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Ralph Zuranski: Hi. This is Ralph Zuranski. I’m on the phone with Jeff Dedrick who is one of the new people on the Internet that is making quite a splash with some of the new software and programs that he is developing. I had the opportunity of spending some time with him at a couple of the seminars and found him to be kind and caring and just a brilliant individual and Internet marketer. How are you doing today Jeff?

Jeff Dedrick: Hey, Ralph, I’m doing great and thanks for having me here.

Ralph Zuranski: Can you tell us a little bit about your venture into Internet marketing? I know you haven’t been doing it for very long but you’ve been fairly successful haven’t you?

Jeff Dedrick: Yeah, I really just started. My first project was just launched on February 21st of this year so as we speak, that’s only been about three months ago.

Even though I launched on February 21st there was a good four months of planning going into that launch. It’s not true to say that I’ve just been around for a few months. It’s definitely less than a year.

Ralph Zuranski: That’s amazing. What is the worthy ideal that you are pursuing with honesty and integrity?

Jeff Dedrick: I have a family and I’ve got two girls. I think everything I do relates to my family. Every action that I take, everything that I say, I am always trying to set a great example for my girls. One is 13 and one is 7, so, pretty much everything I do from my whole idea of being in business for myself.

Actually I’ve always been in business for myself but just recently changed to 100% on-line Website so I could spend more time with my family, with my wife and my two girls. Pretty much everything I do now is just to be a great dad.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, Jeff, what do you want out of life in ten words or less?

Jeff Dedrick: You have asked me this question before, so I wanted to make sure that I got it down. It’s total freedom to do what I want when I want.

Ralph Zuranski: That’s a pretty good definition. What is the dream or vision that sets the course of your life?

Jeff Dedrick: The dream is just kind of to have that total freedom. I’ve always been a hard worker, but I also feel that I’ve been a smart worker.

A hard worker might be working really hard but if all you are doing is a job that you are not happy with or a low end job that you might not be bringing in the money that you want or you might not have that happy home life, you might not feel fulfilled. My vision is always just to work smart and that will create that total freedom that I was talking about.

Ralph Zuranski: How important is it to stay focused on your primary goal?

Jeff Dedrick: I want to say that’s number one. By far, that is number one. I see a lot of people jumping around to different ideas. It’s almost like an idea of the week or the idea of the day. They come up with an idea and maybe they implement it really just half-assed, hardly at all and then because they didn’t make a million dollars that week they move onto the next one.

In my past, I’ve owned real world businesses, pizza stores, restaurants, and even two fitness clubs that I just recently sold. When opening up those you need to have a timeline, a deadline, a calendar. You need to do step A and step B and step C. For some reason, online people don’t do that so they lose focus and they bounce around. I would say that the ability to stay focused is number one.
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RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you readily forgive those who upset, offend and oppose you?

TOM BEAL: The person that’s hurt the most by not forgiving is you and me. If I’m willing to hold that energy and not forgive somebody and hold that inside its only self-limiting. They are living their lives and they have no clue.

It’s one of the most important things I had to overcome. I thought “How could my family do the things they did?” But in reflection I can look back and say they did the best they could with the time and place they were. No one was out to get me.

People make decisions and they did the best they could or the best they were able to at that particular time. They probably made wrong choices just as I have made wrong choices.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you experience service to others as a source of joy?

TOM BEAL: Oh yes. Absolutely! That’s the most fulfilling thing in my life. I speak at churches and events. I went to an event not too long ago, and I told you about my car wreck, and there’s an organization called PRAYWIT and I forgot what it stands for but it’s basically for people who have gone through severe head trauma.

I went there and spoke and gave my 5 step Success Magnet System as well as my story about the car wreck and being able to overcome it without giving them a sense of false hope because there were people in there that brought tears to my eyes.

I remembered immediately that I’d walked with a walker like old people walk with. To see these young kids in that position still, it reminded me how thankful and blessed I am.

It also put things in perspective. I wasn’t going to give these people false hope. I don’t know what their circumstances are. I don’t know how I was able to overcome it but I wanted to at least give them some hope that they can take steps to be a little better tomorrow that they are today.

RALPH ZURANSKI: When was the lowest point in your life and how did you change your life path to one of victory over the obstacles you were facing at that time?

TOM BEAL: Wow, the lowest point. That’s a good question. Here’s one and it’s a weird one. I was the number one honor graduate in boot camp and had three merit choice promotions in 4 years, I was the man. I was like the kid on the block. I was like the epitome of a marine.

I was up for MECP, Marine Enlistment Commissioning Program. They were going to take me out of the enlistment and put me in college and have me come back as an officer. At the same time we had just been transferred from Cherry Point, North Carolina to Yuma, Arizona.

Little did we know there had been a circumstance there with hazing. This was right around the time of the movie with Tom Cruise called “A Few Good Men”. So hazing is like what fraternities do and all that fun stuff. But we didn’t know that since that event occurred they said the next time something occurs like this we are going to set a precedent.

We didn’t know that. We picked up a couple of dead beats that got passed over to our platoon and everyone wanted to get this one kid. I didn’t and wasn’t for that stuff. Basically I was there to make sure it didn’t get out of hand.

To make a long story short, I made sure it didn’t get out of hand but everybody that was there was busted including me. So I went in the matter of one sentence from being the top person in that whole base basically to being demoted.

Internally to be at the top of your game and have the carpet pulled out from under you and have the package ripped up was probably the toughest point in my life.

Because, I knew that I had done good and physically stopped this from getting where it shouldn’t have been. But I also chose to be there. I own the fact that I was there and also own the fact that I did make sure this kid didn’t get harmed in any way.

But, I chose to be there. By choosing to be there I chose to be demoted. It took me a long time to own that. So that was the lowest point. I was able to overcome it and getting meritorially promoted once again.

It took me a couple of months to work through that. I had to learn it is what it is. I was worrying about it but knew there was nothing I could do about it other than be the best that I can today. I decided to be the best that I could and I ended up getting promoted again after that.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Was there anyone who helped give you the willpower to change things in you life for the better?

