Monday Morning Motivations Tenacity Pays

Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
April 20, 2009 Issue 347

From the Desk of Bob

My Upcoming Speaking Agenda:
4/23/09- Teton Coalition, Inc.- Rapid City, SD
4/24/09- SDSRT Conference,- Rapid City, SD
5/19/09 - Golden Triangle, Cavour, SD
5/28/09 - Teton Coalition, Inc. - Rapid City, SD
6/16/09- RC Family of Companies- New Effington, SD

Recent Past Speaking Engagements:
2/09/09- Enemy Swim Day School - Waubay, SD
2/26/09- Teton Coalition, Inc.- Rapid City, South Dakota
2/27/09- SDCTE Conference- Chamberlain, SD
3/5 - 3/6/09 - Opportunities, Inc.-Great Falls Head Start
3/18 - 3/19/09 SD County Commissioners Conference, Pierre, SD
3/20/09- Riley Brothers Construction- Morris MN
3/26/09- Teton Coalition- Rapid City, SD
4/7/09 - Sanford Health Conference, Winner, SD
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E-Word of the Week: Exactly
exactly |ig?zak(t)l?| adverb
1 without discrepancy (used to emphasize the accuracy of a figure or description) : they met in 1989 and got married exactly two years later | fold the second strip of paper in exactly the same way. | Do the work exactly as I ask you to do it. Exactly!

2 in exact terms; without vagueness : what exactly are you looking for?

3 used as a reply to confirm or agree with what has just been said : "You mean that you're going to tell me the truth?" "Exactly."

Note: From Bob...This word is becoming one of my most favorite e words.

Life Attitudes

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." –Brian Tracy

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current
comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown." –Denis Waitley

"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." –Peter McWilliams

Seeds of Success: Stretching Our Comfort Zones

By Robert A. Prentice

"In bullfighting there is a term called 'querencia'. The querencia is the spot in the ring to which the bull returns. Each bull has a different querencia, but as the bullfight continues, and the animal becomes more threatened, it returns more and more often to his spot.

As he returns to his querencia, he becomes more predictable. And so, in the end, the matador is able to kill the bull because instead of trying something new, the bull returns to what is familiar. His comfort zone." -Carly Fiorina (Executive and president of Hewlett-Packard Co. in 1999. Chairwoman in 2000. She resigned HP Feb. 9, 2005

Everyone knows that the more warmed up and relaxed a runners muscles are before he begins running a race, the greater the ease he will have in running that race. He warms up by doing various stretching exercises to stretch out his muscles, and if he fails to do this, it is not very likely that he ever win any races. Stretching is not usually considered fun for the runner, but it is very beneficial and most vital to success!

Stretching is also important in other areas of life as well-even when we are not going to be running a marathon any time soon. I am talking about stretching out our comfort zones.

Stretching out our comfort zones is not something most of us enjoy because we like our old comfortable ways and we don't like pain. Sometimes we just get lazy and it's just easier to keep doing the same old stuff in the same old way. We lose our focus, our priorities get out of whack, and we get to the point where we need something or someone to thrust us out of our normal thinking and operating if we are ever to get our of the rut we are in.

Ultimately when we are stretched it forces us to think differently, to operate with new mind sets, and achieve more with healthier attitudes about time and the preciousness there of. Stretching out of our comfort zones brings about much needed change, and change is a great motivator.

Recently in the business world I made some decisions to "rebuild" my business from scratch after twenty-some years of operating with many of the same attitudes, processes, thinking, and systems. This decision has forced me to stretch like never before in my entire professional career. Stretching has been so incredibly good for me and the sales have been record breaking.

Actually, I thought I had made this kind of radical shift in the past but found out that I had never before stretched near what I was truly capable of. My point is this: Each of us has much more potential than at first we might think we do. We must keep stretching, keep changing, and keep growing. It's refreshing and feels so good!

Let me encourage you to stretch more than you ever thought possible. Allow it to happen; cause it to happen. Fasten your seat belt and hang on. Stretch like a rubber band being pulled hard from both ends. I guarantee it'll be the joy ride of your life when you make the decision to stretch your comfort zone!.

On the Sunny Side of Life: How to Start Your Day with a Positve Attitude (really works!)

1 . Open a new file in your
     PC .

2. Name it "Your Boss "

3. Send it to the RECYCLE
    BIN

4 . Empty the RECYCLE
   BIN

5. Your PC will ask you,
"Are you sure you want to
delete Your Boss
permanently?"

6. Answer calmly, "Yes,"
   and press the mouse
   button firmly....

7 . Feel better?

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