Ben Carson was just another kid trying to survive.
Raised by a single mom in the Detroit ghettos he had a terrible temper and even worse self-esteem.
He was labeled the "stupidest kid in the 5th grade" and no one held much hope for his future.
How then did this angry boy become the renowned Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world's top brain surgeons?
His mother.
Today's story is not about Ben Carson, though we'll talk about him more another time.
This story is about Sonya Carson the woman who created greatness in her son.
Sonya Carson grew up in harsher circumstances than her son.
Abandoned when she was just a child (one of 24 children), she was raised in abusive foster homes.
She longed for love, safety and a sense of belonging.
She only made it through the 3rd grade before she had to leave school.
Whatever dreams she had were being crushed by a world of poverty and abuse.
She was only 13 years old when 28 year-old Robert Carson married her.
Robert treated the beautiful little girl like a beloved "china doll."
Sonya believed she had found everything she had looked for during her lonely childhood.
It all changed when she had children.
Suddenly her devoted husband was rarely at home, and she had to endure whispered conversations on the phone when he did show up.
Her life plummeted back into poverty and neglect.
She took it until her two boys were 8 and 10, then she found the courage to leave her husband and move to Boston.
Life was better only because she was on her own.
She had the freedom to create the life she wanted.
But how?
Leaning on a strong faith she struggled for ways to make life better for her sons often working 2-3 jobs just to provide food and housing.
Yet she knew it would take more than that to help her boys live up to their potential to break from the cycle of poverty.
She decided to take radical action to change things for Ben and Curtis by setting "house rules."
Her boys could only watch TV for 2 hours a week.
They had to go to the library, then pick out and read two books every week.
To earn their privilege of TV time they had to give her a written report of the books they read.
Both boys resisted but they did it.
They didn't find out until much later that Sonya, with her 3rd grade education, couldn't even read the reports.
Her course of action paid off.
Ben, in particular, changed as he realized he was not really stupid.
The day he answered a question in class that no one else could answer all because he had learned it from one of the books Sonya forced him to read – gave him a voracious appetite for knowledge.
Suddenly he was devouring books learning everything he could.
He realized he held his future in his hands.
He took that understanding and applied himself until he became one of the world's top brain surgeons.
He freely admits he owes his success to his mother, Sonya.
He's right.
Yes, of course he had to apply himself, but it was Sonya who gave him the desire to do so.
It was her actions that convinced him he could be anything he wanted to be.
Somehow this amazing woman rose above all the terrible circumstances of her own life in order to create a better understanding and a better life for her boys.
Yes, the circumstances of her life changed as both her boys became successful men
Curtis an engineer,
Ben, a doctor.
But ask her what her greatest success is…
"Helping my boys reach their fullest potential."
Sonya Carson changed her life. She changed her sons’ lives. And through them she has changed the world.
Now that's what I call success!
Every single one of us has challenges to overcome, circumstances to rise above.
Whether we do or not is completely up to us.
Sonya could have chosen to wallow in the cycle of abuse and poverty.
She chose something different.
What about you?
Maybe you are the struggling parent trying to motivate the next generation
maybe you struggle to motivate yourself, either way,
don’t give up when it gets tough
Monday, December 1, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Just fix it
Lori laughed as the baseball pinged off the fence.Rounding 2nd base and then 3rd, she knew she'd make it to home plate.
Her dark hair flying in the wind, she laughed again.
A friendly but fierce competitor, Lori determined to win every time she played and even more than that, to do what was best for the team.
Hitting home plate, her teammates cheered.
Her family whooped!
And she felt loved. Lori's Hopi Indian name is Köcha-Hon-Mana meaning White Bear Girl.
Piestewa, comes from a word meaning "water pooled on the desert by a hard rain."
This fact would bring comfort to her family one day, but neither they nor she knew that on the day she won the baseball game.
"Mom, Dad, I've decided I have to do something.
I have to take care of Brandon and Carla.I can't do it here in town.
There's too much unemployment.
I have joined the Army.
"Lori looked expectantly from one parent to the other.
They knew without speaking the thoughts on the other’s mind.
Both Lori's dad and Grandfather had served.
They knew the security the military offered its members.
Lori and her children deserved a better life.
They also knew of its personal challenges and the ultimate danger.
The year?2003 and it was the Iraqi War Lori went to fight.Lori left behind her beloved children, family and Hopi Nation.
She left Arizona, deployed first to Fort Bragg, TX and then into Nasiriyah, Iraq.Later, in an interview, a comrade spoke of that fateful day in Iraq.
"I asked her to switch places...
We knew the drive back was even more dangerous than the first go round
.She knew she'd be driving us straight into enemy fire.
She maneuvered the Humvee like it was second nature.
I asked her to switch.
She said no.
She was committed to finishing her duty.
Completing her assignment.
That was Lori." As part of a support unit of clerks, cooks, and repair personnel, they first got lost through the dry torrid, desert in Southern Iraq.
Then they were ambushed.
The Army called what hit them as "a torrent of fire.
"At first it looked like Lori might out maneuver the enemy fire.
She even stopped to help out two other vehicles with soldiers... as was their duty.
By their very nature, this Unit was a support unit... their mission: repair.
Their motto "Just Fix It."However, a large grenade propelled by a rocket exploded into the driver's side of the Humvee that Lori drove.
Three other soldiers died on the scene.
Lori suffered a head injury and was taken as a prisoner of war.
Back in Arizona when the news of the attack on her Unit and the captured soldiers aired, the citizens, family and friends put up signs declaring:
"Put your porch light on, show Lori the way home.
" As they waited out the long days and nights to hear any news of her, they even spelled her name on a hillside with stones outside her hometown.
Tragically, White Bear Girl, Lori Piestwa, died of her injuries.
She was the first woman in the U.S. armed forces killed in the 2003 Iraq war and is the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving with the U.S. military.
Honored in many ways, from the coveted Purple Heart and Prisoner of War Medal, posthumously promoted from Private First Class to Specialist, to monuments, highways, and memorials throughout the U.S., Lori fulfilled her duty with the ultimate sacrifice.
In the Hopi tradition, the souls of the dead return to earth in a different form.
Not as angels but as moisture from the sky.Not long after she died, in the hot desert of Iraq, it snowed in April in Lori's home town of Tuba City, Arizona.
As her last name means "water pooled on the desert by a hard rain" her family believes that this snowfall was White Bear Girl's spirit bringing them a message of peace.
She had returned to them after all...
she always did what she said she would do.
She came home.
Wow, I hope that today you catch the determination of White Bear Girl. She loved and lived with principle and belief in doing the right thing.
I know that it is tempting sometimes to take the easy way out or to find a short cut.However living with yourself when you've cheated yourself can be very tough.
I know Lori would probably agree with me when I say, to the best of your ability, "Just fix it."
Do it the right way and you'll never go wrong.
Lori believed in her Army family as much as she believed in her own children...
I want you to know that you can do whatever you have to do today.
Her dark hair flying in the wind, she laughed again.
A friendly but fierce competitor, Lori determined to win every time she played and even more than that, to do what was best for the team.
Hitting home plate, her teammates cheered.
Her family whooped!
And she felt loved. Lori's Hopi Indian name is Köcha-Hon-Mana meaning White Bear Girl.
Piestewa, comes from a word meaning "water pooled on the desert by a hard rain."
This fact would bring comfort to her family one day, but neither they nor she knew that on the day she won the baseball game.
"Mom, Dad, I've decided I have to do something.
I have to take care of Brandon and Carla.I can't do it here in town.
There's too much unemployment.
I have joined the Army.
"Lori looked expectantly from one parent to the other.
They knew without speaking the thoughts on the other’s mind.
Both Lori's dad and Grandfather had served.
They knew the security the military offered its members.
Lori and her children deserved a better life.
They also knew of its personal challenges and the ultimate danger.
The year?2003 and it was the Iraqi War Lori went to fight.Lori left behind her beloved children, family and Hopi Nation.
She left Arizona, deployed first to Fort Bragg, TX and then into Nasiriyah, Iraq.Later, in an interview, a comrade spoke of that fateful day in Iraq.
"I asked her to switch places...
We knew the drive back was even more dangerous than the first go round
.She knew she'd be driving us straight into enemy fire.
She maneuvered the Humvee like it was second nature.
I asked her to switch.
She said no.
She was committed to finishing her duty.
Completing her assignment.
That was Lori." As part of a support unit of clerks, cooks, and repair personnel, they first got lost through the dry torrid, desert in Southern Iraq.
Then they were ambushed.
The Army called what hit them as "a torrent of fire.
"At first it looked like Lori might out maneuver the enemy fire.
She even stopped to help out two other vehicles with soldiers... as was their duty.
By their very nature, this Unit was a support unit... their mission: repair.
Their motto "Just Fix It."However, a large grenade propelled by a rocket exploded into the driver's side of the Humvee that Lori drove.
Three other soldiers died on the scene.
Lori suffered a head injury and was taken as a prisoner of war.
Back in Arizona when the news of the attack on her Unit and the captured soldiers aired, the citizens, family and friends put up signs declaring:
"Put your porch light on, show Lori the way home.
" As they waited out the long days and nights to hear any news of her, they even spelled her name on a hillside with stones outside her hometown.
Tragically, White Bear Girl, Lori Piestwa, died of her injuries.
She was the first woman in the U.S. armed forces killed in the 2003 Iraq war and is the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving with the U.S. military.
Honored in many ways, from the coveted Purple Heart and Prisoner of War Medal, posthumously promoted from Private First Class to Specialist, to monuments, highways, and memorials throughout the U.S., Lori fulfilled her duty with the ultimate sacrifice.
In the Hopi tradition, the souls of the dead return to earth in a different form.
Not as angels but as moisture from the sky.Not long after she died, in the hot desert of Iraq, it snowed in April in Lori's home town of Tuba City, Arizona.
As her last name means "water pooled on the desert by a hard rain" her family believes that this snowfall was White Bear Girl's spirit bringing them a message of peace.
She had returned to them after all...
she always did what she said she would do.
She came home.
Wow, I hope that today you catch the determination of White Bear Girl. She loved and lived with principle and belief in doing the right thing.
I know that it is tempting sometimes to take the easy way out or to find a short cut.However living with yourself when you've cheated yourself can be very tough.
I know Lori would probably agree with me when I say, to the best of your ability, "Just fix it."
Do it the right way and you'll never go wrong.
Lori believed in her Army family as much as she believed in her own children...
I want you to know that you can do whatever you have to do today.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Five star diamond company
Life was different back in the 1800's.
Charles Tiffany was only 15 when he completed his formal education and went to work managing a general store for his father who owned a Connecticut cotton mill.
He worked long, hard hours – learning new things every day.
Over the next 10 years he was given some additional education, as well as working in the office of the cotton mill, but by the time he was 25 he still had nothing to call his own – and very little money.
It was time to change his life – time to create his own success.
I can imagine the conversation he had with his friend, and new partner, John Young.
"We're going to New York!"
"To do what?" John asked warily.
"We're going to open our very own stationery & notions store on Broadway!"
By now John was looking at him like he'd lost his mind… "With what money?"
"I've talked my father into loaning us $1000."
"$1000! That's all? How are we supposed to start a new business and have money to live on with just $1000?"
Charles had the perfect answer. "It's either that or be stuck here for the rest of our lives."
The two young men went to New York… It was 1837.
The first three days of business in their new store on Broadway were certainly not promising.
Tiffany & Young raked in a dismal $4.38 in sales.
No matter.
With their sights set on success, the young men worked hard to provide products people wanted.
Within two years they were selling glassware, cutlery, porcelain, clocks and jewelry.
They had also learned a tremendous amount.
They knew to search for every opportunity.
They knew to take advantage of ways to expand their business.
They knew each year would bring new challenges and opportunities.
But Charles still had no idea what they would become.
In 1841 they added a new partner because they needed someone to travel abroad to increase their purchasing power.
Six years later they recognized a growing market for quality gold jewelry and began to manufacture their own.
Just one year later, in 1847, Europe was rocked by disturbances.
One of the results was diamonds declining 50% in Paris.
They took advantage of the situation to purchase huge amounts – gaining huge profits back in America.
4 years later they began the manufacture of sterling silver ware.
All the while they were moving into bigger and better storefronts.
The Civil War became another opportunity for them.
