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If you knew you could not fail – what would you attempt?

Live With Intention,
Dr Bill

Good Morning Team – What’s your childhood dream? What’s your Everest?

Teen Who Summited Everest to tackle Antarctica
By Ashley Fantz, CNN November 29, 2011

The California teenager who set a world record by climbing Mount Everest last year has another big challenge ahead.

In a few weeks, 15-year-old Jordan Romero will travel to Antarctica to begin ascending 16,000 feet up Mount Vinson Massif, the tallest mountain on the continent, his father, Paul Romero, told CNN.com. “This is a life mission for Jordan,” said Romero, a professional mountaineer, explaining that when his son was 9, he became transfixed by a mural in his elementary school depicting the 7 Summits.

“Jordan hopped in the car one day after school years ago and announced, ‘I want to climb the 7 Summits,’ ” the father recalled. “I said, ‘OK, sure, what do you know about the 7 Summits?’ And he apparently had looked up a lot of facts on the Internet and spent 20 minutes or so rattling off all this information to me. That’s Jordan. That’s when this 7 Summits goal began.”

So far Jordan has climbed 6 of the 7. Mount Vinson is the 7th.

The Romeros have their critics. Some have said that Jordan is too young to handle such a physically demanding climb or that a kid his age couldn’t possibly comprehend the lethal danger involved in this kind of mountaineering. The teen has rejected those criticisms, as has his father.

“I think Jordan has more than shown he’s capable of doing this and that he wants to do it. We’ve taken a lot of criticism about what Jordan has done, but we’re quite experienced and we’ve tried to stress that we know what we’re doing,” Paul Romero said. “This is something Jordan believes in. He’s driven, tough, smart. He knows what’s involved.”

Jordan’s Antarctica climb has a campaign – “Find YOUR Everest” – which he hopes will inspire kids to find their passion and to live healthier by knocking off the junk food. The teenager has also issued a challenge to school teachers to stop rewarding positive behavior with sugary treats.

The Romero family hopes to be back in the United States to enjoy New Years. After celebrating, he’ll have just enough time to prepare for his next awesome challenge – getting his driver’s permit.
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Notice his WHY has to do with Serving Others. Success Leaves Clues. What’s your Everest?

Live with Intention,
Dr bill

Good Morning Team – The research is crystal clear – the human brain is designed to learn quickly. Watch the 2 min clip first.

Second; now if I hand you a flip book and you flip the pages you will “get it” (the message of the flip book) in seconds…

What would happen if I handed you 1 page a month for 5 years?

Chances are you wouldn’t even remember why you were getting each page nor remember to even save them.

Now perhaps you have a better understanding of why we recommend you build your business quickly. Compress a lot of effort into a short time and your learning curve is quicker, stronger and more productive.

Prospecting 1 person a month, 1 a week, or 1 a day is like getting one page of a flip book per month over 5 years.

Live with Intention,
Dr Bill

Good Morning Team – Since procrastinators never wait to procrastinate they often end up stressed or disappointed….often on the last day of the month when they wake up and realize they haven’t yet achieved their goals.

The Truth is, “disappointment” requires adequate planning. Because you have to set up criteria or “rules” so you will know exactly when to be “disappointed”.

No silly – we generally don’t do this consciously. Such strategies are based upon our beliefs, experiences and learning. And anything that has been learned – can be unlearned…quickly.

The good news is that change happens in an instant. The instant you Decide to BE, DO and Have something different….and follow up with action….you will have learned a new way of DOing things. This happens often on the last day of the month when you pull out the “stops” and as Rocky says; ‘Go for it” and get to your goals by the end of the day.

Tomorrow – proof that learning happens quickly.

Live With Intention,
Dr Bill