Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.. _Schoolgirl’s definition, quoted in: Ladies’ Home Journal 

 
Visualize for Results
by Gayle Carson

 
Close your eyes and try to form a mental image of yourself.  Visualize who and what you want to be. Use your imagination.  Contrary to what some of our teachers told us, daydreaming is not wasted time–it nurtures a constructive plan in place of inactivity. Vivid imagination leads to desire which leads to action and belief. 

Skeptical?  Cut out a picture of what you want or how you want to look.  Teenagers do this all the time, and you know, pretty soon they start looking the part of their heroes and heroines.  Paste an article on a 
subject you admire, a person you would like to emulate, in some conspicuous place.  Having their words and eyes looking over your shoulder all the time may help combat fear and procrastination.  Look 
for three-dimensional mentors too.  You would be amazed at the number of successful people who will give you valuable time and help if you approach them courteously. 

If you can’t find mentors hands, visit your local library.  Seek positive role models.  Read biographies of people you admire.  In politics, John 
F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage is still a classic, while in sports virtually any athlete or coach who’s had a winning season has a “biography.”  Be selective.  Most of the real winners had to make 
choices, and so will you.  Don’t try to be all things to all people.  Learn from different areas, but pay your closest attention to fields that really turn you on.  You cannot go in too many directions at once and still get 
to your goals on time.  You must be focused.  Listen to positive thinking tapes.  And take a hint from the struggles of others to be easy on yourself. 

See how many times it took Thomas Edison before he invested the light bulb.  It was he who said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”  And how many times did Babe Ruth strike out in the season he hit 60 home runs?  And among the gifted, see how being blind affected Louis Braille, who gave all blind persons access to the 
printed word. 

The difference between success and failure is discipline and commitment.  Don’t over-think or over- analyze–just do it, and track yourself.  Look for the circumstances you want in life, and if you can’t find them., create them. 

Begin by setting goals.  Start immediately.  Find three things you’d like to accomplish in the next 12 months. You may think a year is a long time, if you now have trouble planning tomorrow.  But a year can be a short time when you look back critically and question where the time went and what was accomplished. 

You need to consider now how to invest the next 365 tomorrows. 

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How likely are you to "stay at the top" once you get there? 
Take this quick assessment to find out. 

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Dr. Gayle Carson, CSP, CPCM 
Carson Research Center 
2957 Flamingo Drive 
Miami Beach, Florida 33140-3916 
Phone:3053-534-8846 
Fax: 305-532-8826 
Web: http://www.gaylecarson.com 
email: gcarson-speaker-coach@worldnet.att.net 

4 Killer Joint Venture Marketing Tactics! 
by Larry Dotson 

1) Co-Op Ad For An E-zine Ad 

First find a targeted e-zine in which you would want to buy an ad. You would then persuade four other businesses to join in on the cost of the ad. In return they would get a space on the web site you are 
advertising. You would ask the four businesses to pay you 1/4 of the ad’s cost. That means you would pay nothing for the ad. 
 

2) Publish E-zines For Other Web Sites 

You could offer to publish e-zines for high traffic web sites that don't have one yet, in exchange for running one or more of your ads in them. You would want to look for popular or high search engine ranking web sites. Of course the web site would advertise it, which would help build up a big subscriber list quickly. You could also ask them to run one of your product ads on their web site. 
 

3) Buy An Ad To Get Multiple Ads At No Cost 

You can buy an ad (or use a free method to get an ad) and write a testimonial to the e-zine publisher about how well it did. Tell the e-zine publisher he or she can list your testimonial in the advertising 
information section of their e-zine. Of course your signature file (ad) would be at the end of the testimonial. 
 

4) Create A Package Deal With A Publisher 

You could ask an e-zine publisher to combine his or her product or service with your product or service in a package deal. This gives people more reasons to buy both your products and services. People also have come to believe package deals are better value. You want all the products or services to be closely related. You could host the 
package deal on your web site and the e-zine publisher would likely advertise it in their e-zine. 
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