Kids struggle in high school for a lot of reasons — drugs, lack of interest, trouble at home, to name a few. But a new study in the July issue of Sociology of Education highlights a factor that doesn't
immediately come to mind: obesity. Using college enrollment as a measure of academic success, University of Texas at Austin sociologist Robert Crosnoe found that obese students had a worse experience at school than their thinner peers and were less likely to attend college, and that the effects of being overweight hurt girls far more than boys. Obese girls were only half as likely as non-obese girls to go to college after high school, and were even less likely to enter college if they went to a high school where few other students were overweight, says Crosnoe. But obese girls who went to high school with a sizable overweight population — where heavy girls represented about 20% of the student body — had normal odds of attending college. "The more it makes you stand out from the crowd, the worse it is," says Crosnoe. Alternatively, obese boys were immune to what Crosnoe terms the "college effect" and were just as likely as normal-weight students to go to college. Crosnoe thinks the difference has to do with the fact that body and appearance are more central to girls' self-concept than to boys', and that the negative social effects of obesity have a more powerful impact on girls' lives, including their academic careers.
Recent research has shown that overweight youngsters are often teased, ostracized and isolated by their peers, and are sometimes treated differently by teachers and even parents. According to Crosnoe, children often internalize this negative social feedback — whether real or perceived — which can lead to alcohol and drug use, failure in school, truancy and suicidal thoughts. "They are just unhappy at school," he says, "and it does things to them in the present that have long-term consequences."
For his study, Crosnoe used data collected on nearly 11,000 adolescents from 128 schools as part of the ongoing National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the largest and most comprehensive survey of health-related behavior among adolescents between 7th and 12th grade, which started in 1994. Crosnoe's study focused specifically on how obesity predicts maladjustment, and how maladjustment predicts college enrollment. For example, he found that self-rejection in obese girls was 63% higher than for nonobese girls. And in one group of obese girls, the rate of class failure was 24% higher than with their non-obese counterparts. The obesity effect on college enrollment was also slightly stronger for blacks and Hispanics than it was for whites but the results were rooted less in race than in psychosocial adjustment. "Race is a predictor of college enrollment, obesity and depression, but it doesn't seem to be a strong factor in how obesity predicts socio-emotional adjustment and how that predicts college enrollment," says Crosnoe. "It's really just a more general phenomenon across these racial groups."
Previous studies have shown that rather than becoming emotionally distressed and disengaging from school, a minority of obese adolescents excel in academics. "Knowing that they'll never be captain of the football or swim team, they try harder and get really good grades," says Crosnoe.
"The more it makes you stand out from the crowd, the worse it is," says Crosnoe. Alternatively, obese boys were immune to what Crosnoe terms the "college effect" and were just as likely as normal-weight students to go to college. Crosnoe thinks the difference has to do with the fact that body and appearance are more central to girls' self-concept than to boys', and that the negative social effects of obesity have a more powerful impact on girls' lives, including their academic careers.
Recent research has shown that overweight youngsters are often teased, ostracized and isolated by their peers, and are sometimes treated differently by teachers and even parents.
According to Crosnoe, children often internalize this negative social feedback — whether real or perceived — which can lead to alcohol and drug use, failure in school, truancy and suicidal thoughts. "They are just unhappy at school," he says, "and it does things to them in the present that have long-term
consequences." For his study, Crosnoe used data collected on nearly 11,000 adolescents from 128 schools as part of the ongoing National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the largest and most comprehensive survey of health-related behavior among adolescents between 7th and 12th grade, which started in 1994. Crosnoe's study focused specifically on how obesity predicts maladjustment, and how maladjustment predicts college enrollment. For example, he found that self-rejection in obese girls was 63% higher than for nonobese girls. And in one group of obese girls, the rate of class failure was 24% higher than with their non-obese counterparts. The obesity effect on college enrollment was also slightly stronger for blacks and Hispanics than it was for whites but the results were rooted less in race than in
psychosocial adjustment. "Race is a predictor of college enrollment, obesity and depression, but it doesn't seem to be a strong factor in how obesity predicts socio-emotional adjustment and how that predicts college enrollment," says Crosnoe. "It's really just a more general phenomenon cross these racial groups."
