provide the steps and the
motivation for keeping yourselves in touch with what you really
want.
On a final note for today, I'm still trying to determine the
reason behind bounced mail addresses. Although it hurts me to
say it, I've deleted several hundred names from my list now and
much to my dismay, I am beginning to realize the scope of the
filters being placed on YOUR e-mail accounts by YOUR ISPs. I
cannot go back and ask if these people would like to be put
back on the list, however. Before I remove additional names
from my list, please let me know if I can change an address
for you so that your mail stops bouncing.
The other thing you can do is unsubscribe using the link at the
bottom of this ezine, then resubscribe using an address that is
less likely to cause problems. You can re-subscribe using this
address:
mailto:kit_news@home4success.com?Subject=TRA005
If anyone has suggestions for resolving this issue, I'd love
to hear them. Just send a note to:
mailto:lois@home4success.com?Subject=Stop_Bounces
Have a great day {FIRSTNAME} and keep on smiling.
Lois M. Jeary
Publisher, KIT and KIT Klassifieds
mailto:lois@home4success.com
http://www.home4success.com
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Feature Article
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THE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS -- IN WORK AND IN LIFE
by Craig Lock
* Self-imposed limitations impose a ceiling above you, so look
to extend yourself to your full potential. The human mind is an
amazing thing which can be expanded. Like a telescope!
* Use your imagination.
* Self discipline is an acquired habit. Teach your children this
habit (and other good habits ... but not point one!) when they
are young.
* Establish other good habits. Start your day early. Use your
most productive time and especially, your first hour wisely -
when you are most alert (if ever?).
* BE ENTHUSIASTIC and AVOID DISTRACTIONS.
I think enthusiasm is a vital key to success. You have to enjoy
what you are doing and not merely "go through the motions".
We all have choices in the way in which we are going to live our
lives. We can also choose the attitudes we are going to take:
whether we are going to hold a positive or a negative outlook on
life. Far more on this intriguing and complex subject later; but
it is critical to whether you achieve success or not.
So make DAILY AFFIRMATIONS or short positive statements to
yourself, eg. say, "I am on the right track", or "I can do it".
These positive thoughts encourage you, especially if they are
repeated frequently. The effects of daily affirmations are that
they imprint upon our deeper consciousness, which reflects in
the way we function. They make you feel better about yourself
and in so doing enhance your confidence.
"A pessimist is one who sees a difficulty in every opportunity.
An optimist is one who sees an opportunity in every difficulty..."
- anon.
It is best to have a positive self expectancy by looking at "the
bright side of life". Mexican wisecracking golfer, Lee Trevino
is one of the world's greatest optimists. He visualizes each
shot having the best possible outcome - dropping in the hole;
whereas the weekend "hackers" in all spheres of life often think
what can go wrong with each shot. And it often does!
It doesn't happen every time that Lee gets the ball in the hole,
but it happens a lot more than most others. Time for a book on
sports psychology, perhaps!
Many successful sportsmen and even ordinary happy people EXPECT
success and happiness. And they get it ....
It's all in ONE'S ATTITUDE TO LIFE.
Always bear in mind ... "the greatest pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooten
Whatever you do, be enthusiastic and avoid distractions. Focus
totally on your task at hand. American President Franklin
Roosevelt said ...
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
Are your fears holding you back? Don't be afraid to make
mistakes. Take the blame and the credit for your position in
life honestly and openly. You alone are responsible for it.
Break your routines:
Remember,
"If you always do what you've always done, you will always get
what you've always got". Make sense?
Spend 30 minutes alone each day to meditate. Contemplate your
life and where you're heading.
Seek and talk to a person who currently is doing what you want
to do most and doing it well. It doesn't matter how humble or
famous they are or what it is they do: acting, singing, or
merely being a good parent ... or just a hard "plodder". Get
advice from the "experts". When we talk of success we usually
think of winning: the topic of the next section. Not that we all
can be winners in every aspect of our lives.
Who and what are winners?
* Winners take responsibility for themselves. They know what
they want and set realistic goals for themselves.
* Winners make it happen, losers let it happen (but then losers
I believe are only misguided winners). "Losers" probably lack
only a right attitude, maybe a bit of knowledge or perhaps
motivation or direction at crucial times.
