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Opportunity and Being Intentional with Your Goals.

There was a great post that goes into some depth about the opportunity that being in business for yourself really is and why most people miss the real opportunity.

Starting a business can be fun, crazy and even a bit scary. The thing is, in business as with most other things, you end up about where you intended to.

So the key is to intend to end up somewhere.

The article talks about the false security we find in more, more, more. More is not a goal and going after more is causing us to miss the opportunity home business ownership really gives us, the opportunity to create a life by design.

Check out the post on the opportunity home business owners miss.

Fw: At 211 degrees...water is hot

Joe Crawford Entrepreneur/ Home Business Coach CEO Create Liberty Enterprises http://www.createliberty.blogspot.com http://www.createliberty.com Success is Just an Agreement With Freedom. Phone 231-448-2478 ( I always return calls.) --- On Thu, 9/18/08, Your Achievement Ezine <ezine@yoursuccessstore.com> wrote: From: Your Achievement Ezine <ezine@yoursuccessstore.com> Subject: At 211 degrees...water is hot To: joe_crawford_05@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 11:44 AM At 211 degrees...water is hot. At 212 degrees...it boils. And with boiling water, comes steam. And steam can power a locomotive. And, it's that one extra degree that... Makes all the difference. Best-selling author Mac Anderson declares that the 212° concept is one of the most powerful communication ideas he has experienced in his 30 years as an entrepreneur. It was just more than two years ago that he and Sam Parker wrote the popular Simple Truths® gift book titled 212°: The Extra Degree. And it has become one of their most celebrated inspirational books! So many times, in business and in life, it's that one extra degree of effort that separates the good from the great. What is fantastic about the 212° idea is that you can use it to fit your own needs. It may be 212° service that you'd like to reinforce, or 212° attitude, leadership, or quality. Or maybe, you'll choose to build your entire culture around the 212° concept...to differentiate you from your competition. The real beauty of 212° is the simplicity of the idea. Once explained...everybody gets it. And once you get it...it's hard to forget! Use this link to view a 3-minute inspirational 212° movie: www.212-degrees.com   If you have not already seen it, we strongly encourage you to take a couple of minutes and watch this inspiring video. As a bonus, when you purchase the 212° Gift Book you will also get a free copy of this movie on DVD. 212°: The Extra Degree makes a great gift for anyone; employees, customers, friends and family will all love it. So take advantage of the quantity discounts offered and stock up for any gift-giving occasion! SAVE 30% WHEN YOU BUY A SPECIAL PACKAGE OF 5 POPULAR SIMPLE TRUTHS® BOOKS! Use this link now to watch the movie and find out more details on our special package offer. www.212-degrees.com   Enjoy! YSS Team P.S. If you don't have time to view the video right now, but want to learn more about 212°: The Extra Degree, please visit http://www.YourSuccessStore.com/212           --- You are currently subscribed to yourachievementezine as: joe_crawford_05@yahoo.com To unsubscribe Use this link or send a blank email to leave-7957835-14420263.c7d61928c36b2ec05cdd19fd58cdd613@list.yoursuccessstore.com

Gratitude: How to Be More Grateful.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey.

This is consider a truth in the world of gratitude and manifesting more of what you want in your life. Seems most people either are really keen on this and focus on enlarging their lives or they don't.

Most things aren't black and white, and I'm sure there are people in the middle, one thing is for sure though, this is one thing to get right and get right quickly.

This on idea for increasing gratitude has been repeated in slightly different forms from just about every personal development teacher I know.

So remember, to look at what you have and be grateful.

Persistence, Visualization, Determination: Personal Development in Action.

