You’re able to communicate far more effectively by keeping in mind the perspective of the other person, and remember, too, that they’re most likely not thinking of yours.

Do you feel like you’re ‘saved’ by coffee every morning? Read this story, then!

If you’re like many people, you feel like that first cup – or pot! – of coffee is a life-saver in the morning, especially if you’re getting up earlier than you’d like.

Well the guy who was the station manager back when I was the public affairs director at WSUW (that was before I began my newspaper career), he has are more harrowing story to tell, where coffee may have quite literally saved his life!

The fact that you’re completely exposed going through airport security raises important issues of self-esteem and how comfortable you are in your own skin.

This is an interesting post, not for your personal growth or to better yourself, at least in the traditional sense.

They say patience is a virtue. I don’t know about that, although I do know it can get you cold pizza!

There I was, hungry and ready to eat – now!

Which was why I decided to use the microwave instead of the toaster oven, because that would have taken longer.

When, all of a sudden, I pushed the wrong button. I hit “Time” instead of “Quick On”!

That’s where you have to “manually” enter the full amount. You know, like, “3-0-0″ and “Enter” – all that work… and time away from the fulfillment of my ever need… the hot, juicy, mouth-watering pizza being in my hand and in my mouth, fast!!!

The Quick On button was what I had meant to hit, which would have saved me like 2.5 whole seconds, which in Pizza Time seems like an eternity.

That would have been where after hitting “Quick On” I just would have pressed “3″ and it would go for 3 minutes and shut off.

For about three-fourths of a second I looked at the display and “What to do?” ran through my mind….

“Do I hit cancel and then go back and hit the Quick-On button? Or I’m already here, I guess it won’t be so bad to type in the full time manually (I PROBABLY won’t die of starvation having to wait that extra 1.5 seconds!)”

Can you believe that? I actually had to use critical thinking to heat my pizza!?

What’s this world coming to when you have to make an important decision before you can have your instant food done in an instant?

Well… my three minutes are up (my pizza’s getting cold, in fact).

Go ahead and mull that over.

…While I’m eating!

Warmly,

Dan Klatt,
“Think And Grow Rich Guy”
Founder of the CarnegieCentre and
President of the Internet Marketing Organization

….Serving as Your WealthSensei!

Resources:

- The best way to learn patience…. Huh?!

Do you really want to buy a product purporting to teach patience from someone who can’t even wait an extra second and a half before heating up his pizza in the microwave?

I don’t have any way of helping you learn patience. In fact, left me know if you know of one!

There was a tragedy in Sedona near where I live where 2 people died in a sweat lodge. I share my experiences going through one myself, and how I endured the extreme heat – through focus, just as you can survive and overcome any life challenge with the right mindset.

A friend from Australia knew I call Sedona Arizona my home and he was concerned I may have been involved in the recent sweat lodge ceremony in Sedona that left 2 dead and a number of others ill.

If you’re unfamiliar with a sweat lodge, it’s a Native American tradition often used in shamanic circles.

The facilitator builds a small enclosure similar to a teepee or wigwam centered around a pit with hot rocks over a fire. In the sweat lodge I did shortly after moving to Sedona in 1999, there were maybe 16 of us in this small space, and it was “excruciatingly intense” – meaning the heat, the feeling of being baked, the discomfort.

I don’t know for sure what’s supposed to be going on when you do one, although I think it’s meant to purify a person, let the body “sweat it out” – sweat out the toxins, release negative energy… I believe it’s a purification ritual.

Who knows whether any of that happened. For me…. it was damn hot!!!!

(I didn’t enjoy the experience. Although I am glad I went through it – once.)

As I told my friend Tristan

in Australia, it was similar to fire-walking, where you do it not because it’s fun. You do it because it puts you in extreme physical conditions – to go through it and build character. Like running a marathon to overcome a difficult challenge.

For what it makes you.

The key to surviving being “roasted in the fire”, as the sweat lodge felt like to me, was focus.

I got through it with no scathing burns and probably just red skin and a lot of sweat, by putting all my attention (which I knew intuitively to do) on the image I “saw” before me in my mind of a red rose. By keeping that the focal point, I wasn’t giving my attention to the heat, the discomfort, the little voice that was screaming ‘Are you crazy, this is HOTTTT!”

And I endured through it until the leader said it was time to diminish the “torture” and let us out. (We could leave anytime we wanted, and a few people did exit early.

Can you relate to going through something extremely difficult that tested your limits – and seeing it through as a better person? I bet you can because that’s what going through any life challenge can and will do for you when you have that mindset that “I’m going to learn and grow and become a better person by having gone through this.

Warmly,

Dan Klatt,
“Think and Grow Rich Guy”
Founder of the Carnegie Centre,
President of the Internet Marketing Organization

….Serving as Your WealthSensei!

Jim Rohn’s guidance can still make a huge difference to your life, even by reading the tributes people have posted about how he inspired their lives. What about this tribute is most valuable for you?