* Winners have a positive self image. They read biographies of
famous people. They watch educational and inspirational cassette
tapes for self improvement, as well as stimulating television
programmes in general. Winners have a quest to gain knowledge
and make the most of themselves - they know their time is
limited and precious and so they make the most of it.
It is easy for you to become a winner too. You can read positive
books and other inspirational works. Like this one. You can
listen to motivational tapes, which can also serve to improve
one's attitude to life. At first I was very skeptical, but they
definitely do work if you allow them to sink in through
repetition (it is not brainwashing, but controlled learning). I
feel I am learning something new every day. There is such a
great amount of truth and knowledge to be found in books.
Feed your mind continually with positive thoughts.
Remember to take time out to relax and unwind. Before the mind
can be relaxed, the muscles must be. A relaxed body makes for a
healthy mind, which can absorb information more easily. So you
can watch the "soapies", if that gives you enjoyment and relaxes
you! But DO EXERCISE as well. I definitely don't get enough of
that. Winners visualize success and positive outcomes to their
endeavours and they know when to relax. Remember how and what
you think determines the way your life will turn out; because
our thoughts determine our attitudes.
It is said that winners have only 5% of the available talent,
but have 95 per cent of the drive. Usually there is not such a
great difference between the world's top sportsmen, in terms of
pure talent. Much of what distinguishes the winners amongst them
comes from the mind ... thinking positively that you are a
winner and handling pressure. Think of the sportsmen who got to
the top through sheer hard work, far more than their natural
talent. I often think of a small man, like South African golfer
Gary Player. A man not physically endowed (sounds rude!), who
was out-driven metres and metres by the far larger American
golfers. He was always at his best when the "chips were down".
Not French fries.
Remember, on your journey to the top (if that's what you want
... and it's not for everyone), sheer hard work and
DETERMINATION is just as important as your intelligence and
ability. It is probably the single most important step on your
stairway to success.
To be successful yourself, associate with winners - not because
they are successful people whose coat-tails you want to hang
onto. Rather, because they are positive people who have achieved
something in life, no matter how small it may be. They do not
have to be rich and famous - as long as you enjoy their company
... and them yours. There's nothing wrong with admiring or
envying them as role models.
Ask yourself: Would I like to "fly with the eagles, or scratch
with the turkeys"?
Remember:
"Success comes from 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration" -
famous American inventor Thomas Edison and one of the men who
has had the most impact on the world in the twentieth century.
THE FORMULA TO SUCCESS:
As I see it...
CONCEIVE + BELIEVE = ACHIEVE
VISUALIZE + INTERNALIZE = REALIZE
SUMMARY:
THE STEPS TO SUCCESS
There are a number of important factors that make people
successful in achieving their personal goals ... and I believe
goal-setting is the key ingredient to success. These, I believe,
are the crucial ingredients:
* Have a VISION of what you'd like to be. What thoughts would
you like to change? Where do you want to go?
* Belief in oneself and the ability to succeed.
* Good self esteem.
* Self confidence.
* Self discipline.
* A burning desire to achieve your pre-set goals.
* NB: Personal integrity and good ethics. This is of absolute
importance ... because once you lose your integrity, you've lost
everything.
* A desire to give something back to society and to invest in
people - a very worthwhile life mission. If you help people get
what they want and achieve their full potential in life, so will
you.
* Having worthy goals which benefit oneself and others.
* Consistency and commitment.
* An ability to avoid distractions.
* Affirming oneself daily.
* An ability to take calculated risks.
* An ability to learn from your mistakes and overcome the fear
of making them.
* An ability to handle stress well. Most important in today's
fast-paced and ever-changing world.
* Exercise.
* Relaxation.
* Self motivation.
* Try looking at yourself through other's eyes.
* Talk yourself and others up (through self-affirmations).
Project a positive self image as often as you can. It's not
always possible though, as we all feel discouraged from time to
time. It's perfectly natural. The difference is that winners can
pick themselves up when down.
Remember always: the only limits to your accomplishments in life
are self imposed.
* NB: Have a winning focus and a positive attitude. At least as
often as you can.
Stay positive and determined, even when "the chips are down".
Concentrate and contemplate.
Practice and be patient.
