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Both Currents Are Strong

Hey, me and Hank Williams, Jr., we're from Dixie. And speaking of Dixie—during a recent drive, I passed by Dixie Plywood and Lumber Company here in Nashville, and it looked almost like a ghost town instead of the busy, bustling center of activity it normally is. There were just about six cars in the lot, and it didn't even look like they had the lights on inside—at about 9:30 in the morning. And then I passed by a big shipping plant—sorry, I don't know the name—and it looked like a travesty of its former days. There were just a few trucks moving and then, whoa!

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Insane, Long-Term, Moneymaking Ventures

Resourcefulness in any economy, in any time, is a very valuable trait. I recently sent an email to a friend of mine I was planning to meet the next day. We were both traveling in to do a conference, and we're helping people in their economic foundations—building business. Of course with me, a lot of it's the philosophy and instilling the philosophy—but the point is, it was just an email. I was just saying, "Hey, I'm looking forward to meeting you tomorrow," because we're both marketers and we've had a relationship by email and phone for a while.

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Celebrate Today

There are special moments in life, which really, the appropriate response is to celebrate. We’re humans and this is part of the human condition. And I want to share with you one of those special moments that just happened to me just a couple of days ago. Would have bee March 15, 2009 took the family - of course mainly the seven year old daughter - to HoloMagic Kingdom. And of course, after a full day of rides, and shows, and adventure, and ice cream, and all that good stuff, we were waiting at—in front of HoloMagic Castle, we were in Magic Kingdom in Disney World.

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The Day That Superman Died

I still remember the day that Superman died. It's been a few years ago now, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was traversing the airport in Reno, Nevada and I saw the headlines. There were about 12 different newspapers for sale—they were all in their machines—and I caught the headlines: ...

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Don't Try and See How Much You Can Get for a Dollar

Recently, I stood in Victory Circle in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. So it was really fitting and proper to remember Henry Ford, the father of the modern automobile and the guy who first applied the principles of the assembly line to the automobile to make it affordable… which was his specific plan. That was his intention. One of the things I'm reminded of that Henry Ford said was this—that the problem with most business owners and entrepreneurs is that they try and see how much they can get for a dollar, instead of how much they can give for a dollar.

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“Boss, Nobody Has Shoes!”

There is a lot of misunderstanding in the marketplace that I'm involved in, and I get people all the time who tell me, "Listen, I don't want to learn about mindset. "I want to learn about the stock market, I want to learn how to trade options, I want to learn about Forex, I want to learn about real estate, I want to learn about short sales, I want to learn about buying debt for pennies on the dollar with borrowed money." I a site on the Internet making me money. All these are good, true, paths… and we could go on and on, but my drift is not going that direction.

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Opt Out Of The Crybaby Society

Let's talk a little bit about refunds. Well, let's start where the process begins, with sales. I want to talk about one of the wisdoms they teach us—that in the business environment, we're all salespeople, but some people have a specific responsibility. Those, of course, are the ones who get rewarded most highly in any organization—the salespeople. And the business owners, who of course are salespeople, even when there is a synergy, a MasterMind, a complimentarity, where everybody does their own particular thing.

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Change and Adapt to Thrive in a New Environment

There's a statement in the business training that we put on that you want to get familiar with. We get everybody to buy into it, and understand what it really means. It's this: “Be the competitor you would hate to have as a competitor.” Be the best. Be unique. For instance, in this current economic depression that we're in, with rollback and bankruptcy, I wonder why they would let an electronics company go down—and why they would work so hard to keep a bank and an insurance company afloat. I know that's not funny for Circuit City, the comparison between electronics and banking.

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The Feeling That Masquerades as Good Sense

In a recent conversation with my friend Wendy Robbins, she brought up one of the important topics that I address in The NEW Think and Grow Rich: "I'd love for you to talk about procrastination more, because I think a lot of people really raise their hand straight up if you ask them, 'How many ...

