October 12, 2006

How Being Thankful Helps YOU

In This Issue:

Feature Article: "How Being Thankful helps YOU"

Quick Tips: "How The Best Companies Achieve Superior Performance... And How You Can Too"

Fast Facts: "Do We Get Smarter As We Grow Older?"

* FEATURE ARTICLE *

How Being Thankful helps YOU

If you've seen my movie A Bit Of Inspiration and signed up for your free email mini-course, The 7 Keys To Success you'll know that I believe the 5th key to success is "Thankfulness".

Why "Thankfulness"?

I mean, some days you might feel anything but thankful! When things are going pear-shaped, when you're feeling down, when everything that could go wrong does go wrong...

Well, it's at these very times that feeling thankful will help you overcome the difficulties and feel better faster.

And I truly believe that if you're reading this now... you probably are better off than many. People who don't have access to safe drinking water, let alone access to the Internet!

But I don't mean to preach... At the end of the day, being thank ful helps YOU.

So, when things are bad... realize that life is a gift. It's not perfect. It's challenging. It brings grief and sadness as much as it brings joy and happiness.

But it's still a gift. A gift that you have right now. Make the most of it my friend :)

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* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *

“Don’t Apply For A Job... Don’t Even Look For A Job... Until You Read This!”

Are you tired of looking for a job... and getting nowhere? You know, where you spend day after day pouring through job listings... applying for countless jobs... sending numerous cover letters and resumes...

...only to get a “we’ll keep your details on file” rejection letter... or an interview with someone who seems determined NOT to hire you?

Well, it's not so surprising when you discover that 50% of all new jobs go to "Insiders"... people who take a different - and much more effective - approach to getting the job they want.

Yet all the books, career counsellors and recruiters tell us to apply for a job using the conventional "Outsider" approach!

No wonder getting a job is so hard.

Well it doesn't have to be... and it's NOT.

Not when YOU discover and apply the Insider approach to getting a job.

Click here to discover how YOU can use this approach to get the job you want.

* QUICK TIPS *

"How The Best Companies Achieve Superior Performance... And How You Can Too"

There are no silver bullets!

Recent research by leading management consulting firm, McKinsey & Co., indicates that to improve business performance and overall organizational “health”, your company must do a number of things right... not put its faith in just one or two management techniques ("silver bullets").

The good news is that while it’s essential to achieve basic competency in 9 key areas - Direction, Leadership, Culture, Accountability, Co-ordination of Control, Capabilities, Motivation, External Orientation and Innovation - you’ll get the best results by devoting most of your energy to just three of these:

1. Strong Accountability – where everyone understands and accepts their roles and responsibilities, which are matched against the needs and goals of the business;

2. An inspiring Direction – where you clearly articulate an exciting and compelling vision for the future of the organization, which gets buy-in from everyone in the company; and

3. An open and trusting Culture – an environment of openness, trust and challenge, where the emphasis is on internal collaboration, rather than internal competition.

Focus your efforts on these three areas and watch your company transform for the better.

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* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *

“Discover How To Motivate and Manage Employees... And Get Greater Productivity, Performance and Results From Your Staff”

Are you an entrepreneur, executive, professional or small business owner who’s realized that to grow your business, fast-track your career or improve your bottom line... you need other people’s help?

Then you’ve probably also realized that to get other people to help you... you need to manage them more effectively – whether it’s managing them up, down or across.

Better yet, you know that if you become a GREAT manager, you'll be able to attract and retain the best people to help you – people you can trust and who will do an even better job than you at the things you want them to do.

There’s just one problem...

How do you become a great manager?

Well, it's not difficult... once you know the "system".

Click here to discover that employee management system...

* FAST FACTS *

"Do We Get Smarter As We Grow Older?"

Scientific research revealed on ABC Australia's Catalyst science program indicates that we DO get "smarter" in several ways as we age.

Or more precisely, we get "wiser".

Dr Lea Williams of the Brain Dynamics Centre in Sydney, Australia assessed 1,000 brains across 30 cognitive tests and found that:

• Verbal fluency
• Emotional control, and
• Iimpulse control

all improve with age.

Similarly, L.A. neuroscientist Professor George Bartzokis found that the brain's white matter (the "cables") connecting the grey matter (the brain's computers) - become coated in more and more myelin as we age.

This myelin speeds up brain conductance 100 fold – creating fast brain "super-highways".

So, as we age we become better at recognizing patterns, evaluating situations and making wiser decisions.

Makes sense.

After all, as we grow older we have more experience to draw on.

Now, when we hit our 50s our wisdom level starts to plateau... before declining...

But don't worry, by the time you're in your 70s, you're as wise as a 20-something.

Is that so bad?

Hmmm... now you know why there are so many 70 year olds acting like 20 year olds!

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