They supported the raging war by manufacturing swords and other articles the Union army needed.
In 1867 they moved into the famous store still on Broadway – Tiffany's.
The young man who had left Connecticut to open a stationery store became the owner of a $2 Million dollar business (the equivalent of a multi-billion dollar business now) that was acknowledged as the greatest jewelry company in North America.
There are so many "Success Secrets" to learn from Charles Tiffany.
The one that stands out most to me is the knowledge that your original dream may be just a shadow of its true potential.
Tiffany never dreamed of being the greatest jewelry company in North America.
He simply moved toward every opportunity – keeping his mind and heart open to every possibility
What is your dream?
Follow it.
Take the steps to bring it to reality.
But don't let your own ability to dream limit you.
Give the dream room to grow.
Give it every opportunity to become more.
Take advantage of your lessons learned and continue to forge ahead.
You never know what it can become.
Charles Tiffany was only 15 when he completed his formal education and went to work managing a general store for his father who owned a Connecticut cotton mill.
He worked long, hard hours – learning new things every day.
Over the next 10 years he was given some additional education, as well as working in the office of the cotton mill, but by the time he was 25 he still had nothing to call his own – and very little money.
It was time to change his life – time to create his own success.
I can imagine the conversation he had with his friend, and new partner, John Young.
"We're going to New York!"
"To do what?" John asked warily.
"We're going to open our very own stationery & notions store on Broadway!"
By now John was looking at him like he'd lost his mind… "With what money?"
"I've talked my father into loaning us $1000."
"$1000! That's all? How are we supposed to start a new business and have money to live on with just $1000?"
Charles had the perfect answer. "It's either that or be stuck here for the rest of our lives."
The two young men went to New York… It was 1837.
The first three days of business in their new store on Broadway were certainly not promising.
Tiffany & Young raked in a dismal $4.38 in sales.
No matter.
With their sights set on success, the young men worked hard to provide products people wanted.
Within two years they were selling glassware, cutlery, porcelain, clocks and jewelry.
They had also learned a tremendous amount.
They knew to search for every opportunity.
They knew to take advantage of ways to expand their business.
They knew each year would bring new challenges and opportunities.
But Charles still had no idea what they would become.
In 1841 they added a new partner because they needed someone to travel abroad to increase their purchasing power.
Six years later they recognized a growing market for quality gold jewelry and began to manufacture their own.
Just one year later, in 1847, Europe was rocked by disturbances.
One of the results was diamonds declining 50% in Paris.
They took advantage of the situation to purchase huge amounts – gaining huge profits back in America.
4 years later they began the manufacture of sterling silver ware.
All the while they were moving into bigger and better storefronts.
The Civil War became another opportunity for them.
They supported the raging war by manufacturing swords and other articles the Union army needed.
In 1867 they moved into the famous store still on Broadway – Tiffany's.
The young man who had left Connecticut to open a stationery store became the owner of a $2 Million dollar business (the equivalent of a multi-billion dollar business now) that was acknowledged as the greatest jewelry company in North America.
There are so many "Success Secrets" to learn from Charles Tiffany.
The one that stands out most to me is the knowledge that your original dream may be just a shadow of its true potential.
Tiffany never dreamed of being the greatest jewelry company in North America.
He simply moved toward every opportunity – keeping his mind and heart open to every possibility
What is your dream?
Follow it.
Take the steps to bring it to reality.
But don't let your own ability to dream limit you.
Give the dream room to grow.
Give it every opportunity to become more.
Take advantage of your lessons learned and continue to forge ahead.
You never know what it can become.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
When you are faced with conflict
I know people who always appear confident and in control of their situation.
Do you think they really feel as comfortable on the inside as they look on the outside?
Or are they just the type who "fights" rather than "flees"?
I suspect the pulses of the fighters are racing and stomachs are churning just like those who would rather run from conflict or uncharted territory.
But perhaps the fighter's pulse and stomach are reacting to challenge and stimulation, rather than the fear of defeat.
In the end, though, it doesn't matter why your pulse is racing or your stomach is churning, as long as you face the fear and the situation with resolve.
No one's going to know the difference, except you.
I have a friend who says when he dies he wants to be found with his fingernails embedded in the last hurdle of life.
In other words, he intends to be working, growing and learning right up to the end.
He has every intention of grappling with new ideas and challenges until his last breath is taken.
President Theodore Roosevelt once said:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
I'm with my friend and Teddy Roosevelt.
I'd rather be trying and failing, daring and facing new challenges and demands, than watching passively from the sidelines of life.
I'd rather know the thrill of something faced and achieved, and the joy of expending myself on a great and worthy cause.
What about you?
Where do you stand in that game of life?
You can choose today to stand and face your fear and began working toward your dreams or stay paralyzed by fear watching your life fade in the distance.
The courage to move comes from looking at how far you have come. . . not how far you have to go.
It really doesn't matter whether you or I succeed or fail, what matters is that we are active participants in life.
I am willing to feel my heart beat and my pulse quicken as I move toward a better future.
Will you join me?
Will you make a move to live the life you want?
I hope you will.
And today, you can make the moves you need to make
Mobile post sent by karlradle using Utterli. Do you think they really feel as comfortable on the inside as they look on the outside?
Or are they just the type who "fights" rather than "flees"?
I suspect the pulses of the fighters are racing and stomachs are churning just like those who would rather run from conflict or uncharted territory.
But perhaps the fighter's pulse and stomach are reacting to challenge and stimulation, rather than the fear of defeat.
In the end, though, it doesn't matter why your pulse is racing or your stomach is churning, as long as you face the fear and the situation with resolve.
No one's going to know the difference, except you.
I have a friend who says when he dies he wants to be found with his fingernails embedded in the last hurdle of life.
In other words, he intends to be working, growing and learning right up to the end.
He has every intention of grappling with new ideas and challenges until his last breath is taken.
President Theodore Roosevelt once said:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
I'm with my friend and Teddy Roosevelt.
I'd rather be trying and failing, daring and facing new challenges and demands, than watching passively from the sidelines of life.
I'd rather know the thrill of something faced and achieved, and the joy of expending myself on a great and worthy cause.
What about you?
Where do you stand in that game of life?
You can choose today to stand and face your fear and began working toward your dreams or stay paralyzed by fear watching your life fade in the distance.
The courage to move comes from looking at how far you have come. . . not how far you have to go.
It really doesn't matter whether you or I succeed or fail, what matters is that we are active participants in life.
I am willing to feel my heart beat and my pulse quicken as I move toward a better future.
Will you join me?
Will you make a move to live the life you want?
I hope you will.
And today, you can make the moves you need to make
Replies.Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Even worse
Ben Carson was just another kid trying to survive.
Raised by a single mom in the Detroit ghettos he had a terrible temper and an even worse self-esteem.
He was labeled the "stupidest kid in the 5th grade" and no one held much hope for his future.
How then did this angry boy become the renowned Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world's top brain surgeons?
His mother.
Today's story is not about Ben Carson, though we'll talk about him more another time.
This story is about Sonya Carson – the woman who created greatness in her son.
Sonya Carson grew up in harsher circumstances than her son.
Abandoned when she was just a child (one of 24 children), she was raised in abusive foster homes.
She longed for love, safety and a sense of belonging.
She only made it through the 3rd grade before she had to leave school.
Whatever dreams she had were being crushed by a world of poverty and abuse.
She was only 13 years old when 28 year-old Robert Carson married her.
Robert treated the beautiful little girl like a beloved "china doll." Sonya believed she had found everything she had looked for during her lonely childhood.
It all changed when she had children.
Suddenly her devoted husband was rarely at home, and she had to endure whispered conversations on the phone when he did show up.
Her life plummeted back into poverty and neglect.
She took it until her two boys were 8 and 10, then she found the courage to leave her husband and move to Boston.
Life was better only because she was on her own.
She had the freedom to create the life she wanted.
But how?
Leaning on a strong faith she struggled for ways to make life better for her sons – often working 2-3 jobs just to provide food and housing.
Yet she knew it would take more than that to help her boys live up to their potential – to break from the cycle of poverty.
She decided to take radical action to change things for Ben and Curtis by setting "house rules."
Her boys could only watch TV for 2 hours a week.
They had to go to the library, then pick out – and read – two books every week.
To earn their privilege of TV time they had to give her a written report of the books they read.
Both boys resisted but they did it.
They didn't find out until much later that Sonya, with her 3rd grade education, couldn't even read the reports.
Her course of action paid off.
Ben, in particular, changed as he realized he was not really stupid.
The day he answered a question in class that no one else could answer – all because he had learned it from one of the books Sonya forced him to read – gave him a voracious appetite for knowledge.
Suddenly he was devouring books – learning everything he could.
He realized he held his future in his hands.
He took that understanding and applied himself until he became one of the world's top brain surgeons.
He freely admits he owes his success to his mother, Sonya.
He's right. Yes, of course had to apply himself, but it was Sonya who gave him the desire to do so. It was her actions that convinced him he could be anything he wanted to be.
Somehow this amazing woman rose above all the terrible circumstances of her own life in order to create a better understanding and a better life for her boys.
Yes, the circumstances of her life changed as both her boys became successful men – Curtis an engineer, and Ben, a doctor.
But ask her what her greatest success is…
"Helping my boys reach their fullest potential."
Sonya Carson changed her life.
She changed her sons’ lives. And through them she has changed the world.
Now that's what I call success!
Every single one of us has challenges to overcome, circumstances to rise above.
Whether we do or not is completely up to us.
Sonya could have chosen to wallow in the cycle of abuse and poverty.
She chose something different.
What about you?
Maybe you are the struggling parent trying to motivate the next generation, maybe you struggle to motivate yourself, either way, don’t give up when it gets tough.
Raised by a single mom in the Detroit ghettos he had a terrible temper and an even worse self-esteem.
He was labeled the "stupidest kid in the 5th grade" and no one held much hope for his future.
How then did this angry boy become the renowned Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery of the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland as well as one of the world's top brain surgeons?
His mother.
Today's story is not about Ben Carson, though we'll talk about him more another time.
This story is about Sonya Carson – the woman who created greatness in her son.
Sonya Carson grew up in harsher circumstances than her son.
Abandoned when she was just a child (one of 24 children), she was raised in abusive foster homes.
She longed for love, safety and a sense of belonging.
She only made it through the 3rd grade before she had to leave school.
Whatever dreams she had were being crushed by a world of poverty and abuse.
She was only 13 years old when 28 year-old Robert Carson married her.
Robert treated the beautiful little girl like a beloved "china doll." Sonya believed she had found everything she had looked for during her lonely childhood.
It all changed when she had children.
Suddenly her devoted husband was rarely at home, and she had to endure whispered conversations on the phone when he did show up.
Her life plummeted back into poverty and neglect.
She took it until her two boys were 8 and 10, then she found the courage to leave her husband and move to Boston.
Life was better only because she was on her own.
She had the freedom to create the life she wanted.
But how?
Leaning on a strong faith she struggled for ways to make life better for her sons – often working 2-3 jobs just to provide food and housing.
Yet she knew it would take more than that to help her boys live up to their potential – to break from the cycle of poverty.
She decided to take radical action to change things for Ben and Curtis by setting "house rules."
Her boys could only watch TV for 2 hours a week.
They had to go to the library, then pick out – and read – two books every week.
To earn their privilege of TV time they had to give her a written report of the books they read.
Both boys resisted but they did it.
They didn't find out until much later that Sonya, with her 3rd grade education, couldn't even read the reports.
Her course of action paid off.
Ben, in particular, changed as he realized he was not really stupid.
The day he answered a question in class that no one else could answer – all because he had learned it from one of the books Sonya forced him to read – gave him a voracious appetite for knowledge.
Suddenly he was devouring books – learning everything he could.
He realized he held his future in his hands.
He took that understanding and applied himself until he became one of the world's top brain surgeons.
He freely admits he owes his success to his mother, Sonya.
He's right. Yes, of course had to apply himself, but it was Sonya who gave him the desire to do so. It was her actions that convinced him he could be anything he wanted to be.
Somehow this amazing woman rose above all the terrible circumstances of her own life in order to create a better understanding and a better life for her boys.
Yes, the circumstances of her life changed as both her boys became successful men – Curtis an engineer, and Ben, a doctor.
But ask her what her greatest success is…
"Helping my boys reach their fullest potential."
