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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

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Opportunity Knocks. Will You Answer?

Presenting the Opportunity Knocks EZine

Produced by

Tim Johnson
and
No Time Lost Enterprises

Volume 1, Issue 4
March 22, 2001

Welcome to the OK-EZine! Presented here are ideas, concepts, strategies and tactics for those ready to embrace the New, the Daring and the Possibilities.

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CONTENTS:

1.) Power Thought
2.) Recommended Resource
3.) Main Article
4.) Advertising Info
5.) Subscribe/Unsubscribe Info

1.) Power Thought - You are what you think about.

How many people do you know that are happy, healthy, wealthy and living the "good life" that constantly worry about things. Little things. Dumb things. Unimportant things?

Not many. And it's not just because they are living the "good life" either. If your thoughts are always dominated by negatives, problems and conflicts, you will ALWAYS have negatives, problems and conflicts.

The mind of mankind is an incredible thing. It will deliver to you the things you focus on. If you focus on getting out of debt, a better job, you will get it. What most forget is that worry means the same as focus in this context. Worrying is focusing on your problems in a negative way.

When you worry, you take away that part of you that is working in the background. That is the part that "sees" the opportunities and possibilities in life. Worry, conflict and negative emotions are like putting blinders or sunglasses on. Instead focus on possible solutions and watch what happens.

2.) Recommended Resource - Winning Without Intimidation

Winning Without Intimidation is a great manual on how to use "positive persuasion" in today's world. It's not about how to manipulate anyone or to coerce people. It's more about working with people than through them or over them. It will help you connect better with people and create win-win situations. That is the way to true success in life, making solutions where no one loses.

Winning Without Intimidation

3.) Main Article - What is your Frame of Reference?

The last OK-EZine talked about getting ready for new opportunities by getting out of old habits and into new ones. Changing the way you drive to work, getting up a little earlier and turning off the TV. Hopefully, we are all working on that still.

The possibilities and opportunities may not be readily recognizable yet, but they will be. One of the things that is extremely important in recognizing opportunity is your frame of reference. Some will call this your belief system, paradigm, world view or just outlook on life.

Whatever term you use, it is how you look at life and how you filter that into an understanding or set of beliefs about it. Simply put it is what you think is true about yourself and everyone and everything around you.

Let's examine your core beliefs. What are the things that you know in your heart are true above all else? Write down your beliefs in the following areas:

1. Yourself
2. Family (them and your relationship with them)
3. People
4. Justice
5. Faith
6. Your Country
7. Your Future
8. Your Past
9. Your Limitations (external and internal)
10. Your Potential (current and undeveloped)

If you are totally honest with yourself, you will get a picture of how you view the world and your place in it. Your beliefs in these areas will tell you where you are and whether you have any expectations of a better or worse future.

How many of the beliefs you listed hold you back? How many empower you? How many beliefs are about things you think you can't control or even affect? To borrow a phrase from my good friend Doug Firebaugh:

KILLER SECRET! - Those things you think you cannot affect or control are NOT really what limits you! It is your belief that they do. Seriously.

Take those beliefs and write down new ones that empower you and make you stronger. It can be as simple as turning "The deck is stacked against me because I am a man/woman/minority/etc." into "I can shuffle 'the deck' any time I want."

Now look at those new beliefs and envision for each one how you and your life would be different if you acted as if it were true. Quite a difference isn't it?

Another KILLER SECRET! - That is exactly how the big time, massively successful act!

They act as if nothing can stop them and believe it. When a setback occurs, they adjust and move on. They don't focus on the setbacks; they focus on the positive and learn from their setbacks. Anyone can do that.

If they believe they can.

I challenge you to examine those negative beliefs and replace them with positive, empowering ones. It will take time and you will meet a lot of resistance since your old beliefs are pretty well entrenched.

I suggest you write down the new beliefs and read them in the morning when you get up, at night before bed and any time you are in need of a booster shot of positive beliefs. Do it after a setback. Do it before a big meeting or presentation. Do it every day.

In the coming months we will have online courses on the website that will help you in this process along with goal setting, creating a vision, how to get out of Drift and many others.

Thanks and God Bless.

Tim Johnson