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May
10,
2010 | from Go for No!
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| NOteworthy
Thought of the Week |
"Anything
I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile, initially scared me to
death." - Betty Bender."
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| This
Week's Trivia Question |
How
did Gary Dahl get
rich? Find out
below!
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| This
Week's NOtivational
Article |
Who
Said You Weren't Good Enough? Pt 1
by
Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz
Let's face it - someone is always telling someone else what they cannot
- or should not - do. ALWAYS! Apparently
it's human nature. So we thought it might be fun to share
some of the things that successful, rich and famous people have been
told by friends, family, business associates (and sometimes strangers)
regarding their chances for success:
• At sixteen, Jules Verne wrote
a full-length play and gather friends and family for a
reading. The unexpected laughter so shook young Jules that he
stopped reading after the first act and burned the script.
• A young man
approached the Ruler in Lu, China, offering to make his philosophical
writings available to the state, for free. The Ruler wasn't
interested. The young man then traveled to offer his
doctrines to other neighboring states - every single one rejected him
as well. Unfazed, he decided to write what he believed down,
anyway. He started each teaching the same way:
Confucius Says... Today, Confucius is revered as the
most influential and revered philosopher in China's history.
• After starring in Revenge Of
The Creature, Clint Eastwood was fired and told by a Universal
Studios executive that he spoke too slowly to ever be a star and,
besides that, his Adam's apple was too big.
• Bruce Springsteen was stuffed
in a garbage can by a nun in the third grade "because she told me,
that's where I belong." Then he wrote Born to Run.
• In 1962, after back-to-back
auditions by two bands, The Beatles were soundly rejected by Decca
Records executive Dick Rowe, who then signed the other band, Brian
Poole & The Tremeloes. You remember their
big hit, don't you? Point made.
What have people said about you? Have you listened?
Hope not.
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| Go
for No!® News
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summer speaking
schedule is getting rapidly filled! Want to bring us in to
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| NOtable
Quotables from
the Go for No! Movie
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"Failure
is something that we all need to embrace... to me, failing is like a
big test. The more you fail, the closer you are to
succeeding." - Todd Chism
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| Richard
& Andrea
Recommend... |
Getting a personal
trainer. No, this is not the title of a book. We're
suggesting - if you want to make maximum progress in minimum
time - you hire a personal trainer. Our trainer
(Scott) has, in ten weeks, helped us achieve more in the gym than we
had in the previous 10 months! Yes, it requires a financial
investment, but so what? What is an extra 10 years of
life worth? Stop thinking about it... do it!
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| This
Week's Trivia
Answer |
Over one
million Pet
Rocks were sold in 1975, making Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, a
millionaire. He got the idea while joking with friends about his pet
that was easy to take care of, which was a rock.
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| This
Week "In the Club" |
We
discovered a long-lost tape of Richard's first ever recorded speech
from 1984 and thought it would be fun to share. No, it's not "Go for
No!" that would come years later... it's Richard at a National
Speakers Association meeting doing one of his first serious
presentations on his expertise at the time: image
strategy. Come check it out! Already
a
member? Log in here!
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