My friend Jason was really influenced by Jim Rohn, and in this great blog post, he shares the sage advice that meant a great deal to him.

Click on that link and read his post.

I replied to it, with this:

Thanks for inspiring me with this wisdom, both yours and his. I forwarded your link to a client, asking him which section was most meaningful to him.

For me it was “Wishing”, the point about being a successful person to attract success, rather than striving for it or chasing it. ‘

Thanks much! Warmly, Dan

What inspired you the most from Jim Rohn and Jason Fladlien’s wisdom?

How will you act on that inspiration?

I’m going to set aside the time I’ve wanted to spend each day on becoming a better copywriter. This will be through my CopyU.org or CopyU.org sites. (Join me if you share that goal or desire that you’ve known you need to improve, as well.)

Because as great as my Think and Grow Rich wisdom and trainings are, I know I can benefit from presenting them in a way that hits more people the right way, allowing me to fulfill my dharma (life purpose) that much more effectively.

Another tangible action I’m going to do is make it a higher priority to continue my own studies, also every day. I’m going through “Talks with Ramana Maharshi” and the last two days did not take the time to do my daily reading because my work day was compressed while my girlfriend was staying here. (I don’t mean to make an excuse. She went back to her house and realistically I know I could have carved out the time while she was hear. Also, related to that, to take less time for movies or the few favorite TV shows, like Monk, Star Trek, South Park, Merlin. And to spend less time looking for new marketing materials and products to buy and more time to learn from the ones I already bought.

How about you?!

Warmly,

Dan Klatt,

“Think And Grow Rich Guy”

Founder of the CarnegieCentre,

President of the Internet Marketing Organization

1. They don’t know what they have going for them.

2. They don’t know how to earn money from what they have going for them.

3. They don’t know how to access the people who will pay them.

We often put obstacles in our way, which we don’t realize are there until we look at our lives thoughtfully and become more aware. The spotlight of that awareness allows us to transcend these obstacles, also causing us to strengthen our character.

A strange thought occurred to me.

I was looking out the front doors windows to see whether it looked like it may rain. The windows have blinds that are closed to keep it cooler in the Arizona summer sun.

When I stepped on a pebble or something that I wanted to throw away, yet the waste basket was at a diagonal that would require me to walk around my long couch and the love seat perpendicular to it.

The thought came to mind that it would be more direct to just walk right over the couch, instead of around it.

Yet I didn’t want to do that, for obvious reasons – because the couch is an obstacle in my way that could trip me up or cause me to fall and hurt myself if I attempted to climb over it.

(I admit it was tempting for a minute just to do something unusual or unexpected or different.)

The thing is, how many times do we erect our own obstacles and put them so they’re in the way and stand between us and our goals?

Such as any number of distractions (e-mail is the big one, maybe it’s Facebook or Twitter or a forum you hang out in, maybe it’s text messaging… what is it for you?)

….Or fears!

For example fear of failing. Or fear of redicule or disapproval/criticism. Or fear of success.

People tend to allow their fears to stand in their way, just like a couch or other obstacle between where they’re at now and where they want to be on their journey.

Although, unlike in my “office”, which others may call a living room/great room – it’s easier to walk around the long couch than to climb over it when it’s standing in the way of where I’m going….

The obstacles people put in their way on their journey toward success they often choose to sit down and stop going forward.

They allow those obstacles to stand in their way and prevent them from succeeding.

Sure, they could just say “Hmm, that’s interesting, I seem to have allowed my fear of ___ to stand in my way and prevent me from succeeding” – where that awareness is how in fact they’ve just walked around that obstacle and put it behind them on their path.

Yet the obstacles are often things we cannot see, even as they’re preventing us (apparently) from moving forward.

Awareness is the spotlight that makes all subtle and hidden obstacles visible to you.

You shine it through introspection, keeping your mind quiet, self-reflection, maybe it’s meditation for you.

Doing what I call “give in and go within”.

What obstacles at least previously were standing in the way of your success and happiness and enjoyment and fulfillment?

Now that you’re aware of them by doing that introspection, they are behind you and no longer an issue.

Alright, I just climbed over my couch, both the front and back of it, both ways. It was fun. I didn’t trip and fall.

And, as it turns out – as with all obstacles we push through – we build character and strength *THROUGH* pushing through and transcending the obstacles we previously allowed to stand in our way and limit or prevent our success.

We build character and become a better person by doing that.

What obstacle are you transcending now!?

Warmly,

Dan Klatt,
“Think And Grow Rich Guy”
Founder of the Carnegie Centre,
President of the Internet Marketing Organization

….Serving as Your WealthSensei!

Resources:

- What comes to mind as how I’m best able to help you overcome your obstacles is to learn to master the things you’re focusing on and giving power to.

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And consider joining the “Think And Grow Rich Mastermind“ for the daily support, insights and ongoing reminder to keep your focus on only that which “gives you joy, inspires you and moves you closer to your goals, desires and dreams”.