$4 Million to $40 Million with the Secret Code of Success
Issue #2676
- WEALTHY: Dividend hikes point to good investments (Andrew Gordon)
- HEALTHY: What to do about sugar and fat (Kelley Herring)
- WISE: Adam Brink on the biggest challenge
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- Are you living with one foot on the brake? (Noah St. John)
- Another bevy of commonly confused words (Don Hauptman)
- It’s Fun to Know… about tunnels
- Add “redux” to your vocabulary
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The Worst Quarter Ever
The earning season is drawing to an end. But even before it began, we already knew that a lot of companies were in big trouble. Their dividends told us.
Historically, far more companies have raised their dividends as opposed to cutting or suspending them. But in the first quarter of 2009 – for the very first time since 1955 when Standard & Poor’s started tracking this – the ratio reversed. For every three companies that raised dividends, four cut them.
This is yet another red flag indicating how tight credit still is.
But how about those dividend hikers?
Many raised their dividends by 5 to 10 percent or more this past quarter. And you can even find some – including Shell and AstraZeneca – that have upped their dividend payments by over 10 percent.
Raising dividends in this period of tight credit and slumping demand is either a huge bullish statement on the prospects of the company in question or…
The biggest con job this side of the Madoff scandal.
Occasionally I find a dividend hiker I don’t like. For example, General Dynamics raised its dividend last month but also announced that it would be laying off 12 percent of its workforce. This is not a company confident about its future earnings growth.
But I’ve found that 98 percent of dividend hikes are legit – made because the company has deep reserves of cash and solid revenues.
Companies like that are good investments right now. You’d be getting a double bang for your buck: increasingly big dividend checks and share prices poised to go up.
[Ed. Note: You can read the investment advice and musings of Andrew Gordon every day in ETR's sister publication Investor's Daily Edge]
“The biggest challenge is when your body knows you can do something but your mind is holding you back. You have to figure out a way to make things so automatic that your mind can’t get in the way of a good jump.”
Adam Brink
How One Entrepreneur Went from $4 Million to $40 Million in One Year Using the Secret Code of Success
I had just gotten off the stage at a major marketing conference when the founder of a nationally known software company (you’ve seen their commercials on TV) came up and said something that stopped me in my tracks:
“Noah, one thing you just said on stage changed my life. I never realized that I’ve been living my life with one foot on the brake. And if I just get my foot off the brake, I’ll be much more successful.”
He told me that his company had been “stuck” at $4 million a year for the previous four years. (My first thought was: “Gee, a lot of people would like to be ’stuck’ at $4 million!”) He asked if I would coach him on how to stop holding himself back from success. Since I’ve been doing that for companies and individuals since 1997, I said “Sure.”
What I coached him in is what I call it The Secret Code of Success. I call it a “Secret Code” because even the people using it don’t know what they’re doing!
It’s like asking Tiger Woods to explain how he got so mentally tough or Bill Gates to tell you how he made so much money. These highly successful people do certain things that they’re totally unaware of, because they are unconsciously competent at allowing themselves to succeed. They might be able to tell you some of the steps they took to get there – but because they’re unconsciously competent at letting themselves succeed, there will always be something missing in their explanation.
Let me explain what I mean by “unconsciously competent.”
To become unconsciously competent at any skill, you go through four levels:
- Unconscious incompetence – when you don’t know that you don’t know how to do it
- Conscious incompetence – when you know that you don’t know how to do it
- Conscious competence – when you know that you know how to do it
- Unconscious competence – when you do it without any conscious thought
Happy, wealthy people – whom I call the Naturals – are highly successful for the precise reason that they are unconsciously competent at allowing themselves to succeed.
Which brings us back to our software entrepreneur. When I walked him through what the Naturals are doing (without being consciously aware of it), he began to understand why, even though he’d spent a lot of time and money taking “how to succeed” programs, he couldn’t move forward.
