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Thursday, December 13 (tonight), and Thursday, December 20,
8pm to 10pm

"Personal Pathfinder Training!" Begins

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ability to earn $100/hour and more for life?

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(Note: we're taping this, so even if you have a date conflict,
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Wednesday, December 19, 9pm to 10:30pm

Rejection-Proof Networking!

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IN THIS ISSUE:

1. LIFE SKILL FOR BUSINESS!

I make peace, and commit to something bigger than ME!

2. BUSINESS SKILL FOR LIFE!

Catapult Your Cap-ability... Do what you do well, better!

3. LIVE TELE-TRAINING!

Personal Pathfinder Training
Thursday, December 13 (tonight) and December 20, 8pm to 10pm

Rejection-Proof Networking
Wednesday, December 19. 9pm to 10:30pm

4. SIGN UP FOR PEACE!

Raise your voice for peace.
Sign our guestbook at Peaceoffer.net


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1. LIFE SKILL FOR BUSINESS
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I make peace, and commit to something bigger than ME!

It's been said that Baby Boomers are the "ME" generation.
After 9/11, has the "ME" generation transformed into the "WE"
generation? As we approach the new year, are people thinking
less about themselves and more about others?

Most of us are counting our blessings a little bit differently this
holiday season. We take more time to value the real gifts of life
and love. We seem to have a renewed appreciation for who we
are being, what we are doing and where we are going in life.

As the old saying goes, a man without shoes will feel himself
poor until he meets a man without feet.

It's less than healthy to compare yourself with anyone else. You
can always find someone more talented and successful and
maybe, feel inferior, or find someone less talented and
struggling and possibly, feel superior. Neither of these truly
reflect nor measure the uniqueness of who you are.

Comparing and measuring are extrinsic value judgments.
Your uniqueness and special-ness are intrinsic values.

Intrinsic value is greater than extrinsic value.

You are more valuable and valued than anything you own,
anything you have, anything you do, or anywhere you go.

There is a new imperative in the world, different from this time
last year when we had the comfort of peace and an abundance
of financial prosperity. Today, we have little of the former, and
a whole lot less of the latter.

As the 21st century kicks into second gear, the world is in dire
need of making peace. It seems people are "at war" everywhere.
Peace starts with us.

Make peace with someone today. Who will that person be?

The planet needs us to commit ourselves to something bigger
than us, and at the same time, refocus on the intrinsic value of
life: family and loved ones, empathy and compassion.

Preserving the sanctity of human life everywhere deserves our
attention. More than that, it needs our action.

For me, I commit to be more loving, and do what I can to leave
the world more peaceful than I found it.

Do you want to change the world this holiday season?
Make peace with someone today. Start with YOU.

Then, commit to something bigger than you.
You WILL change the world, guaranteed.

Make today a day you'll never forget!
What are you willing to commit to doing, today?

This week's Life Skill for Business:

Make peace with someone today.
Commit to something bigger than you.

Here's a way to jump-start today: raise your voice for peace.
Please sign the guestbook at PeaceOffer.net

Then, share that with a few friends. You'll change the world.

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2. BUSINESS SKILL FOR LIFE
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Catapult Your Cap-ability... Do what you do well, better!

Cap-ability is a cornerstone Success-Ability that enriches our
experience of work, and increases our value in the marketplace.

As we enhance our cap-ability, we boost our confidence and
enhance our market-ability, service-ability and value-ability.

How do you catapult your cap-ability?
Do what you do well, BETTER!

When coaching people, we often ask a question:

"If you got nine "A's" and one "C" on a report card, what would
get your attention?"

For most people, the answer is the C. Then we ask, "Why?"

The answers vary, but not much. They are all a derivative of
the same answer. I want to get all "A's". In other words...

I want to be perfect!

This striving for perfection is at the heart of much discontent,
dissatisfaction, and disillusionment. It's also a major source of
unhappiness, lack of fulfillment and contributes greatly to
the epidemic of low self-esteem that plagues our planet.

The old school model of success is to get straight "A's." That
requires us to put a lot more attention on the subjects in which
we have less talent and ability. We work on our "weaknesses"
and in the process, try to be good at everything. Unfortunately,
we carry that same old school model into our work and career.

The problem is, getting straight "A's" is not a real world model.
Few people are good at everything, and many who try to be never
fulfill their unique potential nor do they find personal fulfillment.

Mozart didn't do ceilings, and Michelangelo didn't play the piano!

When we strive to get all "A's" we are trying to become perfect,
trying to live up to some ideal concept of who we think we
"should" become. This forces a major value decision.

