“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.”
–Earl Nightingale

“Success is a journey… Not a destination.”
–Ben Sweetland

Goal achievement is considered by some to be success, for it is true that success is defined by the achievement of a desired objective. But you may have noticed that I like to use words such as “potential,” “alignment,” or “successfulness” to describe this true success to which I am referring. As you can understand, goals are personal and success is relative to the individual.

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Clayton Makepeace is certainly living up to his name. And if you’re game, you might want to check out what he recently did for breast cancer awareness.

As you know, my wife is the owner of Workaholics4Hire.com, the outsourcing and project management solution used by most top marketers. (We share a lot of the same clients. That’s how we met!)

Today, Clayton interviewed my lovely wife for his teleseminar series. They spoke about the outsourcing aspect of creating, publishing and making money with information products. They revealed some amazing information on the call!

But there’s something else…

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Thought is the creative power or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act. Thinking in a certain way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific thinkers meet shipwreck — the failure to connect thought with personal action.

We have not yet reached the stage of development, even supposing such a stage to be possible, in which a person can create directly from formless substance without nature’s processes or the work of human hands. A person must not only think, but his personal action must supplement his thought.

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As promised, my wife has finally “exposed” herself for charity, recorded the event on video, and released it to the entire world.

If you were living under a rock these past couple of weeks, let me put you up to speed.

Sylvie Fortin, who shaved her head in preparation for her breast cancer chemotherapy treatments, decided to turn it into a fundraiser for Avon’s Breast Cancer Crusade. She “sold” sections of her scalp, similar to those pixel ads you see on the Internet.

Basically, we recorded the event on video and at the end of it turned an image of her scalp into a clickable “map” of sorts, leading to websites of the top sponsors. The cool thing about it is, we raised over $13,000 for breast cancer research and awareness!

Thank you to everyone for your support and generosity. If you want to watch the video and see my newly shorn wife’s head, check out my wife’s blog at BreastCancerVictory.com.

When I say that my wife is probably the strongest woman I’ve ever met, my words don’t do justice to show how strong she really is.

Since her chemo was scheduled to start next Wednesday, rather than embarrassingly lose clumps of hair over the next few days, Sylvie has decided to turn her loss into someone else’s gain.

She decided to cut her hair before the treatments and donate her now useless mane to a charity called Locks of Love, which creates wigs for disadvantaged kids with long-term medical hairloss.

But there’s more to this story…

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“Buzz cut,” that is.

You see, a few days ago, my friend Armand Morin posted on his blog about his recent shave, and asked his fellow readers to comment and vote on which one they liked best:

  

With the goatie? Or without?

I teased Armand a bit about it, so I decided to grow one myself. But that’s not fair, since Armand has had a beard for years. Me, I’ve had one on and off for years, too.

So I decided to shave something else. And now, I’m exposing my “naked” self to the world, because I have shaved…

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