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OCTOBER
2011
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from Go for No!
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| NOteworthy
Thought of the Month |
"Face
your fears or they will climb over your back." - Frank Herbert,
Chapterhouse: Dune
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| This
Month's Trivia Question |
"It's the Great Pumpkin
Charlie Brown" debuted in 1966 and became an instant classic. The Great
Pumpkin was supposed to "rise" in the pumpkin patch that had
the most of which trait? Do you remember? Find
out below!
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| This
Month's NOtivational
Article |
Turn Failure from Frightening to Fun
by
Richard Fenton & Andrea
Waltz
Failure
is, without a doubt, one of the most emotionally loaded words in the
English language and traditionally one of the experiences we naturally
try to avoid. For many people, the very idea of FAILING is enough to
stop them dead in their tracks. Success, on the other hand,
is an often mythical, nearly magical concept for the majority of
people. (Who doesn’t want to be seen by others as a
“success”… not to mention all the
“stuff” that comes with it?)
This is why so many people will do virtually anything and sacrifice so
much to achieve it… except, of course, everything BUT be
labeled a failure!
And yet, to achieve meaningful success, to be thought of as
“successful” by virtually any standard:
YOU… MUST… FAIL. There are no
exceptions to this rule. And, the more significant
the success, the more significant the failure must be, both in terms of
quantity and magnitude. So, how do we reconcile this apparent
contradiction? The answers lay in our personal, internal
definitions of failure and success.
While both can be defined in many ways, to most people
“success” means hitting a target and getting what
you want… and failure means just the opposite;
falling SHORT of hitting a target and NOT getting what you want. The
dictionary confirms this, defining “success” as
“the achievement of something
desired.” Naturally, then, failure by
default becomes “the achievement of something
undesired.”
But what if the goal - what we were trying to achieve - was an increase
in the number of NO’s (failures) we collect? What
if hearing NO was somehow desired? Could one intentionally achieve
failure? Of course; if increasing your failure rate IS the goal, then
hearing NO can be an achievement!
In short, failure has gotten a bad rap. It’s reviled and
feared. Most people simply think of success as good and failure as bad;
complete opposites of one another. But they’re not. Yes and
No are NOT opposites; they are simply opposite sides of the same
coin. They’re companions… one the hero,
the other sidekick. But, like in the movies, the
hero tends to get all the glory, while the sidekick gets stuck tending
to the hero’s horse.
To reach your full potential you must stop thinking of success and
failure as being opposites, and, rather, merge them into the Yin
& Yang they really are – opposite sides of the same
coin that rely and depend on one another. You must
get rid of the notion that your choices are success OR failure. Your
choices are always success AND failure.
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for No!® News |
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| NOtable
Quotables from
the Go for No! Movie |
"I
think what failure does at its ultimate, ultimate level, is it shows us
who we have to become to get the results we want." - Randy Gage
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| Richard
& Andrea
Recommend... |
The Fear Factory.
In the spirit of Halloween, we're recommending something for those of
you who want to have some reprogramming done around
fear. After we created "Go for No!" we wrote a fable about Steven, a
guy who mysteriously (of course!) stumbles into The Fear Factory - the
place that manufactures and markets fear to the general public.
In his quest to escape, Steven discovers the real
truth about his fears and The Fear Factory. We didn't publish
this as a book, but we did create a 2 CD "audio-play" with us playing
the parts! To pick it up, click here.
And, we've removed the shipping charge until October 31st!
(Who doesn't love free shipping?)
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| This
Month's Trivia
Answer |
According to Linus:
"Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he
thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got
to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one.
You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but
sincerity as far as the eye can see."
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