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have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for
ideas to flow your way." Jim Rohn
Today's issue includes:
1. Don't Send Your Ducks to Eagle
School by Jim Rohn
2. Vitamins for the Mind - Overcoming the Negative by Jim Rohn
3. My Journey to America... by Ellie Drake
4. Release Your Fears, Re-kindle Your Purpose and Embrace the Challenges in Your Life!
5. Claim Your Power Now with Jim Rohn in Dallas... Bob Proctor in Toronto... and Lots More in Between!
6. Jim Rohn Testimonials - March 21 - 27, 2006
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1. Don't Send Your Ducks to Eagle School by Jim Rohn (Excerpted from Leading an Inspired Life)
The first rule of management is this: don't send your ducks to
eagle school. Why? Because it won't work. Good people are found not
changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You
want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated
people, you have to find them, not motivate them.
I picked up a magazine not long ago in New York that had a full-page
ad in it for a hotel chain. The first line of the ad read, "We do
not teach our people to be nice." Now that got my attention. The
second line said, "We hire nice people." I thought, "what a cleaver
shortcut!"
Motivation is a mystery. Why are some people motivated and some are
not? Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the
morning while the other sees his first prospect at eleven in the
morning? Why would one start at seven and the other start at eleven?
I don't know. Call it "mysteries of the mind."
I give lectures to a thousand people at a time. One walks out and
says, "I'm going to change my life." Another walks out with a yawn
and says, "I've heard all this stuff before." Why is that?
The wealthy man says to a thousand people, "I read this book, and it
started me on the road to wealth." Guess how many of the thousand go
out and get the book? Answer: very few. Isn't that incredible? Why
wouldn't everyone go get the book? Mysteries of the mind…
To one person, you have to say, "You’d better slow down. You can't
work that many hours, do that many things, go, go, go. You're going
to have a heart attack and die." And to another person, you have to
say, "When are you going to get off the couch?" What is the
difference? Why wouldn't everyone strive to be wealthy and happy?
Chalk it up to mysteries of the mind, and don't waste your time
trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the
motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.
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2. Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn
Overcoming the Negative
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the
constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of
negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of
value.
Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease.
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five
minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they
haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the
dust of your own regret.
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental
garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are
not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.
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3. My Journey to America... by Ellie Drake
I was born in Tehran, Iran. For many years during my childhood, I
started feeling that something was not quite right in the country
that I was born in. People around me told me to give up on my
dreams, because to have a dream and not have the opportunity to
pursue my dreams would hurt so much. I was in Iran during the
bombing of Iran-Iraq war. One day with my own eyes, I saw a rocket
in the sky not too far up. It landed on the same street as my High
School. For many years, I started dreaming about starting my life in
a country where I would have the choice to pursue my passions.
It was 5 a.m. I washed my face with the semi-warm water while
looking at myself in the mirror and catching the light behind my
dark almond-shaped eyes. I placed the mandatory scarf on my head,
attempting to cover what seemed at the time to be too much hair to
cover. I picked up my bag full of books and started walking on a
steep dirt road about 2 miles away from our first destination. Out
of the house to the right, then about 100 yards and a sharp turn to
the left. My favorite part of this first small road was a creek
about 2 feet in width. The sound of water going down the creek
seemed to help prepare me for the road ahead. Yes, then that sharp
left turn and a long stretched out and quite steep road. One step at
a time, sometimes I would come back to reality when the sweet yet
tired voice of my mom would say "Faster Elham". Elham is my Persian
name. It means inspiration. Ellie is easier to say. I would speed up
and walk along the side of my Mom inhaling the cold crisp morning
air of a small town called Karadje 50 miles from Tehran the capital
of my birth place Iran. We would walk every day about 2 miles to the
top of what seemed to be this never ending dirt road to catch a bus,
then travel 50 miles to arrive in Tehran where my parents had
decided I would attend middle school. To keep my mind entertained
during the very cold mornings of winter or the dry yet very hot days
of the summer, I would accomplish one goal. I would walk up that
familiar dirt road, and teach myself one word. It didn't matter
which word, as long as it sounded like it could be understood by a
person from Texas, Florida, New York, California, and! Oh wait, I
believe those were the only states I knew. I would practice one word
per day per 2 miles! That was my goal. 'Sky. That's S K Y. Got it.
Now as long as I repeated the spelling anther 40 or 50 times, I
should be ok. I hope I am pronouncing it correctly!' The next day,
light. The day after, Food. Then, School. Here is one, book. I
remember the word that I almost gave up on. It took an extra day and
2 additional miles to get this one down. T a b l e! Why isn't it
spelled T a b e l? After all, its pronounced tab el not tab le? Word
after word, thought after thought, dream after dream, hope after
hope! I must say I believe the principle of "you must first believe
it before you see it." I believed that one day I would be able to
perhaps walk on a road not only made out of dirt, but made out of
Gold.
Then came the most amazing news of my life. I remember I was 14
years old, and one day when I got home from school I noticed that my
Mom and Dad were sitting at the small kitchen table in a small
basement apartment that we were renting in Tehran at that time. I
guess you could say that we were middle class and my parents worked
hard yet accepted nothing but excellence for me. They asked me to
sit at the table with them, and my Dad told me that they had decided
to immigrate to America. Those words were so sweet to my ears that I
still remember how they sounded. After all, to me, America was the
synonym for Paradise. It was a place you would dream about before
you went to sleep. It was the land of liberty and opportunity.
With the help of a very good friend, my father traveled to Cypress
to apply for a United States Visa. His first attempt failed, but he
had made his decision and with more determination than before he
tried again a few months later. Luckily this time his application
was accepted. He left Iran shortly after that and went to Florida.