TOM BEAL: Oh boy. Books, tapes, mentors and my grandfather. My grandfather was probably the stable rock I had in the chaos as a child. My mother was 17 so he was at an age where people his age were having kids.

Through all the adversity I lived with him a lot. He owned a business, a hardwood flooring business. I would go with him when I was about 7 or 8 or 9 years old with him and lay some hardwood floors and he taught me.

He’d say “Tom go clean up that room up we were just in.” I’d go clean the room. He’d say”OK everything is good but you didn’t clean this room over here.”

I called him ‘Papa.’ I’d say “Papa we weren’t even in that room.” He’d say “Exactly, Tom the lessen in life is to leave a place better than when you got here.” And if we could all do that, leave this place better than when we got here I think that pretty much sums it up.

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Posted by ralph at 08:58 AM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: When we are seeking after opportunity, is it important to have optimism?

Paulie Sabol: To an extent. If you are optimistic that others will contribute and make things better, and thus you are liberated from the responsibility to make things better yourself, it is detrimental rather than valuable. If your optimism is the measure by which you see success, then it may not be self serving because you may not move to the point of results.

You may just be remaining optimistic always despite the feedback that you’re getting. So it goes back to this question about setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes. If, for example, you don’t tie your shoe well, you have a setback with regards to your shoe tying system.

Because you don’t tie your shoes well, they come undone and you have the misfortune of tripping on them, and you fall and you hurt yourself. You become optimistic that next time, when you tie your shoe, it is just going to work out better for you.

But you do the same system, you do the same process, you don’t add the feedback, the lesson that came out of the result that you got, and you are just optimistic, you are going to optimistically fall and hurt yourself.

Optimism is important because it is another one of those emotions that gives us the energy. But the reason we should be optimistic is again because we selected a system that gives us the highest probability of success, we are taking consistent and conscience action, and we remain optimistic because we know the philosophy of trust the truth, that eventually because we are destined and designed to do something great, and we are great stuff, we are going to get great results.

Ralph Zuranski: That is so true. It is amazing how many people follow the pathway of insanity that do the same thing everyday and think that by doing everything the same way, they are actually going to change their lives and have a different output.

Paulie Sabol: And on top of that, they may try and do the same things as somebody else. They try to do that in efforts to perhaps maybe be liked or feel like they are trading it for some love, affection, or community. But the real fact of the matter is, they don’t like the results that the other person is getting.

Maybe they’ve been mean to them the whole time, but they want to be like them. It just doesn’t make sense. So we fall into that very often.

Ralph Zuranski: That’s a fuel source of insanity. When we are dealing with insanity and psychological aberrations, do you believe that it is important to maintain a sense of humor in the face of serious problems?

Paulie Sabol: I don’t know. What I think for me is a more direct question is how do I maintain any worthwhile position in the face of uncertainty? A lot of people say to me that I come across to them as being humorous. I think my humor is fairly dry and almost very British in its form.

I don’t know how I maintain it, or even if I do, or if it is just something that pops in. What I do believe that it is useful for me to act as if the following statement is true when it comes to this question of uncertainty and serious issues in life.

I believe, and it is useful for me to believe this, the universe itself, and all of its power and complexity, will actually conspire on the behalf of me. It will actually move in a way to help me, will actually use that area of uncertainty itself, that area of serious question and challenge and differential result to produce the results that I imagine, desire and attract to myself into being through my actions.

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Posted by ralph at 08:21 AM | Permalink

"Jeff Dedrick Is an Amazing Person Who Has Been Successful In Most Of His Business Adventures Thanks To His Own Hard Work and the Self-Confidence Instilled In Him While Growing Up By Dedicated Parents Who Created A Nurturing Family Environment Based On Honesty, Integrity, Trust and the Belief That Actions Must Be Consistent With Your Words"

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Jeff Dedrick has been an entrepreneur and self employed for over 20 years.

From owning a DJ service in college to eventually owning 5 restaurants and 2 fitness clubs, Jeff has enjoyed the freedom that comes from being self employed.

In February, 2005 Jeff rolled the dice and risked it all. He decided to completely sell all his real businesses and move 100% online. Of course this was before he even started his first website or before he captured his first subscriber.

Less than a year later Jeff has a successful and growing online business and has quickly made his mark on the internet scene.

The launch of his first site at http://www.SecretArticleConverter.com was an instant success. We actually reached my one month goals in the first 6 hours, Jeff stated.

With more sites in the pipeline both within internet marketing and in other niches, Jeff sees only bright skies ahead.

Posted by ralph at 11:00 PM | Permalink

RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you have the courage to pursue new ideas?

TOM BEAL: It’s like a muscle; the more you work it out the more easily it will come to you. In the beginning as in anything when we had to learn how to peddle a bike it was a very difficult task. When we learned how to walk it was a very difficult task but the more you do it the more you get used to it.

You need to exercise that muscle. First you need to exercise your power of choice and your power of decision. Then once you get that muscle worked up then you can choose quickly and correctly.

You can decide on good manners fast. Then you’ll also be able to take action upon your ideas. Everybody has good ideas. People listening to this have probably had many $1,000,000 or plus ideas.

But the fact of the matter is not many of them have taken action upon it. So it’s a matter of choosing. It’s a matter of narrowing it down.

You talked about focus. Take all your ideas and see what’s the most fulfilling and satisfying one that you could choose to become real. Act as if it’s real all ready then take steps to make it and implement it.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Were you willing to experience discomfort in the pursuit of your dream?

TOM BEAL: Discomfort? I put my self in discomfort because the more you become comfortable I feel the less you are moving forward. If you are not uncomfortable many times a week your life is too complacent and you’re not going to reach great things. I deal with top people.

I deal with Hall of Fame quarterbacks, movie stars, singers, and top marketers. Not everything works for all these people. They make mistakes. They have things that fail. But they don’t quit, they just keep going.

Ok that one didn’t work out, how can I learn from it, how can I get better results? You’ve heard about all my accomplishments but we don’t have time to hear about all my failures. That would take 3 or 4 days if not 3 or 4 weeks.