Sonya Carson changed her life.
She changed her sons’ lives. And through them she has changed the world.
Now that's what I call success!
Every single one of us has challenges to overcome, circumstances to rise above.
Whether we do or not is completely up to us.
Sonya could have chosen to wallow in the cycle of abuse and poverty.
She chose something different.
What about you?
Maybe you are the struggling parent trying to motivate the next generation, maybe you struggle to motivate yourself, either way, don’t give up when it gets tough.
Mobile post sent by karlradle using Utterz.
Replies.Monday, September 15, 2008
Formerly overweight homemaker
Jean’s background certainly didn’t indicate tremendous success for the future.
Born in New York, she graduated from high school with a partial college scholarship but couldn’t attend because her family couldn’t pay the rest.
She decided to attend a business school but had barely begun when her father died – forcing her to quit and take a fulltime job.
She moved from one low paying job to another, eventually marrying and becoming a homemaker and mother of two.
She left the work place but devoted a lot of time to working with various organizations and charities.
And she kept gaining weight.
She had been overweight as a child.
She was overweight as an adult.
She tried everything to conquer her problem – diets, doctors, medications. Nothing worked long-term.
She was desperate to find a way to conquer her problem so she headed for the New York Health Obesity Clinic.
She was given a diet to follow but she fell right back into the cheating that always defeated her.
She kept her failures to herself.
The woman running the clinic had never been overweight.
“How could she understand the cheating of an overweight housewife,” Jean asked.
Desperate for someone to talk to, she invited 6 overweight friends to her house.
The first meeting was so helpful they decided to meet weekly to share their success and struggles.
The meeting kept growing as more women joined them.
Soon she was organizing meetings for hundreds of women – charging just 25 cents a week to cover costs.
And her weight kept coming off.
When she reached her personal goal she reached out to help her family.
Her husband lost 70 pounds. Her mother shed 57.
From her victory, and the victories of those she reached out to help, she began to realize this was bigger than just her original desire to lose weight.
On May 15, 1963, Weight Watchers was born.
From the living room of her small New York home,
Weight Watchers grew to an international business worth millions - that helped millions.
Jean Nidetch remained slim and became the spokeswoman for her exploding company, traveling all around the world – helping others change their lives the same way she did.
Her Success Secret?
She found a way to solve a problem of her own, then invited other people along on the journey.
I’ve had people tell me, “Karl, all the problems have been solved, and all the ideas for making money have been used.”
Hogwash!
As long as there is life there will be problems.
There will be ideas for success.
Your job is to get out of your tiny little “box” and start thinking and dreaming of solutions.
Her other Success Secret?
She never started out to become a millionaire.
She started out to solve her own problem.
Then she wanted to help others.
(Remember, she only charged 25 cents per meeting in the beginning.)
Her great success sprang from a desire to make a difference.
Think outside the box.
If you haven’t experienced the success you want, start paying attention and see where you can make a difference.
It’s there.
You just have to open your heart and mind to find it.
You are not too young to start making a difference.
This is your world, your life...claim it and make it fully yours.
What you will do is up to you!
The answer will probably surprise you, but that’s half the fun.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
Born in New York, she graduated from high school with a partial college scholarship but couldn’t attend because her family couldn’t pay the rest.
She decided to attend a business school but had barely begun when her father died – forcing her to quit and take a fulltime job.
She moved from one low paying job to another, eventually marrying and becoming a homemaker and mother of two.
She left the work place but devoted a lot of time to working with various organizations and charities.
And she kept gaining weight.
She had been overweight as a child.
She was overweight as an adult.
She tried everything to conquer her problem – diets, doctors, medications. Nothing worked long-term.
She was desperate to find a way to conquer her problem so she headed for the New York Health Obesity Clinic.
She was given a diet to follow but she fell right back into the cheating that always defeated her.
She kept her failures to herself.
The woman running the clinic had never been overweight.
“How could she understand the cheating of an overweight housewife,” Jean asked.
Desperate for someone to talk to, she invited 6 overweight friends to her house.
The first meeting was so helpful they decided to meet weekly to share their success and struggles.
The meeting kept growing as more women joined them.
Soon she was organizing meetings for hundreds of women – charging just 25 cents a week to cover costs.
And her weight kept coming off.
When she reached her personal goal she reached out to help her family.
Her husband lost 70 pounds. Her mother shed 57.
From her victory, and the victories of those she reached out to help, she began to realize this was bigger than just her original desire to lose weight.
On May 15, 1963, Weight Watchers was born.
From the living room of her small New York home,
Weight Watchers grew to an international business worth millions - that helped millions.
Jean Nidetch remained slim and became the spokeswoman for her exploding company, traveling all around the world – helping others change their lives the same way she did.
Her Success Secret?
She found a way to solve a problem of her own, then invited other people along on the journey.
I’ve had people tell me, “Karl, all the problems have been solved, and all the ideas for making money have been used.”
Hogwash!
As long as there is life there will be problems.
There will be ideas for success.
Your job is to get out of your tiny little “box” and start thinking and dreaming of solutions.
Her other Success Secret?
She never started out to become a millionaire.
She started out to solve her own problem.
Then she wanted to help others.
(Remember, she only charged 25 cents per meeting in the beginning.)
Her great success sprang from a desire to make a difference.
Think outside the box.
If you haven’t experienced the success you want, start paying attention and see where you can make a difference.
It’s there.
You just have to open your heart and mind to find it.
You are not too young to start making a difference.
This is your world, your life...claim it and make it fully yours.
What you will do is up to you!
The answer will probably surprise you, but that’s half the fun.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
Mobile post sent by karlradle using Utterz.
Replies.Formerly overweight homemaker
Jean’s background certainly didn’t indicate tremendous success for the future.
Born in New York, she graduated from high school with a partial college scholarship but couldn’t attend because her family couldn’t pay the rest.
She decided to attend a business school but had barely begun when her father died – forcing her to quit and take a fulltime job.
She moved from one low paying job to another, eventually marrying and becoming a homemaker and mother of two.
She left the work place but devoted a lot of time to working with various organizations and charities.
And she kept gaining weight.
She had been overweight as a child.
She was overweight as an adult.
She tried everything to conquer her problem – diets, doctors, medications. Nothing worked long-term.
She was desperate to find a way to conquer her problem so she headed for the New York Health Obesity Clinic.
She was given a diet to follow but she fell right back into the cheating that always defeated her.
She kept her failures to herself.
The woman running the clinic had never been overweight.
“How could she understand the cheating of an overweight housewife,” Jean asked.
Desperate for someone to talk to, she invited 6 overweight friends to her house.
The first meeting was so helpful they decided to meet weekly to share their success and struggles.
The meeting kept growing as more women joined them.
Soon she was organizing meetings for hundreds of women – charging just 25 cents a week to cover costs.
And her weight kept coming off.
When she reached her personal goal she reached out to help her family.
Her husband lost 70 pounds. Her mother shed 57.
From her victory, and the victories of those she reached out to help, she began to realize this was bigger than just her original desire to lose weight.
On May 15, 1963, Weight Watchers was born.
From the living room of her small New York home,
Weight Watchers grew to an international business worth millions - that helped millions.
Jean Nidetch remained slim and became the spokeswoman for her exploding company, traveling all around the world – helping others change their lives the same way she did.
Her Success Secret?
She found a way to solve a problem of her own, then invited other people along on the journey.
I’ve had people tell me, “Karl, all the problems have been solved, and all the ideas for making money have been used.”
Hogwash!
As long as there is life there will be problems.
There will be ideas for success.
Your job is to get out of your tiny little “box” and start thinking and dreaming of solutions.
Her other Success Secret?
She never started out to become a millionaire.
She started out to solve her own problem.
Then she wanted to help others.
(Remember, she only charged 25 cents per meeting in the beginning.)
Her great success sprang from a desire to make a difference.
Think outside the box.
If you haven’t experienced the success you want, start paying attention and see where you can make a difference.
It’s there.
You just have to open your heart and mind to find it.
You are not too young to start making a difference.
This is your world, your life...claim it and make it fully yours.
What you will do is up to you!
The answer will probably surprise you, but that’s half the fun.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
Born in New York, she graduated from high school with a partial college scholarship but couldn’t attend because her family couldn’t pay the rest.
She decided to attend a business school but had barely begun when her father died – forcing her to quit and take a fulltime job.
She moved from one low paying job to another, eventually marrying and becoming a homemaker and mother of two.
She left the work place but devoted a lot of time to working with various organizations and charities.
And she kept gaining weight.
She had been overweight as a child.
She was overweight as an adult.
She tried everything to conquer her problem – diets, doctors, medications. Nothing worked long-term.
She was desperate to find a way to conquer her problem so she headed for the New York Health Obesity Clinic.
She was given a diet to follow but she fell right back into the cheating that always defeated her.
She kept her failures to herself.
The woman running the clinic had never been overweight.
“How could she understand the cheating of an overweight housewife,” Jean asked.
Desperate for someone to talk to, she invited 6 overweight friends to her house.
The first meeting was so helpful they decided to meet weekly to share their success and struggles.
The meeting kept growing as more women joined them.
Soon she was organizing meetings for hundreds of women – charging just 25 cents a week to cover costs.
And her weight kept coming off.
When she reached her personal goal she reached out to help her family.
Her husband lost 70 pounds. Her mother shed 57.
From her victory, and the victories of those she reached out to help, she began to realize this was bigger than just her original desire to lose weight.
On May 15, 1963, Weight Watchers was born.
From the living room of her small New York home,
Weight Watchers grew to an international business worth millions - that helped millions.
Jean Nidetch remained slim and became the spokeswoman for her exploding company, traveling all around the world – helping others change their lives the same way she did.
Her Success Secret?
She found a way to solve a problem of her own, then invited other people along on the journey.
I’ve had people tell me, “Karl, all the problems have been solved, and all the ideas for making money have been used.”
Hogwash!
As long as there is life there will be problems.
There will be ideas for success.
Your job is to get out of your tiny little “box” and start thinking and dreaming of solutions.
Her other Success Secret?
She never started out to become a millionaire.
She started out to solve her own problem.
Then she wanted to help others.
(Remember, she only charged 25 cents per meeting in the beginning.)
Her great success sprang from a desire to make a difference.
Think outside the box.
If you haven’t experienced the success you want, start paying attention and see where you can make a difference.
It’s there.
You just have to open your heart and mind to find it.
You are not too young to start making a difference.
This is your world, your life...claim it and make it fully yours.
What you will do is up to you!
The answer will probably surprise you, but that’s half the fun.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
Mobile post sent by karlradle using Utterz.
Replies.Wednesday, September 10, 2008
What do you really want?
Have you ever had someone comment on something you said or did and you responded with, “that’s just how I am”?
Perhaps it was something astute that you said, a keen observation that you made, or something you did that they thought was extraordinary, but to you it wasn’t especially impressive.
Jane was born in 1934 in London, England and grew up on the southern coast of England.
As long as she can remember, she’d loved animals.
When Jane was two years old, her father gave her a life-like toy chimpanzee named Jubilee.
Well-meaning friends warned him that it would frighten her, but she adored the toy.
(In fact, she still has it and it currently sits on a chair in her home in England.)
At age four Jane stayed on a farm and helped collect hen’s eggs.
When she asked the adults how the hens could lay such big eggs, no one answered to her satisfaction.
So she hid in the small, stuffy hen house for four hours to find out!
(If you’ve ever been around young children this age, you know that’s pretty extraordinary.
Actually, it would be amazing for any age kid, and many adults!)
Unknown to Jane, the family had called the police; everyone was frantically trying to locate the missing four-year-old.
Imagine her family’s relief and amazement, when Jane came rushing out of the hen house in great excitement to tell them how hens lay eggs.
Instead of scolding her youngster, Jane’s mother sat down with her and listened intently.
Not surprisingly, Jane’s favorite childhood books included The Story of Dr. Dolittle, The Jungle Book, and the Tarzan books.
By age 10 or 11, she was dreaming of going to Africa to live with animals.
But instead of discouraging her, Jane’s mother said, “Jane, if you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.”
Believing her mother’s words, Jane did what it took to get to Africa and at age 23 finally sailed to Kenya.
When there she heard of a famous paleontologist and anthropologist by the name of Dr. Louis Leakey.