Previous studies have shown that rather than becoming emotionally distressed and disengaging from school, a minority of obese adolescents excel in academics. "Knowing that they'll never be captain of the football or swim team, they try harder and get really good grades," says Crosnoe.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Social Security Is Important to Women
Social Security is gender neutral – individuals with identical earnings histories are treated the same in terms of benefits. However, due to certain demographic trends, women benefit from the Social Security program in several ways.
• With longer life expectancies than men, elderly women tend to live more years in retirement and have a greater chance of exhausting other sources of income. They benefit from Social Security's cost-of-living protections because benefits are annually adjusted for inflation.
o Women reaching age 65 in 2005 are expected to live, on average, an additional 20 years compared with 17 years for men.
o Women represent 58 percent of all Social Security beneficiaries age 62 and older and approximately 70 percent of beneficiaries age 85 and older.
• The Social Security system is progressive in that lower-wage earners receive a higher percentage benefit than higher-wage earners do. The system returns a greater percentage of pre-retirement earnings to a lower-wage worker than to a higher-wage worker. Women who are low-wage workers receive back more benefits in relation to past earnings than do high-wage earners.
o In 2004, the median earnings of working-age women who worked full-time, year-round were $30,000, compared to $40,000 for men.
• In 2004, the average annual Social Security income received by women 65 years and older was $9,408, compared to $12,381 for men.
• Social Security provides dependent benefits to spouses, divorced spouses, elderly widows, and widows with young children.
o For unmarried women – including widows – age 65 and older, Social Security comprises 53 percent of their total income. In contrast, Social Security benefits comprise only 38 percent of unmarried elderly men's income and only 33 percent of elderly couples' income.
• In 2004, 46 percent of all elderly unmarried females receiving Social Security benefits relied on Social Security for 90 percent or more of their income.
• Elderly women are less likely than elderly men to have significant income from pensions other than Social Security. In 2002, only 21 percent of unmarried women aged 65 or older were receiving their own private pensions (either as a retired worker or survivor), compared to 28 percent of unmarried men.
Participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans is increasing for women in today's workforce. In 2004, 54 percent of women employed full-time participated in an employer-sponsored plan compared to 53 percent of men. Women generally receive lower pension benefits due to their relatively lower earnings.
• With longer life expectancies than men, elderly women tend to live more years in retirement and have a greater chance of exhausting other sources of income. They benefit from Social Security's cost-of-living protections because benefits are annually adjusted for inflation.
o Women reaching age 65 in 2005 are expected to live, on average, an additional 20 years compared with 17 years for men.
o Women represent 58 percent of all Social Security beneficiaries age 62 and older and approximately 70 percent of beneficiaries age 85 and older.
• The Social Security system is progressive in that lower-wage earners receive a higher percentage benefit than higher-wage earners do. The system returns a greater percentage of pre-retirement earnings to a lower-wage worker than to a higher-wage worker. Women who are low-wage workers receive back more benefits in relation to past earnings than do high-wage earners.
o In 2004, the median earnings of working-age women who worked full-time, year-round were $30,000, compared to $40,000 for men.
• In 2004, the average annual Social Security income received by women 65 years and older was $9,408, compared to $12,381 for men.
• Social Security provides dependent benefits to spouses, divorced spouses, elderly widows, and widows with young children.
o For unmarried women – including widows – age 65 and older, Social Security comprises 53 percent of their total income. In contrast, Social Security benefits comprise only 38 percent of unmarried elderly men's income and only 33 percent of elderly couples' income.
• In 2004, 46 percent of all elderly unmarried females receiving Social Security benefits relied on Social Security for 90 percent or more of their income.
• Elderly women are less likely than elderly men to have significant income from pensions other than Social Security. In 2002, only 21 percent of unmarried women aged 65 or older were receiving their own private pensions (either as a retired worker or survivor), compared to 28 percent of unmarried men.
