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- Jump On and Scramble All Over - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaA lot of people say to me, "Ted, you just seem so sincere and so honest, and you just don't seem to have so many pretentions." Well, I would say I'm sure my redneck Ciubas, my brothers and sisters and my family members, wouldn't mind another beer brawl down Broadway. When people think that I ...
Views: 662 - Let Those You Love Know That You Love Them, Today - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaHere we are on the edge of civilized Panamá, pretty doggone close to Tocumen International Airport, the airport that services Panamá. And inside these lot lines the grief, the well wishing, is serious. Rosendo Moreno, father of the clan, aged 74, passed away a few days ago. And the family is ...
Views: 793 - Like the World's Elite - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaGo the extra mile, and you'll be thinking and acting like the world's elite warriors and achievers. Go the extra mile, and you will be spectacular—you will stand head and shoulders above your competitors. And the amazing thing is, as I have said time and time again, it takes so little to ...
Views: 633 - Live The Examined Life, And Create The Life - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaIt was Henry David Thoreau in the 1800s—the transcendental era of literature, if you're a literature major—who wrote in Walden: "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." Of course if he were writing today, he'd say, "The mass of people or persons live lives of quiet ...
Views: 2843 - Make Your Vacation Spot Your Home - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaImagine your favorite destination in the world. Imagine it isn't your vacation spot; quite to the contrary, you've turned it around and made it your home. How can you do this? Well, if you've got an Internet business, you can do it easily. And it gets even better than this. When you make it ...
Views: 870 - Meaningful Words Vs. Meaningless Work - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaRecently, I found myself in front of a wishing well—and of course, I was and am wishing you well. I'm doing everything within my power to make you a more productive, more contributing, more achieving, more satisfied, more actualizing human being. There I was—I had the family with me, taking ...
Views: 842 - Meditation is an Active Event - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaHello, my friends! Today I'm going to talk about a concept that comes straight out of Chapter 13 of The NEW Think and Grow Rich—HoloMagic, the Sixth Sense, the other dimension. Even though we're going to focus in on a specific point, the whole chapter is about triggering the self-fulfilling ...
Views: 790 - More Important Than Specialized Knowledge - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaToday I'd like to discuss the fourth named principle in The NEW Think and Grow Rich, which is specialized knowledge. You know, most people really miss it here; they don't really catch what the chapter says. The chapter does not say that you need to have a lot of specialized knowledge. It does ...
Views: 944 - Move Directly into Action - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaIn a recent conversation, fellow entrepreneur Wendy Robbins made an important observation: that sometimes, people get so stuck in their plans that they scare themselves into not taking action. And she's absolutely right! When we talk about organized planning, what that's really saying is, ...
Views: 584 - Move Your Future Towards Your Definite Chief Aim - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaWhat do you do when you're in what you perceive to be a bad situation? Well, of course there are a number of different strategies you can use. Number one, reframe it; make it a challenge, make it an opportunity, make it something that in fact grows you and betters you and moves you further in ...
Views: 996 - On the Threshold of Unparalleled Success - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaThink of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. That's what I told a coaching client recently. We were in a coaching session, and she was explaining how her income had dropped, how the economy had her worried, and how it was harder to sell—which is why her income had dropped. ...
Views: 870 - One Creative Breakthrough - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaOne creative breakthrough can make a giant difference in your ability to contribute, and in your ability to receive the rewards that come with contribution. I'd like to give you a personal example from my own life and affairs. Again, this is metaphorical for you in your own career. If you're ...
Views: 710 - Opt Out Of The Crybaby Society - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaLet's talk a little bit about refunds. Well, let's start where the process begins, with sales. I want to talk about one of the wisdoms they teach us—that in the business environment, we're all salespeople, but some people have a specific responsibility. Those, of course, are the ones who get ...
Views: 709 - Rely On Yourself - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaPlease don't take this the wrong way, because that's not the way it's intended. But in a manner of speaking, I am excited about these tough economic times, these cutbacks, these peels and reels of people who were put out on the street. No job, three months of COBRA benefits, insurance only. It's ...
