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from	Bob Proctor
to		anddreee@gmail.com
date		Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:00 AM
subject		Insight of the Day

Dear Andre,

Here is your Friday story,

Amen Crackers

Have you ever heard of "Amen Crackers"? I hadn't either until my granddaughter, Amanda, came for a visit. Amanda is not quite two but ever since her parents taught her to pray she always prays for each individual thing on her plate.

One evening at suppertime Amanda was in the high chair and I went over to the kitchen counter to fill her plate. Her Mother had put three small crackers on her high chair tray to give her something to eat while I fixed her plate. I watched as she bowed her head and touched the first cracker with her index finger and said, "Amen cracker". She touched the next cracker and said, "Amen cracker", and then she went to the last cracker, touching it, and again saying, "Amen cracker". She thought the tiny crackers were her supper so she was saying her prayers.

Amanda has figured out that prayers have an "Amen" in them but sometimes she gets the "Amen" at the beginning instead of at the end of her prayers.

I got to thinking about the word, "Amen" and I found that in Hebrew the word "Amen" means to confirm and it is spoken to state, "so be it." When we end our prayers with "Amen" we are reaffirming our dedication to God. Sometimes church members or congregations say, "Amen," to show confirmation or agreement when something powerful is spoken from the Word of God.

Amanda's prayer might seem very simple but maybe she wasn't so far off in what she was doing because she would have been confirming her dedication to God first of all instead of at the end. At any rate, we can gain wisdom from "the mouths of babes." I learned several things from Amanda and her "Amen Crackers."

- I learned that prayer should be a priority.
- I learned that whatever is on my "plate" I should be thankful for it.
- I learned I should keep it simple and be specific.
- I learned to have faith and trust God even when all I have is three crackers.
- I learned it is best to tend to my own crackers that have been provided for me and allow God to fill my plate.
- I learned to be patient. Even if I'm sitting in a high chair, I can't see what is going on in God's kitchen from where I sit.
- I learned to thank God for the small things, and not complain, even if all I have is crackers.
- I learned it doesn't matter if you get the prayer backwards, God hears our hearts.

Have you thanked God for the crackers in your life?

Pamela Perry Blaine

Pamela lives in Missouri and writes "Pam's Corner" for her local newspaper. Many stories have been published in magazines, newspapers, and books. She is church pianist and has a CD of songs she has written. Her goal is to write to encourage and to preserve family history for her children. Feel free to visit her website at: www.blaines.us/pamyplace.htm or email Pamela at: pamyblaine@blaines.us

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from Adam Khoo to andre date Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:08 PM subject Andre, Are You Using The Ultimate Success Formula?

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Hi Andre,

If it is so easy to achieve success, set goals, create a strategy,
take action; and if you don't get what you want, you just change
your strategy until you get what you want.
If that is all there is to succeed, why isn't everybody doing this?

There are three main reasons that drive us to go beyond our goals.
There are three reasons that determine whether we would or not set
these goals, whether we will or not change our strategy.

The first thing that affects you is your beliefs. Your beliefs are
like the operating system to your brain. They determine almost
everything in your life.

When you believe that something is possible, what happens?

You set a target to achieve it. If you believe that it's possible
to earn a million dollars, you set a goal to earn a million
dollars. If you don't believe that you can possibly achieve
anything beyond the average you won't even dare set the goal.

So the beliefs drive the goals you have.

What you believe determines what you want. Your beliefs also
determine what you do in your counter failure. In other words, if
you believe that you're stupid , if you believe that things are
just too difficult, will you change your strategy?

No. When you fail you just give up and blame everyone else because
you believe that it was not your fault.

The second thing that affects us, are our life values.

Your values are the emotional state that you move towards as well
as away from certain situations in life. They are the things that
really drive our behavior every single day.

Know this, if your values are in conflict with your goals, or if
your values are in conflict with your behavior every single day,
you will not consistently get what you want. So values are the
second component that drives the ultimate success formula.

The third component is another form of belief. It is the belief of
who you are and what you stand for. This actually stands for your
identity. In other words, do you believe you deserve success?

Or do you believe that you are just an average person. What is your
identity, who do you think you are? Do you believe you're someone
who's exceptional? Do you believe you are a champion or winner? Or
do you believe you're someone who is a loser?

To conclude, your beliefs, your values and your identity drive you
towards whatever you want in your life, they drive your strategies,
they drive your actions and they determine what you do when you
fail.
This is what completes the Ultimate Success Formula and explains
why not everyone takes action in putting the Ultimate Success
Formula in practice.

To your success!

Adam Khoo
www.Patterns-Of-Excellence.com



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from ADAM KHOO to me 28 jun 2008

from	Adam Khoo
to		andre
date		Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:34 PM
subject		Andre, Put Yourself on the Line!

Hi Andre,

Here is a strategy you can use to ensure you will achieve your
goals. The secret is to put yourself on the line! In other words,
put yourself in a situation where you have absolutely no choice but
to achieve it.

When our brain is given a choice to do something or to put it off,
we will always gravitate towards the easier path. But when we have
no choice but to do something, we will always find a way!

Many successful individuals created the results they did because
they simply had no choice. They put everything they had on the line.

At age 44, Leo Burnett started one of today's largest advertising
companies in the world. He started his business in the middle of
the 1935 depression.

He borrowed against his life insurance policy, mortgaged his home
and threw in every last dollar he had. Talk about putting yourself
on the line.

He knew that he had no choice but to make it work. This 'must'
drove him to build his tiny advertising agency into a worldwide
business, grossing hundreds of millions in sales each year.

When Richard Branson (in pre Virgin Airlines days) was caught
selling records meant for export in London, he was arrested and
charged with fraud.

He was given a few months to pay a fine or risk being thrown in
jail. Being almost broke, he knew that the only way he could make
enough money to stay out of jail was to rapidly expand his
business; which he did by opening more record stores.

It turned out that the need to keep himself out of jail was the
urgent motivating force he needed to build the Virgin business at
lightning speed!

It was this commitment that led him to go on to build the Virgin
empire, which includes an airline company, and become one of
Britain's wealthiest businessmen.

Start Putting Yourself On the Line Right Now!

One way is to make a public declaration of your goals. Better
still, get other people involved in the process of attaining your
goals. Or make a small financial commitment so that it will hurt
not to do it, and your brain will start taking you seriously.

When I tell people to do this, many chicken out and just do not
dare make this level of commitment. It is clear that if you dare
not commit yourself to it, then you were never serious about your
success in the first place.

So, if you are really committed to achieve something significant,
put yourself on the line!


To Your Success,

Adam Khoo
www.PavingTheWayToTheTop.com

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