Participation in employer-sponsored retirement plans is increasing for women in today's workforce. In 2004, 54 percent of women employed full-time participated in an employer-sponsored plan compared to 53 percent of men. Women generally receive lower pension benefits due to their relatively lower earnings.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Financial State of Women in America
Compiled by: Sheila George, RMR-Leadership Council and Edie Elting, RMR-Leadership Council
History
• Prior to WWII, women were primarily homemakers – stayed at home and raised their families. During WWII large numbers of them took jobs in factories, to support the war effort and keep the economy moving. After the war they returned home and yielded their jobs to the men returning from the war. There was massive disillusionment as they struggled to figure out where they fit in.
• In the 60’s and 70’s, along came the Women’s Lib movement. It popularized women working, and made it socially acceptable for women to work outside the home and gained them almost equal pay.
• Then came the career woman era and the technology book of the 80’s and 90’s. Women were moving up the corporate ladder in large numbers. They were beginning to struggle trying to balance career and family responsibilities. The superwoman myth was just that… a myth.
• In the new millennium, women were again disillusioned – they started to recognize the impact working had on their children, families and quality of life, but also realized their families needed that second income just to make ends meet. Some women found themselves in a situation where they needed to be able to provide for themselves financially. That’s where we find ourselves today.
The poor are predominately female
• In 2002, 56% of the poor in the US were women, compared to 44% men.
• 90% of adult welfare recipients are women, (Legal Momentum for Advancing Women’s Rights).
• 50 % of poor families are headed by single women, and only 8% by single men.
• 47% of the women over the age of 50 are single and therefore responsible for their own financial well-being.
• In the first year following a divorce, a woman’s standard of living drops 74%. The impact on her and her children can be devastating as they struggle to adjust to a whole new standard of living.
• The negative effect on children when mothers have to work outside the home cannot be ignored. Children suffer higher rates of poor performance in school, longer, chronic, and more frequent health problems, and higher incidences of delinquency.
• Children in school who are having the most problems are the ones whose parents are around home the least.
• In a sample of over 2,000 working mothers, welfare moms were significantly more likely to have at least 1 child with asthma and at least 1 child with a chronic condition.
• For every hour a parent works between 6 – 9 PM, his or her child is 16% more likely to score in the bottom quartile on math tests.
• The hours with the highest rates of children committing and falling victim to crimes is between 2 and 8 PM – between the time they get out of school and a parent gets home from work.
• The children of parents who work nights are 172% more likely to have gotten into trouble and been suspended from school.
• The Washington Post reports that almost one in four boys takes drugs – and this is apparently skyrocketing.
• Most US children are being raised in households where every adult works for a wage or salary. If the family only has one parent living at home, these children are raising themselves and are sent to school anyway when they’re ill.
• All of these problems are the result of too many children living in an “absent-parent home.”
As women age and can no longer work for a living, their situation becomes dire.
• 80% of female baby boomers are not going to be financially secure in their retirement, in fact, some of them will have to work until they’re 75 because of inadequate retirement savings and pensions.
• Right now, 58% of them have less than 10,000 dollars in retirement savings.
• 3 out of every four elderly people living in poverty are women. Most of them weren’t poor when their husbands were alive.
• With longer life expectancies than men, elderly women tend to live more years in retirement and have a greater chance of exhausting other sources of income.
• $9,408 dollars –the average annual social security income received by women 65 years and older in 2004. (That’s 784 dollars a month.)
• 46% of all elderly unmarried females receiving Social Security Benefits relied on Social Security for 90% of their income in 2004
• Elderly women are less likely than elderly men to have significant income from pensions other than Social Security
• Women generally receive lower pension benefits due to their relatively lower earnings
“Women are not prepared to take care of themselves financially. Especially as we get older, more and more of us are responsible for our own financial well-being – but we have no idea how to take on that responsibility.” - Kim Kiyosaki
Resources
• The Rich Dad series by Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad; Retire Young, Retire Rich; the Cashflow Quadrant, et al.
• Rich Woman by Kim Kiyosaki is an excellent book for women or for the people who want to help women.
