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• NO OUT OF POCKET EXPENSE;
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Attitude Is Everything by Jim Rohn

By Jim Rohon

The process of human change begins within us. We all have tremendous potential. We all desire good results from our efforts. Most of us are willing to work hard and to pay the price that success and happiness demand.

Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential-that produces the intensity of our activity and predicts the quality of the result we receive-is our attitude.

Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.

No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.

If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.

If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected accordingly. Beware of the vandals and thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or seek to steal it away.

Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires. The combination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve that influences all the other areas of our existence.

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Ordinary to Extraordinary

From Ordinary to Extraordinary

By Dr. John C. Maxwell

When you hear the word ordinary in reference to a person, a restaurant, an athlete, an actor, or anything else what comes to mind? If you're anything like me, you automatically think of words such as average, plain, common, and every day. You're probably not thinking in specifics, ordinary people and places simply aren't that memorable.

Now switch mental gears and ponder what you think of when you hear the word extraordinary. Are words such as amazing, outstanding, brilliant, and exceptional coming to mind? I expect so. You might even be thinking of a particular individual who fits this description, an incredible football player, a captivating public speaker, a Nobel Prize-winning poet, a gifted pianist, or cellist.

This little exercise might seem to indicate that there is a huge gap between being ordinary and being extraordinary. It might lead you to believe that if you're an ordinary person with an ordinary job, you have no hope of ever achieving success or doing something that really makes a difference.

This is a commonly held belief, but I'm here to tell you, it's not valid.

Think of it in terms of professional baseball. If a player on your favorite team had a lifetime batting average of .340, you would consider him to be an extraordinary hitter, definite Hall of Fame material. At the same time, if another player on the same team consistently averaged around .240, you would probably think he was just okay�if you even knew who he was at all.

There would be worlds of difference between these two players when it came to fan recognition, playing time, and, of course, salary. But think about it. What do their batting averages really say about these players? For every 10 visits to the batter's box, the first player gets a hit 3.4 times, compared with 2.4 times for the second player.

Percentage-wise, that's not a great difference. And that's my point. In baseball, as in other areas of life, there's not much difference between ordinary and extraordinary. But that little bit makes a huge difference in four key areas. Extraordinary individuals:

1.Garner more respect.

2.Add more value to other people.

3.Make much more money.

4.Are perceived differently by the people around them.

Look closely at the two words we've been discussing: ordinary and extraordinary. What's the difference between the two? Five little letters that make up the word extra. That's it. Just put "extra" in front of ordinary and you get extraordinary.

So what does it take to move from ordinary to extraordinary? Think about it in terms of the topics covered in recent issues of Leadership Wired. If you want to go from ordinary to extraordinary, in your role as a leader or in any other area of life, give a little extra effort. Spend a little extra time. Seek a little extra help. Possess a little extra realism. Make a little extra change. That's all it takes: a little extra.

Let me add two more areas where a little extra will help you make the leap to the next level.

1.A little extra attitude.

You see, motivation determines what you do, ability determines what you're capable of doing, and attitude determines how well you do it. When I see a person operating with excellence, I know it's because he or she has a good attitude. In writing about the Olympics, the late sports columnist Jim Murray commented that, in the history of the Games, the difference between gold medalists and silver medalists in all the timed events was less than one.tenth of a second. "That's not ability," he said. "That's attitude."

1.A little extra planning.

Robert Eliot, a cardiology professor at the University of Nebraska, has some great advice about this. He said, "It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track," "Pretend you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list." What does it take to come up with such lists? A little extra planning.

You might think of yourself as pretty ordinary right now, but what would happen if you moved your life up just one notch? What would happen if you added a little extra in any of these areas? Remember: the distance between ordinary and extraordinary is not that great, but the resulting difference in your life when you make that leap could be far greater than you could even imagine.

$17,000 Tax Credit Program

A teaching couple, married filing jointly, can easily have an adjusted gross income of $125,000 and pay monthly taxes of @ $2,000, $24,000 a year; that’s $24K of your hard earned money taken away with no return.

The RaPower3 Renewable Energy Credit Program, made possible by the Recovery Act, puts that money to work for you. Instead of paying $24,000, this average couple would receive an IRS Refund Check next FEB of $17,456 AND have an increase in take home pay of $2,400/year. Bottom line is:

• Congress allows ‘earmarking’ federal income taxes toward developing renewable energy systems
• No need to make monthly tax payments if the federal tax you expect to owe after withholding and credits is less than $1,000
• RaPower3 Program drastically reduces tax liability
Bottom line figures are:

TAX CREDITS $ 16,200
Depreciation Adjustment to Income $27,540
Produces a Tax Reduction of $ 7,256
Take Home Pay Increase $ 2,400
IRS REFUND: $ 17,456
GUARANTEED BY CONGRESS $ 36,056

So instead of paying the IRS $24,000, you get a $200 a month raise and an IRS Refund Check in FEB of $17,456. That’s a $40,000 turnaround!

