Dear Dolphins,

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve written! Many exciting things are happening – most importantly, the release of my new book, Zero to Zillionaire: 8 Foolproof Steps to Financial Peace of Mind. You can pre-order it today at any bookstore or www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com. It’s been a long road of writing, editing, changing, rewriting since I signed the contract back in January, 2005, but finally its arrival is imminent. I have excerpted a goal-oriented section for you as this month’s article. I hope you enjoy it!

My web site is undergoing some revamping, and soon you will see some wonderful new features. We are busily designing and building a Dolphin Community for all of you to participate in. I am delighted that soon I will be able to offer you CDs and PDF files you can download, message boards so you can connect with Dolphins in your area, book recommendations, referral sources, etc. It will be a few months before everything is up and running, but I will let you know as soon as all of this is available.

Wishing you smooth seas, sunny skies, and treasure ships in your harbor!

Love and blessings,
Chellie

ARTICLE:

You Will Know Zillionaires By Their Smiles!

I wear gold tennis shoes. Always. I have gold leather tennis shoes for regular wear, gold mesh tennis shoes with rhinestones for speaking engagements, and gold-beaded tennis shoes for black tie affairs. All gold tennis shoes, all the time.

At first, I only wore them for fun. Then one year I gave up high heels for Lent and I haven’t had them on my feet since. I decided that being comfortable and cute in my own way—not in the fashion industry way—makes me a Zillionaire. I am always comfortable and my feet never hurt. That makes me happy, and happiness is a Zillionaire trait. You will know Zillionaires by their smiles.

What do you really want? Not what you think you should want, or what your parents said you should want, or what your spouse, partner, friend, magazines or television says would be a great thing to want. Zillionaires are aware of the inner core values that are important to them, and their outer lives reflect them. Inner core value: comfort. Outer reflection: gold tennies.

But what if you don’t know what you want? At one point in Alice in Wonderland, Alice was walking through the woods when suddenly the path she was walking on diverged in two different directions. Confused, she stopped, not knowing which path to take.

At that moment, the Cheshire Cat appeared in the tree next to her. She asked him which way she should go. “Where are you going?” he inquired.

“I don’t know,” she replied.

“Then it doesn’t matter which path you take, does it?” said the Cat, and disappeared.

If you don’t know where you’re going, any path will take you there. Tell me what you want and I can help you locate the right port, help you navigate your ship into that port, and the Universe will kick in the right breeze to lift your sails. But no one knows how to help you get to “I don’t know.”

Pick a goal. Any goal. Your best guess for today will do. Don’t wait for the right goal or the perfect goal. It may be around the bend in the road and you can’t see it from where you stand today. Pick an interim goal that will get you in action, give you experience in achieving goals, and one day you’ll find yourself around that bend where your “perfect goal” is within reach after all.

Here are some questions to guide you: How much money do you want to make? What job do you want to do that pays that kind of money? Think about what your talents and skills are, and what you most enjoy doing. Who are the people who need what you have and would pay you for it? Decide whether you want to work for someone else or own your own business; whether you want to work as part of a team, or alone as a sole practitioner.

If your fondest desire is to own your own business, how big would you like it to be? Do you want to serve many customers or just a few? Choose whether you want to be a hair stylist or own a chain of beauty salons. Choose whether you want to be a personal trainer or own a gym. Or a chain of gyms. If you want to manufacture a product, choose how many. Do you want to lovingly hand-craft fine cabinets yourself, or do you want to mass market furniture? Do you want to be a sole practitioner accountant or develop a giant multi-national firm like the Big Four? Do you want a job, a career, a profession, or a calling? What moves you, motivates you, inspires you? What gets you up in the morning with a smile and an “I can hardly wait”?

Children are masters of “I can hardly waits.” They are laser-focused when they decide they want something. They want it all and they want it now. And they “can hardly wait” until the day when they get it.

When my nephew, Robert, was four years old, both of his older sisters were on T-ball teams. They had bright, crisp uniforms and practiced every week. When game day came, the whole family sat in the bleachers and cheered them on. More than anything else, Robert wanted to play T-ball.

But there were no T-ball teams for four-year-olds. The minimum age was five. Mama Jane patiently explained this to him every time he watched his sisters play. “Okay, I’m going to play T-ball, too,” Robert said. “Just as soon as I’m five. I can hardly wait!”

Then one warm Spring afternoon, Jane, Robert, the two girls and their dad went to the neighborhood park. There were several families there already, and they had started a pick-up game of T-ball. Laughing, the girls and their parents ran out on the field to join in the fun. But Robert stayed behind.

Jane turned around and saw Robert on the sidelines looking dejected.

“Come on, Robert,” she called, “You can play with us today!”

“No, I can’t,” said Robert.

“Yes, you can!” Jane exclaimed. “Today you can play.”

“I can?” Robert asked, wide-eyed with excitement. “Am I five?”

Today, let’s all be five. Let’s play T-ball, or basketball, or tennis, or poker, or Wheel of Fortune. Let’s join a group and play a game for all we’re worth. Play the Game of Life for all we’re worth. It’s the only game in town, and the only way to lose is not to play, crying “I don’t know what I want.”

Money, A Memoir by Liz Perle

This wonderful book illuminates women’s thought processes about money through the prism of her own search for financial serenity. She contacted me early in her writing process and I put her in touch with a lot of my Dolphins who contributed to her research. Her book has been profiled in O Magazine and she recently appeared on The Today Show. She quotes me as a “Financial Stress Reduction expert”, and her work paves the way for my new book Zero to Zillionaire, which can help people overcome the problems she so clearly defines.

