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In This Issue:
- Be Clear About Your Goals
- Do You Suffer From Tomorrow-Itis?
- What Judi’s Clients Are Saying
- Affirmation
- Email Preferences
Hello Everyone!
This year is the 20th anniversary of Turning Point International. Fiona Carmichael and I started this business in Johannesburg, South Africa and brought it to the United States in 1998. It was our goal to help businesses and individuals thrive in a world where we are ever increasingly being held accountable for results. For these past 20 years, Turning Point International has been a leader in delivering solutions for organizations in order for them to build cooperative teams, produce more, and raise their bottom line.
I have personally worked with organizations in 28 countries around the world and with thousands of individuals who want solutions to the complex issues they face on a daily basis.
It is for this reason we have chosen to change our newsletter to a new format and give it a new name. The world has changed and so must we. Winning Solutions is your newsletter. Let us know if you have a challenge which needs a solution. Or if you have a solution that will help someone else, send it along. Send me an email and please include your name and contact information.
We are looking forward to hearing from you and to sharing with you this year. We are expecting this to be our best year ever and are wishing the same for you.
Always remember, you are more than enough!
Judi
Be Clear About Your Goals
Among some skaters was a small boy so obviously a beginner that his frequent tumbles awakened the pity of a tenderhearted, if not wise, spectator. “Young man, “she said. “I wouldn’t stay on the ice and keep falling down; I’d just come off and watch the others.” 
Quickly brushing away his tears, the little guy looked from his advisor to the shining blades on his feet and answered indignantly, “I didn’t get new skates to give up with. I got them to learn how with.”
Failure is the most important step you can take if you want to be a success. When we succeed at anything, it is usually after we have failed at doing it a different way. If you have never failed, it probably means that you have never tried…that you haven’t put out any effort.
Do You Suffer From Tomorrow-Itis?
What causes failure? It could be a lack of self-esteem. However, even people with a good, healthy liking for themselves sometimes don’t reach their goals. On the other hand, it could be a disease that’s affecting a lot of us today…a disease known as Tomorrow-itis.
You can tell when you are developing a case of Tomorrow-itis by listening to yourself. Check your vocabulary. Have any of these phrases crept in? “I haven’t had a chance to…” “I’ve been too busy…” “As soon as I get these other things done, I’ll…” “I think I’ll rest before I start….” “If only…I’d…”
Great composers, artists, poets, writers and songwriters don’t work because they are inspired. They are inspired because they work. You must work at your ambitions every day. Have you noticed that the more you work at something – the more you put into it – the more excited, inspired and “lucky” you become? Things just begin to fall in place.
Most successful people feel they are lucky. They are! They are lucky because they know how to turn failures into successes.
There are really only two causes for tomorrow-itis. They are fear of failure and indifference.
Fear is usually felt because we are facing an unknown. Once you’ve done something, it is easier the next time. You can become more confident by educating yourself as much as possible about the subject or event. The more you know, the more confident you become.
Failure is basically how you look at something. Indifference, on the other hand, is just plain not caring. If you don’t care, don’t do it. Do something else. Statistics show that 94% of the world’s most successful business people are working at something they like to do. Failure is caused by a lack of clearly defined goals. Once you’ve decided what it is that you would really like to do, write it down.
Why write it down? Once you’ve written it down, you’ve started to take action on that desire. As you outline exactly what you want and how to get it, you have made a plan. Everyone knows a well-made plan is worth more than a thousand wishes.
How do you make a plan?
Think about what you want. Write it down in specific terms. This gives you a clear destination. You will know exactly where you are headed. Set up check points for yourself along the way. These we sometimes call “short-range goals.”
Here’s how you do it.
Pick a specific goal, such as a desire you have for your career. Ask yourself, “What do I want from my career?” Write it down in specific terms. “This is exactly what I want.”
Then write down what you have to do to get it. Take out a sheet of paper and write across the top: “What I have to do in the next 10 years to attain my goal.” Write down everything you can think of. You can go back and put it in the correct order later.
Take out another sheet of paper. Write down: “What I can accomplish in the next five years.” List your thoughts about this. Then take out five more sheets of paper and write the following questions and your answers to each one: “What can I and will I do this year?” “What am I going to do this quarter?” What should I have accomplished by the end of this month?” What am I going to do this week?” “How much can I do today?”
Then take action!!!
This produces a pride in yourself as you reach your check points and a great deal of self-esteem when you arrive at the final destination of this journey.
 Oh, yes, there will be detours. There always are. They may throw you a little off your route. They may delay your estimated time of arrival, but you must remember that 93% of success in life is based on attitude…only 7% on skill and courage.
Failure is 100% guaranteed if you do not try; but failure only means that you have taken an important step toward attaining real success.
Do what you can today. Don’t put anything off and you will get rid of tomorrow-itis forever.
What Judi’s Clients Are Saying:
“Since Judi’s first presentation at our campus, I have learned that she is a hands-on team member who is willing to accommodate her presentations to meet the full needs of the audience. She never loses the attention of the audience and always leaves with inspirational words that have helped develop our staff professionally.”
Nancy Escobedo,
General Education Department Chair,
Everest College
“If you are planning an event and want an inspiring, adventurous, poignant and witty speaker, you certainly couldn’t possibly find anyone who would please you more than Judi Moreo.”
Judy Lawton,
Founder and CEO,
The Lawton Group
“One would think after five or six times of hearing the same person speak, it would be enough. But it never gets old with Judi. She’s constantly updating her material and sharing not only new ideas but new stories as well. She’s funny, smart, beautiful, and great at what she does. I, among many, look forward to the next time I get to see Judi work her magic on a crowd.”
Donna DeMarco,
Vice-President,
Mutual of Omaha Bank
Affirmation
I give up self-limiting beliefs.
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