• http://www.nussentials.info/ - resources page link to more books, CDs, and webinars
History
• Prior to WWII, women were primarily homemakers – stayed at home and raised their families. During WWII large numbers of them took jobs in factories, to support the war effort and keep the economy moving. After the war they returned home and yielded their jobs to the men returning from the war. There was massive disillusionment as they struggled to figure out where they fit in.
• In the 60’s and 70’s, along came the Women’s Lib movement. It popularized women working, and made it socially acceptable for women to work outside the home and gained them almost equal pay.
• Then came the career woman era and the technology book of the 80’s and 90’s. Women were moving up the corporate ladder in large numbers. They were beginning to struggle trying to balance career and family responsibilities. The superwoman myth was just that… a myth.
• In the new millennium, women were again disillusioned – they started to recognize the impact working had on their children, families and quality of life, but also realized their families needed that second income just to make ends meet. Some women found themselves in a situation where they needed to be able to provide for themselves financially. That’s where we find ourselves today.
The poor are predominately female
• In 2002, 56% of the poor in the US were women, compared to 44% men.
• 90% of adult welfare recipients are women, (Legal Momentum for Advancing Women’s Rights).
• 50 % of poor families are headed by single women, and only 8% by single men.
• 47% of the women over the age of 50 are single and therefore responsible for their own financial well-being.
• In the first year following a divorce, a woman’s standard of living drops 74%. The impact on her and her children can be devastating as they struggle to adjust to a whole new standard of living.
• The negative effect on children when mothers have to work outside the home cannot be ignored. Children suffer higher rates of poor performance in school, longer, chronic, and more frequent health problems, and higher incidences of delinquency.
• Children in school who are having the most problems are the ones whose parents are around home the least.
• In a sample of over 2,000 working mothers, welfare moms were significantly more likely to have at least 1 child with asthma and at least 1 child with a chronic condition.
• For every hour a parent works between 6 – 9 PM, his or her child is 16% more likely to score in the bottom quartile on math tests.
• The hours with the highest rates of children committing and falling victim to crimes is between 2 and 8 PM – between the time they get out of school and a parent gets home from work.
• The children of parents who work nights are 172% more likely to have gotten into trouble and been suspended from school.
• The Washington Post reports that almost one in four boys takes drugs – and this is apparently skyrocketing.
• Most US children are being raised in households where every adult works for a wage or salary. If the family only has one parent living at home, these children are raising themselves and are sent to school anyway when they’re ill.
• All of these problems are the result of too many children living in an “absent-parent home.”
As women age and can no longer work for a living, their situation becomes dire.
• 80% of female baby boomers are not going to be financially secure in their retirement, in fact, some of them will have to work until they’re 75 because of inadequate retirement savings and pensions.
• Right now, 58% of them have less than 10,000 dollars in retirement savings.
• 3 out of every four elderly people living in poverty are women. Most of them weren’t poor when their husbands were alive.
• With longer life expectancies than men, elderly women tend to live more years in retirement and have a greater chance of exhausting other sources of income.
• $9,408 dollars –the average annual social security income received by women 65 years and older in 2004. (That’s 784 dollars a month.)
• 46% of all elderly unmarried females receiving Social Security Benefits relied on Social Security for 90% of their income in 2004
• Elderly women are less likely than elderly men to have significant income from pensions other than Social Security
• Women generally receive lower pension benefits due to their relatively lower earnings
“Women are not prepared to take care of themselves financially. Especially as we get older, more and more of us are responsible for our own financial well-being – but we have no idea how to take on that responsibility.” - Kim Kiyosaki
Resources
• The Rich Dad series by Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad; Retire Young, Retire Rich; the Cashflow Quadrant, et al.
• Rich Woman by Kim Kiyosaki is an excellent book for women or for the people who want to help women.
• http://www.nussentials.info/ - resources page link to more books, CDs, and webinars
The Future Looks Bright
Why The Network Marketing Business Will Continue To Grow.
