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August, 2008

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In this issue:

Featured Article

Thinking Leadership

Thinking Sales

StarMaker 2009

The Morning Minute

From Richard's Book Shelf

Stay Tuned!

Why Can’t We Get Beyond This?

I will bet you it is one of those things that grabs you on a consistent basis. It is an everyday part of life. You know it is a challenge; you talk about needing to stop doing it, BUT it is still there staring you in the face and causing turmoil in your life. What am I talking about? That thing called Procrastination!

Do you ever find yourself challenged by it? How many stacks do you look at and then give yourself permission to just leave them there? How many conversations have you had with yourself and with others about the fact you need to stop your procrastinating? I would think some of you have even made your need to stop procrastinating one of your New Year Resolutions.

Do you realize what Procrastinating does to you? As long as you procrastinate, you must repeat yesterday.

Procrastinating will:

Provide you with emotional challenges
Repeat yesterday
Open you to unnecessary conflict
Compound confusion
Refuse to allow you to grow
Allow negative space
Steal from others
Take respect away from you
Increase your personal stress
Negate the good that might be happening
Alter the journey
Test your level of commitment
Exhaust you in the long run

Can you see where procrastination will keep you from moving forward? It is important you understand that procrastination is a by-product. It is not a stand alone behavior. It is the result of your top enemies coming together—confusion creates fear, which results in doubt that then creates disorganization that together steals your desire, which drains your spirit. When this all comes together, you will stare, lack energy and procrastinate.

Have you ever lived this way? How many times has your procrastination just added to your stress?

So, the question is, How Do You Control The Behavior Of Procrastination? Understand, you will never completely eliminate procrastination, BUT you can control your tendency to procrastinate.

To control procrastination:

Completion must be the crusade

What you don’t complete, has continuation.

Organization must be in place

Without organization you will be scattered.

Never create stacks
- Stacks steal energy and leave you empty.
Time must be respected

Time is consistent, you are not.

Refuse to live in tomorrow

Tomorrow is an illusion you don’t have.

Open yourself to help

Without help you will lack clarity.

Look at the depth of your commitment
- Your commitment defines your desire.

Procrastinating is a choice. Simply stated, procrastination is the behavior of avoidance. Anything you avoid doesn’t go away; it just creates another emotional stack that keeps stealing energy. It creates that mental question, When are you going to go back and complete what you started? Anything that is not completed has continuation. It is the continuation that steals your focus, steals your energy and makes it okay to wait!

If you really are serious about improving your life, you must realize the power of procrastination that makes waiting an acceptable behavior.

Email me your thoughts to Richard@richardflint.com

Thinking Leadership

A common challenge I see with many managers is their relationship with those they are there to manage. When I am doing a leadership program, I will at some point make the statement, “To really lead you cannot become friends to those you are there to lead. When you do, you destroy the mystic that leadership demands.”

The looks I get after that statement are generally ones of disagreement. Many don’t understand the need for boundaries.

How challenging is it for a person who has been “One of the group” step out of that world into the role of management? The challenge is for those who have been “Their Friend” not to expect special privileges. If there is not the separate factor between the new manager and those “friends,” the result will be the creation of a clique and the loss of respect for the manager.

What happens when this principle is not understood and the boundary not put in place?

Feel they don’t have to play by the same set of rules
Respect for manager is weakened
Inconsistencies will weaken quality
Emotional entanglements will prevail
No common agenda to build on
Disappointments become common

Can you see where the lack of boundaries can weaken the needed focus and create the distractions that take the grouping the wrong direction? The result is an unhealthy environment.

Email me your thoughts to Richard@richardflint.com

Thinking Sales

So many salespeople are struggling with this new economy they are in. It is as if they are paralyzed with the fear of uncertainty. Reality is — the economy is not the issue; the economy is doing exactly what it has needed to do – correct itself!

The challenge is two fold. First, so many of the experienced salespeople have had it so good, they have forgotten how to work. The strength of the market has caused them to forget what it really means to sell. When the market made its correction, they showed up unprepared. The market that was didn’t demand the strengthening of Selling 101 and when Selling 101 was needed, the knowledge had been filed away; that left them struggling.

Second, many salespeople in this transitional market arrived during the height of the business. At this point they didn’t need selling skills; the business was there and all they had to do was show up. Then, the market made its correction and they didn’t know what to do. They didn’t have the experience of a transitional market; they hadn’t practiced Selling 101; they were paralyzed, without direction and lacking the inner strength and commitment to make the needed adjustments.

There is business in this transitional market, but it is not going to come looking for the salesperson; it has to be searched out and that means back to the basics of selling.

Email me your thoughts to Richard@richardflint.com

How important is your health to you?

Do you treat it with respect or take it for granted?

Too many just take their health for granted; they don’t get regular check-ups; they believe if they exercise and eat pretty good, they will be okay. The reality is — many of our health issues come from other factors that are going on inside us. You can exercise regularly, eat the right things and still be hurting yourself from the inside out.

This is why I have chosen the theme for StarMaker 2009 to be Getting Healthy From The Inside Out! StarMaker 2009 is going to be a total examination of your life from the inside out. I have asked one of the most recognized chiropractors in the United States, Dr. Larry Markson, and one of the most pro-active physicians in our society today, Dr. Scott Becker, to share the platform with me.

Together, we are going to take you through a mental, emotional and physical exam that will explore how you live, the unhealthy things you may be doing without even realizing it and give you a prescription for living well that goes beyond anything you have ever experienced.

Mark your calendars for July 17-19, 2009 as a time when you will join us in Williamsburg, Virginia. Our venue is The Williamsburg Lodge, which has been completely remodeled and will offer participants a vast selection of family attractions.

For more information visit www.RichardFlintStarMaker.com.

Our space is limited and we already have over 40% of our space reserved.

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please don't procrastinate! Register today!

I have a question for you:

Do you ever need an energy boost in the morning to get you started?

Most of us don’t mentally prepare for our day, so we end up getting emotionally sucked into our day. This makes a day emotionally challenging.

What if I could help you start your day with an energy boost designed to help you mentally and emotionally prepare for your day?

Would that be of value to you?

My Morning Minute is designed to do exactly that!

It is you and I, each morning face-to-face for one Minute! In that one Minute I am going to challenge you with a thought, which will awaken your mind and emotionally calm you down. Together we are going to join forces to help you have a life that just keeps getting, calmer, clearer and better.

WOW! Wouldn’t that create a more productive you?!!!

Here is what a few of my Morning Minute partners are saying about what The Morning Minute offers them:

“I have grown more from the daily minutes than any other

program I have used. — Pat”

“Thank you for getting me going in the morning. I sometimes read it after midnight and it makes me start the thought process ahead of time. — Michael”

“Thanks you so much Richard. I can not begin to relay to you what my morning minute with

Richard means to me! Yesterday morning before running out ... I thought, ‘I must first have my morning minute with Richard.’ I just love this new morning minute - thank you,

thank you, thank you!! — Gayle”

Click here and experience The Morning Minute for 14 days as my guest.

I want to start each day by telling you, “Good Morning!”