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Why You Need A Little More Evel Knievel In You

I didn't write it, but I would like to have written it. I'd like to take credit for it, but it's from the Early to Rise newsletter. I just got an email from them, and the subject line—which of course is the title—is, "Why You Need a Little More Evel Knievel in You." It's always a sales letter coming from them—they're a very professional, very well-organized publishing house. I have to say I didn't read the email or look at the website. All I needed to have and experience to share with you was the title. By the way, that indicates how good they are, right?

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50/50 – U.S. Versus The World

As a commentator on human affairs, I really enjoy getting to see a lot of things going by. I have long been a proponent for women's rights; it began in the '80s for me—that's the 1980s, for those of you who weren't even born then. I was at Cal State, Fresno. It was a center of the feminist movement, and we enjoyed it and we got moving along, and everything was going on. AND as a professor who chose to teach a good number of courses in the evening, I was very, very, VERY privy to who was attending those classes.

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The Pain That Comes From Feeling Good

There is a pain that feels good. Now, I know that sounds contradictory… and no, I'm not into S&M. But, let's take the metaphor of exercise, where we've stretched beyond what we are accustomed to. Let's take the metaphor which I am familiar with, of weightlifting-where we enter a new area, and the muscles ache for days and days. Every ache is a good ache, and every pain feels good. I would suggest that this metaphor can be extended into our business/personal/social affairs, so that we can knowingly step outside our comfort zones.

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Move Your Future Towards Your Definite Chief Aim

What do you do when you're in what you perceive to be a bad situation? Well, of course there are a number of different strategies you can use. Number one, reframe it; make it a challenge, make it an opportunity, make it something that in fact grows you and betters you and moves you further in your quest for your definite chief aim, or your contribution to society and humanity. Such as this, for instance. You've known marketers who've done this, and you know that I've done it before. And if you don't know me that well, you might just take hold of this and believe that I would.

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See How Much You Can Give for a Dollar

I'm often asked—and it's a begging question, because I'm out there promoting the concept—"What makes a person exceptional?" The real way to phrase the question, of course, is, "How can I be exceptional, and how can I get ahead in my enterprise, organization, or my own business?" Well, it's ...

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Carpe Diem Revisited

A caricature I saw recently depicted these big, fat gluttons, each with a big ol' turkey leg in one hand and a big ol' glass in the other—obviously obese people. They were smiling… and you know how those people have legs that don't even look normal because their bodies are so big? I looked at it and thought, "Carpe Diem, seize the day!" I looked at it and thought, "That's gluttony." Now, I realize it's a caricature, but it applies to life.

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Believe In Your Success

Believe in your success. Believe with all your heart and soul. That's Principle #2 in The NEW Think and Grow Rich—Faith! Because when you believe in your cause, in your mission, in the fact that you will be successful, why of course you have the confidence to move forward confidently. Of course you put the energy and the drive into the things that you do that give you the multi-power you want and need. Believe in it. You create your future. Listen, you as an individual can control your destiny.

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Beyond The Measure Of Dollars And Cents

One of the greatest things about being involved in and around a motivational and sales training business that's oriented around The NEW Think and Grow Rich is all the actualization that comes, in addition to our prime target. For instance, when I go into an enterprise, my target may be to increase productivity, to increase sales. That's what we're normally focus on. And I'll tell you, there are so many different nuances, so many different manners of thinking that you need to get into the subconscious mind-and so it's a real jazz doing it.

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Move Directly into Action

In a recent conversation, fellow entrepreneur Wendy Robbins made an important observation: that sometimes, people get so stuck in their plans that they scare themselves into not taking action. And she's absolutely right! When we talk about organized planning, what that's really saying is, think about what you've done to this point. What it is that you want? Connect the dots between the 2 points. Here's the simple way you plan and get into action. You've got to have a plan.