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In spite of women's supposedly massive buying power and growing presence in Fortune 500 boardrooms, many women are still awfully old-fashioned when it comes to cash. Why do they show so little interest in managing investments? Or lie to their partners about what something costs? And what's behind that evil prescription known as "retail therapy"? Perle (When Work Doesn't Work Anymore) investigates these questions and others in this remarkable sociological study-cum-memoir. She boldly exposes her own financial fears (the book opens as she's confronting a divorce and the reality that she and her four-year-old son will have to sleep on a friend's couch), admitting that, despite her years climbing the corporate ladder (in publishing, incidentally), "there's still that other part of me—the one that wants to reserve the option of depending on someone else." Perle also profiles dozens of everyday women, spotlighting the anxiety, embarrassment and guilt money causes them. Commentary from financial experts, sociologists and others helps demonstrate Perle's thesis: women cannot afford to be ambivalent about money and must learn to separate feelings from finance. Perle's book raises more questions than it answers, which is part of its allure—it'll surely have readers thinking twice before they log on to Bloomingdales.com after a bad day at work.

Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Read more or buy the book on www.Amazon.com

Please feel free to pass along this newsletter to anyone you think would benefit. Just please credit me so people can find me! If you have been sent this newsletter, you are invited to sign up for your own free subscription at Chellie.com

Feedback: I love getting your letters! Here’s one from a reader in California who could relate to my “overwhelm” finding time and space for everything last fall:

Hi Chellie,

How could you know I was in overwhelm too. And that some of it is due to laziness, some of it is due to me putting off doing my manual for my business so it is able to run without me. It's always great to hear I am not alone in my pity party and exhaustion. And I avoid confrontation I will do my goals and get going so I have more fun in there too!

Congrats again on all your hard work on your book! It will be phenomenal. I admire you tremendously for sharing with all of us the process and everything you go through.

Denise Ludwig

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We’d love to hear from you, too. Let us know how you are using The Wealthy Spirit principles in your life, or ask a question. We may publish your response or answer your question in our next newsletter! You can write mailto:chellie@chellie.com.

February 3: Chellie will be the luncheon keynote speaker at the Team Referral Network membership conference being held on a cruise ship in Long Beach, CA. Contact Kelli Holmes at 909-392-7770 or www.teamreferralnetwork.com for details.

April 5: Chellie will speak on how to become a Zillionaire at a complimentary Microsoft Live Meeting Leadership Forum Seminar on Wednesday morning, April 5th at 9:00 am (PT). Visit the archives at www.livemeeting.com for other fantastic presentations by Donald Trump, Tom Peters, Jack Canfield, Zig Ziglar and others.

April 8: Chellie will be a keynote speaker at the Wealthy Women Conference being held April 7, 8, & 9 in Los Angeles, CA. For details, contact Dr. Nina Craft, 310-543-9477 www.ThePDNonline.com.

April 28: Chellie will be the morning speaker at the WRS – Worthwhile Referral Sources Westside breakfast meeting being held at 7:00 am at the Olympic Collection, 11301 Olympic Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA. Contact Vice President Sharon Helmer at 818-995-6011 for reservations or visit www.worthwhilereferralsources.com for further information.

May 6: Chellie will be the morning speaker at the WRS – Worthwhile Referral Sources Westside brunch meeting being held at 9:30 am at the California Yacht Club, 4439 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. Contact Vice President Nora Wallace Walsh at 310-200-6223 for reservations or visit www.worthwhilereferralsources.com for further information.

May 17: Chellie will be speaking on a panel on book marketing at PMA-U (Publishers Marketing Association University) just prior to Book Expo America being held this year May 18-21 in Washington, D.C. Visit www.pma-online.org and www.bookexpoamerica.com for details.

June 3: Attention all San Francisco Dolphins! Chellie will be speaking at The Learning Annex in Union Square on Saturday, June 3rd. Contact The Learning Annex at 415-755-5500 or visit www.learningannex.com for further information.

June 13: The San Fernando Valley Chapter of Executive Women International has invited Chellie to be the keynote speaker for their June 13th dinner meeting. Contact Annette Drake at adrake1@socall.r..com for details.

November 4: Executive Coach Patti Kaprellian Kouri has engaged Chellie to be the keynote speaker at her Jumpstart Workshop being held at the Woodland Hills Hilton Hotel November 3, 4 and 5 for Real Estate professionals from around the country. Contact Patti at 818-341-9751 or visit www.CoachPatti.com for further information

Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops in Los Angeles: New evening classes begin Monday, February 20th and Wednesday, February 22nd from 6:00 – 8:30 pm and the daytime class begins Tuesday, February 21st from 1:00 – 3:30 pm for the 8-week series. Achieve extraordinary results in your life! Call 310-476-1622 to reserve your space now.

CHIP CHATTER POKER NEWS:

Chellie won the Ladies No-Limit Hold’em poker tournament held December 8th at Pechanga Casino in Temecula, California. First prize was a $1,000 buy-in to the World Series of Poker Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Tournament being held July 9th in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio Hotel. ESPN televises the World Series of Poker, so look for Chellie in July!

A Little About Chellie . . .

Chellie Campbell is a former musical comedy actress and past owner of a business management firm who’s been a professional speaker for over sixteen years. She’s the author of The Wealthy Spirit: Daily Affirmations for Financial Stress Reduction (Sourcebooks, 2002), a GlobalNet book-of-the-month selection. Chellie has been quoted in Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and many books, and she’s featured in How to Run Your Business Like a Girl by Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin and Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash by Liz Perle. Her new book, Zero to Zillionaire: 8 Foolproof Steps to Financial Peace of Mind (Sourcebooks, 2006) has just been released.

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