Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - Volume 2 Issue 5
Colin Evans, Editor (mailto:
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In this issue
- From the Editor
- Featured Physical Fitness Article - Are Your Sleep Habits Affecting Your Weight Loss? - By Greg Landry, M.S.
- Featured Success Article - Nine Things More Important Than Capital - By Jim Rohn
- Featured Online Marketing Article - Can You Really Get Your Own Website? - by Jim Edwards
- Motivational Quotes
- Take A Break - He'll Never Fly...
- Tell Me what You Think
From the Editor - Colin Evans
Hi Everyone 
Welcome to this edition of Cols-A-To-Z.
Four more weeks to go and I'll be on my way to England, I can't
wait.
I have just spent six days with my parents and my youngest sister
and her family on a houseboat on Lake Kariba.
It was an excellent break, spoilt only by my getting sunburnt on
a very overcast and cloudy day!
I do know better, but good judgement went out the window after a
few beers.
Did you know that on this day in...
- In 1717 the first ballet was performed in England.
- In 1933 the movie KING KONG was released for the first time.
- In 1949 the first non-stop round-the-world flight was completed
by USAAF Captain JAMES GALLAGHER and his 13-man crew in a B50.
The flight took 94 hours, during which time the plane was
refuelled four times in flight by tanker aircraft.
- In 1958 SIR VIVIAN FUCHS and a British team completed the first
crossing of the Antarctic. The journey took 99 days using Sno-cat
caterpillar tractors and dog teams.
- In 1997 the Pope ordered 100 pairs of trendy Doc Martens boots
for his staff at the Vatican.
This last one had me laughing for ages, I kept picturing the Pope
surrounded by staff sporting multicolored mohican hair cuts and
body jewelry
If you're wondering if the Kariba sun fried more than my skin, I
don't blame you, but I'm a bit tired of being serious and formal.
Until the next time...
Featured Physical Fitness Article - Are Your Sleep Habits Affecting Your Weight Loss? - By Greg Landry, M.S.
I know that it may seem a bit too simplistic to assume that a
change in your sleep habits could aid your weight loss efforts.
However,let's take a look at this. Follow my logic - backwards:
- I believe that developing helathy eating habits are much easier
if you're exercising five to seven days per week - consistently.
Healthy eating habits promote weight loss.
- Exercising five to seven days per week - consistently, is a
major component of a successful weight loss program.
- Most people who are successful at exercising five to seven
days per week are morning exercisers. Read my archived article -
"Top 10 Reasons to Exercise in the Morning".
- Many people find it difficult to consistently wake-up early
to exercise, often because they have not slept enough and because
they don't wake-up at the same time every day.
- Many people don't get enough sleep because they find it
difficult to get to sleep early.
- Just think about how your weight loss situation might change if
you were able to get to sleep an hour earlier every night, wake-up
at the same time - an hour earlier every morning, and spend that
hour exercising.
Awhile back, we had a discussion about this in one of my
newsletters. Within a few months of that, I received about forty
email messages similar to Jennifer's:
"Greg, I have to tell you that I was a skeptic. I didn't really
think I could do this, or that it would really help my weight
loss. I've rearranged my evenings, watch a little less TV, and
I'm very careful about getting to sleep on time (well, most of
the time). Getting up at the same time every day has really
helped too. My exercise and weight loss have been very consistent.
Thanks for all the tips."
Jennifer
Fort Worth, Texas
Can you alter your sleep habits and be more consistent with your
exercise and weight loss?
Give it a try!
Author and exercise physiologist, Greg Landry, offers free weight
loss and fitness success stories, articles, programs, and his
"Fast & Healthy Weight Loss" newsletter at his site:
http://www.Landry.com
copyright 2004 by Greg Landry, M.S
Featured Success Article - Nine Things More Important Than Capital - By Jim Rohn
When starting any enterprise or business, whether it is full-time
or part-time, we all know the value of having plenty of capital
(money). But I bet we both know or at least have heard of people
who started with no capital who went on to make fortunes. How?
You may ask.
Well, I believe there are actually some things that are more
valuable than capital that can lead to your entrepreneurial
success. Let me give you the list.