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The Pike Syndrome

The professor had the graduate students that were his aides bring in a table. Then he had them bring in a big glass fish tank. It was pretty big, about five to six feet long and about four feet high. Then he had them bring in the pike, which is a carnivorous fish—and then bring in the minnows. It was a pretty convincing act. The pike eats faster than the human eye can react to and calibrate what's actually happening.

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Rely On Yourself

Please don't take this the wrong way, because that's not the way it's intended. But in a manner of speaking, I am excited about these tough economic times, these cutbacks, these peels and reels of people who were put out on the street. No job, three months of COBRA benefits, insurance only. It's going to be bleak. Of course, they're getting help from here and there—and they're really acting it, expecting it, and demanding it. That's another story, too. But here's the point.

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It's No Laughing Matter

It's no laughing matter today. If you're an employee, or a business owner—especially if you're an employee—your job is at risk. People are hearing it in record numbers. You’ve got to recognize that there is no security out there now. And you better recognize that if something does come as a setback in your life, it could get "nasty" if you've been living like most employees—that is, if you take your current paycheck and you try to pay your current bills… and you may even have credit card debt.

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You Can't Eat Ego When You're Old

After a career that's spanned approximately 40 years in the business and sales environment, I seem to have developed a few opinions—surprise, surprise. Recently, I was talking with one of my partners about financial literacy. And again, I've seen it all. For example—how do you make more money? ...

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It's How You Attack Things

"The light will never be green by the time you get to it," my passenger said. And of course, here's old Ted Ciuba, thinking about the Law of Attraction, thinking, That doesn't mean that I won't get through it. And you know what? That's exactly how it played out. The light turned yellow just as I hit it. And of course, I legitimately had time to get through it. So we were both right. We both created a situation according to the Law of Attraction that we held in our minds. And this is an interesting thing.

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Get On With Creating The Life You Want

I had a guy who embezzled several hundred thousand dollars from me. I'm not going to go into the specifics of the situation, but because of the fact that he did it to some other people, the law may still settle the score differently than things look right now. I have no idea. This I do know. I did some business dealings with the man, and he presented himself in a position of honesty, integrity, counseling, and advice. I accepted him at face value—he did come highly recommended from someone I respected. And then it turns out that he was doing fraudulent things, unlicensed things.

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You Know Who's the Boss

Social scientists have determined that there are people who look at the world with an internal locus of control, or with an exte al locus of control. What does all that mean? Well, locus means location—can you see the word? Briefly, an internal locus of control means that they believe they ...

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If Glenn Had Listened To The People Back Home…

Today, folks, I want to share some more of the inspiring words of my friend, marketing legend Glenn W. Turner!!... "The first thing to remember is that you have to go to seminars. What changed my life was not listening to my neighbors and my friends, my father, my mother, and the people in my small town. If I'd listened to them, I'd have been pumping gas at a gas station, driving a taxi cab, or just working some average job. "And there's nothing wrong being average, if you're happy. But very few people are. "What you have to do is go to seminars.

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Delayed Gratification

Delayed gratification. That's a phrase that few people like to hear—we are the "give it to me and give it to me now" generation. Literally, we don't often think along the terms of "grow” rich. We want to start a business and have it do what Google did. Everybody wants that. But can you plan on that? No. Can you plant an oak tree in your yard and have it reach majestic heights of 100 feet in one season?

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T.J. Rohleder: 1 Minute Advice of a Millionaire

I recently asked my good friend, top marketer T.J. Rohleder, "If you had one minute to say something to somebody who was interested in marketing, what would you say?" Here's T.J.'s pithy response: "I would say, find the people within the market you want to target who are making a lot of money ...

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That's What Positive Mental Attitude Is

Here's another quick anecdote for us to learn by. One morning as I was waking up recently, lo and behold, here comes a hailstorm. Now, I have lived through hail the size of baseballs—the size of a hardball, not a softball. And I've seen hail go through windows. I've seen hail batter vehicles so ...