I’m just too darn stubborn to quit. So put yourself out there. The more uncomfortable position you can put yourself in, obviously ethically and honest and following those proper guidelines, you’ll get used to it and work your muscles up. Then you’ll be able to choose more wisely on projects where a couple of years ago you may have turned that project down.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Is it beneficial to make decisions quickly?

TOM BEAL: Oh, 100%! Napoleon Hill had an egg timer to answer the question whether he was willing to pursue the study of success not compensated by the richest man in the world. That doesn’t sound like a pretty logical choice to make but he took it on.

But he had an egg timer and little did he know that Andrew Carnegie, he found out later, as soon as he posed the question to him & after a couple of days of downloading what this would require & how Andrew was going to make the correct contacts, he had an egg timer.

The ones that said “Let me check with my wife, let met me do this.” they didn’t make the cut. You have to be decisive based upon full information. Once you have full information then make up your mind, yes or no. The more you can flex that muscle of decision making the more quickly you can rise to the top.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Are you slow to revise or reverse an important decision?

TOM BEAL: It changes with information. For instance I can make a decision right now based on the information I have and believe it whole heartedly and would die for that decision but then new information may come up. If new information comes up that turns the table on it then you can decide again or choose differently.

But obviously for ethics, beliefs and honestly you have to have a foundation on those. Otherwise if new information arises I’m open to hear. If I’m walking this way and somebody says I can walk this way and get different results I’m willing to hear them. But based upon that I can continue to walk in the direction I’m in or choose to go off a little bit.

RALPH ZURANSKI: How were you able to overcome your doubts and fears?

TOM BEAL: How do I overcome fear? I go back to the statement of two things to worry about, things I can control and things I can’t control. If I am doubtful or fearful over something, what information is making that doubt or fear? Is it something I can control? Or something I can’t control?

Also what can I do to overcome it? The best way I overcome it is through prayer and through knowing that I’m making quick decisions based upon the information I have. I’m confident I’m going to walk boldly one step at a time.

Just like at night when we’re driving with the headlights you can’t see all the way to California but you can see a couple of car lengths ahead. All you need to do is just focus on those couple of car lengths ahead and you’ll make to wherever you are going eventually. All we can do is focus on that little bit.

I’d probably scared to death if I could see a couple of years ahead because I’m not at that level where I could understand the decisions I’d be making 2 years from now. I can only do the best I know right now.

So doubt and fear you have to work those muscles to be able to overcome those. If you’re not putting yourself in some fearful or uncomfortable situations you’re probably not pushing you’re full potential.

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Posted by ralph at 08:54 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: That is interesting that you say that, because I spent 24 years in alternative medicine, studying biomedical currents and the energies that are within the body, and came to the conclusion that we are all energetic beings and that we are limited by our five senses on what we can see.

But ultimately, we are all energy.

Paulie Sabol: Now, in addition to walking on fire, which seems like it is impossible, I’ve broke boards with my bare hands. Another thing that at one point would have seemed impossible to me. I’ve lain on a bed of nails. All of these experiences remind me that very often my action has to precede my belief. Very often I need to take action even when I’m in a state of doubt.

Here’s the cool part, and here’s the ultimate answer to your question. As I take action and I get results, the results transform and change my beliefs, just like the experiments that scientists do, transformed and changed their beliefs and their understanding of the electron and gave them a better understanding and ability to harness the power of this energetic universe that we are in.

In that same way, my actions are increasingly in alignment with my beliefs, but action always leads my beliefs, not the other way around.

Ralph Zuranski: Was it valuable to have highly charged emotions about achieving your goals?

Paulie Sabol: At the risk of sounding redundant, I believe that emotions act as an energy, just like you were just saying. Now having highly charged emotions without a highly probable plan of action is a fine way to get nowhere fast.

On the other hand, having highly energized emotion often is the key necessary to run the race as though to win. When there are others out in front of you, even when you seem to be behind, there’s no question that emotions are the fuel that allow us to move forward, even when, as I know you are going to ask about in short order, when there are setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes.

The last thing I want to say about emotions is, especially for our listeners who are in the earliest stages of their adolescence, or moving through their adolescence, 10 to 18 or so, you are going to have highly charged emotions as it is. From time to time, they might be emotions that really feel like they are bringing you down.

Other times they might be emotions that are making you feel like you are impenetrable and immortal in your nature. In either case, remember to always focus for just a moment on the high probability plan that is before you. Really engage not only the power of the emotion as energy, but the power of your rational, thinking mind to give you good guidance and good decision making powers.

Ralph Zuranski: That is funny that you would say that. I still can’t remember at what point I realized that I didn’t know everything and was the ultimate source of all knowledge in the universe. That’s kind of a humbling experience, that I think probably was the misfortunes, mistakes and setbacks that I had that sort of humbled me.

So is it useful to take a positive view of setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes?

Paulie Sabol: It is useful for me. That much I can say with absolute assurance. The reason that it is useful for me is twofold. It is the point that I made earlier about progress being my goal rather than perfection. Here’s why: if I set perfection as my goal, two things happen to me.

One, I make myself get more nervous. So the emotions, the energies that I put into place is nervous energy. It is uncertain energy. I know when I’m putting that energy out into myself, I’m decreasing the probability that I’ll have success.

It is kind of like I am combating myself. So the first reason is because setbacks are going to assuredly happen. If you try to avoid setbacks, then you’re going to strive for perfection and that is going to sabotage you.

If you are going to have setbacks, you’re going to have some misfortunes; you’re going to make mistakes anyway. You might as well view them as feedback. You might as well view them as a positive experience. You might as well view them as increasing, giving you new information to make your next plan even more probable to succeed.

Otherwise, the very worse thing might happen, which is that you might stop. Here’s what another one of the great thinkers said in this case is that the difference between someone who is unable to read, illiterate, and someone who doesn’t read is very little.

In fact the person who knows how to read and doesn’t is probably in the worse place. That’s what happens if we try to view setbacks, mistakes and misfortunes as something that isn’t positive in our life, we will be less inclined to move toward it. If we are less inclined to move toward it, we will be less inclined to move at all and we’ll miss all the opportunity.

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Posted by ralph at 03:13 PM | Permalink

RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you invest time into daydreaming about what your life
will be like when you attain your goals?