- Time
Time is more valuable than capital. The time you set aside not to
be wasted, not to be given away. Time you set aside to be invested
in an enterprise that brings value to the marketplace with the
hope of making a profit. Now we have capital time. How valuable
is time? Time properly invested is worth a fortune. Time wasted
can be devastation. Time invested can perform miracles, so you
invest your time.
- Desperation
I have a friend Lydia, whose first major investment in her new
enterprise was desperation. She said, "My kids are hungry, I
gotta make this work. If this doesn't work, what will I do?" So
she invested $1 in her enterprise selling a product she believed
in. The $1 was to buy a few fliers so she could make a sale at
retail, collect the money and then buy the product wholesale to
deliver back to the customer.
My friend Bill Bailey went to Chicago as a teenager after he got
out of high school. And the first job he got was as a night
janitor. Someone said, "Bill, why would you settle for night
janitor?" He said, "Malnutrition." You work at whatever you can
possibly get when you get hungry. You go to work somewhere --
night janitor, it doesn't matter where it is. Years later, now
Bill is a recipient of the Horatio Alger award, rich and powerful
and one of the great examples of lifestyle that I know. But, his
first job -- night janitor. Desperation can be a powerful
incentive. When you say - I must.
- Determination
Determination says I will. First Lydia said, "I must find a
customer." Desperation. Second, she said, "I will find someone
before this first day is over." Sure enough, she found someone.
She said, "If it works once, it will work again." But then the
next person said, "No." Now what must you invest?
- Courage
Courage is more valuable than capital. If you've only got $1 and
a lot of courage, I'm telling you, you've got a good future ahead
of you. Courage in spite of the circumstances. Humans can do the
most incredible things no matter what happens. Haven't we heard
the stories? There are some recent ones from Kosovo that are some
of the most classic, unbelievable stories of being in the depths
of hell and finally making it out. It's humans. You can't sell
humans short. Courage in spite of, not because of, but in spite
of. Now once Lydia has made 3 or 4 sales and gotten going, here's
what now takes over.
- Ambition
"Wow! If I can sell 3, I can sell 33. If I can sell 33, I can
sell 103." Wow. Lydia is now dazzled by her own dreams of the
future.
- Faith
Now she begins to believe she's got a good product. This is
probably a good company. And she then starts to believe in
herself. Lydia, single mother, 2 kids, no job. "My gosh, I'm
going to pull it off!" Her self-esteem starts to soar. These
are investments that are unmatched. Money can't touch it. What
if you had a million dollars and no faith? You'd be poor. You
wouldn't be rich. Now here is the next one, the reason why she's
a millionaire today.
- Ingenuity
Putting your brains to work. Probably up until now, you've put
about 1/10 of your brainpower to work. What if you employed the
other 9/10? You can't believe what can happen. Humans can come up
with the most intriguing things to do. Ingenuity. What's ingenuity
worth? A fortune. It is more valuable than money. All you need is
a $1 and plenty of ingenuity. Figuring out a way to make it work,
make it work, make it work.
- Heart and Soul
What is a substitute for heart and soul? It's not money. Money
can't buy heart and soul. Heart and soul is more valuable than
a million dollars. A million dollars without heart and soul, you
have no life. You are ineffective. But, heart and soul is like
the unseen magic that moves people, moves people to buy, moves
people to make decisions, moves people to act, moves people to
respond.
- Personality
You've just got to spruce up and sharpen up your own personality.
You've got plenty of personality. Just get it developed to where
it is effective every day, it's effective no matter who you talk
to - whether it is a child or whether it is a business person -
whether it is a rich person or a poor person. A unique
personality that is at home anywhere. My mentor Bill Bailey
taught me, "You've got to learn to be just as comfortable,
Mr. Rohn, whether it is in a little shack in Kentucky having a
beer and watching the fights with Winfred, my old friend or in
a Georgian mansion in Washington, DC as the Senator's guest."
Move with ease whether it is with the rich or whether it is with
the poor. And it makes no difference to you who is rich or who is
poor. A chance to have a unique relationship with whomever. The
kind of personality that's comfortable. The kind of personality
that's not bent out of shape.
