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$100 CASH REWARD FOR YOUR IDEAS:
Last week we promised to have this week's newsletter about that very subject. I have a pretty sure-fire way to make it work. So I was going to share those ideas with you, to help you work with people you have or will have in your business. I was all prepared to write the article for the newsletter. However I decided to first write to several of you who I know have had quite a lot of experience in marketing and ask your opinions on the subject. I figured I would learn some new things I could add to my list. I got several replies back with some really great ideas and suggestions. One of the suggestions however was the best suggestion of them all. Someone suggested that before I share my ideas with the readers of the newsletter, that I offer a $100 cash reward for the best ideas from our readers. Not a contest… A CASH REWARD FOR THE PERSON WHO IS THE BEST OF THE BEST. I think that is a terrific idea.

SO HERE IS THE SCOOP:
I am offering a $100 cash reward to the person who can send to the Golden Mailbox Newsletter, the "BEST OF THE BEST" of his or her ideas on "how to get someone started in your business once you have signed them up" THAT IS RIGHT. I AM OFFERING A $100 CASH REWARD TO THE PERSON WHO SENDS IN THE BEST OUTLINE OF IDEAS ON HOW TO GET A PERSON WORKING THE BUSINESS ONCE YOU HAVE SIGNED THEM UP. It does not matter what home business you are in. The principle is the same. So don’t be bashful. You may just have a $100 set of ideas there that you are sitting on, and don’t even know it.

HOW WILL I PICK THE WINNER?
Well I will be the judge. I will read each person's submission, and then I will pick the one that I think is the best of the best. I will then send them a check from the Golden MailBox for $100 to spend any way they want. I already have several people who have sent me their ideas. If any of you, who have already sent me your ideas, want to rewrite them and RE-SUBMIT, you can. Other wise I will use the ones you have already sent me as your 'BEST OF THE BEST" in my SEARCH FOR A PERSON TO GIVE THE $100 REWARD TO!!!!

WHO CAN APPLY FOR THE REWARD?
Anyone can send in his or her ideas to me. You do not have to be a subscriber to the newsletter or a member of the Golden Mailbox Team. So if you know someone who has some really good ideas, have them send them to me. They may have a C spot in their pocket before they know it. The only person who is not eligible to receive the reward is myself because I am the judge.

WHAT IF I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT?
If you have no clue how to get someone going when you have signed them up, then maybe you should send me your frustrations. Maybe that will be the best entry of them all. I already have one like that someone sent me that is very, very, very good. What do you have to loose? A little time and some tapping on the keyboard and you may be $100 richer.

WHAT IS THE DEADLINE?
I will consider any entries that I receive by email on or before July 28th 2000 at Midnight. Your suggestions must be sent to howtostart@goldenmailbox.com You will need to send me your postal mailing address so I can send you the $100 reward if you are selected to receive the reward. You also must give me permission to share your ideas with others in the newsletter or I will not consider them. You can do that by simply hitting REPLY to this news letter and sending your ideas back to me with this newsletter and this statement following your ideas, acknowledging I will share those ideas with others even if you do not receive the $100 REWARD.

HOW WILL YOU KNOW WHO RECEIVED THE $100 REWARD?
You will know if your ideas were the best. That will be easy, because you will receive a $100 check in the mail…. ha ha ha…. I will choose the best ideas and announce who received the $100 REWARD in the August 5th Golden Mailbox Newsletter. The person who receives the $100 reward for his or her ideas on "how best to get someone started in your business once you have signed them up", will receive a $100 check in the mail that week.

WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THESE IDEAS?
Over the next several weeks, I will share all of the ideas received with everyone. I have already received several suggestions from the personal emails I sent out. Some of the ideas are just phenomenal. You will want to hear all of them. I will add them to the list of things I already know that work and share them with you in future newsletters.

I will look forward to hearing your ideas, and I will be even more thrilled to surprise you with a $100 REWARD for being the "THE BEST OF THE BEST".

Cordell Vail, W.B.

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BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND:
Are you a goal setter? If you are not I hope you will be after you read this. Did you know that it is a proven fact that if you set a reasonable goal and read it two times a day that it is almost impossible that you will not accomplish your goal. If it is that simple why don't we all do it? Well, who ever taught us how to do it? We have all set "NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS". That is not what I am talking about here. I am talking about VISUALIZATION. I am talking about doing something about it not just resolving to do something about it.