TOM BEAL: Absolutely! I’m living my dream right now. I’m doing exactly what I dreamed. It doesn’t happen over night but when you have that and it’s a reality no matter what situation you’re in, and I’ve already envisioned this.

People ask “Tom when were you successful?” I was successful when I was homeless. I was successful when I was living in my car. I was successful when I didn’t have but $60.00 in my pocket.

I’ve been successful it’s just a matter of the material world manifesting it around to make it a reality in this time. It’s just a time difference.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you think that goes back to having a worthy ideal as expressed by Earl Nightingale?

TOM BEAL: 100%! I spend most of my time daydreaming because my life right now is a daydream even though I am still having tremendous adversities. Other people still look at me and say “Tom how can you be happy?”

It’s difficult but from that experience I had I truly feel I’m doing the best that I can. I have a second chance right now. This is my time. I’m living life full steam ahead and taking one bold step after the next enjoying every step ethically and honestly.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you feel it is important to make positive statements about yourself...the type of person you are and the your goals?

TOM BEAL: Yes as a matter of fact go to Zig Ziglar.com and he has a little piece you can download. It’s a little PDF report that I suggest you print out. It’s an affirmation called “A Life Changing Process” which it is.

I just took it out of my wallet. I go through spurts where I’ll read it for months. I’ll read it in the morning and read it in the evening. It talks about “I AM” and all these positive attributes. When you are not congruent with them it’s hard to look yourself in the eye in the mirror while you’re reading it.

For instance it says “I am sober”. There was a time in my life I wasn’t sober. If you are incongruent with it, it’s weird how your mind is a self regulator. When you start reading those affirmations you will take on all those traits and characteristics. I just feel that’s a natural law.

If you can boldly state those looking at yourself in the mirror you will attain those i.e., I am timely, I am responsible, etc you will pick up all those positive attributes and begin living them and you will be the embodiment of them. Going back to Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill told Andrew Carnegie this one statement, “Andrew Carnegie I’m not only going to equal your accomplishments I’m going to surpass them.”

This was back when Andrew Carnegie was the only billionaire on the planet. Napoleon Hill said “There was a time I couldn’t look myself in the mirror. I was laughing. I had my fingers crossed. I said who am I kidding he’s a billionaire. I will never equal his accomplishments.”

But he ended up believing it and he’s created more millionaires and continues to do so to this day. He passed away in 1973 or something like that. In those future generations he will still create millionaires and he passed away a couple of generations ago.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you take time out of your day to feed your subconscious positive thoughts about you, your goals and dreams?

TOM BEAL: Yes, through self-talk and through reading the proper material & watching programs like www.whatisthesecret.tv. I’m looking at the library of success I have over here. I’m looking at this one, you may or may not have seen this, and it’s called The Master Key to Success.

It was one of the first Nightingale Conant products that are actually a two VHS tape that’s over 3 hours of Napoleon Hill talking in black and white as if you are sitting there at his desk. He says “Oh, it’s a pleasure to see you today. Please be seated.” He talks like you are sitting there across the desk from Napoleon Hill. And things like that.

Also listening to Brian Tracy, Jim Roan and Tony Robbins and attending live events. Getting around people who are like minded. You heard my one trait, identify and align. Find someone who is doing what you desire to accomplish and do your best to get close to them.

You can do that through reading books, listening to tapes, watching videos and more importantly going to live events and meeting with these people one-on-one. I’ve been able to meet and work with my heroes and that is the quickest way to get pulled from where you are to where you want to be.

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Tom Beal has tapped into the Dale Carnegie's secret strategy for amassing a huge fortune that was shared with Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale. You can learn why and how to become successful by listening to their heroes interviews.

It is high time we start spreading "Good News" about local heroes through a grassroots program that is self-funding and that teaches young people how to make money on the internet by creating and selling many different types of new and used products on E-bay...their own and others.

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Posted by ralph at 08:52 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: I think if everybody realized that we are all made in the image and likeness of God, and that we are all a part of the same family, that anytime we do something evil to somebody else, or we do something that is hurtful, we are affecting the entire universe; we’re affecting everybody on the planet.

If people realized that all the great leaders, spiritual leaders, they all thought that love was the most powerful of all the emotions. A lot of people are willing to sacrifice their life or love for other people. What are your principles and are you willing to sacrifice your life for?

Paulie Sabol: The idea of dying for something bigger than yourself is very attractive. And at the very same time, I do believe the world has had enough martyrs. I would much rather live for things than die for things.

Ralph Zuranski: That’s true. It is easier to die for things than it is to live them.

Paulie Sabol: But with that stated, if I were to die in the service of helping to organize against an oppressive, corrupt government, if I were to die in the service of extending rights to the most marginalized and disenfranchised of people, if I were to die in that, again, medieval value of the pursuit of true courtly love, then it would indeed be a noble and heroic death.

So that is my answer. I would much rather live with all those things.

Ralph Zuranski: It is harder to live – it is easier to die. It is much more difficult to take the burdens you have in life and helping others, and pursue that and have the right attitude of love and gratitude for having that opportunity to serve.

Are your goals consistent with your beliefs?

Paulie Sabol: Thankfully, no, they’re not. Let me explain why. My beliefs are naturally limited, where my goals are fundamentally unlimited. Because my key goal for myself and for everyone is fundamental abundance, and while the desire of that may approach a belief, and perhaps in believing it more, I can see it more, however, it is unquestionably my goal.

My goal is fundamental abundance for everybody, where all of their needs are exceeded. The fact of the matter is, when I look just to my beliefs, sometimes I believe something like this.

I’ll believe, gosh, I’m not sure I can change that; I’m not sure I can help that situation. This lack is so big. Sometimes my beliefs will be limited, but I don’t let that lack of believing confidence dissuade me one moment from the measure of the realization of my goal which is fundamental abundance for all.

Ralph Zuranski: I think that is probably the greatest lesson that I’ve had to learn, is that you can’t change anybody. It is only live your life to the best of your ability and hope that by your actions you can make a big difference in the lives of others as they see you work through your life.

So I wanted to ask you, are your actions consistent with your beliefs?

