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As many of you have probably figured out, I'm constantly looking for wisdom that moves me positively forward in life. In that regard, a favorite quote is Woody Allen's “90% of life is just showing up.” Consistent with that advice, I've been working on “showing up” more in my personal and professional life.

This month that included a public presentation on leadership sponsored by w3w3 Media Network, the “voice of Colorado 's high tech community.” The project included being interviewed by long-time friend Larry Nelson and if you're interested in my current “take” on some leadership challenges, just go to our home page, look up and to the right and click on the box offering the interview in streaming audio:

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This month's issue of Powered by Possibility includes a summary of the first of our Eight Elements of Personal and Organizational Effectiveness...DECIDE

and our Extraordinary Living Action Steps, some interesting quotes and current news from Balance Point International.

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In this issue:

• Feature: DECIDE...clearly, specifically and positively what you want!
• Extraordinary Wisdom Quotes of the Month
• A New Deluxe Paperback Edition of “Living an Extraordinary Life”
• Rave Recommendation
• Extraordinary Living Action Steps

DECIDE

We're at that time of year when New Year's resolutions are, unfortunately, often becoming just a memory or a source of guilt. I've got a radical proposal: give yourself the gift of renewal and along with that, a new personal toolbox, a set of behaviors that, when practiced, will bring you a level of success most people only dream of.

It is clear that many people live life somewhat reactively, looking only to past experiences to guide them and waiting for current events and circumstances to dictate their choices. I've heard this mode of operating compared to attempting to drive your car by taking a firm grip with both hands on the rear view mirror and attempting to steer the car (or your life) by looking at the past and and having your possibilities being defined by what you've accomplished in the past.

Knowing what you don't want is easier for most people and often appears as the only choice available.

We've learned from observing highly successful people and how they've created lives of meaning and abundance that the first element of human effectiveness is simple and highly powerful:

DECIDE

Decide clearly, specifically and positively what you want.

The great experts on this subject have spoken loudly and clearly for centuries. Napolean Hill, Dale Carnegie, Brian Tracy—giants in the field of helping us get what we want—all agree. You must first decide what you want and write it down because only then can you focus your energies on accomplishment.

The more vivid the picture you create in your mind, the more specific you are…… the greater the opportunity for success. Do it now. Write it down. Decide clearly, specifically and positively what you want.

Pay attention to those words “clearly, specifically and positively.” You will amplify your ability to actually manifest what you want by using clear, specific positive and outcome oriented language. In our seminars, we call it using the Outcome Frame:

• What do you want?

• When do you want it?

• How will you know you are successful?

• When you are successful, what else will improve?

• What resources are available to you that will help you get what you want?

• What are you going to do NOW that will get you what you want?

Our action steps will give you some work to do that I guarantee will further your goals for 2003.

Read on!

Our theme this month is “Decide” and I've chosen to share a few personal favorites on that subject.

With the design help of Christina Canright of Canright and Paule and her committed staff, I'm delighted to announce that a new, revised second edition of my book is available. You can order on-line at:

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Meet O Matic is a great tool for anyone who arranges meetings for business, pleasure or charitable activities involving a group.

You can learn more and give it a try at:

http://www.meetomatic.com/calendar.asp

You use a simple web form, email participants, visually juggle constraints and presto: the precise opposite of all the power scheduling tools that no one uses! 100% free; 100% private; no registration; no setup; no hassle.

Meet-O-Matic is a meeting scheduler with a difference you can experience for yourself in 2 minutes, with no registration ever required. Most workgroup software (groupware) designed to deal with schedule, diary, timetable and meeting constraint problems lies unused after the first few scheduling experiences.

Meet-O-Matic is a meeting scheduler that does not constrain participants to share a common diary or even use a common platform - you can propose and schedule meetings online and invite participants using your own email system, then monitor responses to your meeting invitation as they arrive and are displayed in Meet-O-Matic's intuitive visual constraint table. With this table you can perform a powerful what-if scenario analysis and home in quickly on the best dates.

Here are some suggestions for “homework” that have helped generate positive results for others. Cut, paste and print the sentences below and then “do the work” of completing them for yourself.

In the year 2005...

I want _____________________ for my physical well being.

I want _____________________ for my mental/emotional/spiritual growth.

I want _____________________ for my personal and family financial well being.

I want _____________________ to further my career success.

I want _____________________ to contribute to my community.

It seems too simple, doesn't it? Yet those who develop the habit of writing down their goals know the power of this simple exercise.

Remember, decide clearly, specifically and positively what you want. Then let me know how it turns out for you.

Wishing you an Extraordinary Life and Extraordinary Organizations ,

Robert White
Balance Point International
P. O. Box 40405
Denver , CO 80204

Phone: 1-303-632-7744

E-mail: Robert@BalancePointInternational.com

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