Here are the three essential steps he took to get his foot off the brake:
1. Show appreciation for those who have made a difference in your life.
Human beings are starving for attention, appreciation, and acknowledgement. Research has shown that people will do more for acknowledgement than for money, because appreciation is the true currency of human interaction.
There are dozens of ways to acknowledge the people in your life, but what it really comes down to is your willingness to do so. That’s because everyone is wearing an invisible sign that says “Please make me feel important.” The problem is, you’re wearing that sign too!
If you become that one person in a million who is willing to make others feel important first, you’ll see an amazing turnaround in your relationships… just like our entrepreneur did.
2. Become aware of the ways you’re holding yourself back at the same time as you’re pushing yourself forward.
When I’m on stage and explain that most people are driving down the road of life with one foot on the brake, many in my audience tell me it never occurred to them that they could be stopping themselves at the same time as they’re driving forward.
This happens because the Why-To’s of Success are conscious, but the Why-Not-To’s of Success are subconscious. Everyone has reasons to want to succeed. (Those are the Why-To’s.) At the same time, most of us have hidden reasons for holding ourselves back. (Those are the Why-Not-To’s.) What made this concept truly life-changing for our entrepreneur (and for thousands of others who’ve learned The Code) was understanding that:
• Because they’re subconscious, your Why-Not-To’s of Success are hidden even from you. No one gets up in the morning and says, “I think I’ll hold myself back from success today!”
• The Naturals of Success have eliminated their Why-Not-To’s of Success. But because they’ve never had their own foot on the brake, they can’t possibly tell someone else how to get it off. That’s why there’s always something missing when they try to explain their “secrets of success.”
3. Realize the benefit of regular mentoring to achieve your goals.
While the rest of us often feel adrift and alone, the Naturals either always had, or unconsciously created, Systems of Support that allowed them to reach their goals faster, easier, and with less effort.
Having that kind of support made all the difference in the Naturals’ lives, and it can make a big difference in your life, too. One way to get the support you need to succeed is to find a mentor or coach who:
- Understands and believes in you
- Doesn’t make you feel wrong for wanting what you want
- Gives you solid, doable action steps to reach your goals
Before our software entrepreneur heard me speak on stage, his company had been “stuck” at $4 million a year for the previous four years. But because he knew he was capable of much more, it was just as frustrating for him as it would be for someone making much less.
With just 90 days of coaching in The Code,he learned how to take his foot off the brake. His company’s revenues exploded from $4 million to $40 million in less than a year.
And now, every time I see his commercials on TV, I smile. Because his success is just one more example of what can happen when you take your foot off the brake.
[Ed. Note: Noah St. John, PhD, is the author of The Secret Code of Success: 7 Hidden Steps to More Wealth and Happiness and founder of SuccessClinic.com. He helps people get rid of the head trash that's holding them back and enjoy more wealth, freedom, and abundance in life. For a free book excerpt, visit http://SuccessClinic.com.
You can get more practical advice about how to accomplish your biggest goals and turn your dreams into reality from a "mentor to billionaires." Get the details here.]
Why Get Your Hands Dirty When You Don’t Have to?
Where there’s a stampede, there’s an opportunity…
Thousands of wannabe entrepreneurs have jumped on a bandwagon to find, fix-up and flip foreclosures.
They thought they were being smart. They thought they were doing the opposite to the crowd and had the license to print money.
Little do they know… they ARE the crowd!
Now, please don’t misunderstand me. It’s a fact that many properties (sadly) are becoming available at rock bottom prices due to foreclosure. It’s also a fact that a few people are making money by flipping foreclosures…
And they’re earning every penny (when it all works out)!
Flipping foreclosures may sound great in principle, but stop and think about what you have to go through to achieve that…
Not my idea of easy money.
Cancer Causers and Fighters in Your Diet
The foods you eat can make you overweight and prone to disease. But they can also help you stay lean and trim… and keep serious health problems at bay.