She got an appointment to meet him and ended up being interviewed by him about Africa and its wildlife.
Dr. Leakey hired her as his assistant, and together with Mrs. Leakey, they traveled to Olduvai Gorge on a fossil-hunting expedition.
After three months at Olduvai Gorge, the group returned to Nairobi, Kenya and Jane worked at the museum there.
Soon after, Jane and Dr. Leakey spoke about Jane studying a group of chimpanzees on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
“I could have gone on at the museum.
Or I could have learned a lot more about fossils and become a paleontologist.
But both these careers had to do with dead animals.
And I still wanted to work with living animals.
My childhood dream was as strong as ever.
Somehow I must find a way to watch free, wild animals living their own undisturbed lives.
I wanted to learn things that no one else knew, uncover secrets through patient observation. I wanted to come as close to talking to animals as I could.”
At first the British authorities resisted the idea of a young woman living among wild animals in Africa.
But they finally agreed to Leakey’s proposal when Jane’s mother volunteered to accompany her for the first three months.
In 1960, Jane and her mother arrived at Gombe National Park in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
And the rest is history.
Jane Goodall’s years of solitary, patient observation and research taught us that chimps hunt for meat, use tools and have unique personalities.
Her few month field study, turned into the longest such study of any animal species in their natural surroundings.
Jane writes: “The most wonderful thing about fieldwork, whether with chimps, baboons or any other wildlife, is waking up and asking yourself, ‘What am I going to see today?’ . . .
It can be exhausting climbing high, far and fast.
Around 3 pm you feel very weary because of spending a lot of the day on your tummy, crawling, with vines catching your hair.
Living under the skies, the forest is for me a temple, a cathedral made of tree canopies and dancing light, especially when it's raining and quiet.
That's heaven on earth for me. I can't imagine going through life without being tuned into the mystical side of nature. People are too busy nowadays.”
You see, Jane wasn’t doing anything extraordinary on purpose – she was simply fulfilling her purpose – her childhood dream of living with and observing animals.
She was living out the proclamation: that’s just how I am.
Do you remember your childhood dream – what you answered when someone asked you what you wanted to do “when you grew up”?
Does it still make your heart race?
Can you still see yourself living it out?
If your answers are “yes,” you’ve most likely just identified your passion – your life’s purpose. And it’s never too late to reclaim it!
Believe Jane’s mother’s words: “. . .if you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.”
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
Perhaps it was something astute that you said, a keen observation that you made, or something you did that they thought was extraordinary, but to you it wasn’t especially impressive.
Jane was born in 1934 in London, England and grew up on the southern coast of England.
As long as she can remember, she’d loved animals.
When Jane was two years old, her father gave her a life-like toy chimpanzee named Jubilee.
Well-meaning friends warned him that it would frighten her, but she adored the toy.
(In fact, she still has it and it currently sits on a chair in her home in England.)
At age four Jane stayed on a farm and helped collect hen’s eggs.
When she asked the adults how the hens could lay such big eggs, no one answered to her satisfaction.
So she hid in the small, stuffy hen house for four hours to find out!
(If you’ve ever been around young children this age, you know that’s pretty extraordinary.
Actually, it would be amazing for any age kid, and many adults!)
Unknown to Jane, the family had called the police; everyone was frantically trying to locate the missing four-year-old.
Imagine her family’s relief and amazement, when Jane came rushing out of the hen house in great excitement to tell them how hens lay eggs.
Instead of scolding her youngster, Jane’s mother sat down with her and listened intently.
Not surprisingly, Jane’s favorite childhood books included The Story of Dr. Dolittle, The Jungle Book, and the Tarzan books.
By age 10 or 11, she was dreaming of going to Africa to live with animals.
But instead of discouraging her, Jane’s mother said, “Jane, if you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.”
Believing her mother’s words, Jane did what it took to get to Africa and at age 23 finally sailed to Kenya.
When there she heard of a famous paleontologist and anthropologist by the name of Dr. Louis Leakey.
She got an appointment to meet him and ended up being interviewed by him about Africa and its wildlife.
Dr. Leakey hired her as his assistant, and together with Mrs. Leakey, they traveled to Olduvai Gorge on a fossil-hunting expedition.
After three months at Olduvai Gorge, the group returned to Nairobi, Kenya and Jane worked at the museum there.
Soon after, Jane and Dr. Leakey spoke about Jane studying a group of chimpanzees on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
“I could have gone on at the museum.
Or I could have learned a lot more about fossils and become a paleontologist.
But both these careers had to do with dead animals.
And I still wanted to work with living animals.
My childhood dream was as strong as ever.
Somehow I must find a way to watch free, wild animals living their own undisturbed lives.
I wanted to learn things that no one else knew, uncover secrets through patient observation. I wanted to come as close to talking to animals as I could.”
At first the British authorities resisted the idea of a young woman living among wild animals in Africa.
But they finally agreed to Leakey’s proposal when Jane’s mother volunteered to accompany her for the first three months.
In 1960, Jane and her mother arrived at Gombe National Park in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
And the rest is history.
Jane Goodall’s years of solitary, patient observation and research taught us that chimps hunt for meat, use tools and have unique personalities.
Her few month field study, turned into the longest such study of any animal species in their natural surroundings.
Jane writes: “The most wonderful thing about fieldwork, whether with chimps, baboons or any other wildlife, is waking up and asking yourself, ‘What am I going to see today?’ . . .
It can be exhausting climbing high, far and fast.
Around 3 pm you feel very weary because of spending a lot of the day on your tummy, crawling, with vines catching your hair.
Living under the skies, the forest is for me a temple, a cathedral made of tree canopies and dancing light, especially when it's raining and quiet.
That's heaven on earth for me. I can't imagine going through life without being tuned into the mystical side of nature. People are too busy nowadays.”
You see, Jane wasn’t doing anything extraordinary on purpose – she was simply fulfilling her purpose – her childhood dream of living with and observing animals.
She was living out the proclamation: that’s just how I am.
Do you remember your childhood dream – what you answered when someone asked you what you wanted to do “when you grew up”?
Does it still make your heart race?
Can you still see yourself living it out?
If your answers are “yes,” you’ve most likely just identified your passion – your life’s purpose. And it’s never too late to reclaim it!
Believe Jane’s mother’s words: “. . .if you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.”
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
Mobile post sent by karlradle using Utterz.
Replies.What do you really want?
Have you ever had someone comment on something you said or did and you responded with, “that’s just how I am”?
Perhaps it was something astute that you said, a keen observation that you made, or something you did that they thought was extraordinary, but to you it wasn’t especially impressive.
Jane was born in 1934 in London, England and grew up on the southern coast of England.
As long as she can remember, she’d loved animals.
When Jane was two years old, her father gave her a life-like toy chimpanzee named Jubilee.
Well-meaning friends warned him that it would frighten her, but she adored the toy.
(In fact, she still has it and it currently sits on a chair in her home in England.)
At age four Jane stayed on a farm and helped collect hen’s eggs.
When she asked the adults how the hens could lay such big eggs, no one answered to her satisfaction.
So she hid in the small, stuffy hen house for four hours to find out!
(If you’ve ever been around young children this age, you know that’s pretty extraordinary.
Actually, it would be amazing for any age kid, and many adults!)
Unknown to Jane, the family had called the police; everyone was frantically trying to locate the missing four-year-old.
Imagine her family’s relief and amazement, when Jane came rushing out of the hen house in great excitement to tell them how hens lay eggs.
Instead of scolding her youngster, Jane’s mother sat down with her and listened intently.
Not surprisingly, Jane’s favorite childhood books included The Story of Dr. Dolittle, The Jungle Book, and the Tarzan books.
By age 10 or 11, she was dreaming of going to Africa to live with animals.
But instead of discouraging her, Jane’s mother said, “Jane, if you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.”
Believing her mother’s words, Jane did what it took to get to Africa and at age 23 finally sailed to Kenya.
When there she heard of a famous paleontologist and anthropologist by the name of Dr. Louis Leakey.
She got an appointment to meet him and ended up being interviewed by him about Africa and its wildlife.
Dr. Leakey hired her as his assistant, and together with Mrs. Leakey, they traveled to Olduvai Gorge on a fossil-hunting expedition.
After three months at Olduvai Gorge, the group returned to Nairobi, Kenya and Jane worked at the museum there.
Soon after, Jane and Dr. Leakey spoke about Jane studying a group of chimpanzees on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
“I could have gone on at the museum.
Or I could have learned a lot more about fossils and become a paleontologist.
But both these careers had to do with dead animals.
And I still wanted to work with living animals.
My childhood dream was as strong as ever.
Somehow I must find a way to watch free, wild animals living their own undisturbed lives.
I wanted to learn things that no one else knew, uncover secrets through patient observation. I wanted to come as close to talking to animals as I could.”
At first the British authorities resisted the idea of a young woman living among wild animals in Africa.
But they finally agreed to Leakey’s proposal when Jane’s mother volunteered to accompany her for the first three months.
In 1960, Jane and her mother arrived at Gombe National Park in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
And the rest is history.
Jane Goodall’s years of solitary, patient observation and research taught us that chimps hunt for meat, use tools and have unique personalities.
Her few month field study, turned into the longest such study of any animal species in their natural surroundings.
Jane writes: “The most wonderful thing about fieldwork, whether with chimps, baboons or any other wildlife, is waking up and asking yourself, ‘What am I going to see today?’ . . .
It can be exhausting climbing high, far and fast.
Around 3 pm you feel very weary because of spending a lot of the day on your tummy, crawling, with vines catching your hair.
Living under the skies, the forest is for me a temple, a cathedral made of tree canopies and dancing light, especially when it's raining and quiet.
That's heaven on earth for me. I can't imagine going through life without being tuned into the mystical side of nature. People are too busy nowadays.”
You see, Jane wasn’t doing anything extraordinary on purpose – she was simply fulfilling her purpose – her childhood dream of living with and observing animals.
She was living out the proclamation: that’s just how I am.
Do you remember your childhood dream – what you answered when someone asked you what you wanted to do “when you grew up”?
Does it still make your heart race?
Can you still see yourself living it out?
If your answers are “yes,” you’ve most likely just identified your passion – your life’s purpose. And it’s never too late to reclaim it!
Believe Jane’s mother’s words: “. . .if you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.”
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
Perhaps it was something astute that you said, a keen observation that you made, or something you did that they thought was extraordinary, but to you it wasn’t especially impressive.
Jane was born in 1934 in London, England and grew up on the southern coast of England.
As long as she can remember, she’d loved animals.
When Jane was two years old, her father gave her a life-like toy chimpanzee named Jubilee.
Well-meaning friends warned him that it would frighten her, but she adored the toy.
(In fact, she still has it and it currently sits on a chair in her home in England.)
At age four Jane stayed on a farm and helped collect hen’s eggs.
When she asked the adults how the hens could lay such big eggs, no one answered to her satisfaction.
So she hid in the small, stuffy hen house for four hours to find out!
(If you’ve ever been around young children this age, you know that’s pretty extraordinary.
Actually, it would be amazing for any age kid, and many adults!)
Unknown to Jane, the family had called the police; everyone was frantically trying to locate the missing four-year-old.
Imagine her family’s relief and amazement, when Jane came rushing out of the hen house in great excitement to tell them how hens lay eggs.
Instead of scolding her youngster, Jane’s mother sat down with her and listened intently.
Not surprisingly, Jane’s favorite childhood books included The Story of Dr. Dolittle, The Jungle Book, and the Tarzan books.
By age 10 or 11, she was dreaming of going to Africa to live with animals.
But instead of discouraging her, Jane’s mother said, “Jane, if you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.”
Believing her mother’s words, Jane did what it took to get to Africa and at age 23 finally sailed to Kenya.
When there she heard of a famous paleontologist and anthropologist by the name of Dr. Louis Leakey.
She got an appointment to meet him and ended up being interviewed by him about Africa and its wildlife.
Dr. Leakey hired her as his assistant, and together with Mrs. Leakey, they traveled to Olduvai Gorge on a fossil-hunting expedition.
After three months at Olduvai Gorge, the group returned to Nairobi, Kenya and Jane worked at the museum there.
Soon after, Jane and Dr. Leakey spoke about Jane studying a group of chimpanzees on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
“I could have gone on at the museum.
Or I could have learned a lot more about fossils and become a paleontologist.
