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Message #1740
WEALTHY:
Why settle for 2 instead of 10?
HEALTHY:
Is your blood pressure really that high?
WISE:
Andy Warhol on making changes
ALSO
IN THIS ISSUE:
Work
time vs. family time (Brian Tracy)
5 "must-read" books
(Michael
Masterson)
Add
the word "coxcomb" to your vocabulary
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By
Andrew Gordon
Instead
of investing in only a couple of great stocks – and missing
out on other potential big winners – why not invest in all your
top choices?
Here's
how to do it with the least risk …
Let's
say you've found 10 companies with substantial upside. Divide
your hypothetical 10-company portfolio into two groups. Group
1 should include the companies with the highest upside. Just
as important, none should be likely to head south (given
their track record and the market they're in). Group 2 should
include the companies with either lower upside or bigger
downside than those in the first group. Either way, you're
not getting enough potential gain for the risk you'd be taking.
If
you have $90,000 to spend on this 10-company portfolio, spend
two-thirds of it (twice as much) – $60,000 – on the first
group and one-third – $30,000 – on the second. This way,
if any of your big winners emerge from the second group,
you participate in the profit … and you still have time
to put more money into these high flyers.
Then
sit back and watch your money pile up.
(Ed.
Note: Andrew Gordon, ETR's financial expert, is the editor
of our new investment service, The
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"They
say that time changes things, but you actually have to
change them yourself."
- Andy
Warhol
By
Brian Tracy
Perhaps
the greatest problem that people have today is "time
poverty." Working people have too much to do and too
little time for their personal lives. Most people feel overwhelmed
by responsibilities and activities, and the harder they work,
the further behind they feel. This sense of being on a never-ending
treadmill can cause you to fall into a reactive/responsive
mode of living. Instead of clearly deciding what you want
to do, you continually react to what is happening around
you. Pretty soon, you lose all sense of control. You feel
that your life is running you, rather than you running your
life.
On
a regular basis, you have to stand back and take stock of
yourself and what you're doing. You have to stop the clock
and do some serious thinking about who you are and where
you are going. You have to evaluate your activities in the
light of what is really important to you. You must master
your time rather than becoming a slave to the demands of
a constant flow of events. And you must organize your life
to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.
Taking
action without thinking is the cause of every failure. Your
ability to think is the most valuable trait that you possess.
If you improve the quality of your thinking, you improve
the quality of your life – sometimes immediately.
Time
is your most precious resource. It is the most valuable thing
you have. It is perishable, it is irreplaceable, and it cannot
be saved. It can only be reallocated from activities of lower
value to activities of higher value. All work requires time.
And time is absolutely essential for the important relationships
in your life. The very act of taking a moment to think about
your time before you spend it will begin to improve your
personal time management immediately.
I
used to think that time management was only a business tool,
like a calculator or a cellular telephone. It was something
that you used so that you could get more done in a shorter
period of time and eventually be paid more money. Then I
learned that time management is not a peripheral activity
or skill. It is the core skill upon which everything else
in your life depends.
In
your business life, there are so many demands on your time
by other people that very little of it is yours to use as
you choose. However, in your personal life, you can exert
a tremendous amount of control over how you use your time.
And it is on this area that I want to focus.
Personal
time management begins with you. It begins with your thinking
through what is really important to you. And it only makes
sense if you organize it around specific things that you
want to accomplish.
You
need to set goals in three major areas of your life.
First,
you need family and personal goals. These are
the reasons why you get up in the morning, why you work
hard and upgrade your skills, why you worry about money
and sometimes feel frustrated by the demands on your time.
What
are your personal and family goals, both tangible and intangible?
A tangible family goal could be a bigger house, a better
car, a larger television set, a vacation, or anything else
that costs money. An intangible goal would be to build a
higher quality relationship with your spouse and children,
to spend more time with your family by going for walks, or
to read books. Achieving these family and personal goals
is the real essence of time management, and its major purpose.
Second,
you need business and career goals. These are
the "how" goals, the means by which you achieve
your personal "why" goals. How can you achieve
the level of income that will enable you to fulfill your
family goals? How can you develop the skills and abilities
to stay ahead of the curve in your career? Business and
career goals are absolutely essential, especially when
balanced with family and personal goals.
Third,
you need personal-development goals. Remember,
you can't achieve much more on the outside than what you
have achieved on the inside. Your outer life will be a
reflection of your inner life. If you wish to achieve worthwhile
things in your personal life and your career, you must
become a worthwhile person. You must build yourself if
you want to build your life. Perhaps the greatest secret
of success is that you can become anything you really want
to become to achieve any goal that you really want to achieve.
But in order to do it, you must go to work on yourself
and never stop.
Once
you have a list of your personal and family goals, your business
and career goals, and your self-development goals, you can
then organize that list by priority. This brings us to the
difference between priorities and posteriorities. In order
to get your personal time under control, you must decide
very clearly upon your priorities. You must decide on the
most important things that you could possibly be doing to
give yourself the same amount of happiness, satisfaction,
and joy in life. But, at the same time, you must establish
posteriorities as well. Just as priorities are things that
you do more of and sooner, posteriorities are things that
you do less of and later.
The
fact is, your calendar is full. You have no spare minutes.
Your time is extremely valuable. Therefore, for you to do
anything new, you will have to stop doing something old.
In order to get into something, you will have to get out
of something else. In order to pick something up, you will
have to put something down. Before you make any new commitment
of your time, you must firmly decide what activities you
are going to discontinue.
If
you want to spend more time with your family, for example,
you must decide what activities you currently engage in that
are preventing you from doing so.