Views: 4344 - Reminding the Entire HoloCosm - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaAre you like most of us? Do you need an occasional kick in the bucket? Well, here it is, then! Everybody who lives by our philosophy of success knows that you need to have guiding affirmations—especially the one that you fill out in the Formula for Riches, on page six of The NEW Think and ...
Views: 836 - Repeat The Self Confidence Formula - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaRecently, my friend Wendy Robbins asked me how I would advise someone who had just been faced with a difficult obstacle. For example, what if you've been laid off, or you've just had a parent die? Whatever the circumstance might be, how do you regain confidence so you can move forward ...
Views: 858 - Riches Are a Result - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaLet's talk a little bit about c2, as in that HoloMagic c2 Factor. You might remember Einstein's famous and well-known formula, E = mc2. Let's talk about that for a moment. "E" is capitalized; "E" stands for Energy. Going across the equal sign, "m," which is usually written in lower case, is ...
Views: 632 - Risk, Reward, Probability - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2009 from Ted CiubaWhat would you do if someone said you had to make a decision on a purchase, an investment, a property—you call it—by the end of the day? Well, you know what most people would do, don't you? They would do nothing—they would let the opportunity pass. Or there's the other group, who would get so ...
Views: 1044 - Same Winds, Different Direction - by Submitted on May 04, 2009 from Ted CiubaToday's author's insight goes without comment. It's from pages 174-175 of The NEW Think and Grow Rich, talking about reframing, recontexting, and reconceptualizing. So often you hear me say, this philosophy is not new. You find in my humble opinion, the best, most actionable presentation of the ...
Views: 583 - See How Much You Can Give for a Dollar - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2009 from Ted CiubaI'm often asked—and it's a begging question, because I'm out there promoting the concept—"What makes a person exceptional?" The real way to phrase the question, of course, is, "How can I be exceptional, and how can I get ahead in my enterprise, organization, or my own business?" Well, it's ...
Views: 703 - Something That Works - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Ted CiubaGood day. Ted Ciuba here, writing about another Think and Grow Rich principle: Persistence. You know, a lot of people don't like the connotations of persistence, because it implies work. However, you, like most people interested in this philosophy, aren't averse to work. What you are wanting is ...
Views: 680 - T.J. Rohleder: 1 Minute Advice of a Millionaire - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2009 from Ted CiubaI recently asked my good friend, top marketer T.J. Rohleder, "If you had one minute to say something to somebody who was interested in marketing, what would you say?" Here's T.J.'s pithy response: "I would say, find the people within the market you want to target who are making a lot of money ...
Views: 1619 - That's What Positive Mental Attitude Is - by Submitted on May 25, 2009 from Ted CiubaHere's another quick anecdote for us to learn by. One morning as I was waking up recently, lo and behold, here comes a hailstorm. Now, I have lived through hail the size of baseballs—the size of a hardball, not a softball. And I've seen hail go through windows. I've seen hail batter vehicles so ...
Views: 668 - The 13 Named Principles of The NEW Think and Grow Rich - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Ted CiubaToday's subject is the 13 named principles of The NEW Think and Grow Rich. From time to time someone asks me—and sometimes I wonder why it doesn't happen more often, but maybe I already have the answer—"Should I memorize the 13 principles of The NEW Think and Grow Rich?" I usually refer to them ...
Views: 2438 - The Accumulation Of Riches And The Human Life Cycle - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2009 from Ted CiubaHere's a moment of insight, while it's actually happening, into the life of an author. I am reading my Spanish translation of The NEW Think and Grow Rich. They call it El Nuevo Piense y Hágase Rico. And I come across this line, "La acumulación de dinero no puede dejarlo al azar, a la buena ...