Do we put our time and attention on accepting who we are
(with all our shortcomings), loving who we are (warts and all),
and valuing ourselves for what we attempt and DO accomplish
(rather than where we fall short)?

Or, do we put our time and attention on "what's not perfect, yet"
and focus on strengthening our weaknesses? Do we, in the
process of trying to strengthen our weaknesses, weaken our
strengths? For most of us, the answer is yes.

Cap-ability is the Success-Ability of competence, but it's also
the ability to know how and where to direct our energies. We
spend a lot of time trying to fix ourselves of what we think is
broken, so we have little time left over to unwrap our gifts and
live from what we value most and do best.

The "old school model" of getting perfect grades is not only an
illusion, it has potentially detrimental consequences when used
in the real world. In the real world, you are paid best for what
you do best. That's not to say you cannot do many things well.
Most of us have multiple talents, and as required in the 21st
century, have become adept at multi-tasking.

The ability to multi-task is a good thing. It just doesn't pay
well. People who are paid best are not those who do a little of
everything pretty well, but those who do one thing exceptionally.
High market value people bring a higher level of cap-ability to their
work.

Although things in life and work may seem to be neutral, most of
what we do either adds or detracts from our value. If I add words
to this message just to bulk it up, it detracts from its value (it takes
me longer to write, and you longer to read for no added value).

A good way to test your communication is to look at every word.
Then ask, "Does this add value?" If not, it probably takes away.
Eliminate it.

The same is true for business: whether it be company brochures
(people read only 20 words of the average brochure), proposals,
advertising and promotion, marketing materials, sales letters,
customer service, hiring, selection, training, development, team-
building, promoting employees, even downsizing and firing.

This simple concept holds true for most aspects of life.

If something doesn't add, then it usually takes away.

A UNIQUE TRUTH ABOUT CAP-ABILITY

Cap-ability doesn't exist in a vacuum. If you don't continuously
improve this Success-Ability, it will atrophy and you will fall
behind. If you needed a life-saving operation, would you trust
your life to a doctor who hasn't read a medical journal in 20 years?
Do you want to do business with people who are still using old
worn out sales scripts, approaches and closing techniques?

THEN DON'T BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.

If there is ONE investment you can make that has the highest
leverage of all, it's an investment in your Cap-Abilitiy.

Don't strengthen your weaknesses.
STRENGTHEN YOUR STRENGTHS.

At this time of year, we take stock of what we want to improve,
upgrade, enhance, change, do better or differently next year.

For many of us, this becomes a "weaknesses to strengthen" list.

This year, take stock of your strengths. Block out time and identify
what you do well.

Then decide to do what you do well, even better next year.

If you want a big boost in market value, income, performance,
and personal satisfaction in 2002, then put less attention on
fixing yourself, and more attention on releasing yourself.

Strengthen your strengths.
DO WHAT YOU DO WELL, BETTER.

What do you do well? Which of your talents, skills and abilities
can produce the highest quality of life for you and living for your family?

Are you being and doing what you value most?

Have you truly taken stock, objectively, of your tool-box?

Nothing can match the return on investment you will get in
assessing your talents honestly and objectively, and leveraging
those talents for all their worth.

Make "doing what you do, better" the centerpiece of your year-end
and new year planning.

Focus less on what's missing, and more on what's present!

That's not only a business skill for life.
It's a vital life skill for life!

This Week's Business Skill for Life:

Do what you do well, better.

STRENGTHEN YOUR STRENGTHS.


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3. LIVE TELE-TRAINING
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THURSDAY, December 13 (tonight) and December 20, 8pm to 10pm

Personal Pathfinder Training Begins

Are you using your best talents and getting paid what you're
really worth? This four hours of life and business skills training
will show you how to do that and a whole lot more.

Discover your unique talents and release your untapped
potential. Eliminate blocks and obstacles to success and
satisfaction. Feel better about YOU and be worth more in the
marketplace.

Identify your best talents, and biggest blocks in 15 minutes.
Complete your value profile.

Better yet, join our class TONIGHT and get your profile FREE.

It's not too late to be a part of our first Pathfinder Training.
Starts tonight. Four hours of powerful life transforming
training, combined with the steps to earn $50 to $100/hour
and more assisting others in the most important process of all:
making good decisions.

If you want to give yourself a really terrific gift this holiday,
gift yourself this training. You can spend four hours watching
TV in the next seven days, or one week from today you can be
in a whole different place, personally and professionally.

Get a huge FREE bonus by enrolling in this Pathfinder Training.

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Do well for yourself and do good for others.

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