Diane Neill Jensen

Archive for November, 2009

The choices you make each and every day, affect you more than you can see each day, whether it be making money ideas to make sure you have one of the best home businesses and do the best retirement financial planning, or whether you stay healthy, or even if you have an abundant support system of friends and family.

Each and every day, there are tiny choices to make, or not make, that over time, determine your wealth in all these areas.

Three stories, one about a flower, one about a couple of frogs, and one about two sons and their inheritance, demonstrate what the author says is how he can help us learn habits of thought and action to double the power of our actions each day.

Jeff Olson, author of “The Slight Edge”, is a book that I am reading right now.

Using the lessons in each chapter, I will attempt to translate them into more ideas to help us visualize how to put his lessons into action.

I encourage you to read it, too, and follow along with my five weekly posts, one for each chapter, and comment on how you might translate actions to take, too.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Three

Jeff Olson does a little story about Two Brothers. I have my own story about the moral of that story.

The gift of wisdom.

Were you born with it? Not I.

Some of my school friends seemed to have had the gift from the start of their lives.

Thinking about it though, they just worked their behinds off all their lives and didn’t sweat the small stuff.

The difference between them and those who worked hard that many years and are not successful is working smart.

Mom always said, get a government job. Well, that worked for one of my friends. She worked her way into a state job and moved up the ranks until she hit a wall, a supervisor that she clashed with.

Did she quit, or change jobs, no! She hung in there several more years, biding her time until she had enough years in for retirement when she hit about fifty years old.

She still has goals yet to achieve, though, and is seeking employment in the private sector in her career field. She was a prison guard, cool, huh?

She can now choose who she works with and if she doesn’t like the environment, she has her retirement income for back up and can move to another employer if she chooses. She has good options.

Another school mate and his younger brother are multi-millionaires, although, of course, their money is their business and I would never ask how much they are worth.

Their Dad put them to work, mans work, at the ripe age of probably around nine or ten. Their Dad taught them by example how to run a business and work hard to succeed.

I have no doubt they gained much business wisdom from listening to him talk to clients and other contractors on the job. They all work construction, and a lot of what in other industries might be done in an office, took place on the job.

The difference between my school mates and I, is that I was never able to see things through. Even though my career Mom worked thirty years, even with that great example, I just couldn’t see it. Somehow that wisdom just didn’t “take” for me.

So, I’m a late bloomer and making up for lost time now. I have a group of entrepreneurs that are showing me the way, and I am paying attention and trusting them to lead me to my goals.

It’s up to me to do the hard work, the day to day tasks that they say will lead to my success, as it has led them to success, and I’m sticking to it.

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You CAN get ahead. I can help.

Never give up hope for whatever it is you want in this life. Just keep on going, working towards your goals. If you keep working, keep doing the little things, eventually, something wonderful may happen.

Come up with some making money ideas to be able to create one of the best home businesses takes a lot of little steps, and until you’ve achieved your financial retirement planning goals, you might think you’re treading water, but the biggest events happen a little at a time, almost imperceptibly.

This is the lesson that Jeff Olson, author of “The Slight Edge” hopes to teach us with his story of two frogs in the beginning of his book. Here’s another example that may help you understand the lesson:

In May of 1997, the Nenana Messenger was born. It was an advertising flyer that I came up with as a way of supplementing my income in Nenana, Alaska, a village of less than 500 people at that time. Jobs were scarce, and although I had a little money saved up, it would never last through the year.

Day after day, I visited business after business, over and over. Pretty soon I had one customer willing to take a chance on a $7.50 a week advertisement on my flyer. Then two, then six, then more. I hung the flyers on every bulletin board within fifty miles in each direction on the highway.

Then, some of the readers of this solar yellow flyer decided that I should start putting interesting little news items on the flyer, and a newspaper was born.

For ten years I struggled to make a financial success of this little rag. One day in 2007, someone offered me money for the rag, and I sold it.

Two years later, after I’m already thoroughly entrenched in another business, the newspaper falls back into my lap again.

THIS time, my current business has trained me in all versions of social media online marketing and I know that, without the “paper” in the Nenana News, it’s a much better financial feasibility and takes a fraction of my time to produce.

So now, I am running two businesses that are a fraction of the time and stress of that original newspaper, and they both promise to have positive financial impact on mine and my husband’s lives. All those days of publishing the newspaper paid off, after all.

Never give up, keep working, keeping going on that treadmill, eventually, something good comes of all that work, if you’re looking in the right direction.

My “right direction” was signing on with an online marketing business with tons of training and the prospect of high dollar sales. Amongst the training is reading books like Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, and my newest read, Jeff Olson’s “The Slight Edge”, which is the inspiration for my current articles.

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The lovely Water Hyacinth’s ability to double it’s growth each day reminds of how that type of growth has affected me later in life.

But how does that affect you and your making money ideas? How does this have anything to do with you owning one of the best home businesses and being able to succeed with your retirement planning goals?

Just read on…

When I was young, I had two children. Now one of my children has three children. My husband has five children by his former wife. His children have produced eleven children of their own.

So, between my husband and I, we have seven children and fourteen grandchildren.

We can’t beat the Hyacinth growth, but, don’t laugh, now, think of what doubling the cost of cards and gifts for birthdays, Christmas, graduation and the likes means!

Seriously, though, the benefits of all those darling little children far outweighs any money issues.

Twice as many little hugs and kisses, cards and letters, drawings and little handmade treasures the little ones gift to us.

So what’s the point?

All the years that your children are growing up, you just have that number of children, if you are blessed enough to have children. Then all of a sudden they start producing their own, and in our case, pretty much each of our children had one child each year for several years. Talk about a population explosion.

This is the power that our author is inferring, that for a long time you don’t realize what you have started and then voila’, your family members have doubled!

The same is true for business, when you come up with making money ideas, the best home businesses can grow exponentially, and without realizing it, suddenly at some point in the future, you can succeed with your financial retirement planning goals.

Those little things you do add up over time and are not really visible to you, don’t seem that significant until later in the game.

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You CAN get ahead in this life, and I can help.

Have you ever seen someone less well off than you and wanted to help that person, maybe just with some making money ideas?

How about you? Do you wonder how you can get the help to know the way to owning one of the best home businesses, and even start your financial retirement planning?

Truth of it is, most people, possibly even you, are skeptical about taking one on one advice from someone.

People are more likely to take helpful advice if they read it. There are hundreds of self-help books in print. You’ve probably read a few, yourself. How many bits of advice have you actually followed through on in those books?

Jeff Olson got his inspiration for his self-help book while waiting for his flight at an airport a few years ago.

He had a conversation with the shoe-shine lady, started wondering why such a bright, hardworking woman would settle for such a job.

Then he started looking around at all the people coming and going at the airport. Many looked more harried than happy, and Jeff surmises that many of these people had or have the potential to achieve their goals and dreams, but just didn’t put two and two together enough to do it.

Jeff Olson had financial success and wanted to help, so he got busy and wrote a book, and he started that very day, as soon as he caught his flight.

His is not just a self-help book, but a book about how to put the information in those books to work in your life.

“The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson” is the name of his book.

Read it, believe it, work it.

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