Welcome to the Vision I-Course! This course has been downloaded from the Greatest Networker Site. Please see your enroller for his/her links to that site for GREAT resources. I recommend printing off this document, and then taking it one day at a time completing each exercise! Vision is a POWERFUL thing! If you could see my Vision (dream) book and my home and life, you will know exactly what I mean. EVERYTHING, whether success or failure, begins first as a vision! Create the vision YOU want! and Create YOUR Success! Lori Clark Day 1 =========================================== CREATING YOUR VISION I-COURSE =========================================== Hello, Welcome to Your Vision I-Course. Vision is one of the major tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Your Life. That's because Your Vision is the Expression and Experience of how Your Life Looks to You, How it IS for You- the Results you've achieved, the Actions you take and Who You Are. Your Vision is what you Expect of Your Life.... The Vision you presently Expect in Your Mind will be one of three things: * It's so Negative that it actually Drives you in the direction of Self-Sabotage and unwanted behavior that results in a Pattern of Failure. * Or, it's so lack-luster it creates No Motivation for you to take any Action that would cause you to Raise and Rise above your Current Circumstances. * Or, Your Vision Naturally and Automatically COMPELS you to the Consistent, Positive and Productive Action that leads inevitably to personal Success and Excellence in Being The Greatest YOU in the World. In short, Your Vision Inspires You-and everyone who shares it, too. By now you should have completed some BASIC PREREQUISITES for this I-Course. They include: --BEing a Member or Guest of a Member of The GreatestNetworker.comUnity. --Reading selected chapters in "Get Rich Slow" ("Preliminaries" through "Your Vision"). (Download your personal copy at: http://greatestnetworker.com/learn/johns_books/get_rich_slow/) Here's what you'll be working on as you take the Your Vision I-Course. (Please NOTE: Today's reading is substantially MORE material than you will be receiving for the rest of the I-Course.) Over the next 11 days we'll be sending you your Daily Readings and Daily Exercises by e-mail. You should be able to complete the Reading and the Exercises within 15-20 minutes. Some of the Readings will be delivered directly by e-mail, while others will require you follow a link to our web site. By the time you've completed the I-Course, you will have written the first draft of Your Vision. And it will be just that-a first draft. Your Vision will always be a true "work in progress," steadily changing and growing as you achieve the Results you envision and move on to bigger and better things. As John Milton Fogg says: "Human beings get what they Expect, and Vision is the tool that does the job of creating our Expectations. So if you've got a bunch of stuff in your life you don't want-- such as failure, settling for less, being unhappy, unhealthy, lack and limitation, etceteras-- change your Vision." The best is yet to come. Enjoy the I-Course! - Kat Kathleen McCarthy, The Greatest Networker Team Member =========================================== DAY 1. Unleashing the Power of Vision I-Course =========================================== Several daily Readings will be taken from Richard Brooke's book, Mach II With Your Hair On Fire. John Milton Fogg says this about Richard and his book: "Credit where it's due, Richard Brooke taught me about Vision. 'Mach II...' is by far the best book on the subject I've ever seen, because Richard explains why, why not and how. There aren't many books I say are "required" reading. This is one. And 'Mach II With Your Hair On Fire!' is one of those Special books you will want ALL your people to read. It's Life Changing!" You can read the entire book on-line at: http://greatestnetworker.com/learn/others_books/mach_ii/ Or you can go one better and purchase your own copy of the book at: http://greatestnetworker.com/buy/books/ Here's today's Reading from 'Mach II With Your Hair On Fire.' ________________________________________ DAY 1: Reading ________________________________________ Success Secret One: SELF-MOTIVATION This book is about motivation-- Self- Motivation. Taking your desires, hopes, dreams, and aspirations and turning them into roaring fires of accomplishment. And it is also about how to do this all by yourself anywhere you want anytime you choose for the rest of your life! However, this book is NOT about achieving everything you've ever wanted. That's not a place you will ever want to get to-- not that you ever could. For along with having everything you want, comes APATHY. This book is simply about accelerating the momentum of your every success for the rest of your life! I've found people are happiest when they are in the process of achieving, when they're accomplishing something that's tremendously important to them. It's the anticipation of getting the intended result, knowing