Issue 1

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Today’s issue includes:

1. Your Achievement Article - Self-Motivation is an Attitude! by Paul J. Meyer
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Planning, Positive vs. Negative and Potential/Possibilities
3. Your Achievement Tips - Zig Ziglar on Love
4. Paul J. Meyer Special

1. Your Achievement Article

Self-Motivation is an Attitude! By Paul J. Meyer and Kevin Rhea

I am Self-Motivated — I take ACTION daily in my business!

Self-motivation is deliberately chosen and developed!

You can be a self-starter in your business. Not only is this possible, it is your responsibility! (Sorry, we cannot do this for you.)

You cannot stand around and wait for someone else to push you into the realization of your goals.

Clearly Defined Goals Generate Self-Motivation!

When you are both self-motivated and goal-directed, you will increase results 100% to 1,000%. You magnetize the results you seek.

Motivation . . . is a desire held in expectation with the belief that it will be realized (membership sales or recruits).

Writing out a plan of action helps you to discover ways to reawaken and regenerate self-motivation and put it to work. (Results: More sales and more recruits!)

Opportunities are always captured quickly by someone who understands self-motivation. GO FOR IT!

Self-motivated people take action and seize the day! (They also have the habit of doing this daily!)

Self-motivated salespeople make commitments . . . and then they deliver! This takes activity!

Paul J. Meyer

A pioneer in the personal development industry, Paul J. Meyer has dedicated his life to motivating people to their fullest potential and helping them achieve their goals. “It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”  Robert Southey

“Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.”  Pearl Strachan

2. Your Achievement Quotes

PLANNING

“Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.” — Tom Hopkins

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” — William Wadsworth

“The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don´t have it well designed.” — Jim Rohn

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

POSITIVE vs. NEGATIVE

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” — Pierre Corneille

“Frame your desires and goals in positive terms. Don´t live by failure avoidance; live by success encounters.” — Denis Waitley

“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” — Booker T. Washington

“People try to rain on your parade, because they have no parade of their own.” — Jeffrey Gitomer

POTENTIAL/POSSIBILITIES

“There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.” – Lord Chesterfield

“Man is not the sum of what he has but the totally of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” — Hyman Rickover

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.” — Thomas A. Edison

“‘I can’t do it’ never yet accomplished anything: ‘I will try’ has accomplished wonders.” George P. Burnham

“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.” Abigail Adams

3. Your Achievement Tips

Zig Ziglar On Love

Love is not always giving others what they want; love is doing for others what is best for them. That reminds me of my close friend, really, he’s more like a brother, Bernie Lofchick, from Winnipeg, Canada. His son, David, was born with cerebral palsy and initially had a very difficult time.

When David was about 18 months old, Bernie and his wife, Elaine, had to put braces on David’s legs every night. The doctor instructed them to make the braces progressively tighter, which caused considerable pain. Many times David pleaded, “Do you have to make them so tight?”

Today, David is an active, healthy, successful businessman with a beautiful wife and three beautiful children. David’s success story is the result of a love so deep that the Lofchicks were willing to do for David what was best for him, and not what David wanted at the moment.

Think about it. Make that kind of love paramount in your life.

“Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.” Brian Tracy

4. Paul J. Meyer Special

A pioneer in the personal development industry, Paul J. Meyer has dedicated his life to motivating people to their fullest potential and helping them achieve their goals.

“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.”  Norman Vincent Peale