Views: 924 - The Crippled Superman - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2013 from Ted CiubaI was in a Reno airport when I first heard the news. I had an immediate gut reaction. Looking at the newspapers I saw the headlines announcing Superman was dead. He was a great actor. He was of my generation, and he was important to us. And then there’s something else, he was my exact age. The ...
Views: 1264 - The Current Flows Endlessly - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Ted CiubaThe morning I wrote this, I woke up like I usually do to a radio alarm clock—and the talk show host told me that Paul Harvey had died at 90 years of age, after a radio broadcasting career of 70 years. A true icon, he's been on the radio much longer than most of us, myself included, have even ...
Views: 677 - The Day That Superman Died - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from Ted CiubaI still remember the day that Superman died. It's been a few years ago now, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I was traversing the airport in Reno, Nevada and I saw the headlines. There were about 12 different newspapers for sale—they were all in their machines—and I caught the headlines: ...
Views: 1375 - The Difference Between Those Who Succeed and Those Who Fail - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2009 from Ted CiubaI want to tell you the difference between those who succeed and those who fail. And it's a whole lot simpler than you might think. You know, there are so many excuses that have been bandied out there—depending on sex, race, religion, age, intelligence, resources, contacts, parents, the ...
Views: 1359 - The Feeling That Masquerades as Good Sense - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2009 from Ted CiubaIn a recent conversation with my friend Wendy Robbins, she brought up one of the important topics that I address in The NEW Think and Grow Rich: "I'd love for you to talk about procrastination more, because I think a lot of people really raise their hand straight up if you ask them, 'How many ...
Views: 535 - The High Leverage Way To Use Affiliate Programs - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from Ted CiubaIn this edition, I'm going to talk a bit about affiliate programs on the Internet. Now, I know this is not our normal subject, but you know, I'm an Internet marketer—and I get a lot of questions on this. Besides, making money is our usual topic. And being smart about it is the only way to ...
Views: 694 - The Inspired Thought That, When You Get It, You Know It's Yours - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Ted CiubaIntuition is not just a mystical and entertaining, topical, religious, or female kind of feeling. No, no, no—intuition is our consciousness guiding us, telling us what it knows to be right. Hey, everybody's got an opinion, and there are certain systems set up. For instance, you grow up, get a ...
Views: 751 - The Obituary Exercise - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Ted CiubaToday, let's talk about what I call the obituary exercise. And by the way, I want you to know that I teach this and actually guide people through it at my $50,000 Destiny Creator intensive seminars and events—so it's like major technology. The idea is this. Whatever age you're at, project ...
Views: 7674 - The Only Long-Term Business Approach That Brings Outstanding Success - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Ted CiubaThere is no conflict between working to maximize your profits in business, and working to benefit your consumer to the maximum. Quite to the contrary. Once you realize that the only long-term approach that can possibly be successful is to deliver the maximum value so that you get repeat and ...
Views: 915 - The Opposite Empowerment - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2009 from Ted CiubaUntil we break out of thinking that it's a random world or that luck might just happen… until we recognize and accept cause and effect, that "if it's to be it's up to me" … until we realize that the unseen and the seen worlds react identically, then we can't harness our power. That's why I ...
Views: 2963 - The Power of Decision or Indecision - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2009 from Ted CiubaA decision always requires a commitment—and a decision is made whether a person makes a decision or not. The decision could be about getting fit, it could be about starting that new business that you just know will take off, or it could be about starting that business that you're passionate ...
Views: 607 - The Self Confidence Formula - by Submitted on May 04, 2009 from Ted CiubaThere's a reason why you want to do your affirmations right. It's called results. You shouldn't just dash off a quick read of the Self Confidence Formula—you should attack it like a religious congregant, because it holds the secret to your future prosperity. It consists of a carefully crafted ...
Views: 1209 - The Superior Functioning of Your Body - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2009 from Ted CiubaIf it's the dominating thoughts of your mind that determine, through the mind-environment connection, the results that you get in your life, then one aspect of that result must be the superior functioning of your body. Yes, of your body, too. We talk so much about the mind. But what does it ...
