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WEALTH
How
to Not Get Worked Over by Contractors
Don't
get screwed when you hire a contractor to do work on your home
or investment properties. Avoid most problems by asking for
and checking references. In addition, have your contractor sign
a binding "Contract Agreement" with the following
clearly defined:
- Scope
of Work (Be as specific as possible.)
- Draw
Schedule (Try not to pay more than 25% up front.)
- Change
Order (Require approval before any additional work is done.)
- Penalty
Clause (Charge per day if he goes over schedule.)
- Incentive
Clause (Bonus per day if he completes the work ahead of
schedule.)
- Damage
Clause (You should not pay for damage caused by the contractor
while working on your property.)
- Cleanup
Clause (Cleanup should be done every day, not just at the
end of the job.)
-
Justin Ford
[Ed.
Note: Justin Ford is the editor of Main Street Millionaire,
ETR's Real Estate Investment Success Program. For
information, click here.]
HEALTH
Considerations on Aging, Part 1
We
will almost certainly be wealthier and wiser at 55 than we are
at 25. But can we also be healthier and more physically fit?
I emphatically believe that the answer to this question is "YES!"
Case
in point: JD, a successful author and businessman. At 58, he
is in better shape than he was at 38 - and he has never been
happier. Michael Masterson is another example. For eight years,
he experienced debilitating back pain. Now, at the age of 54
- as the result of a regimen of exercise, stretching, and stress
reduction - he's pain-free and more flexible than he was in
his twenties. Not only that, but his physical condition allows
him to train in Jiu Jitsu against men half his age. And he whips
their butts ... my own included!
At
ETR, we believe that you can grow functionally younger in many
ways, even as you age. It has everything to do with the choices
you make and the habits you form.
What
do YOU think about this idea?
-
Jon Herring
TODAY'S
ACTION PLAN
We
want to hear from you. What kind of improvements have you made
in your life that have helped you feel younger and become healthier,
happier, and in better shape as your chronological years have
increased? Please share your thoughts on the ETR
Speak Out forum.
WISDOM
A
5-point Checklist to Evaluate a Big Idea
Whether
it's your Big Idea or someone else's, there are five very simple
questions you can ask that will help you quickly determine its
strengths and weaknesses:
1.
Whom does it benefit?
2.
How great are the benefits?
3.
Does it take advantage of the company's market?
4.
Will the benefits outweigh the costs?
5.
What do we do if it doesn't work?
- Michael Masterson
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TODAY'S
MESSAGE
Thinking
Like a Winner
by
Brian Tracy
After
studying the research done in cognitive psychology (see "Word
to the Wise," below) over the last 25 years, I've come
to a simple conclusion: The degree to which you feel in control
of your life will largely determine your level of mental well-being,
your peace of mind, and the quality of your interactions with
people.
What
cognitive psychologists call a "sense of control"
is the foundation of happiness and high achievement. And the
only thing in the world over which you have complete control
is the content of your conscious mind. If you decide to exert
that control, even when you are surrounded by difficult circumstances,
your future potential will be unlimited.
Your
aim should be to work on yourself and your thinking until you
reach the point where you absolutely, positively believe yourself
to be a total winner in anything you sincerely want to accomplish.
When you feel unshakable confidence in yourself and your abilities,
nothing will be able to stop you. This state of self-confidence
comes from (1) understanding the functioning of your remarkable
mind, and (2) practicing the techniques of mental fitness over
and over, until you become a completely optimistic, cheerful,
and positive person.
In
his book "The
Act of Will", Italian psychologist Dr.
Roberto Assagioli laid out a series of psychological principles
that can help you understand the way your mind works and how
you can take control of it. One of his principles is that images
or pictures, either from within or from the outside, will trigger
thoughts and feelings that are consistent with them. In turn,
those thoughts and feelings will trigger behaviors that lead
to the realization of the pictures.
This
has been referred to as the Law of Reversibility, and is one
of the most important success principles ever discovered. Simply
put, you are more likely to act yourself into feeling than you
are to feel yourself into acting.
For
example, when you become absolutely convinced that you are a
total winner and you are meant to be a complete success in anything
that you really want to do, every picture or image that somehow
represents winning to you will trigger thoughts of what you
could do to achieve that same state. The picture will also trigger
the feeling of excitement that will motivate you to take action.