In addition, there are additional benefits that enrollment into the RaPower3 Renewable Energy Program brings. Respond to this email and I will send you a report on how the numbers are achieved.

Of course, if you are not a teaching couple, we can structure a program that produces similar results for your specific situation.

Also, the RaPower3 Energy Credit Program can be structured to help establish an endowment for your extra curricular program.

GOING GREEN

Roger Freeborn, RaPower3/BFS National Director
Cell: 503.312.2138 – 800.628.9737 ex 603 www.RaPower3.com

Seeing the Future

Regardless of position, every leader has the duty to picture a brighter future, and to inspire others to create a better tomorrow.

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." ~ John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961

With those words, President Kennedy cast the vision for perhaps the most spectacular feat ever undertaken by the United States of America. His ambitious vision captivated the imagination of the Americans, and it motivated the nation's brightest scientists and astronauts to pursue a seemingly impossible mission.

No one, even a generation earlier, could have fathomed a man walking around on the moon. Consider that only 50 years before Kennedy's speech, most Americans were traveling by horse and buggy! In those days, sending a man to the moon would have seemed just as ridiculous as traveling backwards in time. Amazingly, NASA accomplished Kennedy's daring vision when the crew of Apollo 11 landed on the moon in July of 1969. Within a dozen years of JFK's speech, 24 Americans had walked on the surface of the moon. America had done the impossible, and the entire country took pride in the accomplishment.

In their article, "The Higher Plane of Leadership," Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller give seeing the future the top spot on their list of qualities held by servant leaders. When so many people float through life without a strong sense of direction, a leader serves by linking others to a purpose greater than their own self-interest.

In the case of President Kennedy, the vision to land on the moon rallied millions of Americans with a sense of meaning, and it turned a fanciful dream into a concrete reality. However, Blanchard and Miller caution against assuming that vision comes only from world leaders or history's heroes. In their words, such assumptions, "fuel the myth that creating and communicating a compelling vision is someone else's responsibility." Regardless of position, every leader has the duty to picture a brighter future, and to inspire others to create a better tomorrow.

If visions only started with Presidents and CEO's, then we'd have a small number of elite leaders surrounded by a sea of mindless followers. Blanchard and Miller argue that leaders must have visions aside from those of their leaders, "Although vision from the top is critically important, it is no substitute for personal vision, vision for your team, your department, or your division." One could argue that President Kennedy's vision to land on the moon was made possible by countless supporting visions of NASA scientists, engineers, and astronauts. By himself, JFK would never have been able to put the pieces in play to see the future come to pass. He relied on the visions of leaders at every level of government to develop the vehicles, systems, and programs to make landing on the moon possible.

Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist?

I can even look forward to my failures because they will be steppingstones and learning tools to be applied to my future success.

by Chris Widener

I have been giving some thought lately to optimism and pessimism. Basically, these are attitudes-attitudes that shape and formulate our entire existence. I mean, have you ever met a happy pessimist? Of course not.

In short, our optimism or pessimism is this:

The way we interpret the past

The way we experience and view the present

The way we imagine the future

Have you given much thought about how your attitude, whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, affects you business, organization or school? Have you thought about how it affects you personally? And what about the team you are a part of?

What is optimism? It is the belief that things in our past were good for us, even if that means they were hard and taught us lessons. It is also the belief that things will be better in the future.

Here are some contrasts between optimism and pessimism and how they affect us:

Optimism breathes life into you each day.

Pessimism drains you.

Optimism helps you to take needed risks.

Pessimism plays it safe and never accomplishes much.

Optimism improves those around you.

Pessimism drags them down.

Optimism inspires people to great heights.

Pessimism deflates people to new lows.

There is only one way that optimism and pessimism are the same, and that is that they are both self-fulfilling. If you are an optimist, you will generally find that good things happen to you. And if you are a pessimist, you will find yourself in the not-so-good situations more often than not.

So can a person just become an optimist? Yes! We can choose to look at the world any way we want to. We can choose to look at the world and think the worst, or we can tell ourselves the good things about each situation. As you find yourself looking at your enterprise, begin to view it through the eyes of an optimist, and you will reap the rewards listed above, and so will the people around you.

There are tremendous benefits to being an optimist, as stated above. But there are some pessimists out there who will say, "But that isn't realistic." I say, "Who cares?" If things go awry, at least I have spent my time beforehand enjoying life and not worrying about it. And, being an optimist, I would view the "negative" situation as an opportunity to grow and learn. So I can even look forward to my failures because they will be steppingstones and learning tools to be applied to my future success.

Have you ever met a successful pessimist? Become an optimist, and see your world change before your eyes!