Views: 634 - The Three Mores of the Extra Mile - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2009 from Ted CiubaPeople are always asking me, "How can I get ahead?" But that isn't what amazes me that they ask. What amazes me is that sometimes they really, sincerely don't know what to do, and don't know how to do it. And when they hear it, a lot of times it's a revelation from out of this world. Let me ...
Views: 703 - The War Stories It Takes To Get To These Glorious Days - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2013 from Ted CiubaI’m celebrating today, and I figuratively invite you to lift a glass of champagne with me. I just put the last nail into the project, El Nuevo Piense y Hágase Rico, the Spanish translation of The NEW Think And Grow Rich. I dispatched the translated autoresponder series off to my webmasters ...
Views: 1336 - They Let Me into Their World - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from Ted CiubaI was out for a walk recently. It was a brisk March morning in Nashville—spring was definitely coming, and everything was very beautiful. So I went out to a little pond on the golf course, and there was a flock of geese. I didn't count, but I would say there were, overall, up to two dozen. They ...
Views: 596 - To Accomplish Things That Are Literally Out of This World - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2009 from Ted CiubaThanks for following along with me on my mobile office through the state of Florida! Previously, we were in Walt Disney World. As I write this we're at the Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida. Listen, we just got out of a presentation—a 40-minute IMAX film, one of those 3-D things ...
Views: 679 - We Create Our Conditions And Circumstances - by Submitted on May 19, 2009 from Ted CiubaI met a very bright, intelligent person this last New Year's Eve. There was this gentleman sitting at the dining room table—and by the way, to put it in context, there must have been 40 people at this little gathering. A small, but adequately large, home-based New Year's Eve party. And this ...
Views: 676 - We Know Better Than The Prospect Does - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Ted CiubaBeing a salesperson is an interesting job. It's one of those professions, kind of like being an attorney, where while we like them and we need them, most of the time they're the brunt of jokes. And most of the time we don't like them, and most of us would never want to be one of those ...
Views: 988 - We're Already in the Current - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Ted CiubaLet's imagine that there's a raging torrent, and that the water's really strong going down current—and for some reason or another, you happen to fall into the river. You can just imagine how the current is taking you down, and you can twist, and you can turn, and you can certainly manage to ...
Views: 658 - What Goes Around the Spiral - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from Ted CiubaYou've just got to enjoy this life. I bought a house recently, and got a pretty decent price on it. But the interesting thing is that I used to be half-owner of that house, until I gave it to one of my surrogate sons. So it's a house that I was involved in buying approximately four or five ...
Views: 621 - What Makes The NEW Think And Grow Rich So Special? - by Submitted on May 19, 2009 from Ted CiubaOne of the frequent questions I receive is, "What makes The NEW Think and Grow Rich, and Think and Grow Rich, so special?" It's not necessarily that people are asking, "Why are you saying that it's so special?" If I were in advertising, that would be a logical question. If I were advertising ...
Views: 904 - When Things Shift - by Submitted on May 04, 2009 from Ted CiubaI went to bed late last night… You know, I'm working very hard during this economic recession. That's a joke, of course. The truth is, as an author, I like to work different hours, odd hours. So I did go to bed late last night, and was thinking nothing about the morning. I had a few ...
Views: 620 - When Your Ship Doesn't Sail In, Swim Out to Meet It - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2009 from Ted CiubaI talk to so many people. And, obviously there's a vast difference between the ones I meet in social events—through the regular family and church situations, standing in line at the movies or at the grocery store, that kind of stuff—and the people who attend events where they know that I'm going ...
Views: 4376 - Why A Man Who Had Written Three Motivational Books Set Them Aside - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from Ted CiubaFor those of us who are Think and Grow Rich fans, I've got another little insight I want to share with you. W. Clement Stone is the person who actually helped Napoleon Hill with his philosophy, promulgating that philosophy—and of course, making the consequent money he did—more than anybody else ...
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