A
principle of time management says that hard time
pushes out soft time. This means that hard time,
such as working, will push out soft time, such as the time
you spend with your family. If you don't get your work done
at the office because you don't use your time well, you almost
invariably have to rob that time from your family. As a result,
because your family is important to you, you find yourself
in a values conflict. You feel stressed and irritable. You
feel a tremendous amount of pressure. You know in your heart
that you should be spending more time with the important
people in your life, but because you didn't get your work
done, you have to fulfill those responsibilities before you
can spend time with them.
Think
of it this way. Every minute you waste during the waking
day is time that your family will ultimately be deprived
of. So concentrate on working when you are at work so that
you can concentrate on your family when you are at home.
There
are three key questions that you should continually ask yourself
to keep your personal life in balance.
The
first question is: "What is really important to me?" Whenever
you find yourself with too much to do and too little time,
stop and ask yourself, "What is it that is really important
for me to do in this situation?" Then, make sure that
what you are doing is the answer to that question.
The
second question is: "What are my highest value activities?" In
your personal life, this means, "What are the things
that I do that give me the greatest pleasure and satisfaction?
Of all the things that I could be doing at any one time,
what are the things that I could do to add the greatest value
to my life?"
And
the final question to ask yourself, over and over again,
is: "What is the most valuable use of my time right
now?" Since you can only do one thing at a time, you
must constantly organize your life so that you are doing
one thing, the most important thing, at every moment.
Personal
time management enables you to choose what to do first, what
to do second, and what not to do at all. It enables you to
organize every aspect of your life so that you can get the
greatest joy, happiness, and satisfaction out of everything
you do.
(Ed.
Note: Brian Tracy is one of America's leading authorities
on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness.
He is a dynamic and entertaining speaker, known for his ability
to inform and inspire his audiences.)
Today's
Action Plan
Brian
Tracy was one of the most popular speakers at last year's
Wealth-Building Bootcamp. Stay tuned for more about our plans
for this year's 3rd Annual Conference. In the meantime, catch
up on what you missed last year with our collection of Bootcamp
CDs and DVDs.
Three
Breathtaking Buying Opportunities… That Won't Last Long
I
had the usual dozen documents waiting for me this morning
in my inbox. On the very bottom was something called "The
1,000% Report."
Andrew
Gordon had told me to expect it. But I had completely forgotten.
He told me to read it if I wanted to learn about three amazing
stock buys.
Now
Andrew is our financial guru and he's been recommending stocks
for us for over a year with a 92% winning record. And he's
identified a number of huge winners in that time. But he
always talks about these companies in measured tones. So
his suggestion stuck in my mind. I picked up the 14-page
report and read it right away.
Now,
before I say what I thought about it, I have to tell you
that I've read hundreds of company reports before. I've become
somewhat of an expert in recognizing exaggeration or just
plan BS when it comes to the claims that so-called experts
make on behalf of the companies they're recommending.
Andrew
really did it this time though.
The
first company had quite an interesting offer being made by
the CEO with a very short timeline. No time to waste in investing
in that company.
The
second company was sitting on technology that was so advanced
I wondered if we were ready for it. By the end of the chapter,
I understood that Andrew was indeed talking about the future
but also that the future was right around the corner. A
technology that nobody else has… with a dozen killer applications…that's
the kind of company that can give you once-in-a-lifetime
returns on your investment.
I'm
ashamed to say I believed the press about the third company.
And the press hasn't been kind. I've completely changed my
mind about this company now. Partly because of the bad publicity,
it's selling at an all-time low. Yet, its prospects have
never been brighter. Andrew says that this well-known company
is about to turn the corner. If you want take advantage of
its low price, now is the time to buy before it does.
Three
companies…three breathtaking buying opportunities happening
right now… Andrew's struck pay dirt again. If you're interested
in these companies, here's how
you can learn much more about them.
Yours
sincerely,
Will Bonner
Lower
Your Blood Pressure in Just 5 Minutes …
By
Jon Herring
The
stress of having your blood pressure taken may give your
doctor the wrong idea. New research shows that sitting quietly
for five minutes could mean the difference between getting
medication you don't need and a clean bill of health.
Nurses
from the University of Virginia took readings from 100 elderly
patients. Those who rested for five minutes prior to testing
– and had their feet planted firmly on the floor = had a
systolic reading (the upper number) that was 14 points lower
than those who didn't.
The
next time you're having your blood pressure taken, avoid
sitting on the examining table. Your feet will dangle over
the side and cause a higher reading. Instead, take it slow
and ask to sit in a chair.
Living
Rich: Make Time for Fiction
By
Michael Masterson
Most
of the reading recommendations we make in ETR are for non-fiction
business books. But there should be room in your schedule
for fiction too.
Because
your leisure time is limited, you don't want to waste it
on so-so writers. So how do you decide what to read? How
do you weed through the stacks of mediocre fiction to find
the gems?
In Message
#325, I suggested that you get your hands
on just about any list of "best books." (There
are many.) Then go to a bookstore or library and pick
a few that appeal to you. What you're looking for are
books that have passed the test of time – books that
have been judged "great."
A
list that you might want to start with was recently compiled
by New York Times Book Review editor Sam
Tanenhaus. After surveying some of the country's most prominent
writers, editors, and literary critics in search of "The
Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years,"
here's what he came up with:
Toni
Morrison's Beloved came
in first.
The
runners-up were:
Don
DeLillo's Underworld
Cormac
McCarthy's Blood
Meridian (I liked All
the Pretty Horses better.)
John
Updike's Rabbit
Angstrom: The Four Novels (which includes Rabbit
Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich,and Rabbit
at Rest)
Philip
Roth's American
Pastoral
I've
read all of these books but Roth's. Some I liked; some I
didn't. My recommendation: If you can't get into a book,
skip it and go on to something else … no matter what the "experts" say
about it.
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Example
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Michael
Masterson
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