By Robert T. Kiyosaki
For network marketers, the future looks very bright indeed, because there are economic trends already in process that will drive more and more people to participate in this business in the years ahead.
People Want More Freedom
Gone are the days when a person takes a job at age 25 and stays there for life, doing as he's told to keep that job secure. Today, people want to be more mobile and have more choices. They want the freedom to live their lives on their own terms.
A part-time network marketing business offers people more control over their lives; ultimately, it provides more freedom. It provides a low-cost-of-entry, ready-made system for those anxious to make a change.
People Want to Be Rich
During my parents' generation, the rules said, "If you work hard, the older you get, the more you'll be paid, earning ever more money (within tightly proscribed limits) through incremental pay raises." As you approached the end of your life, however, those rules reversed: when you retired you expected your income to go down. In other words, the assumption for my parents and their contemporaries was that one would work hard all one's life--and retire poor.
RICH DAD-The Future Looks Bright
No more. Today we have 25-year-olds who've never held down a job in their lives, yet have become billionaires by building a software company. At the same time, we have 50-year-olds looking for jobs, hoping to get back to a place where they can earn $50,000 a year. What's worse, these same 50-year-olds have little or nothing to set aside for retirement; indeed, they may never be able to retire. These 50-yearolds
don't need jobs; they need the opportunity to get rich enough to provide a sustainable level of income for the rest of their lives.
That opportunity is exactly what network marketing provides. Network marketing companies offer this possibility by providing the necessary education, mentoring and business systems to assist these 50-year-olds build their own B quadrant [business-owner] businesses.
By the year 2010 (not that far away!) the first of 75 million Baby Boomers in America will reach the age of 65. Many will come to network marketing as a means of building that lifetime of security which their jobs did not provide.
Indeed, beyond meeting the basic needs of minimum-level financial security, a person who successfully builds a network marketing business may potentially join the ranks of the world's ultra-rich, becoming far more wealthy than highly-educated and hard-working professional people, such as doctors, lawyers and engineers.
They may even become wealthier than many sports stars, movie stars and rock stars. If you are already an established network marketer, what does this mean for you? This is the best news of all: as the year 2010 approaches, many people who are already network marketers will do exceptionally well as millions of Baby Boomers come their way.
Individual Retirement Portfolios Will Be Wiped Out
Never in the history of the world have so many people bet their retirement years on the stock market. This is a recipe for financial disaster.
During my parents' generation, retirees counted on the companies they worked for and the federal government to provide the income stream to support their retirement years. They didn't have to worry about managing their retirement portfolio: the companies they worked for did that for them.
Today, more often than not, when you retire you're on your own. Millions of Americans have 401k's or similar retirement accounts--and that's all they have. If your 401k runs out of money when you reach, say, age 78, you won't be able to go back to your former employee and ask for help. There'll be nowhere to turn.
RICH DAD-The Future Looks Bright
There's also a strong possibility that the US stock market will collapse by the year 2010--if not sooner. If this happens, many 401k retirement plans will collapse along with it, which will mean that millions of people will never be able to retire--or at best, they won't have the pleasant retirements of which they had so fondly
dreamed. Suddenly a person with $2 million in mutual funds in his retirement account may find that portfolio cut in half. On top of that, he may be stuck with a capital gains tax that could bankrupt the remaining value of the retirement portfolio. That's the risk of betting your retirement years on paper.
The number of people who have bet their lives on the stock market is at an all-time high: if there is a crash, millions of people will be seeking other sources for financial security--such as building the kind of B quadrant business that network marketing can provide.
The Rules Have Changed
In 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down and the World Wide Web went up, the rules of the world changed forever. According to many economic historians, that's when the Industrial Age ended, and the Information Age began.
In the Industrial Age, the rules were that if you worked hard, your company and the government would take care of you. In the Information Age, the rules are different: the new rules say, you had better be planning to take care of yourself. How? Starting now, by investing in your own network marketing business.
This passage is excerpted with permission from The Business School for People Who Like Helping People, by Robert T.
Kiyosaki, with Sharon Lechter, authors of Rich Dad Poor Dad.