He then hired an attorney and started the process of bringing my
mom, brother, and I here. About 18 months had passed, and the
process with immigration was going very slowly. He missed us, and we
missed him but we had no choice other than to wait. One morning when
my brother and I woke up, my Mom told us that we were going to Dubai
to try our luck with getting a visa. When she told my Dad over the
phone, he strongly opposed and said that it would be impossible for
the three of us to get visas. However my Mom had run out of
patience, and she wanted to go to Dubai and that was the end of the
story. So a couple of days later we left Tehran for Dubai, with one
goal in mind, and that was to go to the American embassy and apply
for a visa. The morning after arriving there, we headed for the
American Embassy and got there at 4 a.m. to find out that there were
a few hundred people there ahead of us. The Embassy opened at 7 a.m.
and they started taking people to one of the four American Consul
Officials that were there. In front of each of the consul's booths
was standing a translator who would translate the official's
questions to Farsi for the applicants and then translate their
answers back to English for the consul.
During the following hours, we saw that the only people that were
getting approved for a visa were the very few that were generally 65
years or older. Hundreds of other applicants had walked out of their
interviews with a deep sadness on their face and their passports in
their hands which meant that they had been denied.
We waited there until after noon when our number was finally called.
We started walking toward the consul, and suddenly I was greatly
inspired and told my Mom that we did not need a translator and that
I had decided to speak to the consul myself. My mom looked at me
with a very worried look, yet she accepted my proposal. We walked
through the booth and toward the tall blonde American consul who
held the key to our future. I still get the residual butterflies
when I think about that life changing moment. He was still studying
our hand written application which I had filled out with the help of
the dictionary, when I spoke in broken English with much more accent
than I have now, "You must be tired, you have been working from the
Morning until Now." He looked at us with an expression of
acknowledgment and granted us a small yet comforting smile. He then
asked me a few questions and my response to most of them was "Repeat
Please?!"
Amongst my answers was the fact that I wanted to come to America
because it was free... Actually what I meant was that I wanted to
come to America because it was the Land of the Free...
After about 2 or 3 minutes, he looked at us and said "You can go
now... I will keep your passports, come back at 5 o'clock and you
will have the Visa!" It took us a few seconds to realize that we
were awake, and not dreaming. It's a strange feeling when you are
awake yet you think that you are dreaming a Dream. A Dream for a
better future... A Dream for a better life... A Dream and a Chance
to change your family's future for generations to come...
We walked out of the booth as if we were riding the concord with
frequent flyer miles and of course without our passports in our
hands, and immediately realized that a huge group of people were
running after us wanting to know what our secret was. I have thought
about that moment often. Maybe the consul was just suddenly in a
good mood, or maybe he felt the deep burning desire that was burning
within us... I know that I am forever grateful to the people who are
the reason why I was able start my life in this country. I know that
I am forever grateful to my Dad for his sacrifice, to my Mom for her
courage, and to the American consul for his willingness to share his
beautiful America with a girl from Tehran who at the moment she
stepped onto this land promised herself that she will one day be a
great asset to this Country.
We landed in Miami International Airport just a couple of months
later. It was beautiful to see my Father after about 2 years. We
drove north in a car that now that I think about it, he had probably
purchased from a garage sale! In spite of my expectations of him
greeting me with a few bags of scrumptious chocolate, and maybe a
dozen big Macs which had been talked about as great commodities
amongst my high school friends, he pulled over to the side of the
highway and turned toward the back seat of the car when he presented
me with something totally unexpected. He stared me in my eyes and
said:
"I want you to look back at the bridge that you have just crossed. I
want you to burn that bridge, because in spite of all the challenges
that you may go through, you have just entered a country where if
you have a dream and are willing to take consistent, persistent
actions toward your dreams, you will achieve them in this land of
opportunity." He continued on to say "If you are willing to fly like
an Eagle, America will be the wind beneath your wings."
Years later, I left the United States for the first time and came
back a few days later. I remember walking through the Airport
Customs when I noticed the big banner ahead of me that said "Welcome
to the United States". At that moment my heart truly skipped a
beat... I felt so blessed to be an American Citizen and to have the
opportunity to live in a country where I have the opportunity to
pursue my passions, and the chance to actually achieve them. For
that I am forever grateful....
This article is by Ellie Drake. Ellie and her family immigrated
to America 14 years ago with very little resources. She then began
the process of attracting according to her purpose in life. With an
effervescent smile and personality, her message is inspiring and her
"life lessons" are full of great insights. She truly understands and
operates fully utilizing the gift of Connecting and Attracting. This
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you." Jim Rohn
4. Release Your Fears, Re-kindle Your Purpose and Embrace the Challenges in Your Life!
Release Your Fears,
Re-kindle Your Purpose
and Embrace the Challenges in Your Life
Subjects like Your Brave
Heart (release your fears, re-kindle your purpose and embrace
the challenges in your life), The Art of Connecting (having the
internal and the external aspects of our communication in
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(Passionate People Produce)!
A little over a year ago I had the pleasure of witnessing an
incredible event with 8 fantastic speakers. There was one
speaker that I was unfamiliar with. Her message was amazing. She
spoke of how she immigrated to America 14 years ago with little
resources. She then began the process of attracting according to
her purpose in life. Her message was inspiring and her "life
lessons" were full of great insights, but what made an even
greater impression upon me was the constant group of people that
were lined up the rest of the day waiting to talk with Ellie
Drake and seeing her effervescent smile and personality. She
truly did understand and operate with the gift of Connecting and
Attracting.
Ellie recently gave us permission to offer these 4 programs
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