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Repeat The Self Confidence Formula

Recently, my friend Wendy Robbins asked me how I would advise someone who had just been faced with a difficult obstacle. For example, what if you've been laid off, or you've just had a parent die? Whatever the circumstance might be, how do you regain confidence so you can move forward again? Well, honest to goodness, the thing I would recommend most is to keep reminding yourself of the self confidence formula, because it's all about the truth.

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Do Something Different

Do something different. I was on a coaching call recently with a gentleman who happens to be 30 years old now, but at the time we met he was 24. And he was ambitious—he wanted to earn more money, and of course he was grown-up, pure middle class American. So he did what everybody told him to do. His first dream was to double his income. By the way, his later dreams have expanded—"What must I absolutely, positively do to make my annual income my monthly income?" was a question he asked himself later. But originally, he was doing what they told him to do.

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Begin Afresh Today

Let’s talk about getting outside your comfort zone. I have a good friend, Marshall Sylver, who says, "When you've been doing something wrong for so long, doing it the right way is actually what feels uncomfortable." And he's got a solid, rock-on, right-on point. You've got to get outside your comfort zone, because your comfort zone has gotten you where you're at. Now, I know you wouldn't be reading this if you were extremely happy with where you're at, if you didn't want any change.

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“Enthusiasm Is Not “Some” Thing It's EVERYTHING!”

I was broadcasting in the company of several legendary marketers… Really, a dream come true… And it came my turn to comment on “enthusiasm”. And while I have much to say on the topic and your weal-being, HoloMagic in the moment had gifted us with the company of a very special achiever, so I deferred to the legendary Glenn W.

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It Means Get Resourceful

My theme today is not the excesses, the extreme greed, the corruption that overextended the American economy and forced the inevitable correction to come. No, it's much simpler, much more important to each of us—and that is the fact that this is normal. Ups and downs, days and nights, winters and summers, positive and negative, front and back, left and right, male/female—pretty normal, yin and yang. I've never seen an economic chart, graph, or indicator that didn't change—and if you can point one out to me, I want to see it.

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Take Advantage Of The Benefits This Time Does Bring

There's a person who does some work for me—getting specific, she does transcriptions for me—who off and on has done it for years. We've been creating product all this time… Of course, most of it earlier was Internet-related, and she came right along with that. And now, most of what I do is actually oriented around The NEW Think and Grow Rich and empowerment technologies, such as the article that you're reading right now. Who do you think made the transcript? It's her. First off—no, don't ask me for her name if you're an information marketer, because she's doing a good job.

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I Didn't Think It Was Silly

I didn't think it was silly, even though I was in dire economic circumstances—which in my life, at that time, translated into the fact that I didn't have a job. For my own reasons—which I didn't realize at that point—I couldn't find a job.

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Seven Secrets To Maximizing Rewards In Your Business And Your Life

Let's talk about seven secrets to maximizing rewards in your business and your life. Let's focus on time and optimization, and let's start where we've got to start. Secret #1—All things being equal among the normal run of humanity, nobody has any advantage over you. Now, God bless 'em, there are people who are born with certain problems that don't put them into the normal category, but blessing them, let's move on. We've all got "E", or “energy” capacity, thank God or the Gods.

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Contentment: A Powerful Attitude to Adopt

My special dog, Elena, has been my companion around the house for several years now. She's a Labrador retriever, she's about eight human years old, and she's just a great companion. Now, she can teach us something about life as it can be and should be, and is for a lot of entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants and information marketers out there. It definitely is a life of contentment. I was thinking about that as I was finishing off my breakfast recently. I actually mix four cereals together, great brands. I like to put on a little banana, pour in lowfat milk—a healthy thing, right?

