Archive | June, 2011

The American President

They say that the American President is the most powerful person in the free world. I would not blame you if you look at any President, Prime Minister, or even CEO’s of the Fortune 500 companies, and say, “I could never be the President…I could never be the CEO…I’m just me.” Below is a list [...]

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Beliefs and Expectations

Part two. Have you heard of the Placebo Effect? This is the ability of the mind to cure a disease even when the medicine is known to be worthless. This usually occurs in medical trials where doctors give patients sugar pills, but tell them that the pills will cure their illness. Often it does, even [...]

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Beliefs and Expectations

Part one. I read an interesting story about an eager, new insurance agent who had just received his licence & was looking for prospects. He met with a successful businessman who had agreed to provide him with personal referrals. As the businessman handed the insurance agent ten referrals, he asked him to contact the prospects [...]

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You and the Billionaire’s Club

I recently read that there are currently thirty five billionaires in Australia. That’s five more than 2010. Here’s a few interesting characters on the current list: Kerry Stokes. Worth $2.55b. Kerry was a dyslexic child, abandoned by his mother at age three, abandoned by his foster parents by age fifteen in an era of no [...]

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The Power is in Your Tongue

It has been said that the way people talk is the best indication of how they think. The most powerful instrument for influencing a person’s thought process is the spoken word. I recently read that 90% of the men in jail today were repeatedly told by their parents, “One of these days you’re going to [...]

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Battlefield

Have you ever caught a cab, and the cab driver is not only a pretend race car driver, but he is a rude pretend race car driver? Have  you ever lined up at the check-out counter and the person at the cash register doesn’t want to be scanning your tins of baked beans and wants [...]

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What’s Eating You?

More and more doctors are coming to the conclusion that 80% or more of all diseases and ailments are psychosomatic in origin. This means that “psycho”, the mind, makes “soma”, the body sick. Most times you don’t get sick by what you are eating, although a healthy diet is highly advisable, but from what is [...]

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A Story About The Amigo

An American businessman took a vacation to a small coastal Mexican village on doctor’s orders. Unable to sleep after an urgent phone call from the office the first morning, he walked out to the pier to clear his head. A small boat with just one fisherman had docked, and inside the boat were several large [...]

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Big

Your future will meet you at your level of expectation, imagination, and thinking. Don’t limit your future with small thinking…. “Big thinking precedes great achievements…” – Wilfred Peterson Whoever thought you could connect with everyone via an online portal called facebook? Whoever thought you could “Google” a topic, word, desitnation….anything. Who thought you could play [...]

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