Paulie Sabol: Now that is a different question. That one is much easier to be in alignment with. Let me tell you the story of an electron. I mentioned that I have a physics degree. Many of your heroes and future heroes who are listening right now, they’ve probably seen an electron drawn in their science class.

The atom is drawn as having a big thick nucleus in the center, and the electrons kind of going in these circles around. For the longest time we believed that. That was what we believed the model was. Over time, our model, our beliefs improved.

Now we know that these electrons have the ability to sometimes be places that it doesn’t seem to physically. We are shocked that it seems to be somewhere that it is. We also know that the electron moves instantly from being in one place in space to another place in space. It doesn’t actually go through the space in between. It teleports, it jumps, it transforms in just a moment.

In fact, when it does so, it emits light. That is my test. I know that my actions are consistent with and my beliefs are finally catching up with the power of my actions. I have more light in my life. I believed and for the most part, it is a useful belief, that fire is going to hurt me or burn me.

But, you know what, Ralph, I’ve walked on fire.

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Posted by ralph at 03:11 PM | Permalink

RALPH ZURANSKI: Do you maintain your sense of humor in the face of serious problems?

TOM BEAL: You have to. At least I have to. I choose to. I have the optimism and I have the positive thinking but there are things that others might interpret as “bad things happen” and I say “WOW! I didn’t see that one coming. Wow!” but you have to laugh and as I mentioned in the fifth step, you have to have fun.

When you enjoy doing what you love there’s going to be other people that interpret things as a problem and things like that. There are all challenges. It makes life more exciting. The more you progress up that level of consciousness the more other people would see these problems get bigger but your capabilities to handle them are more so.

If I was up to bat and there was a major league baseball pitcher pitching to me I’d strike out for sure, if not be shaking and pee in my pants cause that would be scary. But you know to jump from not knowing anything to jump up to the major leagues you have progressive steps.

Just like school has 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, you graduate to different levels of how you can handle communication skills and how you can handle adversities.

You will never be given a major league baseball pitcher problem if you are only in the minor leagues or only at the tee ball level. You are only given the obstacles and challenges that you are capable of handling in life. Sometimes I feel like there’s a major league pitch and I’m not ready for it.

But it wouldn’t be happening if I wasn’t ready for it. As we are speaking right now I’m going to share some personal things. There are a lot of people that already know but my wife and I have been married for five years but we are currently separated right now.

You’ve been talking to me for awhile and you can tell I still have optimism and I still have happiness. Here’s my belief on that. I know that everything is going to work out exactly the way it needs to work out. I don’t know what the end result will be but I know it’ll work out exactly the way it needs to.

Here’s a little history. My wife and I have been married five years now. On July 10th, 2002 her father passed away. On July 13th, she spoke at his funeral. On July 20th at the same church we had our wedding, a Greek wedding. So that just puts things into perspective.

I had a conversation with her father prior to this saying “Look man this wedding is ridiculous at this time.” He told me “Tom I don’t care if I die.” That puts things in perspective.

Let’s talk about something you may or may not know Ralph. On Sept.11, 1998 I was in a car wreck. My car rolled four times and I was ejected from the sun roof and laid there with severe head trauma and had a “near death experience”. The car wreck was about 10:00pm. I had severe head trauma and it was a miracle I lived through it.

Just laying there I thought “No one is showing up.” Then it hit me, I’m going to die here in this field. I was out in the field and during the roll my battery flew out so my car was laying in this field way off the road. People were driving by and no one knew someone‘s laying there dying.

So it hit me, this is the way it’s going to end. Next thing you know I’m laying there and I see someone in the field and I’m up in the air. I’m like “Whose that?” I focus in and see that it is me.

Next thing you know I’m pulled up in the sky. It’s just like you see on TV, the bright lights. I’m standing there and I’m really confused. I’m trying to figure out what’s happening.

Then someone comes up and puts their arm around me and it was so comforting and I just felt like everything is ok. Then we turn around and we’re facing this big huge door and we start walking towards this door.

I stop and am shaking my head and I said “I know this is not how it’s supposed to end. I know you had more for me to accomplish. Send me back.”

Next thing I know I woke up and had been Mercy Flighted, which is a helicopter lift. A couple of hours later they got there. I had been lifted to a hospital and woke up with respirator breathing for me in Intensive Care.

I was in the hospital for just less than a week and the Dr.’s were telling me and my family “Tom will never walk and talk again properly. I wouldn’t accept that. The Dr.’s were getting real upset. I said “NO, I’m walking out of here.”

They had a meeting with my family and said “We are really upset. Tom does not understand the fact that he may never walk or talk again properly the rest of his life.” My family sat down with me and said “Tom this is serious and you may not walk or talk again properly.”

I said “I’m walking out of here” the best I could. I had to learn to speak and everything and there’s a whole weird story behind that. But you think I’d say “I’m going to walk out of here” but cat, red, blue, car would come out of my mouth. It was really weird.

I checked myself out. I signed a whole bunch of release papers against Dr.’s orders and left the hospital because they were trying to tell me I would never walk or talk again and I didn’t want to hear that. Thankfully I didn’t hear that because I am walking and talking.

There were a couple of years where my leg dragged. I had what was called “drop foot” and they never knew when that nerve damage would go away or if it would. Now I can walk, you’ve seen me, Ralph I walk and talk. I wrestled Russell Brunson a couple of times. I ended up going back and winning a couple of wrestling tournaments after that car wreck.

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No small business owner will argue that the life blood of their business is lead generation.

Some people call it prospecting for new customers.

What ever term you use, finding people who are interested in your product or service is critical to the success of any business.

What I Noticed While Getting My Car Washed

The other day I was at a local car wash getting my SUV washed. There was a waiting area where customers could sit down and watch TV while their car was getting washed.

Being the observant student of marketing that I am, I noticed a great little lead generation marketing tactic caught my eye sitting right in the waiting area.

It was a stand that was advertising not one, but four free car washes.

Knowing that there is a catch to everything that uses the word "FREE" I approached the stand to see what it was all about.

Want to see a photo of this lead generation stand?

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The Fine Print

If you looked at the photo carefully you probably noticed that this company is giving away four free car washes or a f r e e dinner for four couples in exchange for viewing a "complimentary home fire safety awareness program."

