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I read Tony Robbins’ Unlimited Power. An excellent book. Tony clearly understands the role of both gradual at-will change and the transforming power of radical global change. Each is powerful in its own way. I particularly got a lot out of his take on metaphors and how the metaphors we use in our thoughts and in our speech create the very world around us, defining who we are, what the world means to us, how we relate to others, and how we fit in the scheme of existence. It’s scary the power our words have to define us– and if we let them, to limit us. Be careful what you say and what you think. To paraphrase the Bible, “The power of life and death is in the tongue”. Guard yours and guard your mind.   

I finished reading Don Burnham’s The Ten Character C’s of Success. Don isn’t as well known as he should be. This was a very good book and I highly recommend it. I haven’t met Don but others who have vouch that he is a product of the product and he practices what he preaches. That’s high praise for a man who teaches others to do nothing that would damage your integrity- no matter what. 

Believe whatever you will about the global behemoth that is Wal-Mart, a company that many feel will completely take over the world…the guy behind the big-box retailer’s birth and subsequent success is a man who can teach us some things. Sam Walton’s Made in America is a great book. Some boring parts, but overall the messages are there. Use everything you have been given to leverage yourself into getting more. Treat people like family. Give people what they want. Stick to your guns. All pearls of common sense wisdom none of us is above being reminded of first learning. Not the most inspiring book, but certainly worth its price and the time you’ll take to read it.

Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. Some fairly light reading to come from a man who has all that myth and mystery surrounding him. Surprisingly easy to follow, the logic is sound…but he takes the reader down darkened paths of the human psyche that make you quite aware that within each of us resides a tremendous energey and power that can be harnessed for good– or for bad.

An old professor of mine in Psychology classes in college once mentioned how great the book The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris was. I checked it out, and it gives you a real insight into who we have become as a civilization that is increasingly living in an urban setting (the cities becoming our “zoo”) in mazes of concrete and glass where we are often every bit as dependent on the machinery of society to provide for us as monkeys in the zoo are dependent on their keepers for their survival.

If there is a book that has touched your life in some way, tell me about it. Now, remember, when reading positive and powerful stuff like this the rule is that you only get to keep and use what you give away and share.. So share, let’s hear it!

 Danny Welsh

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Do you dream of enjoying the finer things in life - a beautiful new vehicle, a boat that has so much horsepower it should be illegal, that bigger dream house where everything would have its own place and you’d truly feel at home (or maybe your first house), but you can’t seem to transform those dreams into a reality?

Too many dreamers dream, but never DO. 

Doers have dreams too, but the difference is simple: they find (or make) a way to put their vision into action and get out the hammer and nails and build those dreams through sweat and savvy. 

For too many of us the cycle is today we dream of a better tomorrow. 

Instead…Today, dream. And DO Today. 

Whatever you’ve avoided, put off, felt you weren’t ready for… 

Do it TODAY. 

Doers find a way.

There is something truly inspiring in reading the biography of Andrew Carnegie, a man whose titanic business accomplishments are marked by spectacular escapes from failed attempts at success, bankruptcies and failed businesses and bad investments. Carnegie took each failed or broken dream and learned what he had to learn, dusted off the debris of failure, and got back into action to complete his vision. Carnegie’s vision resulted in him emerging as one of the most successful and widely renowned entrepreneurs of all time. He owned the largest steel company (some say the largest company of ANY kind) in the world, mentored many of his employees to becoming millionaires who followed his footsteps, and left behind a legacy today that has libraries, schools, colleges, foundations, buildings, parks, streets and more bearing his name to the testament of how much good a man can do with almost immeasurable wealth— if he chooses to use it so. Nothing stranger ever came out of the Horatio Alger style story than the story of this poor Scotch boy who came to America and step by step, through many trials and triumphs, became the great steel master, built up a colossal industry, amassed an enormous fortune, and then deliberately and systematically gave away the whole of it for the enlightenment and betterment of mankind. 

Among the important principles you will learn when you read this success classic:

 – Why being an avid reader can contribute as much to your success as any other use of your time.

– How to negotiate from a position of power every time

– Enjoying the benefits of other people’s resources and how to do so using strategic partnerships that are win-win

– How a great mentor can empower you to strive for levels of success you never dreamed possible.

– Establishing the mentor-mentee relationship to duplicate yourself and your efforts in business

– Not only did Carnegie achieve great things himself, but he established a “gospel of wealth” that can be neither ignored nor forgotten, and one that succeeding millionaires have followed as a precedent from men like Charles Schwab and Napoleon Hill to many of the business mavens of today.

