Hello to you all, and a huge welcome to all the new subscribers this week. Your support and input is fabulous and most welcome.

As each weekly ezine is divided into 4 sections, and everyone seems short of time these days, I will now provide a short summary at the top of each one. Although, if you have 4 minutes, that is all it takes to read each entire issue.

This week -

1. What's happening For Me

• Silent Killer Seminar
• New Women Connect social network site is up and running
• Aspiring Authors Update

2. Success Tips & Strategies

• Part 1 - 7 Things You Can Begin Doing Today to Start Living the Life of Your Dreams
• Quote to Contemplate

3. Feature Article

• The Formula That Changes Everything

4. Members Only Area

• What's New

Any feedback is most welcome.

Enjoy!

What a fabulous weekend we had at the SilentKiller Seminar hosted by Mal Emery (picture on left), one of Australia's leading marketing experts.

The line-up of speakers at the event were amazing and covered a huge array of subjects to take our businesses to the next level.

Whatever industry you are in, attending seminars and workshops not only increase your knowledge, but most importantly, fire you up from deep inside and give you the motivation and inspiration to push yourself to greater heights.

Know that you CAN NEVER LEARN LESS, and improving your knowledge or listening to others reiterate what you think you already know, will lead you to take action. As well as learning from the speakers, having the opportunity to mix with a room full of like minded people is the absolute BEST for cementing your success mindset.

I was fortunate to meet many of the speakers, and the photos from the seminar will give you an example of just some of those that imparted their knowledge and skills with the audience.

A great highlight was meeting Ali Brown, aka the EzineQueen. I have been in Ali's mastermind group for about six months now, following her program, listening to her audios etc. As she lives in Los Angeles, having the opportunity to actually meet her and attend her 'live' presentation was an enormous buzz for me.

More photos can be seen on Women Connect.

 

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So, I am continuing to create my very own Opus, and see many others who are creating theirs.

Are you? To be inspired and motivated and grow from Vision ... To Plan ... To Performance

If I can impress one thing upon you today - that is to make sure you watch The Opus.

Check out more about The Opus DVD Movie

 

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NEW SOCIAL NETWORK FOR - WOMEN CONNECT

As women love to share, network, promote, socialise, advertise, market, learn and grow, I am thrilled that my new online social network at

Women Connect

is growing daily. Yes, I know there are a lot of other women's networks out there and I must say that I am a member to a great many of them. The majority of these restrict members from promoting themselves, their business and their events.

That is where Women Connect differs. I encourage you to sign up at no charge, let other members know who you are, what you do, what you are interested in, what areas you want more assistance in, promote yourself, your business (if you have one), your events etc etc. My opinion is that the more we share and help each other, the more chance we all have of achieving the ultimate success we deserve.

So, visit Women Connect today and enjoy the benefits of a free growing social network as women connect around the globe.

Please pass the invitation on to your friends and colleagues. My goal is to have 50 members by the weekend. Can we get there?

 

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ASPIRING AUTHORS - Update

Stories are now being edited and if a number of alterations are to be made, I will forward your contribution back to you for final approval. Simple grammatical and spelling editing will be made at our discretion. Hope that is okay.

Some of you are still to send in your story, so please have them in by Monday next week.

The e-book should be finalised in about three weeks - so thank you to all who contributed. Any questions -

email me

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7 Things You Can Begin Doing Today To Start Living The Life Of Your Dreams

# 1 - A.C.T. Now - Don't Wait

You know that changes can be made in your life to enable you to live with purpose and passion.

Begin by Asking yourself:
"What did I love to do as a child?"
"What do I really want to do with the rest of my life?"
"What's stopping me from fulfilling my dreams?"

Then, Consider your options. Remember that this is the only life you will have in this body, and sometimes your ideas may seem far-fetched or impossible. Ask yourself:

"What do I need to be/do or have to go for my dreams?"
"What small thing can I do today that leads to me achieving my dream?"

Finally, Think positively and proactively. You are in charge of your thoughts and therefore your choices.

So, Ask - Consider - Think - and take the necessary ACTion.

Start taking ACTion NOW. Part Two will follow next week.

Quote to Contemplate

"Every thought you have is a decision waiting to be made.”

Lynn Pierce

What kind of decisions are you making?

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This week's article continues with Part 5 of the success principles from one of my favourite mentors, Jack Canfield, who as an internationally recognized leader in personal development and peak performance strategies, Jack has spent the last 30 years teaching millions of people how to up-level everything they do. His newest book, The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be contains dozens of the most powerful secrets to success used by top achievers from all walks of life.