It's kind of hard to see. You need to read the fine print.

On the stand was a small form that you had to fill out to get the f r e e car washes or dinners.

Here's a photo of the form.

http://url123.com/2m58m

Here's What I Liked About This Simple Lead Generation System and Why It Works So Well...

This is an ingenious little lead generation system.

Here's why...

1. It's hands free. (You place the stand in the lobby and it automatically generates leads for you.)

2. It gets the car wash to generate leads for them by using car washes, paid for by the home security company, as a referral reward.

3. It leverages the reputation (and customer base) of the car wash to generate leads.

It's a win, win, win lead generation system.

The customer wins by getting something for free.

The car wash wins because it sells more car washes.

The home security company wins because it gets leads.

How to Apply This Prospecting Tactic to Your Business

This lead generation system can be used by just about any business you can possibly think of.

Here's how to do it...

Step 1 - Make a list of all the businesses in your area that serve your target market.

Step 2 - Familiarize yourself with the products and services they provide, including pricing.

Step 3 - Determine which businesses have the products and services that you might be able to buy and then turn around and give away as a gift in order to entice the prospect to give you their contact information or an office / store visit.

Step 4 - Take the list you created in Step 3 and approach those businesses with your proposal.

NOTE # 1: Remember to position your proposal as a win - win - win situation. Focus on how their business will benefit from the proposal.

NOTE # 2: When proposing this strategy, don't talk about a big rollout. Simply suggest to the business owner a small pilot to test the concept. It works!

Here's What Will Happen When You Do This Marketing Tactic - - From My Own Personal Experience.

I've personally used this marketing tactic before. Here's what you'll find when YOU do it.

1. You'll have a difficult time finding and talking to

the decision maker for 50% of the businesses.

2. Once you find the decision maker, about 60% will

automatically say "no" because they just don't understand the nature of joint ventures.

3. About 40% will consider your offer.

4. About 20% will actually agree to your proposal

(Remember to pitch a small pilot program first).

From those 20% you'll be amazed at how many leads you can generate.

But Here's How to Turn that 20% Into 50% to 60%!

Once you have your lead generation system working in 20% of the complimentary businesses, the next step is to get some testimonials from them.

Document their positive comments and then take those comments back to the other 80% you proposed to previously.

What you'll find is that 50% to 60% of the businesses will want to sign on with you and your program.

People want proof before they make decisions.

Once you give it to them, they sales process becomes 10 times easier.

Conclusion

In this article I've given you a simple lead generation tactic that you can use to get in front of more new prospects.

The best thing about this tactic is that it's non-intrusive, very inexpensive, and it works!

It does take a bit of leg work, but the payback is handsome if you apply what I've taught you.

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Ralph Zuranski: We know that is so true. It is amazing how many people want to impose their moral beliefs on other people. You have so much catastrophe and so much death dealing and so much war based on what people hold religiously. If they actually looked at what the philosophers that they are following actually say, they would see that loving others is the primary foundation of the teachings they had that they wanted to spread to the world.

It is sad that so many people are so divisive and so willing to just judge others because they don’t believe the way that they do. I see that is probably the most and the greatest divisive factor in humanity today, is just people trying to impose their beliefs on others and wanting to try and change others and realizing that others can only change themselves.

What place does the power of prayer have in your life, Paulie?

Paulie Sabol: I think I’m going to be in the minority of some of your heroes, and that is a very good thing. What it means is that there is room at the top for all of us. I am one who experiences prayer typically as the last refuge of the wicked. As when somebody whose got some results coming in their life because of the habits that they’ve formed, the thoughts that they’ve acted upon, and they’re just not happy with those results, in a last ditch effort, they move to prayer to improve it.

On the other hand, there are some traditions which expand prayer to a broader form of communication with something you believe to be out there, rather than a living contribution to what’s around us. That is what I don’t participate in. But in the cases of where there is a communication with nature, or the communication to the power of knowing, which has historically been called Gnosticism, prayer still plays a small role in my life.

However, and it does, because I do believe in communing with those forces, I do believe in opening myself up to messages and invitations, and other than natural forms of knowing.

When people do say they are going to pray for me, I thank them with a nice smile. I’m happy to have prayers; I’m just not a very big doer of prayers. I want to respond to the question of the power of prayer.

From what those who do use prayer say it does for them, I see them as being plugged into a power. Again, I don’t know the means, and I don’t know the mechanism, but what I do know is that we learn in Physics and higher science. I do have a degree in Physics.

We are all fundamentally connected. There is only ONE sense, and you and I, we’re it. You and the listener is it. We’re all one. So the ability of prayer to bring people to the awareness of that oneness, and plug them into that oneness, I very much believe can occur through those particular rituals.

I just happen to use different ones.

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Posted by ralph at 07:10 PM | Permalink

RALPH ZURANSKI: I have not had a chance to yet.

TOM BEAL: I feel it’s a “must see” for everybody that is serious about achieving any type of goals. What it talks about is the secret obviously. When Dr. Joe Vitalie was telling me about this on the cruise last November he and I were on and a few other marketers I asked and he wouldn’t tell us what the secret was.

He wouldn’t tell us what the movie was. I said “I know what the secret is. From Earl Nightingale he had the strangest secret in the world; we become what we think about most of the time. The thought that is most in your mind is what will fulfill or manifest.”

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That’s exactly what it is about but it goes into more detail about what’s called “The Attraction Factor” which is a book by Dr. Joe Vitalie. Your thoughts mixed with emotions, mixed with enthusiasm produces the end result that you’ll manifest into reality.

Because you can have a thought but if you don’t have emotions to back that thought it’s like an impotent thought. You need to have that potency by having the emotions to back it up. That’s where you will begin to see you are what you think about most of the time.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Is it useful to take a positive view of setbacks,
misfortunes and mistakes?

TOM BEAL: There is a quote from Napoleon Hill that says “Every adversity carries with it the seed or an equivalent or greater benefit.” Those aren’t comforting words when you are going through adversity. They aren’t even comforting to me and I live by that quote.

