Author: Mentor Ben Drake

This Week's Jump-Start

Adaptability in Action

In a way, human beings behave like bees. If you place several bees in an open-ended bottle and lay the bottle on its side with the base toward a light source, the bees will repeatedly fly to the bottle bottom toward the light. It never occurs to them to reverse gears and try another direction. This is a combination of genetic programming and learned behavior.

Put a bunch of flies in that bottle and turn the base toward a bright light. Within a few minutes, all the flies will have found their way out. They try all directions—up, down, toward the light, away from the light, often bumping into the glass—but sooner or later they flutter forth into the neck of the bottle and out the opening.

We often allow ourselves to become locked in our present circumstances, even if we are unhappy and really want to be reaching in a new direction. What we’re doing may make us miserable, but at least it’s familiar. One of the most important factors in achieving personal success is the willingness to try things out, to experiment, to break new ground. In fact, this is the only way to learn and progress: trial, error, feedback, knowledge, trial and success. It is a far better thing to try to succeed and fail than to do nothing and succeed.

This week:

* Try it
* Change it
* Do it

Stop stewing and start doing!

—Denis Waitley

From Denis Waitley’s newsletter, a great little article.

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"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

-- General George S. Patton

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."
Robert Heinlein
Novelist
From Insight of the Day emails

Dumb ... and a whole lot of empty space between the ears.
Burglars have it all wrong.
They break in a rich person's house, ignore the books and training CDs in the library, and then steal the big screen television.
How do the rich become rich? Not from watching television.
They become rich from their libraries. And then they can afford the big screen television and other toys.
Do you want your distributors to learn this lesson?
Maybe ask them to do this little exercise before sitting down to mindlessly watch television for hours.
Ask them to ask this question before turning on their television:
"Do I want to watch other people on television earning money ... or do I want to learn how I can earn more money for my family and myself?"
And if you don't have a library or training materials, here is a great solution:
The 25 skills no-cost mini-course:
http://www.fortunenow.com/public/362.cfm

From Tom Big Al’s newsletter on how the rich managed to become that way and become successful as a person.

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