ONE:
Must Be Written
TWO:
Must Be Attainable
THREE:
Must Have Specific Action Plan
FOUR:
Must Keep Score
Write it, affirm it and visualize it with feeling and your goals will come into your life.
Good luck,
Patricia Noel Drain
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In this article, I will be sharing from the book THE STRANGEST SECRET BY
EARL NIGHTINGALE. It had the greatest impact on my life more than
anything I have read or heard in the past 25 years. Hope you enjoy it.
George Bernard Shaw said, “People are always blaming their
circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The
people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for
the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make
them.”
Well, it’s pretty apparent, isn’t it? And every person who
discovered this believed (for awhile) that he was the first one to work
it out. We become what we think about.
Now, it stands to reason that a person who is thinking about a concrete
and worthwhile goal is going to reach it because that’s what he’s
thinking about. And we become what we think about.
Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn’t know where he is
going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion,
anxiety, fear and worry—-his life becomes one of frustration, fear,
anxiety and worry. And if he thinks about nothing, he becomes nothing.
How does it work? Why do we become what we think about? Well, I’ll
tell you how it works, as far as we know. To do this, I want to tell you
about a situation that parallels the human mind.
Suppose a farmer has some land, and it is good, fertile land. The land
gives the farmer a choice; he may plant in that land whatever he
chooses. The land doesn’t care. It’s up to the farmer to make the
decision.
We’re comparing the human mind with the land because the mind, like
the land, doesn’t care what you plant in it. It will return what you
plant, but it doesn’t care what you plant.
Now, let’s say that the farmer has 2 seeds in his hand—one is a seed
of corn, the other is nightshade, a deadly poison. He digs two little
holes in the earth and he plants both seeds—one corn, the other
nightshade. He covers up the holes, waters and takes care of the land…
and what will happen? Invariably, the land will return what was planted.
Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as
wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants—one
corn, one poison. The human mind is far more fertile, far more
incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It
doesn’t care what we plant success, or failure. A concrete,
worthwhile goal, or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so
on. But whatever we plant, it must return to us. You see, the human mind
is the last great, unexplored continent on earth. It contains riches
beyond our wildest dreams. It will return anything we want to plant.
Now, you might say, if that is true, why don’t people use their minds
more? Well, I think they’ve figured out an answer to that one, too.
Our mind comes as standard equipment at birth. It’s free. And things
that rare, given to us for nothing, we place little value on. Things
that we pay money for, we value.
Interesting story today with a powerful message. I didn’t even know
this story when I was teaching second grade years ago, and decided one
day to plant seeds in two different pots. I told the children that they
needed to be careful what they planted in their minds because their
minds were like the pots.
Where in the world did I even think up such a demonstration.?
Who knew that, years later, I would be sharing that same thought process
with you, through the words of Earl Nightingale?
Knowing this all of these years, did I make a conscious effort daily to
utilize my mind to its fullest? NO.
Once again, we take it for granted and forget how powerful our minds
are. Join me just for today and let’s use our powerful minds by
planting only seeds of greatness.
Stay tuned for part 2 in the next ezine.
Respectfully
Patricia Noel Drain
www.WhatShouldIBeWhenIGrowUp.com
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Recently I was having a conversation with a dear friend who asked me, “Did you ever think life would turn out like this?” You see, she had just lost her business after 26 years of building it, so when I read an article in Readers Digest by Joe Kita, I instantly emailed the story to her. She said it helped her so much that I decided to share it with my faithful readers.
So many of my clients that I work one-on-one with have what I call ‘Business Breakthroughs’ in our sessions together. It is such a beautiful thing to see someone have that IDEA pop into their heads that is perfect for them and perfect for their business.
Patricia Noel Drain
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This is your lucky day!
If you missed my brand-new free teleseminar “HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME GIVING TELESEMINARS” you can still listen to the ENCORE PRESENTATION this Saturday, September 19th at noon Pacific, 1pm Mountain, 2pm Central, 3pm Eastern.
This is a hot topic today - we are all looking for multiple streams of income and having home-based businesses to make life less complicated.
Not only will you learn how I made money with this new stream of income, but I’ll also show you EXACTLY how I did that step-by-step.
On this ground-breaking call you’ll learn:
The 6 SIX W’S for Profitable Teleseminars
3 Secrets for getting started ASAP
A simple formula works like magic. Not knowing this used to cost me thousands of dollars a month, but I’m going to teach it to you so you can quickly learn from my mistakes.
Exactly how to structure your product that you are offering.
How to get more ears on the phone.