But as I described some of the adversity I went through as a child I thought I was the only one going through that. As we grew up we noticed everybody has that type of stuff. Guess what, there is no such thing as a functional family, they are all dysfunctional.

Everybody has their problems. Now working with best selling authors and working with top athletes, I’m working with the “cream of the crop”. I even asked a NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, “Just because you have reached that success does that mean you don’t have any problems?” He laughed no problems? His son just died at eight years old because of a terminal illness. Try handling that problem.

One of the people I work with here is Jason Dinner. He said and which is very true “If you are in a big room with all these people and everyone throws their problems in a big pile you are going to want to get your problem out because you don’t want what the other people are going through.

Until you put it in perspective and just recognize that you are going to do the best you can with the circumstances you’re going through right now. That’s all you can do. You can worry about two things.

You can worry about things you can control or worry about things you can’t control. If you are worried about things you can control, control it and don’t worry about it. If you are worried about things you can’t control then what’s the point about worrying because you can’t control it.

So the point is if that doesn’t make sense, go get a book by Dale Carnegie called “How to Stop Worrying and How to Start Living”. Dale Carnegie wrote that in the early 1900’s because he had a lot of people coming to him that just had tremendous worry problems. If you look at society today, look at all these people on these pills to diminish the worry that they have.

I recommend reading that book. Then you understand that’s there is two things to worry about and neither one of them is not worth worrying about. It’s an awesome book! That one and “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.

You can get the double book by Dale Carnegie and it has both those in it, “How to Stop Worrying and How to Start Living” and How to Win Friends and influence People.” Those should also be recommended learning material for anybody who’s serious about becoming the best they can be in this life the brief time that we are here.

When I didn’t have much I was a student of life and going to the library. You can go the library for free. Unfortunately only about 3% of the U.S. population has library cards. But you can get all this information free. You don’t need anything.

There are stories of Og Mandino living on the park bench that went to the library and started studying and ended up becoming a multi millionaire many times over from learning. If you want success, study success. If you want happiness, study happiness.

If you don’t want to worry study how not to worry. Just like Napoleon Hill had his virtual Master Mind. He had a Master Mind with all the big wigs, F.W. Woolworth and Henry Ford. You can have all these people virtually like Abraham Lincoln and you can consult with them.

You’ve seen these bands today that people are wearing that say “WWJD?” what would Jesus do. Some people can’t grasp that but “What Would Abraham Lincoln Do?” What would your role model do in this situation?

RALPH ZURANSKI: How important is it to have optimism?

TOM BEAL: Optimism, man life will get you down if you read the papers and watch the news. You think the sky is falling. Chicken Little is a movie that just came out in cartoon but I tell you what if you watch the news and read the paper you’ll think the sky is falling and everyone is out to get you. You would lock yourself in your room.

You have live boldly. Stuff is going to happen. Back to that Attraction Factor here’s something that I personally, internally know, there is a conspiracy. Everything is conspiring to help me, assist me in accomplishing all my goals and to attract everything that I desire.

That’s a spin, yes there’s a conspiracy, but it’s a positive one if everything is working exactly the way it needs to assist me in fulfilling dreams and desires that I have. I may not understand why things happen but I know that all things work for good.

There are certain times I can’t interpret or understand, like my friend Jim Kelly whose son passed away at eight years old was born with life threatening illness. Why does that happen? Jim even says why me? I go to church and I’m a good guy so why me?

There have been studies and in the short eight years that Hunter was alive that disease he had is going to save thousands of lives and lives of kids that haven’t been born yet. That eight year old life impacted more lives than people who lived to be a hundred years old. There are things we aren’t meant to know or we can’t understand.

And all we know is what can we do? Do the best you can do. If you do the best you can do and everybody takes that upon themselves to do the best they can then the world’s problem would kind of dissipate.

There wouldn’t be any problems. If everybody’s being the best they can then that’s all we can be. We can’t be any other thing than that.

Posted by ralph at 11:41 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: It is pretty exponential, that’s for sure. I spent 24 years in that field and I know the value of good nutrition and doing the right things for your body, so I totally agree with you.

Paulie Sabol: One of his other quotes that he said that has meant a lot to me is, “An idea that is not dangerous, is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” That is a heroic statement, because it is talking about the fact that if you are going to get yourself behind something, you’re going to say, “I have a great idea,” it should make you tremble in its awesomeness.

You should be thinking to yourself, “If this idea can be pulled off, it is going to transform and change the world for the better.” I like that Oscar Wilde really reminded us that sometimes we treat any little notion that happens to pop by like it has the value of an idea.

But we’ve been told nothing is as powerful as an idea that has come at the right time, or whose time has come. I think it was Victor Hugo who said that. This is the same thing Oscar Wilde is reminding us. If an idea is truly great, is worth the title of an idea, it should really be just awesome, make us almost quake with the humility that we’ve been able to think it and receive it.

Ralph Zuranski: It is a little scary to indulge and also embark on journeys for great ideas and things that are going to make a dynamic difference in the world today.

Paulie Sabol: So with that, I will share a couple of my core philosophies. So this is 100% me, as opposed to my influences. One of my core philosophies, Ralph, is this one. It is called trust the truth. What I mean by the philosophy of trust the truth, and it is the profound number one reason why I agreed to accept this honor of doing this interview with you.

If we understand what a hero’s journey is, if we understand what that process is, then there are going to be times when things don’t go perfectly our way. When we do feel like we are about to be dashed against the obstacles, like there is just no energy to carry on. In fact, if we are in a relationship with a best friend, a boy friend, or a girl friend, perhaps even a mentor relationship, or a coach, and we’re trying to excel.

It is very important to be kind to ourselves as learners. Very often we want to punish learners. You’ll see some young person learning to do something and they behave in way that the parents or caregivers are objectionable to it, and they might reach over and slap them. We’re punishing the learner.

In the heroes’ journey, what I have found is that we just have to trust the truth. Know that the path of progress is just that. It is progress and not perfection. If we trust the truth and trust ourselves and know that over the course of all time, no caterpillar has ever turned into anything through metamorphosis except a beautiful butterfly.