By Robert T. Kiyosaki
For network marketers, the future looks very bright indeed, because there are economic trends already in process that will drive more and more people to participate in this business in the years ahead.
People Want More Freedom
Gone are the days when a person takes a job at age 25 and stays there for life, doing as he's told to keep that job secure. Today, people want to be more mobile and have more choices. They want the freedom to live their lives on their own terms.
A part-time network marketing business offers people more control over their lives; ultimately, it provides more freedom. It provides a low-cost-of-entry, ready-made system for those anxious to make a change.
People Want to Be Rich
During my parents' generation, the rules said, "If you work hard, the older you get, the more you'll be paid, earning ever more money (within tightly proscribed limits) through incremental pay raises." As you approached the end of your life, however, those rules reversed: when you retired you expected your income to go down. In other words, the assumption for my parents and their contemporaries was that one would work hard all one's life--and retire poor.
RICH DAD-The Future Looks Bright
No more. Today we have 25-year-olds who've never held down a job in their lives, yet have become billionaires by building a software company. At the same time, we have 50-year-olds looking for jobs, hoping to get back to a place where they can earn $50,000 a year. What's worse, these same 50-year-olds have little or nothing to set aside for retirement; indeed, they may never be able to retire. These 50-yearolds
don't need jobs; they need the opportunity to get rich enough to provide a sustainable level of income for the rest of their lives.
That opportunity is exactly what network marketing provides. Network marketing companies offer this possibility by providing the necessary education, mentoring and business systems to assist these 50-year-olds build their own B quadrant [business-owner] businesses.
By the year 2010 (not that far away!) the first of 75 million Baby Boomers in America will reach the age of 65. Many will come to network marketing as a means of building that lifetime of security which their jobs did not provide.
Indeed, beyond meeting the basic needs of minimum-level financial security, a person who successfully builds a network marketing business may potentially join the ranks of the world's ultra-rich, becoming far more wealthy than highly-educated and hard-working professional people, such as doctors, lawyers and engineers.
They may even become wealthier than many sports stars, movie stars and rock stars. If you are already an established network marketer, what does this mean for you? This is the best news of all: as the year 2010 approaches, many people who are already network marketers will do exceptionally well as millions of Baby Boomers come their way.
Individual Retirement Portfolios Will Be Wiped Out
Never in the history of the world have so many people bet their retirement years on the stock market. This is a recipe for financial disaster.
During my parents' generation, retirees counted on the companies they worked for and the federal government to provide the income stream to support their retirement years. They didn't have to worry about managing their retirement portfolio: the companies they worked for did that for them.
Today, more often than not, when you retire you're on your own. Millions of Americans have 401k's or similar retirement accounts--and that's all they have. If your 401k runs out of money when you reach, say, age 78, you won't be able to go back to your former employee and ask for help. There'll be nowhere to turn.
RICH DAD-The Future Looks Bright
There's also a strong possibility that the US stock market will collapse by the year 2010--if not sooner. If this happens, many 401k retirement plans will collapse along with it, which will mean that millions of people will never be able to retire--or at best, they won't have the pleasant retirements of which they had so fondly
dreamed. Suddenly a person with $2 million in mutual funds in his retirement account may find that portfolio cut in half. On top of that, he may be stuck with a capital gains tax that could bankrupt the remaining value of the retirement portfolio. That's the risk of betting your retirement years on paper.
The number of people who have bet their lives on the stock market is at an all-time high: if there is a crash, millions of people will be seeking other sources for financial security--such as building the kind of B quadrant business that network marketing can provide.
The Rules Have Changed
In 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down and the World Wide Web went up, the rules of the world changed forever. According to many economic historians, that's when the Industrial Age ended, and the Information Age began.
In the Industrial Age, the rules were that if you worked hard, your company and the government would take care of you. In the Information Age, the rules are different: the new rules say, you had better be planning to take care of yourself. How? Starting now, by investing in your own network marketing business.
This passage is excerpted with permission from The Business School for People Who Like Helping People, by Robert T.