Dear Joe, Here is your Friday story, Holding The Vision In 1992 I was living in New Jersey near the Delaware River. I was offering healing work and spiritual counseling, and had become close with a number of like minded individuals. We started to see that we shared a collective vision of our hearts, about living close to the Earth, growing our own food, raising our children naturally and serving the greater community. So we began meeting in "visioning sessions". We incorporated quiet meditation, dynamic discussion, laughter, and good food during each meeting. Over the course of several sessions a beautiful vision started to form: a large piece of land of several hundred acres, at a higher elevation with a beautiful view, lots of fresh water, farm land to grow our food organically, and a large building to host large groups of people. I wasn't sure how we were going to do it or where - I just knew it was going to happen. After a number of months of weekly sessions, we came to a strong, well formed vision. We then held it in our thoughts. My personal vision had been alive throughout my entire adult life, and at 43 years of age I was ready for the magic to happen. And it did! Just a short while later, out of the blue, a phone call came to me from a past acquaintance. She said she just reached a decision to sell her property in the Finger Lakes Region of Western New York and was I interested in buying. Without hesitation I said, "YES!" It was 275 acres, on a small mountain, with a beautiful view, a 5 acre lake, with 90 acres of land ready to be farmed organically. Wow! I quickly gathered our friends together and shared the good news with them, expecting everyone to jump up and down with joy. But the main reaction was one of shock and awe - like a bomb went off. To most the great news was more disturbing than inspiring. Careful what you vision for and be prepared to receive it because it will manifest! After more discussions it became clear that I and just a few others were ready to accept the beautiful vision we called into our lives. So we went forth and worked out a deal to lease to purchase and then make a balloon payment at the end of three years to culminate the purchase. Everything was going quite well until we got closer and closer to the time of the balloon payment - $139,000. We could not find a bank willing to extend a mortgage to us. A friend knew the past president of the local bank who said that I would never get a loan from a bank around here. However I did not give up. I was determined and convinced it would be accomplished in my favor. Just three days before the payment was due there was no clear possibilities - fear tried to arise, worry was knocking on the front door and disaster was pulling up outside. Then I remembered a friend from New Jersey that once said he had a "spiritual uncle" who lived in the Finger Lakes. I made the call immediately, asked my friend who he knew and he said, "it was the past president of the local bank", the very man who said I wouldn't get a loan locally. My friend asked if it would help if he called his uncle and I said, "yes, yes indeed!" And that day with one more phone call papers began to be written up for a mortgage and within two days the balloon payment was satisfied! Never give up on your dreams, never swerve from your vision, and trust the beauty of the image you hold in your heart and mind. I give thanks to all our visions that lead us to our own personal promised land! Greg Lynn Weaver Greg Lynn Weaver is a teacher and healer. He trained for fifteen years under the instruction of Zen teacher Roshi Philip Kapleau and worked as an assistant to Bhante Dharmawara, world renowned Buddhist Monk. Greg Lynn's apprenticeship ended in 1999 with Bhante's death at the age of 110. Greg Lynn is cofounder of the PeaceWeavers - an inspirational community dedicated to personal empowerment and sustainable living. He facilitates a variety of retreats and gatherings at Thunder Mountain Retreat Sanctuary in the Finger Lakes of Western New York. To find out more please go to: www.peaceweavers.com Click here for our printable version Sent to you as a courtesy of: Bob Proctor Become a Perfect Weight Coach. Find out about this exciting new opportunity. Go to: http://www.bobproctorperfectweight.com Change your email address or name here If you wish to be taken off our list click here Please feel free to contact us any of the ways below: e-mail: insights@insightoftheday.com Joe Crawford Entrepreneur/ Home Business Coach CEO Create Liberty Enterprises http://www.createliberty.blogspot.com http://www.createliberty.com Success is Just an Agreement With Freedom. Phone 989-621-0605 ( I always return calls.)

Increasing intimacy in relationships: Chris Widener.

