Acute Angles: An Inspirational Column |
Most of us want only a few modest things out of life: enough money to buy anything we want without having to think twice about it, a stimulating job, a satisfying personal relationship and/or the proper amount of good sex, reasonable health, and something to complain about … not necessarily in that order. An intelligent boss is too much to expect --- unless you’re in business for yourself.
Every year more than 19,000 people pay up to $299 each to attend a giant motivational seminar at the America West Arena and hear people like Larry King, Tony Robbins, John Gray, Christopher Reeve, Randy Johnson, Naomi Judd and Jake Plummer tell them how they can make their wildest dreams come true.
In previous years you could have learned the secrets of success from Barbara Bush and Captain Scott Brady. You could have heard from famous author Milly and in future years maybe even Socks and Buddy will be able to share their stories.
At this year’s seminar, "Summit2000 Peak Performance for the New Millennium," you would have learned how to create the competitive advantage, how to sell in the new millennium, how to build a bridge with love, and how to massively reduce your taxes. Also how to harness the power of emotional hunger to achieve more than most people dream possible, master fundamental strategies for creating permanent change, apply the psychology of success conditioning, and learn what it takes to become a leader’s leader.
There’s even more: Master the force that controls all relationships, overcome communication conflicts to attain immediate results, find or re-ignite a passionate relationship and utilize the power of rules in your relationships with startling results. Maintain your confidence, make pressure work for you, renew your attitude daily, and meet challenges without discouragement. Create massive momentum and a purpose in your life, and achieve the results you demand now. Learn how to use humor in speaking your mind, how to impress everyone with your conversation, how to reach the pinnacle of success, how to build rapport with the rich and famous.
You learn that each of us has the ability to be successful. The essential traits of great achievers are based on the teachings of the past from Moses, David, Solomon, Jesus and Paul. Anyone can adapt the wisdom of the ages to achieve success in any endeavor as well as find happiness, meaning, fulfillment and serenity in life.
If you listen to enough speakers at enough seminars, you learn about:
The Five Simple Steps to Reducing All Human Problems to One Over-Generalized Formula
and basic precepts like:
Because of its deep sense of commitment to its readers, this column will give you all the information and motivation you would receive if you had gone, and will save you $299. All you need to know is The One Secret to Success:
THINK POSITIVE AND BE LUCKY
There are no age or physical limitations to what you can do. We all know about Colonel Sanders, who started his Kentucky Fried Chicken empire at the age of 66, sculptress Louise Nevelson who didn’t achieve success until she was close to 60, and Grandma Moses. But there are so many others. At the Sooner State Games in Oklahoma City in 1995, Margaret White set a new indoor world record shotput toss of 11 feet 4 inches for competitors 100 years old and over. The Gold Medal at last year’s Arizona Senior Games was won by a pole vault of over 6 feet. A truly inspirational figure is William Hart, who in 1991 held up a branch of the HomeFed Bank in San Diego. Mr. Hart was 75 years old, suffered a stroke and two heart attacks three years earlier, was partially paralyzed on his right side, and got around in a wheelchair.
If the little engine could pull the train over the mountain, and if a seagull could fly over 200 miles per hour, and if Phoenix could sell the Dry Heat Theory to the rest of the country, there is nothing you can’t do.