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In This Issue:
Dear Dolphins, Sometimes we just need a great big belly laugh to ease our tensions of the times. I got one last night at a family dinner: When my sister, Jane, bought her first new computer, she got it plugged in and set up on her desk. Then she called customer support to find out how to make it work. “Are you in front of your computer now?” the technician asked. “Yes,” she replied. “Okay, then open it up,” he said. She hesitated. “Will I need a screwdriver?” she asked tentatively. There was a pause on the other end of the phone. “Are you new?” he asked. Since I am always saying “Chellie no hablo techo” this really hit a nerve with me. I howled and laughed ‘til I cried at this story. I think the technician probably needed a screwdriver – the orange juice and vodka variety! There are problems galore in life, and these times are particularly challenging. But human beings are so resilient – we laugh our way past all our troubles and reaffirm our connection, love, and support for all our fellow travelers on the Earth plane journey. Love and hugs, Here’s what people are saying about the course: “I did it 3 times! It works!!—J.J. Flizanes, www.InvisibleFitness.com 800-571-5722 x 84 “The course works wonderfully…I literally doubled my income while taking the course.”—Marc Chroman, www.chroman.com 818-274-6824 “Taking Chellie’s tele-seminar was wonderful! In the beginning I had to really fight with myself to do the homework. Then I got it! I finally realized what all of my bad, self-sabotaging patterns were, where they all actually came from, and how to change them. This was a huge breakthrough for me and incredibly liberating! I learned how to go from looking at my feet to looking at the stars. My dreams are huge now! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm loving on ya, Chellie Campbell!—Sharon Buck, www.BodyworkersResource.com 386-328-3743 “Just proud to say Chellie, that I took your class twice and within 2 years I opened my own salon, nailed down 3-4 reality shows, and now proudly have a complete hair care line thanks to you teaching me how to send out my ships. I LOVE YOU.”—Billy Lowe, Celebrity Hairstylist & Beauty Expert, http://www.facebook.com/l/;billylowe.com 323-654-2819 "When I took Chellie's course, I was at a standstill in many ways. My business was growing, but so were my fears. One of my biggest fears was to pick up the phone and make sales calls. What if they rejected me? Yet, I loved face to face selling and meeting new people. So I had to force myself to face my fear. You know what? Now, I can't wait to call new people. Why? Because I find them to be interesting and fun. And, I no longer even think that they are rejecting me personally. They are not, and each one in their own way has brought a new opportunity. It's been amazing. Thanks so much Chellie for changing my attitude. And most importantly, my actions.”—Nancy Mills, Founder, Spirited Woman, www.thespiritedwoman.com Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops Expanding World-wide!We have an amazing team of Financial Stress Reduction® Coaches who can help you survive the storms and take advantage of the new opportunities surrounding you right now. Find the next live workshop or teleclass given by FSR Coaches in your area: Click here or http://www.chellie.com/financial-workshops-local.html Don’t see your city? Become a certified Financial Stress Reduction® Coach yourself! We’d love to have you join us! For details, click here http://www.chellie.com/financial-certification-program.html Receive Free Daily Inspirational Messages: sign up for “30 Days to a Wealthy Spirit” which is the first 30 days of my page-a-day book “The Wealthy Spirit”. Click here to sign up now http://www.chellie.com/30-day-signup.html Buy the book and receive all 365 daily inspirational messages! Want to be friends on Facebook? Click here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&id=582747567# Follow Chellie on Twitter ChellieCampbell or http://twitter.com/chelliecampbell Success in the Shift to New Ships“The world isn’t interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.”—Raul Armesto The marketplace is unforgiving. People want the goods and services they pay for to be delivered as ordered, on time, and at a reasonable price. They want it to best solution to their problem or the best benefit they can afford and work as advertised. If you fail in any of that, they will find someone else to provide it. They don’t care if you’re sick, you’re in debt, you had a problem with your boyfriend, you’re stressed about the state of the economy, you’re afraid you might lose your house or have already lost it. They don’t care that you were late because there was traffic on the freeway or your computer crashed or your childcare didn’t show up on time. As fellow human beings, they will sympathize and pat you on the back—for a short while. And then they will find someone else to fulfill their needs. They have to in order to survive themselves. They also don’t care if you are invested in an old business model that is quickly being replaced in the marketplace by a new one. The post office is failing because email has largely replaced expensive snail mail. Newspapers are failing because people can get more up-to-the-minute news from the internet—for free. Too bad if you bought a One Hour Photo franchise – digital cameras have made them practically obsolete. Joel Barker produced a video years ago “The Business of Paradigms” in which he said that “When the paradigm shifts, everyone goes back to zero.” When Henry Ford invented the automobile, I don’t imagine the horse-and-buggy crowd were too thrilled, especially if they were invested in making buggies and raising and selling horses. They were about to go out of business. When Thomas Edison threw the switch and lit up a building in New York for his investors and formed General Electric, the makers of gas lamps were doomed. Unless they could shift their own paradigm and start making electric lamps instead! Here are some amazingly blind-to-the-future quotes: “The phonograph is not of any commercial value.”—Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph “Who the hell want to hear actors talk?”