And lastly, let's not forget charisma and sophistication. Charisma
with a touch of humility. This entire list is more valuable than
money. With one dollar and the list I just gave you, the world is
yours. It belongs to you, whatever piece of it you desire whatever
development you wish for your life. I've given you the secret.
Capital. The kind of capital that is more valuable than money and
that can secure your future and fortune. Remember that you lack
not the resources.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America's Foremost Business Philosopher. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine go to
http://www.jimrohn.com
Copyright © 2000-2004 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved worldwide.
Featured Online Marketing Article - Can You Really Get Your Own Website? - by Jim Edwards
Despite the fact that most of us take the Internet for granted,
it still holds a lot of mystery, even for people who use it every
day.
Plenty of people surf the web, send email, get news, check stock
information, and use instant messenger, but the thought of putting
up their own web pages leaves them shaking with fear.
However, with all the changes online in the last few years,
putting up your own website rates easier than ever and creating
any website breaks down to 5 main elements.
HTML Pages
Seven or eight years ago it cost $75 an hour to get a web designer
to hand-code an html document for you to display on the Web.
A simple website used to cost thousands of dollars.
Now, software will do it for you better, faster and for less than
the cost of dinner and movie.
In fact, Microsoft Word (the ever-popular word processing program
from Mr. Bill Gates) allows you to convert your word processing
documents to html pages automatically.
They may not be as "sexy" as a high powered web-designer's work,
but my experience shows that the slicker pages with all kinds of
dancing and flashing "junk" don't do as well as the sites that
load fast and get to the point!
Bottom line:
After just some minimal instruction, if you can use a word
processor, you can create your own Web pages and link them
together to form an effective Web "site."
Domain and Website Hosting
Domain names used to cost $70 or more to register for a year, but
now you can get your own dot-com for only $8.95 per year at
www.GoDaddy.com.
I personally paid more than $100 a month for basic website hosting
back in 1998, but you can get better, more full- featured service
now for less than $10 a month!
In fact, for smaller sites, you can get a domain name AND a year's
hosting at www.DotEasy.com for only $25 a year.
FTP To Your Web Server
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) intimidates people more than any
other part of the website building process...probably because it
*sounds* intimidating.
The word "Protocol" makes me think of some dreadful medical
procedure out of a Frankenstein movie!
Yet FTP is simply the process of transferring (uploading) your
web pages from your computer to another computer called a Web
"server."
A Web server is just a computer permanently connected to the
Internet to "serve" files to your website visitors.
That's all it is... just another computer that Web surfers
connect to in order to view your Web pages.
Go to www.SmartFTP.com for a free program that works virtually
identically to "Windows Explorer" and allows you to just "drag
and drop" html files to your Web server.
Pay Me
If you wanted to accept credit cards on your website five or six
years ago, it cost hundreds of dollars just to apply and it felt
like you needed a National Security clearance to get accepted for
a merchant account.
Now you can quickly, easily, and securely accept credit card and
even check payments through your website with no monthly fees.
Check out PayPal.com, ClickBank.com, and PaySystems.com for more
information.
Targeted Traffic
Unless your Website exists strictly to serve family or friends,
eventually you'll need some traffic.
Hundreds of books exist to teach you how to get website traffic
from free search engines, your own affiliate sales force,
publishing articles online, and even how to quickly get hundreds
of other sites to link to you.
No matter how you choose to get traffic, remember, "All clicks
are not created equal!"
The key is to only pay for tightly targeted traffic with a
specific interest in what you sell on your website.
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Motivational Quotes
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind
don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If
you’re not, pretend you are.
- Muhammad Ali
Take A Break - He'll Never Fly...
Deep within a forest a little turtle began to climb a tree. After
hours of effort he reached the top, jumped into the air waving his
front legs and crashed to the ground.
After recovering, he slowly climbed the tree again, jumped, and
fell to the ground. The turtle tried again and again while a
couple of birds sitting on a branch watched his sad efforts.
Finally, the female bird turned to her mate. "Dear," she chirped,
"I think it's time to tell him he's adopted."
Tell Me What You Think
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