Tuesday July 10th, 2007: Issue #821
What a messed up week this is turning out to be! Not in any bad way, thank goodness, but it seems that this is the week for plans to be turned on their heads.
The three days that I would normally write Kickstart - Monday, Wednesday and Friday - are all filled with unavoidable out of town meetings and trips, so for this week - and hopefully for this week alone, Kickstart will be coming to you on Tuesday and Thursday instead.
And as today is Tuesday, here it is …
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I’m taking my lovely bride (nearly 29 years on) out for a slap up lunch today. Okay, I admit it, we are going to have a pizza at the local mall. But the principle is the same - we are making time to go out with each other to just enjoy being in each other’s company.
I think it is important to go out of the house together on ‘mini dates’. And I like pizza. 
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Die Hard 4.0, the new Bruce Willis movie. What can I tell you …
Action-packed.
Gripping.
Not a dull moment.
The great vested one may be knocking on a bit (for non UK readers that means he is almost as old as Noah) but he still knows how to snarl and stare with manic menace.
Some of the earlier sequels were, let’s face it, a bit on the rubbish side. Fun, but not great movies.
Die Hard 4.0 may not go down in history as a *great* movie, but it sure as anything is a good one.
Bruce Willis was on TV the other day ding a promo for the movie and he was asked if he would make a Die Hard 5. He smiled and said that yes, he’d quite like to, but they’d better make it soon because his body won’t handle it for much longer!”
Thankfully he handled it quite well this time. Recommended.
I guess the next movie I’ll see will likely be Harry Potter. I really can’t wait for that!
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Forums can often be a total waste of time. Entertaining and often informative, but real time thieves.
Then every once in a very long while along comes a post that it so good that it makes reading all the dross worthwhile. One such appeared on the Warrior forum, written by Lee McIntyre. It is about using Ebay to help you build lists and is absolutely brilliant.
He could easily have sold this priceless knowledge in a special report for a minimum of $47 and I would still have recommended it to you unreservedly. But Lee just gave it away.
Don’t for a second think that its lack of cost reflects on its value. It could be the most valuable thing you’ll read in a while.
http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=159280&whichpage=1
See for yourself.
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I’m not promoting anything in today’s Kickstart, but I am considering buying something.
The big news of the weekend was Mike Filsaime’s 777 launch. I’ve had emails about it from every guru under the sun offering me the most outlandish lists of bonuses you can imagine. One person actually expects me to believe that his bonuses are worth a million dollars! For a $497 sale (or whatever the price is).
Crazy talk.
All those bonuses leave me cold. If I want a product I want what IT can give me, not all the heaps of other stuff that I’m not particularly interested in.
However, what I AM interested in is spreading the joy.
What that means is that if I do buy I would like a Kickstart reader to get the commission. No bonuses required.
If you are an affiliate, let me know by emailing me your link. I’ll pick one at random.
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An Inspirational Thought
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Fifty people over the age of ninety-five were asked, ‘If you could live your life over again, what would you do differently?’
The answers were varied, as you can imagine, but three kept coming up and ended up dominating the study:
* If I could do it all again, I would reflect more.
* If I could do it all again, I would risk more.
* If I could do it all again, I would do more things that would live on after I’m dead.
It’s something to think about, isn’t it?
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The Quote of the Day
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Earl Nightingale said,
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
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Today’s Power Thought
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It is often said that one of the fastest growing sectors in books, training and people’s interests is the area of personal development.
And a good thing that is too!
There are still those who look upon self-help and personal development with suspicion, but thankfully, more and more people are having the gauze lifted from their eyes.
Eli Cohen wrote. “Without continuous personal development you are now all that you will ever become.”
What a frightening thought.
Personal development is most definitely not an airy- fairy theoretical field which is founded upon vague notions. It is a hard-headed, totally businesslike endeavor that strives to improve both your own self and your interactions with the rest of the world through well-tested and proven concepts.
People who seek to teach personal development do so in the certain knowledge that what they seek to impart to you WILL make a difference. It is all based on techniques that have been proven time and time again.
What makes some personal development teachings difficult to accept is that as human beings we all respond differently to tings. What may have been shown to work for hundreds of people may not work for you because your personality fights it.
That isn’t a reason to give up on learning about self- help and personal development - on the contrary! It simply shows that there WILL be another teaching that can lead you to the same solution by a route that will fit in with your nature.
The key is continuous self education.
You may read Napoleon Hill and be unmoved.
Dale Carnegie may leave you cold.
Stuart Goldsmith may not fit your way of thinking.
But Stephen Covey, or Wayne Dyer or Anthony Robbins may press all the right buttons in your mind and a whole new world of possibilities may jump out at you.
Read them all. And if you don’t have time to read the hundreds of personal development authors, read summaries of their teachings.
I mentioned a book some time ago called ‘50 Self-Help Classics’ by Tom Butler-Bowdon (you can look it up on Amazon). This book does exactly what it says - it summarizes 50 of the most popular books on self-help in a way that allows you to distill the essence of each authors’ thinking.
Tom has done it again and recently launched a new book called ‘50 Success Classics’. Same idea, with a different set of 50 books. Again, you can find it easily enough in a bookstore or on Amazon.
Books like these can save you hundreds of hours of work, and can catapult your learning and understanding.
In today’s world, personal development is no longer an interesting option that people with the leisure to indulge themselves can take up as a hobby.
It is a basic requirement of survival.
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Fascinating Facts
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The Sahara desert is huge. So big, in fact, that only three countries in the World are bigger: Russia, Canada and China.
There are sand dunes in the Sahara that are taller than the highest skyscrapers in America.
And because of the way that the Earth shifts around, 450 million years ago, the South Pole was situated where the Sahara desert is now.