Over a course of these newsletters, we will cover The Success Principles for you to incorporate in your world, and create the success you deserve.

The Formula that Changes EVERYTHING

It seems that everywhere you turn these days, you hear people talking about the economy.

What’s interesting is that some people are scared to death about it, while others couldn’t be happier. While I don’t claim to be an economist, I do know one important fact. The economy is the same for everyone, it’s how you respond to it that determines how you feel about it.

It’s yet another example of what I’ve been teaching for years. . .

E + R = O
(Events + Responses = Outcome)

The basic idea is that every outcome you experience in life (whether it's success or failure, wealth or poverty, wellness or illness, intimacy or estrangement, joy or frustration) is the result of how you have responded to an earlier event (or events) in your life.

If you don't like the outcomes you are currently experiencing, there are two basic choices you can make:

1.) You can blame the event (E) for your lack of results (O).

In other words, you can blame the economy, the weather, the lack of money, lack of education, racism, gender bias, the current administration in Washington, your wife or husband, your boss's attitude, the lack of support, and so on.

If you're a golfer, you've probably even blamed your clubs!

No doubt all these factors exist, but if they were the deciding factor, nobody would ever succeed. For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

It's not the external conditions and circumstances that stop you -- it's you!

We think limiting thoughts and engage in self-defeating behaviors. We defend our self-destructive habits (such as drinking and smoking) with indefensible logic.

We ignore useful feedback, fail to continuously educate ourselves and learn new skills, waste time on the trivial aspects of our lives, engage in idle gossip, eat unhealthy food, fail to exercise, spend more than we make, fail to tell the truth, don't ask for what we want, and then wonder why our lives aren't working.

2.) You can instead simply change your responses (R) to the events (E) until you get the outcomes (O) you want.

 

You can change your thinking, change your communication, change the pictures and you hold in your head (your images of the world) and you can change your behavior (the things you do.) That's all you really have any control over anyway.

Unfortunately, most of us are so run by our habits that we never change our behavior. We get stick in out conditioned responses-to our spouses and children, to our colleagues at work, to our customers and our clients, to our students, and to the world at large.

You have to gain control of your thoughts, your images, your dreams and daydreams, and your behavior.

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

If you don't like your outcomes, change your responses.

Here's an example of how this works:

Do you remember the Northridge earthquake in 1994? I do! I lived through it in Los Angeles. Two days later I watched as CNN interviewed people commuting to work, The earthquake had damaged one of the main freeways leading into the city. Traffic was at a standstill, and what was normally a 1-hour drive had become a 2-3 hour drive.

The CNN reporter knocked on the window of one of the cars stuck in traffic and asked the driver how he was doing.

He responded, angrily, "I hate California. First there were fires, then floods, and now an earthquake! No matter what time I leave in the morning, I'm late for work. I can't believe it!"

Then the Reporter knocked on the window of the car behind him and asked the driver the same question. This driver was all smiles.

He replied "It's no problem. I left my house at five am. I don't think under the circumstances my boss can ask for more than that. I have lots of music and Spanish-language tapes with me. I've got my cell phone. Coffee in a thermos, my lunch-I even have a book to read. I'm fine."

Now, if the earthquake or the traffic were really the deciding variables, then everyone should have been angry. But everyone wasn't.

It was their individual response to the traffic that gave them their particular outcome. It was thinking negative thoughts or positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference. It was all a matter of attitude and behavior that created their completely different experiences.

If we all experience the same EVENT, the OUTCOME you get will be totally dependent upon your RESPONSE to the situation.

If you want to take control of how you respond to life, you’ll start noticing that your outcomes will be more along the lines of what you have always hoped. Remember, you control your destiny so make it a fantastic one!

© 2008 Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield, America’s Success Coach, is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul and a leading authority on Peak Performance. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com

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And yes, a whole lot more content in audios, videos and ebooks has been added during the past week including the following audio presentation from Ben Fewtrell.

Wouldn't this information be useful? Especially if you were an entrepreneur in the process of growing your business. I think so.

What other membership site has this amount of material, covering such a vast array of topics? Most only have A book, or A e-course or A product!

Why not take a 21 day 'all you can eat' Test Drive and see just some of what we have to offer.

I encourage you to spread the word on the value of the tools and resources that are available on this site.

Check out below some of the newest material for you to download.

That's it for now, and I wish you all a FABULOUS week ahead.

Cheers,

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