Keep pen and paper handy (to write down new and better thoughts
and ideas). I keep them by my bedside. Not the thoughts; but pen
and paper!
Try to understand your unique personality make-up.
Be COMMITTED and PERSEVERE.
Draw on and develop the courage that is within every one of us.
Finally, continually keep your eyes fixed on your ultimate goal,
your grand purpose in life. What are you trying to do with it?
You can yet achieve it, no matter how far you are down the track
of life. I sincerely believe that.
Then have absolute FAITH in yourself and in a Higher Power ...
and His plan for your life (which is God speaking to you through
imagination and inspiration).
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To end off, a few quotations which help inspire me often in my
personal journey ....
"Be bold and unseen and mighty forces come to your aid"
"The greatest risk in life is to risk NOTHING ... The person who
risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and
becomes nothing ...."
- Norman Vincent Peale.
"Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of
himself dwarfs the conquest of Mount Everest".
- N.V.Peale (again).
The key lies in FINDING YOUR PASSION: what drives you and
presses your "hot buttons" ...
"A passion for anything will ensure success, for the desire
of the end will point out the means."
- William Hazlitt
"Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it".
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever you want or desire in life, remember Hamlet's words
written by the great English playwright, William Shakespeare:
"To thine own self be true."
Just remember,
You are launched on a great journey
and ...
"Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir the blood to
action, make big plans, aim high in work and hope."
- D. Burnham
Craig Lock
The "original" Online Creative Writing Course
http://www.nzenterprise.com/writer/creative.html
This short extract is from my new manuscript on sport
psychology, called THE WINNING MIND Craig's various books*
(hard copies, CD's, "talking books" and e-books) are available
at: http://www.novelty-gift.com/
and
http://www.nzenterprise.com/4reel/
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Inspiration
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest, that it leaves
your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
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If you haven't any clarity in your heart, you have the worst
kind of heart trouble.
Unknown
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will
annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Unknown
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Special Feature
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WHAT WE SEE
A long time ago a baby was born to poor parents. His future
looked bleak as he grew to see a life of dreariness and poverty
before him. He joined the army as a common soldier and was
wounded so severely that he never regained the use of his left
arm.
He later failed to find decent employment and, on two occasions,
was sent to debtor's prison. He continued to have brushes with
the law and struggled just to survive.
But, despite the severity of his life, he never let go of his
dream...to write a book. He wrote that book and in it he told a
beautiful story which welled from his heart's deepest dreams and
yearnings. It has moved generations of people the world over
ever since. It is about a man who saw the world differently than
everyone else. Though created in suffering, the book is an
inspiring tale of irrepressible hope. This man's story has been
put to music and film, translated into numerous languages and
remains a literary classic after some 400 years. The author was
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and the book is Don Quixote De La
Mancha.
Perhaps Cervantes himself believed, as did his character, that
the world "sees people as they are -- I see them as they can
be!" For Cervantes may never have accomplished such a
magnificent work had he not seen some potential within himself
that was hidden from the rest of the world. He knew, and has
taught others ever since, that great truth: What we see will
come to be.
Some see situations as they are, others as they can be. Some see
people as they are, others as they can be. And some see
themselves as they are, others as they can be.
But when we look beyond the present reality, dismal as it may
seem, and set our sights upon the best that is within a
situation or a human being, then, too, what we see will come to
be. And we'll know the power of hope.
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Reader's Corner
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Thanks Lois for your kind comments in this issue! You
are going to give me the 'big head!' LOL I guess if
I'm going to give that kind of advice in my articles,
I'd better be following the rules myself doncha think?
LOL
Thanks again,
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Hi Lois,
I found today's article very helpful in clearing up a few
things about ezine advertising, some things listed I knew
and some I didn't. Anyway, I have, I think, some more helpful
information on this subject and hoped you might include it
in the next issue of KIT Klassifieds. Keep up the great work, I
find valuable information in your ezine all the time!
Tracy Rewis
(NOTE: See KIT Klassifieds, June 1st, 2002 for the full
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Keeping in Touch With My Online Family is published by:
Free At Last Enterprises
Lois M. Jeary, Publisher
P. O. Box 88, Elie, Manitoba R0H 0H0 Canada
Phone: (204) 353-4096
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