Welcome to TIPS for Extraordinary
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
Written & Published by Philip E. Humbert, PhD
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Table of Contents:
1. The One-Minute TIP
2. Welcome Notes
3. Gratitude, Greed, Attraction & Abundance
4. Quotes of the Week
5. Strictly Business: Get Organized!
6. Resources and Tools for YOUR Success!
7. Humor: Thanksgiving Quotes
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1. The One-Minute TIP
This week, pause to give thanks for life, for health and
wealth, for loved ones and education and all that surrounds us, but also
imagine yourself as a “steward” of these things. Imagine yourself taking
care of them, cherishing them, and investing your riches to increase
them in 2008. Gratitude is good, but so is “greed”—in the healthy sense
of using what we have to create even more for ourselves and others in
the future.
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2. Welcome Notes
At this time of the year, almost everyone celebrates. Some of us
celebrate Christmas, others celebrate Kwanzaa or Hanukkah or Solstice,
or one of the other great traditions. This week, most Americans
celebrate our annual Thanksgiving. Whatever tradition you follow, at
this time of year we all hug, remember our roots, and look to the
future. This year, as you share with loved ones, why not join in
celebration with neighbors who observe a heritage different than your
own?
You might learn some new songs or dances, you’ll probably get some good
food, and it turns out this is a small planet and we need all the
neighborliness we can get! Why not invite a foreign student or someone
who lives alone to join you and your family? Just an idea….
Finally, two more notes. The response to last week’s TIPS from Las Vegas
was wonderful! We got emails full of humor and teasing and stories of
other people’s adventures in Vegas and around the world. I love writing
TIPS! This is an amazing community! Thanks to all of you, and if you
missed last week’s issue, check it out at:
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3: Gratitude, Greed, Attraction & Abundance
This week, the U.S. celebrates our Thanksgiving Day. Canada celebrated a
few weeks ago, and other countries have their own days but my friends
and colleagues, and the news media, are focused on our American holiday
this week. The conversation is about gratitude and being thankful.
But since I’m a contrary sort of guy, along with gratitude, I’ve been
pondering our ambition to have even more. I suspect thanksgiving for
what we have and the desire for more actually go together, like opposite
sides of the same coin.
Clearly, gratitude is necessary to know joy and abundance. Without
gratitude, we tend to focus on what we lack or think we “need,” and we
close up. We get “tight” and it’s very hard to see or seize opportunity.
When we focus on what we lack, there’s a poverty of spirit, a grasping
or fear that makes us small. Gratitude sets us free to laugh and sing
and celebrate!
At the same time, there is something wonderfully human about optimism
and a desire for “more.” We are ambitious people. Growth and expansion
and the desire for riches are part of the human experience. It’s natural
to desire and work for a better, richer life.
Remember the Oliver Stone movie, Wallstreet, and Michael Douglas’
famous exclamation that, “Greed is good!”? He argued that greed leads to
investment, to study, preparation, hard work and risk-taking. Greed
motivates us.
Now obviously, the standard definition of greed is ugly. Usually, we
think of greed as a voracious desire to take from others, no matter what
the cost or moral consequences. I want no part of that, although like
most of us, I admit I see its ugly presence in my life once in a while.
Is there, however, a positive aspect to greed? I suspect so.
Once in a while, we see people who are so caught-up in giving to others
that they are unable to receive. While generalities are always
dangerous, I’ve seen it most often in women who are so focused on caring
for others that they fail to adequately care for themselves. Obviously,
this is not gender-specific, but some people even have a hard time
graciously accepting praise or a compliment. They feel awkward receiving
a prize or accepting a gift.
I often wonder how that holds us back and limits us.
I think of Life trying to give us abundance, trying to offer us wealth
and opportunity while we’re so focused on not being “greedy” that we
close our hands and refuse the gift. I see that as a false humility, an
insult to God and Life. We live in an abundant, beautiful world. We live
in a time of unlimited opportunity and endless variety, and yet
sometimes in trying to be “grateful” we think small and refuse the
richness around us.
Just to be contrary and daring, this Thanksgiving, I encourage you to be
grateful for all you have, and to also think in terms of how you will
use your wealth to create and contribute even more! As you
pause to give thanks, take a moment to review your goals for 2008. Think
about what you will DO with all you have! Imagine what’s possible!
This week, pause to give thanks for life, for health and wealth, for
loved ones and education and all that surrounds us, but also imagine
yourself as a “steward” of these things. Imagine yourself taking care of
them, cherishing them, and investing your riches to increase them in
2008. Gratitude is good, but so is “greed”—in the healthy sense of using
what we have to create even more for ourselves and others in the future.
We have much to be thankful for. Gratitude is good and right and
necessary. But so is the ancient blessing: “May you and your tribe
increase in the year ahead!”
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4. Quotes of the Week
"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it."
-- Walt Disney
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right
thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"We are what we repeatedly do."
-- Aristotle
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve
the world."
-- Anne Frank
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5. Strictly Business: Get Organized!
I was reminded this week that "the higher you go in any organization,
the neater the desks are." My friend was sharing his observation that
when he visits any business or organization, he half expects the mail
room, the shipping department, the places where new hires start out, to
be messy.
When he talks with managers, he's grown accustomed to greater
orderliness, more routine, less chaos. And when he visits the executive
suite of a successful company, it's usually quiet, neat as a pin, and
very focused.
Now the question becomes, did people move up because they were more
organized, or did they get more organized as they moved up? And of
course the answer is, "yes!” The fact is that successful leaders are
organized!
Every office requires a set of routine folders for the new year. You
need some new calendars, some new payroll forms, some new appointment
books. And, at the end of the year, some old files become obsolete and
it's time to trash them. Take care of this!
This week, get ready for 2008! This week, get ahead of the game and
prepare the forms, the files, the materials you know you will need on
January 1st. Like Santa Claus, make a list, check it twice, then take
action. Play ahead of the game.
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7. Humor: Thanksgiving Quotes
Bob Armstrong sent a collection of wonderful quotes about gratitude and
thanksgiving this week. Thank you, Bob! I pass them along as a gentle
reminder to us all. May you have a rich, wonderful, and blessed
Thanksgiving!
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into
enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a
home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. --Melody
Beattie
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another
person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who
have lighted the flame within us. --Albert Schweitzer
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the
others. --Cicero
Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you
don’t. --Unknown
We often take for granted the very things that most
deserve our gratitude. --Cynthia Ozick
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have
been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of
thanksgiving. --H.U. Westermayer
Some complain that roses have thorns—others rejoice that thorns have
roses! --Unknown
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed
in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not a
coincidence. --Erma Bombeck
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for
it--would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In
order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must
truly appreciate what you already have. --Ralph Marston
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. --John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less
than heaven on earth." --Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Be kind to yourself and to someone else, and have a
wonder-FULL week!
Philip E. Humbert, PhD,
President, The Philip E. Humbert Group, Inc.
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