1. Charting Your Course to Success Article How to Put a Little Z.I.P. Into Your Relationships by Chris Widener Through the years I have spent hundreds of hours working with people in their relationships: Marriages, friendships, working relationships and social relationships. Through it all I have seen some wonderful things and some terrible things. It truly is the good, the bad and the ugly! But I have been able to find three core elements of successful relationships. These are things that, when done over time, begin to create for you the kinds of relationships that you truly desire. They are the kinds of relationships you have always dreamed of. So I wanted to give you a good way to remember some of the essentials with an acronym I have used to keep my mind on three important elements of relationships in my own life. It is the acronym Z.I.P. Z.I.P. stands for three things you can do - and begin to do immediately - to improve any and all of your relationships. Here are some thoughts on how to put a little Z.I.P. into your relationships! Put some Zest into your relationships. Cultivate more Intimacy in your relationships. Develop a Purpose in your relationships. Now, let's take a closer look at each of these three: Put some Zest into Your Relationships. By Zest, I primarily mean fun. Relationships were meant to be fun! We wouldn't have been made with the capacity to have fun if relationships weren't supposed to have a little zest in them! Think about it: Don't you usually start out most healthy relationships with a lot of fun times? Whether it is going out to dinner or a ballgame, or spending time playing a game or even just a lively talk, you usually have fun as a major part of the relationship. Fun is some of the glue that bonds the relationship. However, as life goes on, specifically in a marriage, but potentially in all relationships really, the fun starts to go by the wayside. More and more it is about getting the job done, whatever the job may be. To restore the relationship, to put a little zip into it, we need to reintroduce the idea of "zest." Cultivate more Intimacy in Your Relationships. First a couple of clarifications: One, I don't just mean intimacy in the common term of sexual intimacy. I mean for all intents and purposes, taking your relationship to a deeper level. Second, I don't mean that you have to start doing group hugs with your workmates or having revelation sessions where the tissue flows freely. What I do mean is that every relationship that is mutually satisfying has a level of depth to it that provides meaning. This is really what the search is for in our relationships -- meaning. Remember when you first started your relationship, whether with your spouse or friend. All of that time was spent opening up, telling who you are, where you were from, and about your likes and dislikes. There was a deep sense of satisfaction with the relationship - that is why it continued. You liked who they were and you enjoyed being known by them. But then something happens. We get to a certain level and the pursuit of depth ends. We stop sharing feeling, likes and dislikes. We stop sharing joys and dreams and fears. Instead, we settle into routines. The daily grind takes over and we stop knowing one another and we simply exist together. Now don't get me wrong, every time you get together doesn't have to be deep. Remember, I am the one who advocates in the previous paragraphs just having plain old fun sometimes. But there is a need for regular times of intimate connection where we go deeper with others. Develop a Purpose in Your Relationships. The most meaningful relationships we have are those that are held together by a common purpose and vision for what the relationship can accomplish, not only for those involved but also for a greater good. Let's face it, when people have a common purpose they feel like they are part of a team and they feel bound together in that relationship. Even when people may be disappointed in the people they are in relationship with, if they have a purpose, such as raising children, they are much more likely to stick it out. Purpose creates bonds. So what happens if we are proactively involved in seeking out a common purpose with those we want a relationship with or those with whom we already have a relationship, but would like to see it go to a deeper level? Well, it gets better and stronger. Think about your strongest relationships. Aren't they centered around at least one area of purpose or a common goal? What about a relationship that has cooled? Think back and see if perhaps you used to have a common purpose but it has gone by the wayside. So let's recap: You want your relationships to show a little "zip"? Then put a little Z.I.P. in them: Put some Zest into your relationships. Cultivate more Intimacy in your relationships. Develop a Purpose in your relationships.   Reproduced with permission from the Chris Widener Ezine. To subscribe to Chris Widener's Ezine, go to http://www.chriswidener.com or send an email with Join in the subject to subscribe@chriswidener.com Copyright 2007 Chris Widener International. All rights reserved worldwide.     Joe Crawford Entrepreneur/ Home Business Coach CEO Create Liberty Enterprises http://www.createliberty.blogspot.com http://www.createliberty.com Success is Just an Agreement With Freedom. Phone 989-621-0605 ( I always return calls.)

How to Experience more Freedom Day to Day: Mental Constructs

Dear Joe, Mental Prisons   Some time ago I did a show on Habits. They play an important role in your life. Like many aspects of your life, habits can be considered both a blessing and a curse. Robert Russell in his magnificent little book "You Try It" wrote that habit was God's way of making good automatic in your life. I had a wonderful friend in Atlanta, the late Dr. Jay Dishman, who wrote an excellent article about habit in his monthly newsletter dated February 1985. I have shared Dr. Dishman's article with thousands of people around the world. Today I want to share it with you. Here goes! "Recently I visited Alcatraz Prison. Once it housed the most hardened of criminals. Today it is open to tourists under the direction of the United States Parks Department. Many men have tried to escape Alcatraz; no one is known to have succeeded. As I listened to the tour guide explain the impossibility of escape, I thought of other prisons equally confining but where the doors are never locked, no guards walk the halls, and escape is encouraged and possible. That prison is Habit." Our habit is thinking about ourselves and our environment as a jail or a paradise. We need but to look around us to see people who are rich emotionally and materially because they think and feel rich. We also see people who are laden with emotional and material debt because they think lack. Some are inspired with vision, others are encumbered with doubt. Some are moved by ambition, others feel safer in monotony. Some reach for the mountain tops, others huddle in the pits. Some seek opportunity, others wait for it to knock. The sad fact is that more people are confined by their thoughts than are fed by them. Negative thinking shuts us in a prison, but there is a way out. The apostle Paul said, "Be transformed by the renewal of your mind." Paul knew a lot about prisons, both physical and mental. You renew your life by renewing your mind. You renew your mind when you change your habit of thinking. Dr. Jay Dishman helped thousands change their habit of thinking in his lifetime. Now hopefully he has helped you. Bob Proctor Bob Proctor is a speaker, personal success coach and author of the best selling book "You Were Born Rich." Join Bob and some of his closest friends on October 18. Go to: www.insightoftheday.com/cruise for all the information. Click here for our printable version Sent to you as a courtesy of: Bob Proctor Be Coached by Bob Proctor "If you can tell me what you want, I''ll show you how to get it." http://www.bobproctorcoaching.com   Looking to build more freedom in your daily life?  Look into a holistic approach to real wealth.  Time, money, and personal freedom are available today to anyone who makes them a priority, I did. Visit a link below to learn more. Joe Crawford Entrepreneur/ Home Business Coach CEO Create Liberty Enterprises http://www.createliberty.blogspot.com http://www.createliberty.com Success is Just an Agreement With Freedom. Phone 231-448-2478 ( I always return calls.)