—Harry Warner, Warner Brothers Pictures, 1927 “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”--Ken Olsen, President, DEC Computers, 1977 “Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.”—Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, 1905 So where are you in your thinking today? Are you trying to hold on to a business model that has been replaced by a new one and so is no longer sustainable in its present form? Has all the doom and gloom in the news got you complaining about the way things are and what’s happened like a Tuna instead of looking to the future and figuring out how to make something new happen like the Dolphin you truly are? While so many of the big publishers today are struggling and trying to figure out how to maintain their business in this new day of the internet, my publisher, Sourcebooks, led by the amazing Dominique Raccah, has embraced the new media. They are creating e-books out of all their backlist, and adapting them to smart phone apps. As a result, they are more profitable than ever before! So instead of moaning about what’s lost, embrace what’s new! I declare the recession is over - for all of you who are my Dolphins. Yes, change is hard, and you may have gotten hurt by all the turmoil in the financial markets. Hey, me too, but so what? Crying about failure isn’t going to get you where you want to go. It’s time now to return to optimism, invent new products, services, and strategies for achieving your dreams. It’s an exciting new world – embrace it! Seth Godin, author of “The Idea Virus” and many other books, writes in his blog Key question then: why do smart people engage in negative thinking? Are they actually stupid? The reason, I think, is that negative thinking feels good. In its own way, we believe that negative thinking works. Negative thinking feels realistic, or soothes our pain, or eases our embarrassment. Negative thinking protects us and lowers expectations. In many ways, negative thinking is a lot more fun than positive thinking. So we do it. If positive thinking was easy, we'd do it all the time. Compounding this difficulty is our belief that the easy thing (negative thinking) is actually appropriate, it actually works for us. The data is irrelevant. We're the exception, so we say. Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though. Spend no more time crying over the lost paradigm - the one you were comfortable with, that made you a comfortable living…in the past. The world has changed, and there are customers waiting for you to bring in the new ship. Don’t waste any more time longing for the ship that has sailed. Ship #1 sank, so go build Ship #2 – or 5 or 20! Build new ships and send them out. There are still riches and happiness galore for you to find! People are praying for you to show up with something that will meet their needs. Create it and find them. That’s your business. ©Chellie Campbell, 2009 Chellie Campbell is the creator of the Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops, and author of The Wealthy Spirit (Sourcebooks, 2002) and Zero to Zillionaire (Sourcebooks, 2006). She has been prominently quoted as a financial expert in the Los Angeles Times, Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and more than 50 popular books. She can be reached at Chellie@chellie.com The Dolphin Club News:This is one of the best subscription values on the web today! For only $25 per month, you can join with other Dolphin Business Leaders, advertise your products and services, network, and share ideas in our private Forums. Our membership continues to grow, and our web site gets over 100,000 hits per month. If you want to find a wonderful business professional, be sure to check our listings on the home page at www.chellie.com Our special bonus gift for the Dolphin Community this month:New from Amy Applebaum, prominent Life Coach behind the butt-kicking Boot Camp for Your Mind®, a company designed to create life changing breakthroughs in her clients. Amy’s coaching success has lead to high-profile appearances on ABC News, CNN, TLC, Martha Stewart and Leeza Gibbons. Amy also serves as an ongoing expert to publications including The NY Times, The International Herald Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Figure Magazine, and Woman’s World. What if you could listen in while the world’s most respected and sought after coaches and experts in marketing, PR, finance, sales and networking, revealed all their most effective secrets? Would you take advantage of the opportunity to launch you and your business into the stratosphere? Well, here’s your chance! “Release Your Inner Millionairess” is an incredible (and incredibly affordable) 6-week telecourse*, that gives you a priceless “behind-the-curtain” look at all the tips, tricks, tactics and strategies these experts typically only reveal to their private clients… and you’ll get access to them all, right from the comfort of your favorite chair. Click HERE for details: http://www.bootcampforyourmind.com/cmd.php?Clk=3167171 *Chellie is one of the featured guest speakers on the programIf you would like to donate a bonus gift to our Dolphin Club, we’ll give you some great advertising, too. Join the Dolphin Club today at www.chellie.com and get The Wealthy Spirit screensaver, special reports, and extra bonus gifts every month! Call 310-476-1622 or visit www.chellie.com for more information. CHELLIE’S UPCOMING APPEARANCES:
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Chellie Campbell is the creator of the popular Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops, and the author of The Wealthy Spirit and Zero to Zillionaire, both published by Sourcebooks, Inc. She is one of Marci Shimoff's “Happy 100” and I of 18 who wrote a story for Marci’s current NYT bestseller Happy for No Reason. Chellie contributed stories to Jack Canfield’s recent books You’ve Got to Read This Book! and Life Lessons from Chicken Soup for the Soul , and is 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. She is prominently quoted as a financial expert in The Los Angeles Times, Pink, Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and more than 40 popular books. For more information, visit her web site www.Chellie.com or email her at Chellie@Chellie.com. CONTACT CHELLIE! |
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