But both these careers had to do with dead animals.
And I still wanted to work with living animals.
My childhood dream was as strong as ever.
Somehow I must find a way to watch free, wild animals living their own undisturbed lives.
I wanted to learn things that no one else knew, uncover secrets through patient observation. I wanted to come as close to talking to animals as I could.”
At first the British authorities resisted the idea of a young woman living among wild animals in Africa.
But they finally agreed to Leakey’s proposal when Jane’s mother volunteered to accompany her for the first three months.
In 1960, Jane and her mother arrived at Gombe National Park in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
And the rest is history.
Jane Goodall’s years of solitary, patient observation and research taught us that chimps hunt for meat, use tools and have unique personalities.
Her few month field study, turned into the longest such study of any animal species in their natural surroundings.
Jane writes: “The most wonderful thing about fieldwork, whether with chimps, baboons or any other wildlife, is waking up and asking yourself, ‘What am I going to see today?’ . . .
It can be exhausting climbing high, far and fast.
Around 3 pm you feel very weary because of spending a lot of the day on your tummy, crawling, with vines catching your hair.
Living under the skies, the forest is for me a temple, a cathedral made of tree canopies and dancing light, especially when it's raining and quiet.
That's heaven on earth for me. I can't imagine going through life without being tuned into the mystical side of nature. People are too busy nowadays.”
You see, Jane wasn’t doing anything extraordinary on purpose – she was simply fulfilling her purpose – her childhood dream of living with and observing animals.
She was living out the proclamation: that’s just how I am.
Do you remember your childhood dream – what you answered when someone asked you what you wanted to do “when you grew up”?
Does it still make your heart race?
Can you still see yourself living it out?
If your answers are “yes,” you’ve most likely just identified your passion – your life’s purpose. And it’s never too late to reclaim it!
Believe Jane’s mother’s words: “. . .if you really want something, and if you work hard, take advantage of the opportunities, and never give up, you will somehow find a way.”
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Replies.Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Olympic fans the world over
Mary Lou Retton has a list of accomplishments that is impressive no matter who you are. . .
She is
the 1st American woman to win gold in gymnastics in the Olympics
1st and only American ever (including today) to win the Olympic All Around Title
first female to appear on a Wheaties cereal box as well as the first female spokesperson for Wheaties plus scores of other achievements.
As extraordinary as all that is, it is encouraging to note that Mary Lou is not perfect.
Her gymnastics scores were often times a "perfect 10."
As a teenager, this petite powerhouse from West Virginia awed the multitudes in each of these gymnastic sporting events: Uneven Bars, Vault, Team and Floor Exercise.
Yet as a baby she was born with a hip condition called hip dysplasia that required a hip replacement.
Not only that but she has suffered with both an overactive bladder and arthritis.
As part of her public persona as a sports celebrity, she admitted her problems and gave her support to the medications that combat these conditions.
Mary Lou battled competitors on the mat and her body off the mat.
A severe wrist injury and knee surgery forced her to decide whether to quit her beloved gymnastics or try to overcome the injuries.
Sitting on the sidelines was not where this dynamo wanted to be.
She worked hard...
She exercised...
She did the strength training exercises...
She sweated...
She cried...
But she did not give up...
She kept on and on until one day she was back.
She could participate again in the sport she loved and that loved her back.
Mary Lou went on to be inducted into both the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame and the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
As an engaging public speaker Mary Lou tells audiences "to never give up on your dreams!
Work hard!"
She knows what it is to feel the applause of millions world wide and yet she understands the solitary agony of pain and rehabilitation.
Not knowing where you are today, I want to encourage you to think about your life story.
How do you want it to read?
You may not want to compete for the gold and hear the applause of millions.
But even if your goal is more common than Mary Lou’s, I encourage you to keep at it until you get it.
Never give up even if an injury or family situation has you sidelined.
Use the down time to renew your vision, refresh your determination and revise your target.
You can do it!
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
She is
the 1st American woman to win gold in gymnastics in the Olympics
1st and only American ever (including today) to win the Olympic All Around Title
first female to appear on a Wheaties cereal box as well as the first female spokesperson for Wheaties plus scores of other achievements.
As extraordinary as all that is, it is encouraging to note that Mary Lou is not perfect.
Her gymnastics scores were often times a "perfect 10."
As a teenager, this petite powerhouse from West Virginia awed the multitudes in each of these gymnastic sporting events: Uneven Bars, Vault, Team and Floor Exercise.
Yet as a baby she was born with a hip condition called hip dysplasia that required a hip replacement.
Not only that but she has suffered with both an overactive bladder and arthritis.
As part of her public persona as a sports celebrity, she admitted her problems and gave her support to the medications that combat these conditions.
Mary Lou battled competitors on the mat and her body off the mat.
A severe wrist injury and knee surgery forced her to decide whether to quit her beloved gymnastics or try to overcome the injuries.
Sitting on the sidelines was not where this dynamo wanted to be.
She worked hard...
She exercised...
She did the strength training exercises...
She sweated...
She cried...
But she did not give up...
She kept on and on until one day she was back.
She could participate again in the sport she loved and that loved her back.
Mary Lou went on to be inducted into both the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame and the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
As an engaging public speaker Mary Lou tells audiences "to never give up on your dreams!
Work hard!"
She knows what it is to feel the applause of millions world wide and yet she understands the solitary agony of pain and rehabilitation.
Not knowing where you are today, I want to encourage you to think about your life story.
How do you want it to read?
You may not want to compete for the gold and hear the applause of millions.
But even if your goal is more common than Mary Lou’s, I encourage you to keep at it until you get it.
Never give up even if an injury or family situation has you sidelined.
Use the down time to renew your vision, refresh your determination and revise your target.
You can do it!
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
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Replies.Olympic fans the world over
Mary Lou Retton has a list of accomplishments that is impressive no matter who you are. . .
She is
the 1st American woman to win gold in gymnastics in the Olympics
1st and only American ever (including today) to win the Olympic All Around Title
first female to appear on a Wheaties cereal box as well as the first female spokesperson for Wheaties plus scores of other achievements.
As extraordinary as all that is, it is encouraging to note that Mary Lou is not perfect.
Her gymnastics scores were often times a "perfect 10."
As a teenager, this petite powerhouse from West Virginia awed the multitudes in each of these gymnastic sporting events: Uneven Bars, Vault, Team and Floor Exercise.
Yet as a baby she was born with a hip condition called hip dysplasia that required a hip replacement.
Not only that but she has suffered with both an overactive bladder and arthritis.
As part of her public persona as a sports celebrity, she admitted her problems and gave her support to the medications that combat these conditions.
Mary Lou battled competitors on the mat and her body off the mat.
A severe wrist injury and knee surgery forced her to decide whether to quit her beloved gymnastics or try to overcome the injuries.
Sitting on the sidelines was not where this dynamo wanted to be.
She worked hard...
She exercised...
She did the strength training exercises...
She sweated...
She cried...
But she did not give up...
She kept on and on until one day she was back.
She could participate again in the sport she loved and that loved her back.
Mary Lou went on to be inducted into both the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame and the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
As an engaging public speaker Mary Lou tells audiences "to never give up on your dreams!
Work hard!"
She knows what it is to feel the applause of millions world wide and yet she understands the solitary agony of pain and rehabilitation.
Not knowing where you are today, I want to encourage you to think about your life story.
How do you want it to read?
You may not want to compete for the gold and hear the applause of millions.
But even if your goal is more common than Mary Lou’s, I encourage you to keep at it until you get it.
Never give up even if an injury or family situation has you sidelined.
Use the down time to renew your vision, refresh your determination and revise your target.
You can do it!
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
She is
the 1st American woman to win gold in gymnastics in the Olympics
1st and only American ever (including today) to win the Olympic All Around Title
first female to appear on a Wheaties cereal box as well as the first female spokesperson for Wheaties plus scores of other achievements.
As extraordinary as all that is, it is encouraging to note that Mary Lou is not perfect.
Her gymnastics scores were often times a "perfect 10."
As a teenager, this petite powerhouse from West Virginia awed the multitudes in each of these gymnastic sporting events: Uneven Bars, Vault, Team and Floor Exercise.
Yet as a baby she was born with a hip condition called hip dysplasia that required a hip replacement.
Not only that but she has suffered with both an overactive bladder and arthritis.
As part of her public persona as a sports celebrity, she admitted her problems and gave her support to the medications that combat these conditions.
Mary Lou battled competitors on the mat and her body off the mat.
A severe wrist injury and knee surgery forced her to decide whether to quit her beloved gymnastics or try to overcome the injuries.
Sitting on the sidelines was not where this dynamo wanted to be.
She worked hard...
She exercised...
She did the strength training exercises...
She sweated...
She cried...
But she did not give up...
She kept on and on until one day she was back.
She could participate again in the sport she loved and that loved her back.
Mary Lou went on to be inducted into both the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame and the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
As an engaging public speaker Mary Lou tells audiences "to never give up on your dreams!
Work hard!"
She knows what it is to feel the applause of millions world wide and yet she understands the solitary agony of pain and rehabilitation.
Not knowing where you are today, I want to encourage you to think about your life story.
How do you want it to read?
You may not want to compete for the gold and hear the applause of millions.
But even if your goal is more common than Mary Lou’s, I encourage you to keep at it until you get it.
Never give up even if an injury or family situation has you sidelined.
Use the down time to renew your vision, refresh your determination and revise your target.
You can do it!
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
Go to http://www.myprivateclassroom.com/
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Call me I dare you to
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
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Replies.Monday, September 8, 2008
Marine turtles, Costa Rica and a 15-year-old gir
Sophia’s beautiful smile betrays this teenager’s seriousness.
At one time standing before a group of people as an advocate for one of her country’s natural resources caused her heart to pound and her hands to sweat.
But her passion has moved her far beyond her fear of public speaking.
Sophia Colombari lives near the coast of Costa Rica.
She enjoys the beauty, serenity and unique environment of the local beaches.
But she also sees a huge problem.
The sea turtles are threatened.
“Looking at hundreds of turtles around me moving all over the beach, digging nests and laying eggs, is absolutely exciting and inspirational,” says Sophia...
And it is this deep appreciation that has caused her to become their advocate.
Sophia points out that “the Olive Ridley Turtles are an important ecological resource, and their protection is essential to the wellbeing of Costa Rica.”
The Olive Ridley is the smallest of the sea turtles and nest along the entire length of Cost Rica, using 48 of the country’s 51 beaches.
They are being threatened by the shrimp fishermen’s nets, but even more by the illegal poaching of their eggs.
Sophia discovered that it is estimated that human poaching results in the destruction of between 80 and 100 percent of the nests.
This destruction is in direct proportion to the accessibility of the beach...
Sophia decided to do something about this looming problem.
After researching and learning all she could about the turtles, she began making presentations of her findings to local schools, businessmen, and fishermen.
She stressed the importance and need of their support in preserving the turtle nesting areas.
She has raised funds for local conservation efforts and posted signs at local beaches to protect other turtle species as well – especially the Leatherback...
15-year-old Sophia didn’t let her age deter her from speaking out on behalf of the defenseless turtles.
Nor did she let what others might think stop her from doing what she knew was right.
Sophia knows that she’s not only helping the turtles; she’s helping to protect the future of her country as well...
And as a result of her efforts, the local community has taken steps to protect their beaches for the turtles...
There are many, many issues that need your voice and support.
It’s not possible to help all of them, but you can help one! Look around your neighborhood or community.
Is there something you see that concerns you?
If so, start asking questions.
Do some research at your library, on the Internet, or talk to officials that can help you determine what you can do.
Ask others to join your efforts!
Your only limit is what you put on yourself!!!
Keep Sophia’s courage and determination in mind, and you, too will make a difference!
It’s not about what you can’t do; it’s about what you CAN do!
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set- and get a FREE Science of Getting Rich-
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Call me
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
At one time standing before a group of people as an advocate for one of her country’s natural resources caused her heart to pound and her hands to sweat.
But her passion has moved her far beyond her fear of public speaking.
Sophia Colombari lives near the coast of Costa Rica.
She enjoys the beauty, serenity and unique environment of the local beaches.
But she also sees a huge problem.
The sea turtles are threatened.
“Looking at hundreds of turtles around me moving all over the beach, digging nests and laying eggs, is absolutely exciting and inspirational,” says Sophia...
