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SUCCESS INFORMATION WITH A DEFINITE MAJOR AIM MARCH 23, 2012 ISSUE 270

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Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so. –Napoleon Hill

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Vintage Essays By Judy Williamson, Director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center at Purdue University Calumnet

Dear Readers:

By remaining mentally alert and flexible a person creates a positive possibility for success to enter through life's side door. When least expected, opportunities show up and present new horizons in a person's life. Like a black swan these unexpected but welcome chance occurrences can alter the roadmap of a person's existence. Life gives us gifts that only can be opened when we are prepared and ready to receive them.

As I write this column, I am returning from the Third International Napoleon Hill Convention held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Our keynote speaker was Deepak Chopra and he did an outstanding job of lifting our consciousness to a higher level during his presentation. Founder and Chairman of Napoleon Hill Associates, Christina Chia, was the sole person responsible in organizing and promoting this event. As an agent for change and renewal, she is unsurpassed.

A group of us traveled together from Chicago via Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur as speakers for the event. One individual, Tom "Too Tall" Cunningham accompanied us with his wife Kim. Travel is hard for Tom due to his disability, but he made the commitment and shared his life's story with the participants at the Convention. His speech ended with a standing ovation and he was honored. Tom substituted praise for pain and stayed the course during his talk. This trip was an endurance test for him because of the constant movement, travel, and much walking required. But opportunity entered through the side door and the investment paid off! Preparing to board his flight home, Tom checked his IPad one more time and guess what he received? An invitation . . .

By being ready to accept what the Universe had in mind, Tom received an offer for a speaking engagement in Malaysia for this September. His eyes lit up and a huge smile covered his face as he sought me out to share the opportunity that came over his email. In his workshop, Deepak Chopra reiterated that chance is when preparedness meets opportunity, and this is exactly what happened with Tom. He has been preparing himself for nearly three years by always saying "yes" as he completed his leader certification course with the Foundation, "yes" when he returned as a newly certified instructor to be a mentor, and "yes" when asked to use with his editorial skills in proofing materials free of charge. There were many more favors he granted to those seeking guidance or help, and sooner rather than later the Universe put him directly in the path of his dreams. He just had to continually show up and let the plan unfold!

By being ready to receive the Universe opens up an expressway to success. However, if your path to riches is being slowed by detours or construction, perhaps you need to embrace the unusual opportunities that appear in your life with a resounding "YES!" Don't hesitate, procrastinate, or rationalize as to why things will not work out. Just do it, and do it now! The reason behind the opportunity will become clear as the plan unfolds. Just ask Tom!

Be Your Very Best Always,
Judy Williamson

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How To Deal With Change
A Video Discussion with Ray Stendall & Judy Williamson

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Flexibility of Mind
by Napoleon Hill

Because a positive mental attitude will cause its possessor to have a charitable, interested and generous frame of mind toward those with whom he deals, it also follows that it will generate flexibility of mind. For if one is genuinely interested in another person and sees the good in that other person, he will be able to understand that person's ideas and attitudes and to have sympathy toward them even if such ideas and attitudes differ from his own.

Flexibility of mind is this ability to understand and sympathize with another's point of view or way of doing things, and to adapt one's self to harmonious operation with the viewpoints and ways of others. This does not mean that in order to achieve flexibility of mind one must be willing to change his own mind with every new thought, idea or custom which is presented to him. Indeed not! Such a person would be a spineless jelly fish and certainly would not be a pleasing personality. Flexibility of mind is simply the ability to understand, sympathize and harmonize with the ideas, attitudes and customs of others to such an extent that a pleasant, successful, working relationship can be established and enjoyed.

"Flexibility," said Andrew Carnegie, "was the one quality which gained for Charles M. Schwab the reputation of being one of America's greatest salesman. He could get down on the ground and play a game of marbles with a group of boys, making himself one of the lads for the moment; then get up, walk into his office and be ready to enter a master mind meeting where he was called upon to make decisions involving millions of dollars."

Life is one continuous series of experiences in salesmanship through which one must sell himself to every person he meets in his social, professional or occupational contacts. The person who lacks sufficient flexibility to enable him to harmonize his mental attitude with those of the persons with whom he comes into contact will not achieve a pleasing personality.

Source: PMA Science of Success Course. Pgs. 166 & 167.

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Lin-Sanity
by Elizabeth Barber, Media Alchemist

Elizabeth Barber

Before this morning I had never heard of Jeremy Lin.My teenage boys flipped on Sports Center, a pre-school ritual born of Brett's sports marketing class last semester, and this tweet was bold on the screen:

@ShaqLinderrella story of the year jeremy lin has lingle handedly played lensational lincredible I'm linpressed all he does is Lin Lin Lin gd jib

For my fellow non-Lin knowers, Jeremy Lin is a basketball player who is igniting a fire under the New York Knicks and quickly becoming the Tim Tebow of the NBA. He played in relative obscurity at Harvard, his safety school, since there were no scholarship offers (What??? Whose safety school is HARVARD?). He went undrafted in 2010. He finally got picked up by the Dallas Mavericks summer league and then the Golden State Warriors. He was placed on waivers, signed by the Houston Rockets, placed back on waivers and finally signed by the New York Knicks, essentially as a 3rd or 4th string guard.

What made the difference? How did Jeremy Lin rocket from languishing on the bench to blazing superstar?

I believe it's all in the fit. Lin's skills fit into the Knick's talent gap, Lin's personality fit into the locker room, Lin's playing style fit the coaches' game plan, and Lin's attitude fit into the culture of the whole organization.

One or more of these were missing at every other place Lin played. While every stop along the yellow brick court helped hone him into the player he is today, and he did well at each one of those stops, there was always an element missing, the elusive IT factor, the thing that is the catalyst for the magic.

Not one person in New York knew they had the magic combination when Jeremy Lin showed up that first day. They knew they had a good solid player, but the Knicks actually considered putting him back on waivers just a couple of weeks ago, before his contract became guaranteed, so they could sign someone else. (Yikes!)

February 4, 2012.
No one saw it coming.

The perfect fit became apparent on that day in a 99-92 victory over the New Jersey Nets. The spectators may not have known they were witnessing magic in the making, but Carmelo Anthony and the rest of the Knicks knew something was gelling at half-time, and Coach D'Antoni knew he would be making some changes by the time the game was over.

Now everyone knows it.

The perfect fit. It's not just a principle of sports, it's a principle of life.

We all have the potential for our own Jeremy Lin moment. Finding our own perfect fit requires trying on a lot of different things and putting them to the test on the court. It takes courage, trial and error, and maybe even some crashing and burning, before our own Linderella story is born.

Elizabeth Barber is the Media Alchemist for Jeffrey Gitomer and produces Sales Caffeine and Yesterday & Today on a weekly basis. Connect with her on LinkedIn, like her on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter. You can also reach her at the friendly Gitomer offices at 704.333.1112 or email her at elizabeth@gitomer.com.

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