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Turn
Your Mind into a Cash-Generating Idea Machine
Imagine
sitting in a meeting...a seemingly unsolvable problem is
before the group.
Everyone
is silent and stuck for ideas. But you come up with the thought
that saves the day!
Everyone
wonders why they didn't think of it. But only you know the
answer to that question. It's because they didn't know HOW
to look at the problem.
Ideas,
not money, are the true currency of business and personal
success.
Now
you can discover a simple, step-by-step technique that
will give you a guaranteed source of powerful ideas and
solutions to call on any time you need one.
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Charlie Byrne
Relocation,
Relocation, Relocation
By
Kam Weiler
An
estimated one in five baby boomers - or 15 million Americans
- are expected to relocate upon retirement. And if you put
your real estate investments in the path of their migration,
you stand to make a fortune.
But
tomorrow's snowbirds won't all be hitting the coast of Florida
if other Sunbelt states have anything to say about it. Florida
is losing ground to states like Texas, which have launched
aggressive marketing campaigns to lure retirees.
Other
factors influencing retirees' relocation choices include:
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Cultural
activities. Relocating boomers also want to be within
easy driving distance of museums, live music, shopping,
and other distinctly cosmopolitan attractions.
Investors
who purchase real estate in the
most desirable markets while prices are still
low stand to make a killing.
[Ed.
Note: Kam Weiler is a contributing editor for Main
Street Millionaire, ETR's real estate investment
success program.]
"Our
doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft
might win by fearing to attempt."
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William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
The
Power of Free Will
By
Paul Lawrence
Wanda
moved to the dance floor of my ballroom dance studio and
nodded that she was ready. I turned on the music, hoping
she would execute the complicated turn correctly. But her
body language foretold the outcome. As her eyes filled with
fear, she slumped. Then she slung her feet around and toppled
off balance, nearly falling.
Was
it because Wanda didn't have the skill to do such a turn?
No. I'd seen her do the same turn more than 100 times, competently
and successfully.
The
difference this time? She was scheduled to do an amateur
performance later that day, and had allowed her head to become
filled with self-doubt. Even though she knew the routine
perfectly, she had turned to me with a defeated look on her
face and said, "I'm not really ready to do this, am
I?"
I
assured Wanda that she was ready, reminding her that we'd
rehearsed the routine over and over again. I suggested that
she walk through some of the steps to assure herself that
she knew what she was doing - and that catches us up to where
I opened this story.
After
her near fall, Wanda looked at me with wide, confused eyes. "I
don't know why that happened," she said.
There
was no evil puppeteer pulling her strings and causing her
to topple in the middle of a step she was easily capable
of doing. And there were no sudden gusts of wind blowing
her off balance either. What knocked her down were the defeatist
thoughts she allowed herself to have.
I'd
been through this with Wanda before, and I said the same
thing I'd said to her many times:
"Wanda,
you have the free will to choose to think however you want
to think - that you can do it or that you can't do
it."
Eventually,
with enough cheerleading from me, Wanda managed to get through
her performance that night. Unfortunately, though she finished
without humiliating herself, she was terrorized the whole
time and didn't do anywhere near the job she could have done.
I'll
let you in on a little secret. The reason I understand Wanda
so well is that for a good deal of my life ... up to my late
twenties ... I too allowed my head to get filled with defeatist
thoughts. These thoughts prevented me from achieving anything
more than the most mediocre of successes in all aspects of
my life.
I
hit a low point before I finally took action to prevent myself
from becoming an old man who could only ask himself "What
if?" That's when I started to develop my Dare
to Live Your Dreams program.
As
part of that program - to overcome the negative thoughts
that were keeping me from achieving my goals - I came up
with a system I call "Thought Harnessing." Here
are the steps:
1. Immediately
recognize when you are having a negative or self-defeating
thought.
2. Make
a conscious decision to refuse to continue that line of
thinking.
3. Force
yourself to replace your negative thought with a positive
one.
4. Take
an action right away that will help you move toward the
goal you are trying to achieve.
5. Reward
yourself in some small way for controlling your thoughts.
Jeff
Y. used Thought Harnessing to successfully negotiate a real
estate deal that earned him $60,000 in less than three months.
Jeff
had always been nervous whenever he was going to make an
offer on a piece of property. All he could think of were
the many ways he could fail. And as he drove up to the prospective
seller's office, he started having his normal fears of doom.
But
this time, something was different. He recognized what he
was doing and forced himself to cease that line of thought.
Instead, he imagined himself handing a contract to the seller,
and the seller eagerly signing it. With that positive thought
in his head, Jeff exited his car and headed for the door
to meet the prospect. And as he walked toward the door, he
rewarded himself for turning his thoughts around with a little
chocolate bar.
Needless
to say, it worked. Jeff made his offer, the owner accepted,
and three months later Jeff had successfully bought and re-sold
his first pre-foreclosure property.
Lana
J. also used Thought Harnessing - in her case, to revive
her career.