A
friend of mine who was a sales manager had a simple technique
to make new salespeople successful, and it worked more than
90% percent of the time. When he hired a salesperson, he would
take that person to a nearby Cadillac dealership and force him
to trade in his current car for a new Cadillac. The payments
on the Cadillac were substantially more than the new salesperson
had ever imagined himself making, so he would strongly resist
getting into the commitment. However, the sales manager would
insist until, finally, the salesperson bought the new Cadillac
and drove it home.
No
matter how unsure or insecure the salesperson felt, when his
spouse and friends saw the new Cadillac and he experienced the
pleasure of driving it down the street, he began to think about
himself and to see himself as a big success. And in almost every
case, it turned out to be true. Those people went on to become
great successes at selling their products.
Take
every opportunity you can to surround yourself with images of
what success means to you. Get brochures on new cars. Get magazines
with pictures of beautiful homes, beautiful clothes, and other
things that you could own as a result of achieving the success
that you are aiming for. Each time you see or visualize those
images, you trigger the thoughts, feelings, and actions that
make them materialize in your life.
In
her book "Wake
Up and Live", Dorothea Brande said that
the most important success secret she ever discovered was this:
"Act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be."
She goes on to explain that you need to be very clear about
the success that you desire, and then simply act as if you already
had it. Act as if your success were inevitable. Act as if your
achievement were guaranteed. Act as if there were no possibility
of failure.
You
can control your actions easier than you can control your feelings.
So if you choose to exert control over your actions, those actions
will have a "back flow" effect and trigger the feelings,
thoughts, and images that are consistent with those of the person
you want to be, of the person who lives the life you want to
live.
Your
brain is a multi-sensory, multi-stimulated, extremely complex,
interactive organ. Everything that you think, imagine, say,
do, or feel triggers something else. It's like a series of electrical
impulses going out in all directions and turning on lights everywhere.
By
understanding the way your mind works, you can make your mind
work for you as a powerful engine of growth and development.
You can consciously surround yourself with a series of sensory
inputs that bombard you with messages and cause you to think
and feel like a total winner.
And
if you think like a winner and do the things that winners do
to keep their minds positive and optimistic, you will be a winner.
[Ed.
Note: Brian Tracy will be a featured speaker at ETR's
2nd Annual Wealth Building Bootcamp this October.
Brian
is the best-selling author of more than 36 books. He has written
and produced more than 300 audio and video learning programs,
including the worldwide best-seller "Psychology of Achievement."
He addresses more than 250,000 people each year - audiences
as large as 20,000 people - on the subjects of Personal and
Professional Development, Leadership, Selling, Self-Esteem,
Goals, Strategy, Creativity, and Success Psychology.
To
learn more about Brian's upcoming appearance at ETR's Bootcamp,
please click here.]
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TECHNOLOGY
No,
You Are Not Being Stalked by Aliens
Hearing
peculiar pulsating sounds coming from your car radio
or computer speakers every few minutes? Sort of a
soft, machine gun rat-tat-tat?
Perhaps
you just saw "War of the Worlds" and it
really grabbed your imagination.
More
likely, though, you have a new GSM (Global System
for Mobile communications) cellphone. They send out
and receive data bursts to communicate with the nearest
cell tower. And if your radio/speakers don't have
good shielding, the 217 Hz sounds will get picked
up and amplified.
My
wife and I noticed this phenomenon a few months ago.
I suspected it was our cellphones, but wasn't certain
until I got confirmation from a bunch of technical
geeks at cellphoneforums.net.
-
Charlie Byrne
WORD
TO THE WISE
Something
that is "cognitive" (KOG-nih-tiv)
has to do with conscious intellectual activity, such as thinking,
reasoning, remembering, imagining, or learning words. It is
derived from the Latin "cognoscere" ("to learn").
"Cognitive
psychology" is an approach to therapy that emphasizes the
patient's internal mental processes. Example (as used by Brian
Tracy in today's main article): "After studying the research
done in cognitive psychology over the last 25 years, I've come
to a simple conclusion: The degree to which you feel in control
of your life will largely determine your level of mental well-being,
your peace of mind, your happiness, and the quality of your
interactions with people."
