The entire human race is a huge mass of individuals striving toward the realization of their potentials in every area. Because of this, there is tremendous competition for the good things in life. Everybody wants them and no one is ever fully satisfied. The satisfaction of want or desire leads automatically to a want or desire for something else. And it never ends.

The Will to Win

What then is the difference between those who accomplish a lot and those who accomplish a little? It was the University of Alabama football coach, Bear Bryant, who said, “It is not the will to win but the will to prepare to win that counts.”

And therein lies the answer to the question. Everyone wants to be a winner. But very few people want to engage in the rigorous hard work, hour after hour, month after month, year after year, that is required to prepare themselves to win.

Mary Lou Retton, the gold medalist winner in the 1984 Los Angeles women’s gymnastics, said that she gave up all the activities of a normal childhood, from the age of seven, in order to prepare to win in the Olympic Games. For nine solid years, she paid an incredible price in terms of practice, practice, practice, day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out.

She missed the opportunities for dating, parties, the Senior Prom and much of the social activities that young people engage in. But she knew from the beginning that winning the Olympics would only be possible if she was willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice in terms of hard, hard work, for months and years in advance.

How can you go from a big dream to reality?

Think it’s impossible in this economy? It’s not! In every shift of the economy—up or down—there are winners and losers.

Even in the Great Depression, people came out new millionaires. Today will be no different.

The Secret You Need to Create Wealth
The key to being successful in life and with your business is Focus.

Focus? What am I talking about?

If you want to be successful, the key is finding something you’re good at and focusing your efforts on just that…and then becoming rich doing it.

Here’s a timely example: every successful business owner knows they need to improve their marketing in a recession like we have now. They know they need to find a way to attract more clients and make more money. When times are tough, you need to aggressively go out to find new clients and sell more products or services.

But most don’t know how and where to focus their marketing. They try a little of this and a little of that and get very little in the way of real results.

Knowing how and where to focus your efforts is your key to success.

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Burning crude oil itself is of limited use. To extract the maximum value from crude, it first needs to be refined into petroleum products such as gasoline, or petrol. However, there are many other products that can be obtained when a barrel of crude oil is refined. These include liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), naphtha, kerosene, gas oil and fuel oil. Other useful products which are not fuels can also be manufactured by refining crude oil, such as lubricants and asphalt (used in paving roads). A range of sub-items like perfumes and insecticides are also ultimately derived from crude oil.

Furthermore, several of the products listed above which are derived from crude oil, such as naphtha, gasoil, LPG and ethane, can themselves be used as inputs or feedstocks in the production of petrochemicals. There are more than 4,000 different petrochemical products, but those which are considered as basic products include ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, ammonia and methanol. The main groups of petrochemical end-products are plastics, synthetic fibres, synthetic rubbers, detergents and chemical fertilisers.

Considering the vast number of products that are derived from it, crude oil is a very versatile substance. Life as we know it today would be extremely difficult without crude oil and its by-products.

Is the economy really improving, therefore driving up consumption of oil? Tracking the share market will not give you the real answer. In fact, we know the global economy has yet to recover.

U.S. Dollar Drives Oil

Oil is priced in U.S. dollars. According to OPEC, the relationship between oil prices and the U.S. dollar is almost mechanical. When the U.S. dollar falls in value, oil prices have to go up in U.S. dollar terms to stay constant in euro terms. Oil producers receive their oil revenues in U.S. dollars and need to be compensated for the fluctuations of the dollar.

When oil price hit too high, consumers have to spend more for gasoline, petrol and etc despite that their income didn’t go up. That’s a high price to pay.

Or perhaps, one would be asking, “What has that got to do with me?” The ignorant one would say, “Don’t know. Don’t care.”

Here are few questions to think about:

Is U.S. dollar the reserve currency of the world?
Which country has the biggest economy?
Which currency is used the most in global trades?
Which currency is Singapore Dollar, Malaysian Ringgit, Thai Bahts and other currencies peg to?

Well, if you have figured that out, lets move on. After 1971, U.S. dollar is a derivative of debt issued by the U.S. Treasury.

Foreign countries buy U.S. debt as an investment of their surplus U.S. dollars. Nowadays, China is the first holder of U.S. bonds. China owns so many U.S. bonds, there is fear that if they stop buying them, the U.S. economy would collapse. The bonds issue further links the U.S. and China economies so tightly that both fear the consequences of a potential slow down in China’s purchase of those bonds.