And it is this deep appreciation that has caused her to become their advocate.
Sophia points out that “the Olive Ridley Turtles are an important ecological resource, and their protection is essential to the wellbeing of Costa Rica.”
The Olive Ridley is the smallest of the sea turtles and nest along the entire length of Cost Rica, using 48 of the country’s 51 beaches.
They are being threatened by the shrimp fishermen’s nets, but even more by the illegal poaching of their eggs.
Sophia discovered that it is estimated that human poaching results in the destruction of between 80 and 100 percent of the nests.
This destruction is in direct proportion to the accessibility of the beach...
Sophia decided to do something about this looming problem.
After researching and learning all she could about the turtles, she began making presentations of her findings to local schools, businessmen, and fishermen.
She stressed the importance and need of their support in preserving the turtle nesting areas.
She has raised funds for local conservation efforts and posted signs at local beaches to protect other turtle species as well – especially the Leatherback...
15-year-old Sophia didn’t let her age deter her from speaking out on behalf of the defenseless turtles.
Nor did she let what others might think stop her from doing what she knew was right.
Sophia knows that she’s not only helping the turtles; she’s helping to protect the future of her country as well...
And as a result of her efforts, the local community has taken steps to protect their beaches for the turtles...
There are many, many issues that need your voice and support.
It’s not possible to help all of them, but you can help one! Look around your neighborhood or community.
Is there something you see that concerns you?
If so, start asking questions.
Do some research at your library, on the Internet, or talk to officials that can help you determine what you can do.
Ask others to join your efforts!
Your only limit is what you put on yourself!!!
Keep Sophia’s courage and determination in mind, and you, too will make a difference!
It’s not about what you can’t do; it’s about what you CAN do!
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set- and get a FREE Science of Getting Rich-
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Call me
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
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Replies.Saturday, September 6, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Whether you are young old you need to know truth
During the next several months you are going to meet a lot of incredible people (kids and adults) who simply refused to be denied what they wanted.
They all have one thing in common – they all were clear on their purpose.
Purpose.
So many people struggle to know what theirs is.
Purpose is the why – why you are here.
It’s knowing what your special calling in life is.
Your purpose is what makes you unique – the special gifts and abilities you were born with, and can contribute to the world.
Young or old – it can be tough to know what your purpose is.
But it may be the most important thing you discover about yourself.
I believe your lasting happiness depends on it. Knowing your purpose will fuel your efforts and give you the drive to keep pressing on, no matter the challenges you face.
Some people think you can’t know your purpose when you are young, or they think if they’re older that it’s too late for it to make any difference.
Nonsense!
It’s never too late to live the best life you can live.
It’s never to live with the feeling you are fulfilling your destiny.
Here’s a thought to wrap your brain around: Everyone dies, but not everyone really lives.
Too many people flounder through life – waiting, hoping that the moment will come when their purpose becomes clear.
In the meantime, they are simply going through the motions of living, never experiencing the exciting spark of aliveness that comes from knowing your purpose.
What about you?
Do you know why you’re here?
Do you wake up every day, excited about your life?
If you don’t, you’re not alone, but I believe you can change that.
Finding your purpose is a process requiring self-reflection and patience.
It seems unfair that you don’t just KNOW why you are here, but life is not always fair (surprise, surprise!).
Here’s the first thing I want you to do.
(Yes, as we travel through this year, I’ll occasionally ask you to do something. Whether you do it is totally up to you! I’ll make sure they are always little requests..)
Pull out a sheet of paper and write, “How I Want to Be Remembered”.
Then add some columns: Friends; Spouse; Children; Co-Workers; Community; the World.
If you go to church, belong to a team, or another special group, add them in.
Now… List all the qualities, deeds and characteristics you would like to be remembered for. It’s not too late…
When you have done that, go back. Find the pattern that shows you your highest values.
Discover what drives you. Determine your purpose.
People ask me, “Once I determine my purpose, does that mean I quit whatever I’m doing to pursue that?”
Maybe. Maybe not.
I never tell people what I think they should do.
Each person has to make their decisions about how they live their life.
The important thing is to spend enough time with yourself to learn your purpose, and then make your decisions around that knowledge.
You really can find your purpose.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set- and get a FREE Science of Getting Rich-
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
They all have one thing in common – they all were clear on their purpose.
Purpose.
So many people struggle to know what theirs is.
Purpose is the why – why you are here.
It’s knowing what your special calling in life is.
Your purpose is what makes you unique – the special gifts and abilities you were born with, and can contribute to the world.
Young or old – it can be tough to know what your purpose is.
But it may be the most important thing you discover about yourself.
I believe your lasting happiness depends on it. Knowing your purpose will fuel your efforts and give you the drive to keep pressing on, no matter the challenges you face.
Some people think you can’t know your purpose when you are young, or they think if they’re older that it’s too late for it to make any difference.
Nonsense!
It’s never too late to live the best life you can live.
It’s never to live with the feeling you are fulfilling your destiny.
Here’s a thought to wrap your brain around: Everyone dies, but not everyone really lives.
Too many people flounder through life – waiting, hoping that the moment will come when their purpose becomes clear.
In the meantime, they are simply going through the motions of living, never experiencing the exciting spark of aliveness that comes from knowing your purpose.
What about you?
Do you know why you’re here?
Do you wake up every day, excited about your life?
If you don’t, you’re not alone, but I believe you can change that.
Finding your purpose is a process requiring self-reflection and patience.
It seems unfair that you don’t just KNOW why you are here, but life is not always fair (surprise, surprise!).
Here’s the first thing I want you to do.
(Yes, as we travel through this year, I’ll occasionally ask you to do something. Whether you do it is totally up to you! I’ll make sure they are always little requests..)
Pull out a sheet of paper and write, “How I Want to Be Remembered”.
Then add some columns: Friends; Spouse; Children; Co-Workers; Community; the World.
If you go to church, belong to a team, or another special group, add them in.
Now… List all the qualities, deeds and characteristics you would like to be remembered for. It’s not too late…
When you have done that, go back. Find the pattern that shows you your highest values.
Discover what drives you. Determine your purpose.
People ask me, “Once I determine my purpose, does that mean I quit whatever I’m doing to pursue that?”
Maybe. Maybe not.
I never tell people what I think they should do.
Each person has to make their decisions about how they live their life.
The important thing is to spend enough time with yourself to learn your purpose, and then make your decisions around that knowledge.
You really can find your purpose.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set- and get a FREE Science of Getting Rich-
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
604 799 3238
Love you all
Karl Radke
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Replies.Friday, August 29, 2008
Imagine life without
Imagine a world with no ATM Machines; no passbook savings; no car or home-improvement loans; or no installment-plan credit...
Hard to do, isn’t it???
Well, you owe a huge thanks to one man who refused to be told it couldn’t be done...
Most people want to know how to create success in their life...
I know you’re thinking about what you are going to create with your life...
I’m here to tell you that if you have a strong vision, and a will to overcome whatever obstacles get in your way, you can accomplish anything...
Just ask Amadeo Peter Giannini (A.P.).
A.P. certainly had his share of obstacles...
When he was only 7, his father died in a fight over one dollar...
Things were hard for him and his mother...
She remarried a man who went into the produce business...
A.P., at age 14, quit school to work with him.
By 19 he was a partner in the thriving enterprise, built largely on his reputation for integrity and honesty.
At 31 years of age he had all the money he needed or wanted, and announced his retirement. One year later his real career began…
At 32, A.P. was asked to join the board of the Columbus Savings & Loan society, a modest bank in the Italian section of town.
It wasn’t long before A.P found himself at odds with the other directors.
A.P. wanted the bank to loan money to hard-working immigrants, but at that time banks were in business only for business men and the wealthy.
His ideas of loaning money to the working class were scoffed at.
No problem. A.P. had a vision and he was determined to make it reality.
He raised $150,000 (a massive amount of money then) from family and friends, bought a converted saloon right across the street from the Columbus S&L; kept the bartender on as an assistant teller; and opened the Bank of Italy...
In those days it wasn’t considered proper to solicit banking business.
He ignored the “proper way” and began ringing doorbells and talking to everyone he could about what a bank did.
He advertised. He kept the bank open longer hours, and on weekends, to fit into working people’s schedules.
Business boomed...
A.P. believed in making other people’s dreams come true.
He helped the California Wine Industry get started.
He bankrolled Hollywood when they were trying to make movies popular.
When Walt Disney ran $2 million dollars over budget on Snow White, he stepped in with a loan...
A.P. believed integrity and “giving back” were the formulas for success.
What began in 1904 as the Bank of Italy transformed into the Bank of America – now the world’s largest bank.
What about A.P.?
Did he die a billionaire?
When he passed away at age 79, his estate was worth less than $500,000.
It was purely by choice.
He disdained great wealth, believing it would make him lose touch with the people he wanted to serve.
He worked for no pay for years.
A surprise $1.5 million bonus one year was promptly given to the University of California.
It was far more important for him to give and make a difference.
All of us have that ability and opportunity.
As you strive for success, remember you can use it to make a difference in the world.
A.P. strove to make a difference every day of his life.
Follow your own formula for success, then look for ways to give back to the world that has given you so much.
There are always ways. They are out there waiting for you to find them!
Get your free video series showing you how to build your business on a budget
http://myhot.buildingonabudget.com/
604 799 3239
Love you all
Karl Radke
Hard to do, isn’t it???
Well, you owe a huge thanks to one man who refused to be told it couldn’t be done...
Most people want to know how to create success in their life...
I know you’re thinking about what you are going to create with your life...
I’m here to tell you that if you have a strong vision, and a will to overcome whatever obstacles get in your way, you can accomplish anything...
Just ask Amadeo Peter Giannini (A.P.).
A.P. certainly had his share of obstacles...
When he was only 7, his father died in a fight over one dollar...
Things were hard for him and his mother...
She remarried a man who went into the produce business...
A.P., at age 14, quit school to work with him.
By 19 he was a partner in the thriving enterprise, built largely on his reputation for integrity and honesty.
At 31 years of age he had all the money he needed or wanted, and announced his retirement. One year later his real career began…
At 32, A.P. was asked to join the board of the Columbus Savings & Loan society, a modest bank in the Italian section of town.
It wasn’t long before A.P found himself at odds with the other directors.
A.P. wanted the bank to loan money to hard-working immigrants, but at that time banks were in business only for business men and the wealthy.
His ideas of loaning money to the working class were scoffed at.
No problem. A.P. had a vision and he was determined to make it reality.
He raised $150,000 (a massive amount of money then) from family and friends, bought a converted saloon right across the street from the Columbus S&L; kept the bartender on as an assistant teller; and opened the Bank of Italy...
In those days it wasn’t considered proper to solicit banking business.
He ignored the “proper way” and began ringing doorbells and talking to everyone he could about what a bank did.
He advertised. He kept the bank open longer hours, and on weekends, to fit into working people’s schedules.
Business boomed...
A.P. believed in making other people’s dreams come true.
He helped the California Wine Industry get started.
He bankrolled Hollywood when they were trying to make movies popular.
When Walt Disney ran $2 million dollars over budget on Snow White, he stepped in with a loan...
A.P. believed integrity and “giving back” were the formulas for success.
What began in 1904 as the Bank of Italy transformed into the Bank of America – now the world’s largest bank.
What about A.P.?
Did he die a billionaire?
When he passed away at age 79, his estate was worth less than $500,000.
It was purely by choice.
He disdained great wealth, believing it would make him lose touch with the people he wanted to serve.
He worked for no pay for years.
A surprise $1.5 million bonus one year was promptly given to the University of California.
It was far more important for him to give and make a difference.
All of us have that ability and opportunity.
As you strive for success, remember you can use it to make a difference in the world.
A.P. strove to make a difference every day of his life.
Follow your own formula for success, then look for ways to give back to the world that has given you so much.
There are always ways. They are out there waiting for you to find them!
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Replies.Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Read about a most remarkable woman
Before Malalai was seven years old, her family had been moved from Afghanistan to Iran and then to Pakistan so she could attend school.
They moved from refugee camp to refugee camp to ensure their survival and to stay together.
When Malalai was 15, she became a teacher dedicated to fighting the illiteracy she witnessed all around her.
Five years later, under the repressive Taliban government, she moved to Herat in northwestern Afghanistan and joined an underground movement that supported schools for girls.