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What An Entrepreneur Can Learn From An Illegal Immigrant

As I prepare the audio version of this article, the time is 4:03 a.m. I'm on my way to the airport, heading to Panamá. I just wanted to make a few notes on this political situation with Immigration. One of the reasons why I can comment on this is because I am half-Latino, I guess you'd call it, or adopted Latino. In other words, I'm a Gringo and the Latinos aquí, the Latinos here, they understand that I’ve adopted myself into LatinoLandia. They know they can trust me. Number one, I speak the language.

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Celebrate The Dead Leaves and High Winds

As I write this, it's a beautiful February morning in Nashville, Tennessee. And sometimes when the winds step up just a little bit, you can hear the dead leaves—the leaves that turned red and brown and golden, and now they all look dead. Many hang from the trees still… And the winds are coming—we're coming into March, which is a time when traditionally we have a lot of wind. The purpose of the wind? It's all cyclical, part of this giant HoloCosm that works together, and it works together as one unity.

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Mentors Make Magic

I like to ask people what it is that they that want in their life. I mean, here's what a seminar offers you: the BMW or Bentley that you want or whatever it is; the house or castle. It offers you the ability to write a check for your children's education instead of sweating, taking notes, and mortgaging your future at a time when you might be nearing retirement. The fulfillment of travel will always come up high. Would you like to visit different countries in the world? In other words, it's everything you want to do, including helping poor people.

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The Risk That You're Willing To Take

Boy, I've gotten myself into some fancy fixes before. I've lost money on big investments, in international business, with things going crazy, by doing something in a relationship that I shouldn't have done for some reason… such as changing the relationship. I'm not that unique—we all do this stuff. I mean, I do know that I'm a little bit more extreme, and if you know my life you know that, too—but that's the way that goes.

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A Living Spiritual Energy

Recently, the question came up again: “What is HoloMagic?” "God" could be an accurate term, but it's got a lot of other stuff associated with it. Infinite Intelligence is clearly the one that Napoleon Hill opted for. The way I explain it most often is that it's connected with that quantum world, which is nothing, nothing but a world of spirit, a world of energy. And when you make that leap in consciousness, you activate it-and of course, any skeptic could say, well, "The Law of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy is easy. You made it happen, right?" But we're saying no.

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Have You Ever Done A Perfect Pushup?

Have you ever done a perfect pushup? I mean a perfect pushup. You see, for millennia of humanity, there was the pushup. I think you know exactly what I'm speaking of—that's when you get down on your toes and hands—that's the regular style—and some people do it with their knees and hands, facing the floor. And you get close to the floor, then you move up to the extended arms. Strength training, obviously—upper body, arms. And then along comes the invention called The Perfect Pushup. If you've ever done Bowflex, it's that kind of wrist action.

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Position Yourself For A Market Recovery

Position yourself for a market recovery. Hey come on—don't buy into the prevailing sentiment. This is the stuff that Getty and Rockefeller talk about. When 80% of the people think everything is going to get worse and it's crashing, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel, when 80% of the people are believing that—it's time to buy! It's time to get active. There will be a market recovery. Don't take my word for it; take all of recorded history for it. Business cycles come and go.

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Different with Design

There's a scientist who studied Olympic swimmers—he studied them very much in depth, and he studied their records of progress, because they came from the ranks. But of course, by the time they're Olympic swimmers, they're way exceptional. As Weick and Browning note, "Olympic swimmers modify what they do, and do not simply do more of it." They modify what they do, and they do not simply do more of it. Now, I'm going to create what I perceive and you might perceive as a very simple example, but it will illustrate.

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It's Far Better To Go Up To The Batting Box To Swing Like Hell And To Miss Than…

Any way you look at it, most people are failures. You know, there's the 80/20 rule, which some people correctly say is really the 90/10, or really 95/5. All this is true. I definitely agree with you. Most people are failures—like if you believe the oft-touted Social Security System study. I don't know if it's true or not, but I know it's been circulated widely. It says that 95% of Americans reaching age 65—that's that mythical retirement age—are unprepared for retirement.

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