Here’s the phone number to call… 1-785-686-1310 / pin number is 13227#
See you Saturday
Patricia Noel Drain
www.WhatShouldIBeWhenIGrowUp.com
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For the longest time I did free teleseminars interviewing celebrities, speakers, and authors promoting and asking the perfect questions so the audience took away value.
Then I realized people wanted more information. That is when I realized the importance of the free teleseminar but also the importance of paying for the information that could change a person’s business or life.
The exchange of money also gave more value to the information.
On my way to creating the new stream of income in my business I started realizing I was not in the same game as the experts that were making 5,6 even 7 figures with their teleseminars. I was piece mailing my knowledge of the teleseminar game and was leaving out valuable critical pieces to the puzzle,
Once I discovered that information THE GAME BEGAN.
I invented the “treasure chest” and also my gold chains connecting to the chest.
The game of how much to charge and what to sell fell quietly into play.
I could go on with 20 different other ideas that I want to share…
If you would like to join me for a FREE teleseminar so you can learn some of the things I know (so you don’t have to re-create the wheel).
Click here to register for the September 16th seminar:
http://www.bigbusinessvision.com/creatingseminars091609/
Best wishes, Patricia
www.whatshouldIbewhenIgrowup.com
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I think there has been some confusion about networking your way to success in business.
The other day I attended a business meeting with a group of business owners, when a gentleman came over to me saying, “I need to meet the famous Patricia Drain.” We casually talked about what he did in business. As he slipped his business card in my hand telling me not to lose it because it was very important to him, he was now looking over my shoulder to find another business owner to introduce himself to. As I watched him move quickly around the room I overheard him say over and over “I need to meet the famous (fill in the name), don’t lose my card it is very important to me.”
A couple of days went by when I received a call from him, suggesting we meet, so he could tell me more about him and his business.
I told him my brother-in-law did exactly what he did so I would not need his service.
His next line was shocking.
“I can meet you at a coffee house by your house to tell you more about me.”
NO.
“I can come directly to your house if that is more convenient.”
NO.
“Give me a break Patricia. I am just trying to do my job and tell you more about me and my business.” (have you noticed all the me’s and my’s).
My reply was, “Remember when I told you my brother-in-law is in the same business, so I will not be using your service?”
His response… ”I am just networking, I am sure you must have friends that could use my service.”
I am not sure if you have had a similar experience, but that is the reason NETWORKING has such a bad reputation.
To me, networking is about building relationships.
In fact, when I thought about it I came up with 4 simple rules about networking that would help any business grow and flourish consistently.
Ask questions about the other person’s business!
Listen to the person… I mean REALLY listen!
Learn to communicate with someone so they feel they are the most important person in the room.
Be authentic when building relationships because if you are not authentic I promise… You will get discovered.
What I know for sure (to copy Oprah’s column) about networking and building any business, anywhere, anytime, is if you just follow those 4 simple procedures your business will grow all by itself.
If the networking gentleman is reading this ezine, I hope you recognize yourself and realize there are BETTER ways to play the networking game. .
Best Wishes,
Patricia
www.whatshouldIbewhenIgrowup.com
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I recently had the privilege of speaking to NAWBO in
It was over 20 years ago that I met a young man in
Wow what a simple but powerful message that would be for me.
I decided to do exactly what he said, what did I have to lose. I started to write in a blank book all the things I wanted to see, do and have. It was like magic for me, the written word seemed powerful. My life started unfolding just like the book that I had written… the car I drove, the house I lived in, the business I owned, even the books I had not even written yet.
It took me years before I could put this down in simple format to share with others so they could use the tool to get what they wanted in life also. Was it really this easy? It certainly seemed to be for me. Later I discovered that if you write things down 50% come into your life, if you write it down and speak about it (affirmations) like it already happened 75% comes into your life….however if you write it , affirm it, and visualize it 100% comes into your life. Amazing.
Many new teachings continually come into my life to support this tool I used years ago. The movement of the SECRET was one of them. It didn’t emphasize the written word but it certainly supported the message. Our thoughts are things, so be careful what you are thinking.
That gentleman (who became my
His name,
Mark Victor Hansen.
His book
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL…
I would say he walked his talk.
I am proud to say I also walk my talk and have mentored hundreds of people to date helping them take quantum leaps in their business. Mark Victor Hansen stretched my mind to think bigger about my life and my business. That is what I do now for other business owners around the world.
Sometimes we stand in our own way of thinking BIG and also stand in our own way of success. Come along with me this summer and be ready to take a quantum leap in your business and your life
Why not YOU?!!! Why not NOW?!!
Best Wishes,
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