Her
employer's business wasn't doing well. And though Lana knew
she ought to be looking for a new job, she was reluctant
to do it. She was in her late fifties - and every time she
thought about contacting prospective employers, she imagined
them laughing cruelly as they informed her that she was too
old to be hired.
But
then Lana used the five-step Thought Harnessing process to
get rid of her negativity ... and actually applied for some
jobs. Instead of making fun of her age, the prospective employers
were impressed by her years of experience. And within two
weeks, she had procured a new position and was earning 50
percent more than her previous salary.
Today's
Action Plan: Thought Harnessing is just one of
dozens of techniques included in my Dare
to Live Your Dreams program. Make a commitment
to try it the next time self-doubt is keeping you from
accomplishing a goal. And when you try it, keep something
in mind. As Michael Masterson has pointed out many times,
simply thinking positive thoughts isn't enough to propel
you to success. You have to act on those thoughts. That's
the reason "taking action" is such an important
part of the five-step Thought Harnessing process.
[Ed.
Note: Paul Lawrence is a produced screenwriter, direct-mail
copywriter, and business author. In addition to the Dare
to Live Your Dreams program, he is the
creator of the Quick
and Easy Microbusiness System, ETR's program
for starting a business for under $100.]
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The
Counter-Intuitive Risk: Return Relationship
The
Counter-Intuitive Risk: Return Relationship
Everybody
knows that if you want to see BIG returns, then you have
to take BIG risks, right?
What
if the Exact Opposite were true?
What
if, as you lowered your risk your returns actually grew?
What
if low-risk investments returned 30%, 85%, even 220% or more
in just a matter of days? You would run to invest as much
money as you could, and watch your profits skyrocket, right?
That's
exactly the type of investment Justin Ford makes all of the
time. He's going to spell out exactly how you can do the
same thing even if you have little to no money to start with
and build your net worth quickly and safely. Learn
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Kam Weiler
Cosmetics
and Breast Cancer
By
Al Sears, MD
Yesterday,
I told you about chemicals that act like estrogen when
they get into your body. These "estrogen mimics" lurk
in most forms of plastic and many other commonly used products,
including cosmetics, lotions, perfumes, and shampoos.
The
FDA doesn't require cosmetics companies to test their ingredients.
So it's not surprising that, according to an industry review
panel, only 10 percent of the 10,500 ingredients used in
their products have been tested for safety.
My
Wellness Research Foundation has been researching cosmetics
ingredients, and the results are sobering. For example, a
recent study published in the Journal of Toxicology found
that two preservatives used in Revlon lipstick - "parabens" -
are concentrated in breast cancer tumors. And it's not just
lipstick. Parabens can be found in literally hundreds of
everyday items.
Next
week, I'll tell you about industrial additives linked to
cancer that you are probably putting in your mouth.
[Ed.
Note: Dr. Sears, a practicing physician and the author of 12
Secrets to Virility, is a leading authority
on longevity, physical fitness, and heart health.]
Notes
From Asia: Our Questions Go Unanswered
By
Michael Masterson
After
being in Japan for a few days, we felt like we knew far too
little about the Japanese people.
We
noticed that since we nearly obliterated their country at
the end of World War II, they have built it back up again
- and that, in many ways, it is better and more modern than
our own. We noticed too that, like the Chinese, the Japanese
are thinner than Americans and seem to suffer from fewer
modern diseases.
And,
as I discussed at length last
Friday, we noticed the extraordinary civility
of the Japanese. In this, they have no equal.
But
when it comes to understanding how they really think, and
what they think of when they are really thinking, we are
still at a loss.
We
got some of our information from books we read, some from
looking at cultural artifacts, some by watching people in
restaurants and parks. But most of what we learned in both
China and Japan came from our tour guides.
And
we noticed a difference between them.
Although
our Chinese guides would occasionally joke about being "put
in jail" for telling us certain "secrets," we
found them to be a candid and forthright group. They admitted
that most Chinese people don't like U.S. foreign policy,
don't like the Japanese, and like to take advantage of their
colleagues and partners when doing business.
Our
Japanese guides were more fluent speakers of English, but
we found them to be a good deal more circumspect when it
came to discussing essential aspects of the collective Japanese
psyche.
When
I asked, "Why are the Japanese so polite?" our
guide said, "Do you think we are polite?"
And
when Daniel wondered, "What is the Japanese perception
of American tourists?" he was told, "I think we
are happy to have you."
But
that didn't keep us from continuing to ask whatever questions
popped into our minds, even if they demonstrated that Americans
are, indeed, culturally insensitive to the point of rudeness.
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Word
to the Wise: Circumspect
"Circumspect" (SUR-kum-spekt)
is another way of saying "cautious" or "prudent." It
is derived from the Latin for "to take heed."
Example
(as I used it today): "Our Japanese guides were more
fluent speakers of English, but we found them to be a good
deal more circumspect when it came to discussing essential
aspects of the collective Japanese psyche."