“We had to shift from location to location and we always carried the Koran so we could pretend we were in prayer, not in class,” she said. Taliban spies followed the girls in an attempt to find the schools and shut them down.
Malalai now lives and works among the simple folk in the Farah province of Afghanistan, and although her enemy is no longer the Taliban, human rights abuses against Afghan women continue. Malalai says of those in power, “People have changed physically, but not mentally. They are all the same. They are all Taliban in different clothes. They don’t really believe in democracy.”
In 2003, when Malalai was only 24 years old, she was elected to the Loya Jirga (grand council) that met to form the new Afghan government. As a result of using that forum to speak the truth, she suffered abuse, attacks on her home and survived four assassination attempts.
Then in 2005, Malalai was elected to the Parliament.
She had not intended to seek political office, but “. . . my supporters kept saying, ‘Your voice at the Loya Jirga gave us a hope that there is at least one who understands our suffering.
Now we want you once again to be the voice of the voiceless at Parliament.’ I couldn’t help but accept the honor to be the voice of my oppressed nation. . .”
This tiny, not-quite-5-foot tall woman is one of the most popular and powerful women in Afghanistan.
She is fearless as she speaks out for the rights of women and children in her country.
Malalai is aware that her life is in danger.
She sleeps in a different place every night; every day she is forced to wear a burqua (an outer garment covering her entire body), and is accompanied 24 hours a day by bodyguards.
People try to stop her as they fear for her life, but Malalai will not be silenced. “It gives me strength to keep telling the truth,” she insists.
Malalai Joya is a courageous woman who is putting her comfort, safety and life on the line for her beliefs.
Not many of us will ever be asked to what she is doing.
But each of us will be required at some point to stand up for what we believe.
It may be among strangers who are spreading lies about a friend.
It could be at a club meeting or before a school board speaking against an injustice.
It might be at a social event among friends who are gossiping.
Will you swallow your fear, and like Malalai stand up and speak the truth?
Your courage may be all that is needed to make the difference for someone else.
It may not be easy, but it can be done.
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They moved from refugee camp to refugee camp to ensure their survival and to stay together.
When Malalai was 15, she became a teacher dedicated to fighting the illiteracy she witnessed all around her.
Five years later, under the repressive Taliban government, she moved to Herat in northwestern Afghanistan and joined an underground movement that supported schools for girls.
“We had to shift from location to location and we always carried the Koran so we could pretend we were in prayer, not in class,” she said. Taliban spies followed the girls in an attempt to find the schools and shut them down.
Malalai now lives and works among the simple folk in the Farah province of Afghanistan, and although her enemy is no longer the Taliban, human rights abuses against Afghan women continue. Malalai says of those in power, “People have changed physically, but not mentally. They are all the same. They are all Taliban in different clothes. They don’t really believe in democracy.”
In 2003, when Malalai was only 24 years old, she was elected to the Loya Jirga (grand council) that met to form the new Afghan government. As a result of using that forum to speak the truth, she suffered abuse, attacks on her home and survived four assassination attempts.
Then in 2005, Malalai was elected to the Parliament.
She had not intended to seek political office, but “. . . my supporters kept saying, ‘Your voice at the Loya Jirga gave us a hope that there is at least one who understands our suffering.
Now we want you once again to be the voice of the voiceless at Parliament.’ I couldn’t help but accept the honor to be the voice of my oppressed nation. . .”
This tiny, not-quite-5-foot tall woman is one of the most popular and powerful women in Afghanistan.
She is fearless as she speaks out for the rights of women and children in her country.
Malalai is aware that her life is in danger.
She sleeps in a different place every night; every day she is forced to wear a burqua (an outer garment covering her entire body), and is accompanied 24 hours a day by bodyguards.
People try to stop her as they fear for her life, but Malalai will not be silenced. “It gives me strength to keep telling the truth,” she insists.
Malalai Joya is a courageous woman who is putting her comfort, safety and life on the line for her beliefs.
Not many of us will ever be asked to what she is doing.
But each of us will be required at some point to stand up for what we believe.
It may be among strangers who are spreading lies about a friend.
It could be at a club meeting or before a school board speaking against an injustice.
It might be at a social event among friends who are gossiping.
Will you swallow your fear, and like Malalai stand up and speak the truth?
Your courage may be all that is needed to make the difference for someone else.
It may not be easy, but it can be done.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
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Replies.Monday, August 25, 2008
One weekend something changed...
Sandi Watkins was doomed to be a failure.
At least that's what people thought.
That's what they said.
By the time Sandi got to high school she had the reputation as the biggest trouble-maker in town.
She had a long arrest record, mostly for petty crimes, but everyone knew she was on the fast-track to prison.
Teachers cringed when they say her name on their class list.
Sandi was sullen; sat slumped in her seat, and ignored everything going on around her.
She had flunked every class in high school but she kept moving up because not one teacher in her school wanted to have her back again.
Sandi was moving on - but she was most certainly not moving up.
No one tried to get to know her.
Teachers, and most kids, were afraid of her.
No one knew when she would erupt with anger, and fights were common.
By her senior year, everyone was simply counting the days until Sandi was gone.
Then Sandi did a strange thing.
She signed up for a leadership conference that was designed to get students involved in their communities.
It was only because she wanted to get out of class, but something happened that first day...
At first she merely stood against the wall and watched with disdain.
She would join the discussion groups but only mumbled a few words when it was her turn to speak.
But slowly the interactive games drew her in.
She really began to open up when her group was asked to make a list of positive and negative things that had happened at school that year.
She certainly had some things to add about that.
You could see the surprise on her face when the other kids in the group actually listened to her.
She kept talking.
Her group told Sandi her ideas made a lot of sense.
They began to treat her like a leader. Suddenly everyone realized Sandi was really smart and had some great ideas.
The next day Sandi continued to share her ideas, signing up to be part of the Homeless Project Team.
It was clear she knew something about poverty, hunger and hopelessness.
No one was more surprised than Sandi when they elected her to be co-chair of the team.
Okay, maybe the teachers were more surprised - appalled actually.
They insisted Sandi couldn't do it, that it was ridiculous to put something so important into Sandi Watkins' hands.
The principal held firm, however - telling them they might be surprised.
I'm sure he was hoping he was right.
Sandi and her team put together a Homeless Scavenger Hunt.
They went to the Homeless Shelters to find out what they needed most.
Then they made a list of things they planned to collect, assigning the most points to those items the shelters needed most.
She found out the homeless rarely get dessert, so she gave high points to cookies, brownie & cake mixes, etc. High scores also went for blankets and coats.
Two weeks later, 100 kids hit the streets of their town, followed by support vans to carry their haul.
4 hours later they met back at the school to load everything into a school bus and take it to the shelter.
There was a slight problem, however.
By the time the school bus was loaded, there was room for only one person - the driver.
Every seat, every square inch of floor, all the way to the ceiling, was packed with what they had collected. Coats, blankets, clothing, food, a lot of desserts - it was the most the Shelter had ever received.
The shelter residents had huge smiles on their faces as they filed out to help unload the bus.
They cheered Sandi and her team.
The paper was there to take pictures and tell stories.
Sandi was a hero. A leader.
She was definitely a changed person.
The rest of her senior year she actually talked in class.
She made good grades.
She put together 2 more projects for the Homeless Shelter, each time bringing them what they needed most.
There were no more arrests.
Sandi graduated in the spring and went on to college - with glowing recommendations from many teachers at her school.
Every year she leads 4 projects for the Homeless Shelters in the town where she goes to school.
Here is what Sandi has to say, "I was on the fast-track to nowhere. I was the only one who could change where my life was going. It was scary but I knew what would happen if I didn't change was worse. I learned I really could make a difference. It changed my whole life. And I learned that other people could believe in me if I only gave them a chance."
Sandi asked me to share her story to let you know you can be whatever you want to be. It's always your choice. She also wanted me to tell you that a little belief goes a long way.
One adult deciding to believe in her - to look beyond what everyone else saw - set her free to be who she really was.
She's hoping you'll look around today and choose to believe in someone.
Maybe that person is someone you know or maybe that someone is yourself.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
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Karl Radke
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At least that's what people thought.
That's what they said.
By the time Sandi got to high school she had the reputation as the biggest trouble-maker in town.
She had a long arrest record, mostly for petty crimes, but everyone knew she was on the fast-track to prison.
Teachers cringed when they say her name on their class list.
Sandi was sullen; sat slumped in her seat, and ignored everything going on around her.
She had flunked every class in high school but she kept moving up because not one teacher in her school wanted to have her back again.
Sandi was moving on - but she was most certainly not moving up.
No one tried to get to know her.
Teachers, and most kids, were afraid of her.
No one knew when she would erupt with anger, and fights were common.
By her senior year, everyone was simply counting the days until Sandi was gone.
Then Sandi did a strange thing.
She signed up for a leadership conference that was designed to get students involved in their communities.
It was only because she wanted to get out of class, but something happened that first day...
At first she merely stood against the wall and watched with disdain.
She would join the discussion groups but only mumbled a few words when it was her turn to speak.
But slowly the interactive games drew her in.
She really began to open up when her group was asked to make a list of positive and negative things that had happened at school that year.
She certainly had some things to add about that.
You could see the surprise on her face when the other kids in the group actually listened to her.
She kept talking.
Her group told Sandi her ideas made a lot of sense.
They began to treat her like a leader. Suddenly everyone realized Sandi was really smart and had some great ideas.
The next day Sandi continued to share her ideas, signing up to be part of the Homeless Project Team.
It was clear she knew something about poverty, hunger and hopelessness.
No one was more surprised than Sandi when they elected her to be co-chair of the team.
Okay, maybe the teachers were more surprised - appalled actually.
They insisted Sandi couldn't do it, that it was ridiculous to put something so important into Sandi Watkins' hands.
The principal held firm, however - telling them they might be surprised.
I'm sure he was hoping he was right.
Sandi and her team put together a Homeless Scavenger Hunt.
They went to the Homeless Shelters to find out what they needed most.
Then they made a list of things they planned to collect, assigning the most points to those items the shelters needed most.
She found out the homeless rarely get dessert, so she gave high points to cookies, brownie & cake mixes, etc. High scores also went for blankets and coats.
Two weeks later, 100 kids hit the streets of their town, followed by support vans to carry their haul.
4 hours later they met back at the school to load everything into a school bus and take it to the shelter.
There was a slight problem, however.
By the time the school bus was loaded, there was room for only one person - the driver.
Every seat, every square inch of floor, all the way to the ceiling, was packed with what they had collected. Coats, blankets, clothing, food, a lot of desserts - it was the most the Shelter had ever received.
The shelter residents had huge smiles on their faces as they filed out to help unload the bus.
They cheered Sandi and her team.
The paper was there to take pictures and tell stories.
Sandi was a hero. A leader.
She was definitely a changed person.
The rest of her senior year she actually talked in class.
She made good grades.
She put together 2 more projects for the Homeless Shelter, each time bringing them what they needed most.
There were no more arrests.
Sandi graduated in the spring and went on to college - with glowing recommendations from many teachers at her school.
Every year she leads 4 projects for the Homeless Shelters in the town where she goes to school.
Here is what Sandi has to say, "I was on the fast-track to nowhere. I was the only one who could change where my life was going. It was scary but I knew what would happen if I didn't change was worse. I learned I really could make a difference. It changed my whole life. And I learned that other people could believe in me if I only gave them a chance."
Sandi asked me to share her story to let you know you can be whatever you want to be. It's always your choice. She also wanted me to tell you that a little belief goes a long way.
One adult deciding to believe in her - to look beyond what everyone else saw - set her free to be who she really was.
She's hoping you'll look around today and choose to believe in someone.
Maybe that person is someone you know or maybe that someone is yourself.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set- and get a FREE Science of Getting Rich-
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Love you all
Karl Radke
604 799 3238
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Replies.Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Nothing could stop her
How much courage does it take to follow your passion? Ask Bethany Hamilton…
Bethany, who lives in Hawaii, was in grade school when she started her quest to become a professional surfboarder.
Surfing is her passion.
She spent every available minute in the water, even homeschooling so she would have more time to pursue her goal.
When she was 8 years old she entered her first major competition – eventually taking the division championships that year.
This girl obviously had what it took.