If the U.S. dollar continue to lose its purchasing power, what would happen to global trades?
If the U.S. dollar continue to lose its shine, what impact would that have on the Singapore Dollar, the Ringgit, the Pesos and etc?
Do you think the price of gold will go up or down?
How about the price of commodities? Up or down?
How about inflation? High or low?

Well, ponder over these questions. See you in the next session.

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After 1971, the central bankers could create money by merely printing more paper. In today’s digital age bankers do not need paper to create money.

The rules of money have been changed!

Many years ago, price of gold was fixed at $35 dollars per ounce, but no longer after President Nixon’s decision. Once Nixon took the United States off the gold standard, gold’s price started to rise. In May 2009, gold has crossed over $900 an ounce. The US dollar has lost its purchasing power.

The stock market is crashing because cash is flowing out of equities into savings, bonds, gold and silver.

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Soon it turned to sport. More than likely it was at the ancient Greek Olympics that the first competitive high jump took place.

The first recorded high jump competition was in the early 19th century, and that unknown jumper cleared a height of 5′6″.

By 1895 the World Record stood at 6′ 5 1/2″. To get to that height, jumpers used a method known as the “scissors kick.”

Approaching the bar backwards, jumpers would kick one leg up and then another, in a scissors fashion, to get over the bar.

But that technique had its limits as there was only so high you could go. So when the bar was raised, a new technique had to be developed.

Around the turn of the century, the “Western Roll” became the way to go. The jumper made a forward-facing approach, kicked his inside leg up, and then rolled over the bar belly first.

With the Western Roll, the World Record went up to 6′ 7″. But it too had its limits.

So when it was found that the bar had been raised once more, innovative jumpers modified the Western Roll by adding a bit of speed and developed what was known as the “Straddle Technique.”

By doing so, by 1957 the World Record was quickly raised to 7′. Valeriy Brumel of the old Soviet Union was the master of the straddle. But it too had its limits.

There was only so high one could go using that particular technique. And the bar kept being raised.

So in 1967 an American named Dick Fosbury developed a most unusual, but very effective method of clearing the bar that has come to be called-quite appropriately-the “Fosbury Flop.”

Running toward the bar, the jumper twists his body and arches his back as he goes over the bar.

Using the Flop, the World Record has been raised several times, and is currently held by Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor. In 1993, he cleared an amazing 8′1/2″.

The history of the high jump shows an interesting trend. Every time the bar was raised, a new technique to get over it had to be developed.

Raise The Bar!

It’s Time to Raise the Bar!

This message is not about history of a sporting event, but it speaks directly to you and everything about your life, career, family and legacy.

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here are the few keys to improve your sales result.

Learn to Listen Well
A vital key to sales success is listening. The ability to listen well is absolutely indispensable for success in all human relationships. The ability to be a good listener in a sales conversation is the foundation of the new model of selling. It leads to easier sales, higher earnings and greater enjoyment from the sales profession.

Being A Good Talker is Not Enough
Many salespeople have been brought up with the idea that, in order to be good at your profession, you must be a glad-hander and a good talker. You have even heard people say, “You have the ‘gift of the gab’; you should be in sales!”

Focus On the Other Person
Nothing could be further from the truth. As many as seventy five percent of all top salespeople are defined as introverts on psychological tests. They are very easy going and other-centered. They would much rather listen than talk. They are very interested in the thoughts and feelings of other people and they are quite comfortable sitting and listening to their prospects. They would much rather listen than talk in a sales situation. Poor salespeople dominate the talking, but top salespeople dominate the listening.

Practice “White Magic” With Everyone
Listening has even been called “white magic.” It is too rarely engaged in by business people. When a salesperson develops a reputation for being an excellent listener, prospects and customers feel comfortable and secure in his or her presence. They buy more readily, and more often.

Practice the 70/30 Rule
You’ve heard it said that God gave man two ears and one mouth, and he is supposed to use them in that proportion.

Top salespeople practice the “70/30 rule.” They talk and ask questions 30 percent or less of the time while they listen intently to their customers 70 percent or more of the time. They use their ears and mouth in the right ratio.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, resolve today that, from now on, you are going to dominate the listening in every sales conversation. Become comfortable with silence.

Second, practice the 70/30 rule in every sales conversation. Listen 70% of the time and only talk and ask questions 30% of the time.

Brian Tracy