Diane Neill Jensen

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Why are the areas studied in “The Slight Edge” so important in your life?

Making money ideas which lead to your financial retirement planning are now, more than ever, important, considering the number of us entering retirement age in 2011.

“The aging of the population and the retirement of the baby-boom generation are considered by many to be among the most transformative demographic changes ever experienced in this country,” this from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

If you can read between the lines, that means lots of people getting to retirement age.

The work of the Health and Retirement Study is managed through a cooperative agreement between the United States National Institute of Aging, which provides primary funding, and the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, which administers and conducts the survey.

Jeff Olson, in chapter eleven of his book includes health as the number one component for your success in addition to personal development, your relationships, and your finances, among others.

In the above mentioned study, the results indicate “a strong correlation between health and wealth”.

In married couples, healthy couples were three times as wealthy as married couples who report their health as poor. Unmarried participants were five times as wealthy.

It just stands to reason, if you trust the study, that using the tiny steps Jeff promotes in his book, that you stand a better chance of being wealthy, if you prioritize being healthy.

Jeff’s teachings give you the information and how to, to get started in your upward curve toward a better life.

My life is already improved, as mentioned in several articles this past month or three.

Get a copy of “The Slight Edge”, and start your journey, too.

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

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I hope to hear from you soon.

You’ve got to have a plan to succeed in this life, and Jeff Olson’s “The Slight Edge” shows you how to get one that will work for you.

Just by doing little things, taking little baby steps each day, you CAN succeed in this life.

These brief articles written for you by me, Diane Neill Jensen, are my pennies for you to take and use. If you got just a fraction of what Jeff’s book is about, well, that’s a start. You’ve taken some baby steps already, by reading five minute articles on Jeff Olson’s plan.

Your next step could be to get your own copy of his book. I got mine from Amazon dot com. Previously in this series, I informed you that I don’t get anything from recommending you purchase Jeff’s book and/or through Amazon dot com.

I have now become an affiliate member of Amazon dot com and will get a small percentage of your purchase price if you go to http://NenanaNewsLink.com and purchase anything through my site.

You can also become an Amazon affiliate by clicking on the link on the Amazon advertisement that says you can get a widget like this one. It will lead you to their site, and if just seven of you become affiliates, I will get a larger percentage from my sales.

It’s not multi-level-marketing. I do not get a percentage of your sales. But it’s ok, I like the idea of earning my own sales and not piggy-backing off “downlines”.

Affiliate memberships are just one way to earn multiple streams of income.

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

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I hope to hear from you soon.

My work at home idea seemed as far away as a tiny, twinkling star in the sky thirty-five years ago, and that was a long time to wait just to be able to kick back in my recliner and work away at my laptop computer at home.

So long, in fact, that financial retirement planning, not just financial life planning, is looming up closer than I’d prefer.

It takes more than one step to get you to your goal, but it all starts with one little step. Oh, and you don’t always get to your financial retirement planning goals in a straight line.

The State of Alaska, in the United States, where I live, gave my privy to some goal planning training. Included were aptitude tests of all kinds, and the suggestion of the book “Up the Down Parachute”.

This was back in the ‘70’s, but don’t worry, there’s a new version of the book. It’s been updated to reflect you kids who are younger than baby boomers. I recently went online and had a copy sent to my daughter.

I highly recommend this book. The book was one of my first little steps on my journey to my personal development and philosophy.

Anyway, I set goals in all areas of my life, including professional, personal, marital, spiritual and health, although not necessarily in that order.

And refined and defined as my goals were, my life at times headed in different directions.

My goal of becoming a graphic artist gave way to my journalism and editing jobs.

Marital plans had a way of going awry. Maybe because my basic people skills were so undeveloped.

After thirty-five years though, I can honestly say that a lot of my original goals were met, and then some.

The jobs of graphic artist, writer, editor, and some unexpected ones like waitress (pretty good money by the way, at a nice dinner house) all came my way in their own times.

There are still lots of goals left to work toward though. None of my “day jobs” helped at all with my financial retirement planning, except for maybe a couple hundred dollars a month in Social Security from the U.S. Government, a program that’s almost as broke as the U.S. is in debt.

Along came the internet and the possibility of multiple streams of income, and one company in particular that is showing me that I can get ahead in this life.

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

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I hope to hear from you soon.

Personal development is what prepares you to become successful.

If you never learned how to read or write or do simple math in your earlier years, would you be successful in high school or college?

Unfortunately, many people still do not have the privilege of going to school for those basic skills in those areas. Abraham Lincoln had to teach himself much of this basic education and he got elected President of the United States of America.

How did he do it? He did the little things over and over. He taught himself, he listened, observed, read and learned much on his own.

Personal development can be learned on your own. There are books and articles to read, people to listen to whom you can learn from.

Develop your own philosophy is what Jeff Olson says in his book “The Slight Edge”.

Your philosophy develops as you concentrate on your own personal development in all the areas that life contains: professional, personal, marital, spiritual and health.

Go on your own and find ways to educate yourself in all these areas. Seek out books to read and find mentors to model yourself after.

As a young, single mother of one son back in the 1970’s, no one told me to take on a full time course load at the local college.

And it was only the beginning of my personal development. It wasn’t easy. From time to time I went out to the clubs with friends, and once, a young man sat down and surprised me with his remark.

“Why are you out here with all these party people? You’re smart, going to college, and you’re hanging out with people who don’t have any goals at all,” he said.

He was right. But, I didn’t have an inkling of how to develop the other areas of my life. I was shy, and alcohol helped me face people. It took many, many years for the other areas of my life to develop.

There were a lot of ups and downs. Businesses failed and jobs quit. Another marriage, failed, and another child to raise as a single mom.

But learning from those failures helped prepare me for the next challenges. Now there’s a successful marriage, with the eighth anniversary finding us both still happy and loving each other much more than we did to start with ten years ago.

Ten years of newspaper publishing, and working on it again, along with two other businesses. New and improved ways of working, working at home, working relaxed and steady, always looking for ways to improve.

Actually, it is a lifelong process. We don’t just stop moving and improving our lives. We find ways to become better each day. Each day there are more opportunities.

Take each day’s opportunity to develop your philosophy by learning more, and then getting out and doing more with what you’ve learned, each and every day.

Keep going on the steady upward climb, knowing that there are little dips in the road that you will recover from if you keep doing the little things that move you forward and upward.

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

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I hope to hear from you soon.

The process of doing all the little things needs to be celebrated, and often, says Jeff Olson in his book “The Slight Edge”.

We’ve been going over these little things for the past few weeks. If you have not read the previous articles, they are available on Diane Neill Jensen’s website in the “Achievement” section.

All those little things, if you’ve been successful at doing a few of them, are leading you in the up direction of a curve that, in time, will make the big difference in your lives.

So think about your little accomplishments each and every day, and take pride in what you’ve done. Celebrate yourself!

If you paid a compliment on a job well done to a co-worker, friend, or anyone, celebrate it. Feel good about that little thing that you’ve done.

If you got your car payment or house payment in on time this month, celebrate it. Feel good about it.

Find something to celebrate in all areas of your life, financial, professional, personal, marital, spiritual and health wise. Celebrate each one.

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

If you want to learn more about where my training is coming from, leave your name and email address in the box on this page.

I hope to hear from you soon.