It was almost all taken away from her on Halloween morning, 2003.
Bethany was 13 years old.
She was surfing with her best friend, Alana, and Alana’s brother and father.
The waters were calm, not good for surfing, so Bethany was just lying on her board, her left arm dangling in the cool water.
She remembers a flash of gray, a lot of pressure, and a couple fast tugs.
She also remembers watching the jaws of a 15-foot tiger shark cover the top of her board and her left arm.
She watched in shock as the water around her turned bright red.
The shark was gone as fast as it appeared.
So was her arm – bitten off almost to the armpit.
Bethany was horrified but not in pain at that point.
She yelled to her friends and their father, Holt. “I just got attacked by a shark!”
It was a combination of miracles that saved Bethany at that point.
High tide allowed them to make it over the reef without going around.
Holt knew enough to wrap his shirt around the wound to act as a tourniquet while they paddled the quarter-mile to shore.
While Bethany drifted in and out of consciousness, a nearby vacationer who was a paramedic rushed to help her.
Surgery saved her life but her arm was gone for good, and everyone, Bethany included, thought her surfing days were over.
Balance is everything when surfing.
How could she balance with only 1 arm?
Within a week, spurred by her passion for surfing, Bethany was thinking something different.
I can do it. I know I can do it!
She wasn’t ready to give up what she loved so much, but it would take time for her body to heal.
There was a huge outpouring of love and support from Hawaiians and people all over the world.
Love, food, flowers, cards, money… Bethany gathered hope and courage from the waves of love aimed toward her.
It was only a few weeks later – the morning before Thanksgiving – Bethany headed back for the water.
Her love of surfing wouldn’t let her wait any longer. Her family and friends were there to cheer her on when she stepped into the warm water for the first time since the attack.
It was like coming home.
Bethany smiled and waved, then jumped on her board to paddle out – pushing down the fear of what might be waiting under the water.
She knew too well…
She failed at her first attempts to ride the board, struggling to push herself up with one arm and keep her balance.
Tears rolled down her face, and the crowds cheered when she caught her first wave and rode it in.
Bethany was back!
Really back.
Only months after her vicious incident, Bethany amazed thousands by achieving the unimaginable, including taking 5th at the 2004 National Scholastic Surfing Association Nationals Championships.
In September she struck again, winning the Open Women's Division of the NSSA's Hawaiian conference season opener.
After her placing in the finals of the National Surfing Championships Bethany has secured a spot on USA's National Surfing Team.
Ask Bethany if she is afraid of sharks and she’ll say yes.
Her heart pounds when she sees a shadow in the water.
She has nightmares.
But she also has a dream, and moving beyond her fears is the only way to accomplish her dreams – the only way to fulfill the passion she has for surfing.
Is there a fear keeping you from following your passion?
I would encourage you to do what Bethany has done.
Stare it in the face, acknowledge you are afraid, then go out and do it anyway!!
I know you can do it.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
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pick up the Chaos to Cash
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Love you all
Karl Radke
604 799 3238
Bethany, who lives in Hawaii, was in grade school when she started her quest to become a professional surfboarder.
Surfing is her passion.
She spent every available minute in the water, even homeschooling so she would have more time to pursue her goal.
When she was 8 years old she entered her first major competition – eventually taking the division championships that year.
This girl obviously had what it took.
It was almost all taken away from her on Halloween morning, 2003.
Bethany was 13 years old.
She was surfing with her best friend, Alana, and Alana’s brother and father.
The waters were calm, not good for surfing, so Bethany was just lying on her board, her left arm dangling in the cool water.
She remembers a flash of gray, a lot of pressure, and a couple fast tugs.
She also remembers watching the jaws of a 15-foot tiger shark cover the top of her board and her left arm.
She watched in shock as the water around her turned bright red.
The shark was gone as fast as it appeared.
So was her arm – bitten off almost to the armpit.
Bethany was horrified but not in pain at that point.
She yelled to her friends and their father, Holt. “I just got attacked by a shark!”
It was a combination of miracles that saved Bethany at that point.
High tide allowed them to make it over the reef without going around.
Holt knew enough to wrap his shirt around the wound to act as a tourniquet while they paddled the quarter-mile to shore.
While Bethany drifted in and out of consciousness, a nearby vacationer who was a paramedic rushed to help her.
Surgery saved her life but her arm was gone for good, and everyone, Bethany included, thought her surfing days were over.
Balance is everything when surfing.
How could she balance with only 1 arm?
Within a week, spurred by her passion for surfing, Bethany was thinking something different.
I can do it. I know I can do it!
She wasn’t ready to give up what she loved so much, but it would take time for her body to heal.
There was a huge outpouring of love and support from Hawaiians and people all over the world.
Love, food, flowers, cards, money… Bethany gathered hope and courage from the waves of love aimed toward her.
It was only a few weeks later – the morning before Thanksgiving – Bethany headed back for the water.
Her love of surfing wouldn’t let her wait any longer. Her family and friends were there to cheer her on when she stepped into the warm water for the first time since the attack.
It was like coming home.
Bethany smiled and waved, then jumped on her board to paddle out – pushing down the fear of what might be waiting under the water.
She knew too well…
She failed at her first attempts to ride the board, struggling to push herself up with one arm and keep her balance.
Tears rolled down her face, and the crowds cheered when she caught her first wave and rode it in.
Bethany was back!
Really back.
Only months after her vicious incident, Bethany amazed thousands by achieving the unimaginable, including taking 5th at the 2004 National Scholastic Surfing Association Nationals Championships.
In September she struck again, winning the Open Women's Division of the NSSA's Hawaiian conference season opener.
After her placing in the finals of the National Surfing Championships Bethany has secured a spot on USA's National Surfing Team.
Ask Bethany if she is afraid of sharks and she’ll say yes.
Her heart pounds when she sees a shadow in the water.
She has nightmares.
But she also has a dream, and moving beyond her fears is the only way to accomplish her dreams – the only way to fulfill the passion she has for surfing.
Is there a fear keeping you from following your passion?
I would encourage you to do what Bethany has done.
Stare it in the face, acknowledge you are afraid, then go out and do it anyway!!
I know you can do it.
Tonights call is at
9:27 pm est
641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
and if you want to grab the the 2 cd set- and get a FREE Science of Getting Rich-
pick up the Chaos to Cash
http://www.besthotresults.biz/
Love you all
Karl Radke
604 799 3238
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Replies.Tuesday, August 19, 2008
in less than 4 mins
They said it couldn't be done – it was absolutely impossible – but he did it in less than 4 minutes!
Everyone knew it couldn’t be done.
Roger Bannister had no real motivation to prove them wrong. The young Englishman loved to run but from the time he was a child he also had a passion to be a doctor. This was the passion that drove him. His parents were unable to afford a University education so it was up to him to make it happen.
He knew early on that to achieve his dream of being a doctor he would have to be exceptional – so he set about being exceptional. His studies were paramount but that didn’t mean he couldn’t improve his track skills by running to and from school. While he was on his way to earning a scholarship from Oxford University, he was also gaining a name for himself as a runner.
“It is physically impossible for a human being to run a mile in under 4 minutes.” This statement was the accepted wisdom of the time during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Runners tried, but failed, proving the words of athletes and medical doctors – cementing a belief in runners minds that it couldn’t be done.
Roger didn’t set out to prove them wrong. He simply loved to run and he was fast. He was also learning a lot about the human body in his studies at Oxford. The day arrived when he was firmly convinced it WAS possible for a human being to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
His decision to be that person was formed by a humiliating defeat in the 1952 Olympics. In order to redeem himself he decided to break the world’s record for the mile. No one believed he could do it.
Adding to his challenge was the fact he was now a full-time Medical student and he could devote only 45 minutes a day to training. People scoffed at the idea he could accomplish such a wild goal but Roger believed slow and steady training would allow him to break the record. He painstakingly researched mechanical aspects of running, and developed scientific training methods to help him achieve his goal.
His opportunity came 2 years later – on a blustery day with 25 MPH gusts of wind to hamper his efforts. It didn’t look promising. So what? He had trained. He was ready. He believed it could be done.
So he simply went out and did it. Roger ran the race of his life, breaking the tape and collapsing as the announcer delivered his time to a wildly cheering crowd:
3:59.4
Within two months his record had been broken by John Landy – proving the 4 minute mile was as much a psychological barrier as it was a physical barrier. As the years have passed the mile has been run in shorter and shorter times but it was Roger Bannister who proved the body was capable of far more than people believed.
When he was asked to explain that first four-minute mile – and the art of record breaking – his answer was simple: “It’s the ability to take more out of yourself than you’ve got.”
Did you get that?
“It’s the ability to take more out of yourself than you’ve got.”
How did Roger do it? First, he BELIEVED he could do it. He understood the size of his success would be determined by the size of his belief.
Here is where I’m going to depart from some more common thoughts that are spread around a lot today. While belief is critically important – in fact, he couldn’t have accomplished what he did without it - belief alone is not enough. It is not enough to repeat affirmations over and over to yourself, even though they are important.
At some point you have to do the work. Roger Bannister ran day after day. He researched the human body. He created scientific methods to enable him to stretch his limits. He did what it would take to fulfill his dream.
What are your goals? What is it you dream of accomplishing? BELIEVE it can be done. Then do the work. Apply yourself to success. Apply yourself to excellence. Figure out what it is going to take and then go DO IT!
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641 594-7000
Pass code 600088#
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Love you all
Karl Radke
604 799 3238
Everyone knew it couldn’t be done.
Roger Bannister had no real motivation to prove them wrong. The young Englishman loved to run but from the time he was a child he also had a passion to be a doctor. This was the passion that drove him. His parents were unable to afford a University education so it was up to him to make it happen.
He knew early on that to achieve his dream of being a doctor he would have to be exceptional – so he set about being exceptional. His studies were paramount but that didn’t mean he couldn’t improve his track skills by running to and from school. While he was on his way to earning a scholarship from Oxford University, he was also gaining a name for himself as a runner.
“It is physically impossible for a human being to run a mile in under 4 minutes.” This statement was the accepted wisdom of the time during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. Runners tried, but failed, proving the words of athletes and medical doctors – cementing a belief in runners minds that it couldn’t be done.
Roger didn’t set out to prove them wrong. He simply loved to run and he was fast. He was also learning a lot about the human body in his studies at Oxford. The day arrived when he was firmly convinced it WAS possible for a human being to run the mile in under 4 minutes.
His decision to be that person was formed by a humiliating defeat in the 1952 Olympics. In order to redeem himself he decided to break the world’s record for the mile. No one believed he could do it.
Adding to his challenge was the fact he was now a full-time Medical student and he could devote only 45 minutes a day to training. People scoffed at the idea he could accomplish such a wild goal but Roger believed slow and steady training would allow him to break the record. He painstakingly researched mechanical aspects of running, and developed scientific training methods to help him achieve his goal.
His opportunity came 2 years later – on a blustery day with 25 MPH gusts of wind to hamper his efforts. It didn’t look promising. So what? He had trained. He was ready. He believed it could be done.
So he simply went out and did it. Roger ran the race of his life, breaking the tape and collapsing as the announcer delivered his time to a wildly cheering crowd:
3:59.4
Within two months his record had been broken by John Landy – proving the 4 minute mile was as much a psychological barrier as it was a physical barrier. As the years have passed the mile has been run in shorter and shorter times but it was Roger Bannister who proved the body was capable of far more than people believed.
When he was asked to explain that first four-minute mile – and the art of record breaking – his answer was simple: “It’s the ability to take more out of yourself than you’ve got.”
Did you get that?
“It’s the ability to take more out of yourself than you’ve got.”
How did Roger do it? First, he BELIEVED he could do it. He understood the size of his success would be determined by the size of his belief.
Here is where I’m going to depart from some more common thoughts that are spread around a lot today. While belief is critically important – in fact, he couldn’t have accomplished what he did without it - belief alone is not enough. It is not enough to repeat affirmations over and over to yourself, even though they are important.
At some point you have to do the work. Roger Bannister ran day after day. He researched the human body. He created scientific methods to enable him to stretch his limits. He did what it would take to fulfill his dream.
What are your goals? What is it you dream of accomplishing? BELIEVE it can be done. Then do the work. Apply yourself to success. Apply yourself to excellence. Figure out what it is going to take and then go DO IT!
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