Take Action Sales July newsletter

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Welcome to the July 2008 issue of the Take Action Sales Newsletter

with Mark Bowser

Summer is a great time not only to rest, have fun, and fellowship but also to work on ourselves and to dream about our victorious future. We have two articles this month to help you become the person you were created to be and to push towards the achievement of your greatest sales dreams and desires. Enjoy…and have a great summer!

God bless,

Mark Bowser

In this issue
1. The True Height of a Person by Mark Bowser
2. Achieving Your Dreams by Jim Rohn

THE TRUE HEIGHT OF A PERSON

By Mark Bowser

Abraham Lincoln was an exceptionally tall man. He stood an impressive six feet, four inches tall. That is tall even for our day, but in his era, he must have seemed like a giant. He then would wear a tall top hat made of silk. When he had it on, he stood close to seven feet tall from toe to top hat.

President Lincoln loved to stand back to back with people to measure height. One day, President Lincoln stopped at Aquia Creek, Virginia in order to review some of his troops. Almost immediately the President's attention gravitated towards a very tall young man. This young Pennsylvania seventeen year old seemed to tower over his comrades.

The President got the young man's attention. Mahlon Shaaber stepped forward. When the young man reached Lincoln, it is believed that the President said, "Turn around, young fellow and put your back against mine while I take off my hat." Almost immediately, the President knew he had been bested. Shaaber was much taller than the President. This lanky young man hovered over Lincoln by two and half inches.

But what does height really mean? How does it impact our sales success? Well, I believe that the true height of a person is not in how much we tower above the ground, but in how high our integrity towers over immorality. In Lincoln's case he seemed to tower in physical height, as well as integrity height.

One time, an over night White House guest heard great groans and moans coming from another room. The guest quietly slipped out of bed to investigate the mysterious sounds. What was discovered comforted the guest's heart and mind. The noise was the President. The guest saw Lincoln prostrate on the floor pleading to Almighty God for His help in this national crisis, the Civil War. The guest was comforted because he knew the country was in good hands because the height of its president was flat against the floor. A height that looked straight up to God. That is the height of integrity. My friends, you and I need to live lives that will tower over life's challenges. Let us be giants of integrity. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­


Achieving Your Dreams

by Jim Rohn

While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily working at building and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. And here sits the much larger group, wondering how life can be so unfair, so complicated and unjust. What's the major difference between the little group with so much and the larger group with so little?

Despite all of the factors that affect our lives - like the kind of parents we have, the schools we attended, the part of the country we grew up in - none has as much potential power for affecting our futures as our ability to dream.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path. To unleash this power, though, your dreams must be well defined. A fuzzy future has little pulling power. Well-defined dreams are not fuzzy. Wishes are fuzzy. To really achieve your dreams, to really have your future plans pull you forward, your dreams must be vivid.

If you've ever hiked a fourteen thousand-foot peak in the Rocky Mountains, one thought has surely come to mind "How did the settlers of this country do it?" How did they get from the East Coast to the West Coast? Carrying one day's supply of food and water is hard enough. Can you imagine hauling all of your worldly goods with you... mile after mile, day after day, month after month? These people had big dreams. They had ambition. They didn't focus on the hardship of getting up the mountain.

In their minds, they were already on the other side – their bodies just hadn't gotten them there yet! Despite all of their pains and struggles, all of the births and deaths along the way, those who made it to the other side had a single vision: to reach the land of continuous sunshine and extraordinary wealth. To start over where anything and everything was possible. Their dreams were stronger than the obstacles in their way.

You've got to be a dreamer. You've got to envision the future. You've got to see California while you're climbing fourteen thousand-foot peaks. You've got to see the finish line while you're running the race. You've got to hear the cheers when you're in the middle of a monster project. And you've got to be willing to put yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable and until you realize your dreams.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Reproduced with permission from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine - http://www.jimrohn.com