100 Top 2004 Secrets to SuccessWritten by Catherine Franz
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45. Seize your day or someone else will. 46. Success is too important to take seriously. 47. Only create an affinity with others who believe in same. 48. Be concerned with your image, it really does matter, even in your pajamas. Don't sleep nude, you'll live nude. Sleep in silk and live in silk. 49. Dress for where you want to be not where you had been. 50. Protect your reputation. 51. Build references that match your goals, nothing less. 52. Realize you are already a pillar of success; you just desire to climb a new peak. 53. Create a fan club. 54. Use common sense to balance. 55. Do better than your competitors. 56. Eat healthy and exercise daily. Get healthy--physically and mentally. 57. Accept responsibility. 58. Anger isn't in vocabulary of someone successful. Leave it in dictionary. 59. Check in with assumptions on a regular basis and clean, clean, clean them up immediately. 60. Clean house of all bad habits, not just one here and there. Toss them all out with bath water. 61. Push yourself to be challenged. Keep stretching; don't even think about anything that doesn't. 62. You have to want success, breathe it, eat it, dream it, pray for it, work at it, sacrifice for it, beg for it, to get it. 63. Express your gifts in highest manner. 64. Just because people believe something of you, doesn't make it so. 65. Don't take your lemons and make lemonade, trade them in for oranges because you can make more money with orange juice then lemonade. 66. Tunnel vision on what you want to succeed in is a good thing. Learn to say no often to anything else. 67. Motivational rage has no fear when it is powered by optimism. 68. Match your strengths and talents with opportunities in order to build a success formula. 69. Define yourself in terms of potential--the value you bring world not in context of your job, your role, or your relationships. 70. Know everything about your gifts/talents, skills, knowledge, loves/hates, beauties, fears, flaws, faults, and foibles. 71. Know what people pick up phone to call you for. 72. What do you naturally seek to do or possess? What are your obsessions? What do you naturally gravitate towards? These are your natural gifts. 73. Know your weaknesses and stay away from them. 74. Understand, accept, and embrace who you are--love you and be selfish about it. 75. An aura of self-confidence attracts attention. 76. Pay price, or your competitor’s will. 77. Make your own breaks. 78. Develop a high degree of self-awareness. 79. Package your talents and money will follow. 80. Become charismatic. 81. Believe anything is possible. 82. Make something special happen everyday! 83. Be a success as a human being. 84. Everyday is a memory, draw that memory moment by moment, and picture will be one of complete success in everything you do. 85. The party is today not someday. Write party plan out and whom you want to invite. Don't let anyone crash your party. 86. Shine, it’s perfectly okay to do so. 87. Success hours are when your dreams come true. 88. Become a good story pitcher. 89. Work hard, be prepared, and be available. 90. Are you willing to pay price for success? 91. There is going to be a time when a big audition will need to be performed, are you ready? 92. Be last one standing. 93. Never under estimate your competition or that you don't have any. 94. Luck has some control buttons, know what they are and learn to control them. 95. Your differences are your success. 96. Don't fall into pitfalls of doing things others want you to do. 97. Learn to be who you are. It’s different than who you've learned to be in order to survive or please others. 98. Eliminate a barrier mindset: "If only I could master this, I'll have more to offer." 99. Write your obituary. Include at least five special qualities and five accomplishments (date not required). 100. Become a tiger in your own tank--go get them the’r tiger.(c) Copyright 2004, Catherine Franz. All rights reserved.
Catherine Franz, a eight-year Certified Professional Coach, Graduate of Coach University, Mastery University, editor of three ezines, columnist, author of thousands of articles website: http://www.abundancecenter.com blog: http://abundance.blogs.
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(7) VoIP will start to take off. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology allows consumers to make phone calls over their broadband internet connections. It is much cheaper and less restrictive that standard phone service. Most people are still not familiar with it but major phone companies, along with some smaller companies which specialize in that technology, will start to change that in 2005. They are already heavily advertising it on internet. I expect a major TV, radio, and newspaper ad blitz to begin in early 2005. (8) The Florida Marlins will stay put, but Oakland A's and Minnesota Twins will start looking elsewhere. The Marlins will finalize their deal with city of Miami for a new baseball stadium. They will then change their name to Miami Marlins. However, A's and Twins won't be so fortunate. The A's will start serious negotiations with San Jose. The Twins will start looking at Las Vegas, Portland, Norfolk, or Monterrey, Mexico as a possible new venue. The Expos' relocation to Washington was Major League Baseball's first relocation in 33 years. Now that genie is out of bottle, there could be several more in next five years. (9) The NHL season will be partially saved. There is no way NHL wants to become first major North American sports league to lose an entire season due to a labor dispute. Commissioner Gary Bettman and owners will temporarily drop their demands for a salary cap and accept a modified version of players' latest offer. This will allow last 35-40% of season, along with playoffs, to proceed as scheduled. However, this will just be a short-term deal that will only take league through end of 2005-06 season. Then they'll be right back to drawing board. (10) Next season's flu shot supply will be plentiful by October. I expect that everyone has learned their lesson from this year's fiasco. There will be at least one company, possibly two, producing vaccine in United States. Congress will pass legislation to ensure that production and distribution of vaccine will be less risky for American companies. Also, FDA will probably do a better job of monitoring worldwide supplies. Enough will be available for anyone in U.S who wants one.
Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, freelance writer, and trivia buff from Hopewell, VA. He also serves as a political columnist for American Daily and operates his own website - http://www.commenterry.com - on which he posts commentaries on various subjects such as politics, technology, religion, health and well-being, personal finance, and sports. His commentaries offer a unique point of view that is not often found in mainstream media.
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