GOAL SETTING: HOW TO DO IT:
Would you like to know how? Well first let me just give you a couple of examples to inspire you on. Several years ago there was an East German ice skater practicing at the Olympics. The lights went out and when they came back on SHE WAS STILL SKATING. Everyone asked her how she was able to skate in the dark. She said the lights made no difference to her. She and so VISUALIZED her routine in her mind that she could do it with the lights on or with the lights off. She knew every move perfect. Every time to start and stop, to slow and speed up. She could skate the routine best in her mind. That changed the entire Olympic world. After that they began to study the East German teams and realized that is why they were all winning so many gold metals. Remember that? WHY? Because they used visualization. They did it in their minds before they ever did it on the field.

Another example: In 1957 they took a survey of the graduating class at Yale University. One of the questions they ask in the survey was if they had written goals. Only 3% of the class said that they had written goals. They then looked up the surviving members of that graduating class 20 years later. Guess what. That 3% of the graduating class were worth more financially than all the rest of the class put together. DOES THAT TELL YOU SOMETHING?

One last example: At a prominent University they were studying goal setting. They took a basket ball team and divided them into 3 groups. Then they tested them on how well they shot foul shots. They all did about the same. Then they had one group practice every day for several weeks. The second group did not practice at all. The third group sat in the bleachers and just practiced shooting foul shots in their minds. After several weeks they tested them and guess what the results were? The ones who did not practice were just the same. The ones who practiced every day had improved. The ones who sat in the bleachers and practiced in their minds had improved the most. WHY? Because they never missed a shot. In their minds they visualized making the basket every time. And when they were finally back on the court, THEY COULD MAKE THEM BASKET JUST AS THEY HAD VISUALIZED.

Goal setting, It is such a simple thing, yet so few people do it. I have done it. I can tell you from personal experience that it is like a magic trick. IT WORKS….

So what do you need to do? Well it is quite simple….

Sit down and think about what it is that you want to do. Believe it or not, that is the hardest part for most people. Finding something they want to do. Something they believe in, and something that they believe they can do.

So let's pick an example. Lets say you want to quit your full time job and start a home business where you make twice as much as you are now making? Is that a reasonable goal? YES!!!! What is the hardest part? Quitting your job? NO! It is finding a home business that you want to do. That is the hardest part. Deciding what you want to do. We will talk more about that in other newsletters. But lets just say that you have decided that you want to start a home business selling health products because that is one of the MAJOR TRENDS in our day and age and you are very interested in health.

So here is what you do.

Write down something like this:

I have my own home business selling XXXXXXXX products. These products are the best products in the world. I use them myself and they make me feel wonderful. I am helping others to also feel wonderful each day by using my products. My business will be earning $$$$$$$$ by the xxx Day of XXXX, 20XX. To accomplish this goal, I will get up at 5 a.m. every morning and read for one hour before I go to work. I am an expert in the XXXXXXX health products business. I will find XXX new people in my business every week by placing one classified ad in the news paper every week, by developing my web page, by xxxxxx (name what you will do).

Get the idea? It is not important that you ALREADY HAVE THE BUSINESS…. Just set the goal and read it as if you already had the business and were already making the money. The actual words of the goal, of course, have to be quite personal to what you are doing. This is just an example to help you see the concept. But there are some key elements in GOAL SETTING that make it different from NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS.

1. Have a time and a place you will accomplish the goal ( a deadline)

2. Have a goal that you can measure (an amount of money you will be earning, or a skill, talent or weight you will attain THAT CAN BE MEASURED)

3. State what you will do to accomplish the goal.

4. WRITE THE GOAL DOWN

5. READ IT TWO TIMES A DAY. When you first get up and just before you go to bed.

6. VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS ALREADY HAVING IT….. (THAT IS THE VERY KEY)

I promise you if you will follow these simple steps you can accomplish any reasonable goal. It does not matter if it is earning an amount of money, attaining a new skill, changing something in your life like smoking, learning how to be better at something…… anything that is reasonable, it will work on. What is reasonable? Well may I suggest you ask HELEN KELLER that question. The only limit to your success lies within your mind.

If you would like some more suggestions on goal setting, may I suggest that you RE-READ the book "Think and Grow Rich". There are many other good book that are just as good, that was just one of the first to capture the concept. Thousands of people have become millionaires after reading Think and Grow Rich and following this goal setting principle.

WHAT IS THE KEY in the 6 steps to goal setting? VISUALIZATION…. Seeing and believing. I have used this method to more than triple my income in the past 10 years. IT WORKS. But only if you work it. If you do not write the goal down. IT WILL NOT WORK. If you do not read them twice a day, YOU HAVE NO PROMISE. If you do not VISUALIZE yourself already having it, then there is little hope it will come. FAITH… BELIEVING… KNOWING YOU CAN DO IT…VISUALIZING YOURSELF ALREADY THERE. That is the key. And you can do it IF YOU WILL! What do you have to loose?

Success to you…
The Golden Mailbox Newsletter Staff

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