Andrew Carnegie: “A great business is seldom if ever built up, except on lines of the strictest integrity…” 

Get Andrew Carnegie’s awe-inspiring Free Ebook as a Basic Free Member of America’s #1 Real Estate Network. Just go to http://www.hisrealestatenetwork.com/enterlibrary.php to see the entire growing success library our members enjoy access to and if you’re not already a member sign up to Join HIS and you will immediately be taken to the download page for the The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Free Ebook

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19. “I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.”
18. “The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.”
17. “There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.”
16. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”
15. “To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time.”
14. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
13. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
12. “Roads? Where we’re going on this journey we don’t need roads.”
11. “What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
10. “Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.”
9. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
8. “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
7. “Focus on the journey, not the destination.”
6. “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.”
5. “Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before.”
4. “The journey that matters most is the journey within.”
3.  “The journey is the reward.”
2. “The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
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Tell Us, Where will Your Journey Take You?

Quotes compiled by Danny Welsh…that guy who really, really loves quotes!

Catch the Money magazine article Published today?

Here’s a link. I want you to take a look, a very hard and INFORMED look, at the columns  in that table. Look at the 5 year growth all across the board and ask yourself: why do the wealthiest people in the world make and keep their money in property?

It’s not always going to explode in value as a one-year investment- as speculators who lost money when housing values “fell” never seem to understand- but over time…still nothing better!

Money Magazine Article

Don’t let the media, whose infatuation is too often with the now and on the sensationalistic angle of a story or on the most negative spin possible (or all three) keep you from building wealth in this real estate market!

 Best,

Adam Steward

You won’t agree with everything Dr. Haddock has to say in this book, as we do not. He is truly a strange man, but a man whose passion for reaching deep within the possibilities for human self-mastery and enrichment has led him to have the knowledge and nature to explain in simple-to-understand sentences a phenomenon with which many successful people are familiar. That phenomenon is success-magnetism.

This book elucidates the importance of magnetism in daily life processes and shows you how to cultivate a mindset that will attract what you want and repel what you don’t want.

In a very real sense, this book is a manual to how to live life on your own terms, and is filled with easy steps, descriptive examples and step by step tutorials.

Among the important principles you will learn when you read this success classic:

1.         You magnetize yourself with your thoughts to the circumstances you will attract in your life.

2.         Fear assumes numerous disguises to hold us back, despite our insistence we do not feel “fear”.

3.         Our future is our only playing field for which to achieve change.

Master these lessons in the magnetism of success, and you will go forth upon the highways and by-ways of life, endowed with a kingly confidence in your ability to win a measure of success and a level of contentment achieved by very few.

Frank C. Haddock: “There is an insidious foe to mastery and freedom, which dooms millions to self-imposed bondage. This foe is FEAR…” 

Get Frank C. Haddock’s highly energizing  Free Ebook as a Basic Free Member of America’s #1 Real Estate Network. Just go to http://www.hisrealestatenetwork.com/enterlibrary.php to see the entire growing success library our members enjoy access to and if you’re not already a member sign up to Join HIS and you will immediately be taken to the download page for the Mastery of Self Free Ebook

A number of questions have been coming in about how best to use our main website (and the many real estate investor benefits available to members of the community) at www.hisrealestatenetwork.com .

Let me direct you to a simple and straightforward presentation we had created to assist with just those inquiries. Keep the questions coming…

 How to use HIS Real Estate Network site

What are your financial goals?

Just as each individual is completely unique, so are the needs of every investor. In fact, it would be foolish to think that there is one simple financial solution for every investor out there. Would you not agree? That is why it makes perfect logical sense that people require different financial goals based on their needs. Of course, always looking at things logically with respect to investing and finances is another issue entirely (and removing emotion from sound financial planning and investing decision-making another series of articles in and of itself). But let’s say this at least about goals: goals, after all, are a complete reflection of who you are and what level you are currently in life.

      What may be important to a young 20 year old investor may be extremely different from someone over the age of 55. In fact, your personal goals are likely to change over time as you reach different levels and have different needs. Let me make this simple…

      Normally, your financial goals will be defined by the time it takes to realize your return. Here’s a simple example. In one of the coaching sessions I had with a young investor I learned that his short-term goal was to go on a vacation to back-pack through Europe. His mid-term goals were to own his very own home for his family and his longer-term goals were to own a 200 unit apartment complex.

      Other older investors in our network are focused on other priorities; both immediate and far off into the sunset (you do know human beings keep living ever-longer lives, right?). Some of their short-term goals are to have a decent retirement account that keeps them in their comfortable lifestyle. Now, if you would have waited till this point of your life to consider your choices for providing the type of income you would need to continue with this comfortable lifestyle, you will certainly find yourself under a mountain of pressure. Do you follow me so far?

      Whether you are young or older, to retire with comfort you need a strategic plan to both save and invest your money. Saving and investing are critical in ensuring that you achieve your financial goals. Here is the way I highly recommend you look at Saving & Investing.

