I do not know anyone who has got or gotten to the top without hard work.
That is the recipe.
–Margaret Thatcher

I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
–Margaret Thatcher

Sometimes, it’s the smallest things in life that makes us smile, laugh, pee our pants – OMG! Did I just SAY that?! LOL – Well – heck – it’s true… and this video starring a Doberman is no different.

If only we adults can enjoy the simple pleasures in life like this lil guy…

Now – I wonder… while I’m playing in LA, are my friends who have a Doberman teaching my dogs to do this to occupy themselves while I’m away? hmmm… I wonder what my dogs do when I’m not there… which is rare… but now I’m curious.

Enjoy the 60 second smile!

slide doggie style

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Guaranteed way how to boost confidence:

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

R.W. Emerson

Try it!
I Dare You!

And remember – courage is not the absence of fear – it’s merely doing something “in spite of” the fear.

In the confrontation between
the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins.

Not through strength,
but through perseverance.

H. Jackson Brown

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible.
But these obstacles have never been
sufficient reason to remain ashore.

Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory
over those things that seem impossible.

It is with an iron will that they embark,
on the most daring of all endeavors,
to meet the shadowy future
without fear and conquer the unknown.

Ferdinand Magellan, explorer

Set BIG Goals!

Set HUGE goals for your business this year.
See where they take you…
Set ones that make your heart beat a little faster…
Set ones you have no clue how you’ll reach
Set more than you think is reasonable
Then – set a few more.

Your Coach,
Coach Deborah Cole Micek

btw: I really believe in only achieving 1/2 the goals you ever set.
some you should actually “fail” at
and others are not meant to be achieved
the key – is to set soooo many,
that when you achieve half of them,
you’ll have lived an Extra-ordinary life!!!

Ok – try not to feel sorry for me as I venture off for the next two weeks to “network” and speak and promote my book, blog software and business in California.

Sure, I’ll be busy… but if this “Networking” Video gives you any indication how “tough” it is living the business owner’s lifestyle, how networking for joint venture partners and deals is REALLY done – then you’ll not only NOT feel bad for me… you’ll want to JOIN me in San Francisco at the WIMME event every year!

* WIMME = World Internet Marketing Main Event Formally called TIMME which the above video was from the night after we spoke from the main stage to promote our book, Secrets of Online Persuasion, and Blogi360 – originally called Blog Interactive 360 when the course was first released.

I gotta’ say, ever since that night, Harris Fellman (the funny guy who coined the word “PLOG” won my lasting friendship with all the laughs he gave me! Plus – he’s a really cool guy with a ton of integrity.

Oh – btw: if anyone’s wondering where I am at this networking soiree, I’m behind the camera – and even though I was primarily drinking iced tea, these guys had me laughing so freaking hard, I couldn’t hold the camera straight.

Then – you’ll catch me in the pictures at the end – I’m right in the middle on the last shot.

Note to self – at THIS year’s event in San Fran – give the camera to someone ELSE while shooting video – so I can say Hi to all my MySpace friends.

Anyhoo – I’m looking forward to getting away, and “networking” at this week’s WIMME in San Francisco. We’ll be speaking Saturday morning (that’s tomorrow morning) – as we’ll be hosting the “New Media Marketing Mimosa Party” soooo – let’s hold the evening partying for SATURDAY Night, so we can celebrate the event’s success and “network” with all of you who are here in San Fransisco with me.

PS: Thanks to the powerful QuanSite, I can be in TWO places at one time! Right now, I’m at my booth in San Fransisco, hopefully entertaining a bunch of cool folks at the WIMME event, while my QuanSite is busy posting and updating social networking sites FOR me – so I don’t have to! Ahhhh – Here’s a toast to having the best systems for your business so you can have a life – or make money while QuanSite does the “grunt work” so I don’t have to! LOL!

To get profit without risk,
experience without danger,
and reward without work is
as impossible as it is to live without being born.

What will you risk today to make YOUR Dreams come true?

Let it never be forgotten that glamour is not greatness,
Applause is not fame,
Prominence is not eminence,
The man of the hour is not apt to be the man of the ages.
A stone may sparkle, but that does not make it a diamond.
A man may have money but that does not make him a success.
It is what the unimportant do that really counts, and determines the course of history.
The greatest forces in the universe are never spectacular.
Summer showers are more effective than hurricanes but they get no publicity.
The world would soon die but for the fidelity, loyalty and concentration of those whose names are unhonored and unsung.

Dr. Joseph R. Sisso gave the above rendition

Zig Ziglar continues this principle by saying…

These are the great people.
For we confuse fame w/ success.
Madonna and Marilyn Manson have fame.
Mother Theresa and Billy Graham have success.
They have everything that money can’t buy.

Matthew 6:19-21

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do NOT destroy,
and where thieves do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is… there your heart will be also.

Written by an Australian Dentist….and too good to not share with the world….
(Pictures inserted in post are taken by a variety of artists in honor of our heroes who went IN when everyone else – went OUT.)

To Kill an American

You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as Native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan; the only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!

As of the morning of September 11, 2001, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

Americans welcome the best of everything…the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.

The national symbol of America, the Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers on the morning of September 11, 2001, earning a better life for their families.

It’s been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.

But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

Keep this letter going!
Send this post around the World.
Then pass it around again.
It says it all, for all of us.

And to all those serving…
We Salute You!
And – We THANK YOU!!!