Here are two modifications you can make to your diet to help prevent cancer.
• Balance Your Blood Sugar
One of the most important elements in preventing cancer is keeping your blood sugar stable. High-glycemic foods fuel cancer’s fire by elevating insulin. But that’s not all. Sugar also depresses your immune system, giving cancer cells the opportunity to multiply and divide while the body’s defenses are down.
Protect yourself by sticking with low-glycemic foods.
• Boost Omega-3 Fats
In the U.S., 80 percent of the fats we consume are omega-6s – and omega-6 fats (found in vegetable oils like corn oil and soybean oil) promote inflammation and turn on genes that fuel cancer. Omega-3s, on the other hand, supply the antidote. Not only are these healthy fats (found in coldwater fish like wild salmon and sardines, as well as flaxseed, walnuts, and chia) potent anti-inflammatories, they up-regulate the genes that guard against cancer.
Aim for at least 1 gram of omega-3s daily in the form of a high-quality fish oil supplement (like Carlson’s) or a serving of wild salmon.
[Ed. Note: Nutrition expert Kelley Herring is founder of Healing Gourmet, where you can find dozens of healthful recipes that are low-glycemic for optimum wellness. Kelley has created a revolutionary 7-part health transformation program called Your Plate, Your Fate that reveals how you can protect your health and optimize your weight by maximizing the nutrients in your food. Get all the details and learn how to get three bonus books right here .
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The Language Perfectionist: Confusables Redux
By Don Hauptman
I never run out of examples of word pairs that are commonly confused. Here’s another list:
• “Fear of weight gain may mitigate against effective psychiatric treatments.”
The writer meant militate, which means to exert a force or influence. To mitigate means to alleviate, moderate, make something less severe. Thus, the latter word is never properly used with against.
• “Whatever food other people are eating around her, it doesn’t phase her.”
The word wanted here is faze, which means disturb, disconcert, daunt.
• “So, I’d do some digging before I went full boar into streaming.”
Although full boar conjures up an interesting image, the correct expression is full bore. The origin of the metaphor is disputed, but the term originally described the widest capacity of an engine cylinder or gun barrel, thereby suggesting the idea of maximum power.
• “Staff may be reticent to express themselves freely in the presence of supervisors.”
This is one of the most common linguistic mix-ups. The writer meant reluctant. The word reticent means reserved, quiet, taciturn. Thus, one is never reticent to do something.
I found all the examples quoted above by searching the Internet. The tens of thousands of incorrect citations that turned up demonstrate just how frequently these words are misunderstood and misused.
[Ed Note: For more than three decades, Don Hauptman was an award-winning independent direct-response copywriter and creative consultant. He is author of The Versatile Freelancer, an e-book recently published by AWAI that shows writers and other creative professionals how to diversify their careers into speaking, consulting, training, and critiquing.]
It’s Fun to Know: About Tunnels
The world’s longest underwater tunnel (at 31 miles) is the Chunnel, which links France and England beneath the English Channel. It’s been open for 15 years.
The world’s soon-to-be longest tunnel (at 34.5 miles) is in the Swiss Alps. It will be ready for trains in 2017.
Meanwhile, New York City is in the process of replacing its crumbling aqueduct infrastructure (made up of tunnels that carry water). The new system will be 60 miles of tunnels between 10 and 24 feet wide. Started in the 1970s, the project is expected to be completed by 2020.
(Source: Discover Magazine)
6 Steps to Success in 2009
When a toddler is first learning how to walk she starts with a series of small steps.
It’s scary at first. Holding onto tables, chairs and anything else within reach, she hesitantly moves forward.
Occasionally she’ll fall down, but she gets right back up and tries again.
Your path to success is just like that.
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Word to the Wise: Redux
“Redux” (rih-DUHKS) – from the Latin – means brought back or returning.
Example (as used by Don Hauptman today in the title of his “Language Perfectionist” column): Confusables Redux.
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