• Saving is putting money aside (normally in a savings or money market account) for a limited time period. One great reason for saving is to build up lump sums of cash to invest in opportunities that will put your money to work for you. Simple enough, right?

• Investing is buying assets of value- such as bonds, currency, stocks, real estate etc. These type of investments have the potential to generate monthly income, increase the underlying asset value over the long term or, preferably in most cases, do both.

Many people feel overwhelmed or intimidated when they talk about investing because of the great variety of investments out there. To keep things simple I will show you a simple way of understanding the different asset classes.

Same as Cash: Any asset that you can convert to cash with little to no loss of value is considered cash equivalent. Certificates of Deposit (CD’s) and Treasury Bills (T-bills) are examples of owning assets that are the same as cash. These relatively high-liquidity savings-investment vehicles offer less risk which means that they typically will yield lower returns.

Debt Securities: If you purchase a security such as a note or bond, you are in effect lending your money to the government, agency or company responsible for backing the debt security (i.e you are lending your money to the party offering the security). In essence, you have become the bank! In return, the debtor is promising to pay you interest in addition to your principal. These notes or bonds will typically have a fixed maturity date. Each loan will be differentiated by the terms and conditions of the written agreement, collateral and credibility of the debtor— with corresponding differing values for risk and returns. 

Equity Securities: If you own an equity security (AKA Stock), you own a piece of the company who issued the security—no matter how small that piece happens to be. You can hold stocks directly or indirectly through other funds that own a multitude of securities. Bottom line: when you own a stock you partake in that company’s success or failure. Though many consider stocks to be a bit risky they can also offer great returns.

Tangible Property: When you own tangible property (AKA hard assets), you own an actual thing (not its derivative or a division thereof). The best example is real estate such as land, property, commercial buildings etc. The beauty of owning real estate is that history has proven that it doubles in value every 10 to 14 years. Another valuable element of owning tangible property is that it not only offers growth in value, it also can offer monthly income, thus increasing your profit potential. Other hard assets include gold, other precious metals and commodities in tangible form.

To Recap: To become a successful investor you will need to begin setting solid financial goals, understanding your needs (now and in the future), identifying the types of investments that best suit those needs and, finally, executing your plan of action. Over the next couple of articles I will cover some important elements of investing to help you identify your risk tolerance and help you to focus on building the right portfolio that suits your lifestyle.

Rick Melero invites you to learn more about how hard assets can make your portfolio solid, by investing in the tangible. Get 8-10%+ Passive Secured Returns and ask about the Infinite ROI Program with HIS Real Estate Network at http://www.hisrealestatenetwork.com/contact-us.php or be sure to research more about investing with real estate using the free real estate investor search engine at http://www.hisrealestatenetwork.com/real-estate-investor-search-engine.php

– George S. Clason

The “Greatest Showman in the History of the Universe” reveals his secrets for accumulating vast sums of wealth in an entertaining book made from several of P.T. Barnum’s famous speeches. Best known as a headline-grabbing circus promoter of Barnum and Bailey fame, it is unfortunate that popular history has forgotten much of Barnum’s contribution to the world of success and wealth-building.

Few today would know he was one of the richest men in America in his day, or that he traveled extensively teaching success principles as well as promoting the circus he billed the “Greatest Show on Earth”. After a wonderful career in which he made and lost fortunes, entertained and entered the social circles of royalty, and used his genius, wit and networking savvy to establish a brand bigger than life, P.T. Barnum was certainly qualified to have written these golden rules for making money.  

Among the important principles you will learn when you read this success classic:

 - The facts of how the successful investors of history are responsible for more of our institutions of learning and of art, colleges and churches than any government ever could be.

- Money is a very excellent servant but a terrible master

- There’s a customer born every minute. (Many have quoted Barnum as saying “there’s a sucker born every minute” while contemporaries who knew him claim he’d never say such a thing and serious historians also discount the second rendering in favor of the first).

In the book, Barnum gives 20 “rules” that a “money-getter” must abide by in order to be successful. If you are already striving along the path to success, and reaching roadblocks or ceilings, you will likely find that there is a “rule” that you’ve been breaking to this point that has hindered you from getting to the next level. When you read this book, you’ll see it, and your success will accelerate as a result of applying what you learn.  P.T. Barnum: “There is nothing animate or inanimate that will work so faithfully as money when placed at interest, well secured. It works night and day…”

Get P.T. Barnum’s  fun and exciting Free Ebook The Art of Money Getting as a Basic Free Member of America’s #1 Real Estate Network. Just go to http://www.hisrealestatenetwork.com/enterlibrary.php to see the entire growing success library our members enjoy access to and if you’re not already a member sign up to Join HIS and you will immediately be taken to the download page for the Free Ebook The Art of Money Getting