Kiyosaki, with Sharon Lechter, authors of Rich Dad Poor Dad.
How Are You Serving Others?
Increase Your Service And Your Income Will Follow.
By Bob Proctor
Albert Einstein said, “The only purpose for us being here is to serve others.” As we look back at this year and forward to ways we can further mold our lives into what we truly desire, let’s take an honest look at the service we’ve provided for our fellow man.
Service is all about finding ways to help others improve the quality of their lives. Excellent service recognizes the absolute importance of the soul in front of you, whether in person, over the phone or as linked by email. From the moment we get up in the morning and begin our interactions with fellow human beings, we’re
serving others.
If you want to measure the difference you’re making in people’s lives, the only question you need to ask yourself is this: “How big is my serve?” If you are ready to vastly increase your own income, you might ask yourself the same question: “How big is my serve?”
As Earl Nightingale noted in his audio program, The “Lead the Field” Seminar, “If any person alive is discontented with their rewards, they should examine their service.
Action equals reaction. ‘As ye sow, so shall ye reap.’ What you put out in service will determine what you get back in return.” The only limit to what you are capable of earning is the limit you place on your
serve.
I often talk in seminars about the “Stretch and Serve” concept. To serve at a much higher, more significant level, you must first stretch your imagination. See yourself providing service in a marketplace many times the size of the one you’re presently operating in. Write down your annual income on a sheet of paper and ask yourself, “How can I turn this annual income into a monthly income?” When you begin to work your marvelous imagination around this question, you will surprise yourself with the easy solutions that float to the surface.
When these two concepts—stretch and serve—are successfully combined and brought into a working reality, your rewards could run into millions. There are plenty of people in our profession who are proving this!
If you’re worried about your income or your future, you’re concentrating on the wrong end of the scale. If you’re looking back at the year behind you and feeling that you’ve done little to have an impact on the world around you, you’re concentrating on the wrong end of the scale. It’s not about “getting,” it’s about
“giving”! Concern yourself only with increasing your service, every hour and every day. From there, your future and your income will take care of themselves.
BOB PROCTOR is Publisher of Networking Times.
By Bob Proctor
Albert Einstein said, “The only purpose for us being here is to serve others.” As we look back at this year and forward to ways we can further mold our lives into what we truly desire, let’s take an honest look at the service we’ve provided for our fellow man.
Service is all about finding ways to help others improve the quality of their lives. Excellent service recognizes the absolute importance of the soul in front of you, whether in person, over the phone or as linked by email. From the moment we get up in the morning and begin our interactions with fellow human beings, we’re
serving others.
If you want to measure the difference you’re making in people’s lives, the only question you need to ask yourself is this: “How big is my serve?” If you are ready to vastly increase your own income, you might ask yourself the same question: “How big is my serve?”
As Earl Nightingale noted in his audio program, The “Lead the Field” Seminar, “If any person alive is discontented with their rewards, they should examine their service.
Action equals reaction. ‘As ye sow, so shall ye reap.’ What you put out in service will determine what you get back in return.” The only limit to what you are capable of earning is the limit you place on your
serve.
I often talk in seminars about the “Stretch and Serve” concept. To serve at a much higher, more significant level, you must first stretch your imagination. See yourself providing service in a marketplace many times the size of the one you’re presently operating in. Write down your annual income on a sheet of paper and ask yourself, “How can I turn this annual income into a monthly income?” When you begin to work your marvelous imagination around this question, you will surprise yourself with the easy solutions that float to the surface.
When these two concepts—stretch and serve—are successfully combined and brought into a working reality, your rewards could run into millions. There are plenty of people in our profession who are proving this!
If you’re worried about your income or your future, you’re concentrating on the wrong end of the scale. If you’re looking back at the year behind you and feeling that you’ve done little to have an impact on the world around you, you’re concentrating on the wrong end of the scale. It’s not about “getting,” it’s about
“giving”! Concern yourself only with increasing your service, every hour and every day. From there, your future and your income will take care of themselves.
BOB PROCTOR is Publisher of Networking Times.
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