you're on the right track moving forward in momentum that makes you happiest. Do you remember when you bought your first car? Do you remember how you felt in the weeks, days, and hours leading up to the purchase, the period of time when you knew you were going to get it, but you were still working on financing or delivery? Do you remember the high of anticipation? These feelings are the essence of my definition of success. Do you remember the promise you made to yourself and others about how the car would never see rain, you would never eat in it, or abuse it in any way? Yes and then what happened after you got the car? Do you remember how the feelings slowly diminished? If you were like me, it only took a couple of weeks before you were driving through mud, eating a burger and fries. Achieving the result itself has such short-lived pleasure. The essence of being truly alive comes with falling in love with the pursuit of your dreams, always stretching, always in momentum, always expecting the best. This is Winning. This is Success. This is Living. This is Happiness. And SELF- MOTIVATION is your key. THE THREE GREAT LIES OF SUCCESS 1. Desire Creates Success I used to always confuse motivation with desire. I believed desire was motivation and therefore was a key to success. Yet, how many people do you know who have a strong desire for a great deal more in their lives? And how many of them have had that desire for a long time? How many are achieving it? The fact is, almost everyone has desires for health, wealth, and happiness-- and almost no one achieves all three. How many people do you know who even have two? A Social Security study conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that of 100 people who started working at age 25, by the age of 65... 63 were dependent on Social Security, friends, relatives, or charity. 29 were dead. 3 were still working. 4 had accumulated adequate capital for retirement. 1 was wealthy. With forty years to plan and work for their future, only 5 percent-- just five people-- were financially successful! 2. Hard Work Creates Success Do you want to be successful? Then work hard! But haven't you been working hard? How many people do you know who have been working hard? If you worked twice as hard as you do now, if you worked twice as many hours every day would you be successful? (Or would you be divorced and dead?) Does hard work necessarily have anything to do with success? 3. Being a Good Person Creates Success Be a good person. I am not advocating anything else. But what does being a good person have to do with success? How many successful jerks do you know? Haven't you seen the evidence that "money has no conscience"? It doesn't care where it goes. Neither does health and in many domains of knowledge, neither does wisdom. So, what's missing in this age-old equation of "if you want it badly enough, and you're willing to work hard for it, and you're a swell person, you can get it"? Could it be that these things don't necessarily have anything to do with success? Could it be that success is actually caused by something entirely different? THE SECRET TO SUCCESS If thousands of people as well as myself have found the secret to success, then it's got to be Self-Motivation. Self-Motivation is that mysterious concoction of belief, confidence, positive expectations, and creativity-- a seeming abundance of physical, mental, and emotional energy-- that naturally propels us to our goals. Check it out for yourself: If you could get yourself motivated enough. And keep yourself motivated enough.... What do you think you could achieve? Let's start out by defining Motivation. Motivation is a powerful blend of physical, mental, and emotional energy focused on creating an intended result. Motivation is the energy which LEADS us TO ACT. Physical Energy - Courage - Enthusiasm - Persistence - Creativity Look at each of these separately and ask yourself: --If I could generate and sustain enough Physical Energy, could I accomplish what I want? --If I could get and keep enough Courage, could I? --If I could get and keep enough Enthusiasm enough Persistence enough Creativity, could I? Let's take Creativity for example - the most powerful form of motivation. The only thing standing between where you are now and where you want to be is a series of problems. Such problems as: Not knowing how to do something. Not having enough time. Not having enough resources or support. Not having the money. Not being able to get people to do what you want them to do. All of these are examples of things that can prevent you from accomplishing what you want. We all have many examples of such problems. Solve these problems - and you break through to success. Now look back over your life to a time when you successfully achieved a goal you had. Think back a little bit further to just before you accomplished that particular goal. Notice the problems, obstacles, and challenges you met and overcame along the way? How did you do it? Obviously, you solved those problems