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Keith Cameron Smith Networking Trainers Article
Winners Take Responsibility—Whiners Play the Victim
by Keith Cameron Smith
Lets face it: life doesnt always go according to plan. In fact, life is what happens while youre making other plans.
To become a winner in the face of this unpredictability requires that you balance two seemingly contradictory ideas. The first is best expressed by the expression If its going to be, its up to me. The second is nearly the opposite: What will be, will be.
These two statements sound fine by themselves -- but when you put them side-by-side they contradict each other. And yet, taking either of these statements to the extreme produces negative results.
For example, lets look at the first statement: If its going to be, its up to me. Taking that philosophy to the extreme leads to...
Networking Trainers Article
The Top 10 Distinctions for Fulfilling Your Dreams
by Keith Cameron Smith
As I write this, it is October 2009. I am going to share something with you about 10-10-10. Your life can be measurably better by October 10, 2010 or 10-10-10.
Where do want to be a year from now? What do you want to have done? What is important to you? To help you gain some clarity with your answers to those questions, let me share a few thoughts from distinction 10 in my book The Top 10 Distinctions between Millionaires and the Middle Class, and something from distinction 10 in The Top 10 Distinctions between Winners and Whiners and something from distinction 10 in The Top 10 Distinctions between Dream Fulfillers and Dream Killers.
Distinction 10 in The Top 10 Distinctions between Millionaires and the Middle Class is:
Millionaires think long term, the middle class thinks short term.
In this distinction I break society down into five groups of people. They are the very poor, the poor, the middle class, the rich and the very rich. Each group of people thinks very differently about money. For example, very poor people think day to day, poor people think week to week, middle class people think month to month, rich people think year to year and very rich people think decade to decade...
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