They’ve never turned into a worthless pile of dung. They’ve always turned into a butterfly, every time. That’s what I mean by trust the truth. You see, I have a lot of interns; young heroes, like you are reaching out to, 18-24 years of age category, who come into our business as interns to learn how to achieve more and have more financial independence.

But I always trust the truth and I find that they get so much more than a revenue stream or income or work experience opportunity. They grow and transform as people just like the caterpillars into the butterflies.

Ralph Zuranski: What is your perspective on goodness, ethics, and moral behavior?

Paulie Sabol: This is an interesting question that you ask. There is much to be said. Here is my answer. I will actually take them in reverse order with your permission, because I believe taking them in that order actually illuminates a key issue.

I may be in the minority here, but I grow weary and tired of discussions for morality. Nichi said that morality is the best tool for leading humankind by the nose. He also called it the herd instinct of the individual. Morality in my view of the definition is outward focused.

It is usually used to censor, attack and divide. Ethics on the other hand, Ralph, is the thinking part of goodness behavior. Ethics is when logic, your intuition, and this understanding of value all meet together. That point, that thinking activity, is what ethics, ethical dilemma, ethical understanding, and ethical reasoning is all about.

Thus it is fundamentally personal. It is situational. It has a much higher ideal than can be comprised or codified into a series laws, commandments, or moral dictates. I think that ethics is the day to day activity of us walking through our heroic journey, whereas morality is very often a case of somebody else’s result of their heroic journey being imposed or imbued or endowed on somebody else.

In anticipation, or before, and sometimes unfortunately preventing them from making their own hero’s journey. That leaves us with goodness. Well, goodness is the doing part of ethical thinking. So through our ethical process, our understanding of value and situation and personal identity, we then act in accordance to that, and that is goodness.

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A few weeks ago I was in Salt Lake City visiting with my brother. The first thing I would do every morning is go get the paper, sit down and do some reading.

An advertisement caught my eye.

It was an ad from a travel company that was promoting one of its websites. The website is http://www.LDSTrips.com

If any of you have been to Salt Lake City you know that it is the capitol for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (commonly called the LDS Church).

Well, to drum up business this clever travel company created trips that would appeal specifically to members of the church.

All of sudden, business started booming.

Here's the actual advertisement for LDSTrips.com

http://url123.com/ua3c6

Niche Marketing Is Where It's At..

The travel industry knows that niche marketing is where it's at for attracting new customers.

That same day I noticed the ad for LDSTrips.com I was in a grocery store with my wife thumbing through a few magazines.

My wife is a quilting nut. She loves to quilt.

(We even have an entire room in our home dedicated to the quilting industry.)

So she handed me a quilting magazine to look at something and as a good husband, I pretended like I was interested :-)

Eventually, I flipped to the back of the magazine to see the ads (the only thing interesting in a quilting magazine) and there was a 1/4 page ad for an "Alaskan Quilting Cruise."

Amazing.

Here's the ad for the Alaskan Quilting Cruise.

http://url123.com/uwkgu

Birds of a Feather Like to Flock Together

The reason the travel industry is so successful employing niche marketing is because people like to hang out with other people who have the same passions as they do.

- Marketers like to hang out with other marketers.

- Basketball players like to hang out with basketball players.

- Bird lovers like to hang out with bird lovers.

- Stock traders like to hang out with stock traders.

- Runners like to hang out with runners.

- Birds of a feather like to flock together!

Here's How You Can Use This Simple Human Fact to Get a Lot More New Customers, Clients, and Patients...

Because people like to hang around with people who have

similar interests, why not create events and offerings that appeal to specific groups of people.

For instance - - here are some ideas to expand your thinking.

- Clothing Store

Hold an "AARP" night and invite all the local AARP members to your clothing store for a closed door appreciation event.

- Accountants

You can create an "Auto Dealership Accounting Package" and send promos to all the auto dealers in town.

- Auto Repair Shop

Sponsor a local "teachers tune up" week in which all the teachers in the area get a special discount on a tune up.

- Window and Glass Company

Sponsor an education night for all the contractors and builders in town and offer free drinks and food.

- Insurance Agent

Offer a "Newlywed UCLA Insurance Program" for couples just getting married who attend UCLA (or any other university).

Take Your Cues From the Dating Industry...They Understand How to Do Niche Marketing.

Here's What I Mean...

Just look at these sites.

http://www.LDSSingles.com

(for LDS Church members who are single)

http://www.EquestrianSingles.com

(for singles who like horses)

http://www.CowboyCowgirl.com

(for singles who like living the country life)

http://www.AnimalPeople.com

(for people who love to have pets)

http://www.ChristianSingles.com

(for Christian singles)

http://www.GreenSingles.com

(for singles who are environmentally conscious)

Conclusion

Niche marketing is such an important concept for you small business. Every business should be doing some form of niche marketing.

Take advantage of the fact that like-minded people want to hang around each other and sponsor events for them that gives you exposure.

A west coast restaurant called http://www.Wahoos.com sponsors events for the "hip crowd" and drives scores of hipsters to its restaurants.

You can do something similar. The only thing that is stopping you is your own imagination.

About the Author:

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Posted by ralph at 06:54 PM | Permalink

Ralph Zuranski: I think that is really true, because Earl Nightingale and Napoleon Hill talked about having that worthy ideal, about having faith in yourself, having belief that you can possibly achieve your goals, and having that self confidence in being able to do it, that it makes all the difference in the world.

I know, Paulie, you are striving to accomplish that. I was just curious; do you follow your hunches and intuitions?

Paulie Sabol: Increasingly so, Ralph. I entered into a mentorship program with a person who I am hopefully going to be able to share more with you about as we continue on. This is going to be shocking to some people, but the access to this mentorship program has an exclusive, not in the racial or gender sense, but rather an elite club.

It costs $30,000 a year to be a part of. When I heard a fellow here, and partner of mine, who is also in that program, is going to be on a long flight with our common mentor, I asked her if she would get a chance to deliver a message for me. My message to my mentor was to thank him for giving me the permission to depend upon trust, and act based on my intuition.

I had no idea, and I still have no idea, what the mechanism, or process of intuition is, I don’t even know if it is real or like a byproduct, that it could be something we trick ourselves into, because we have these magnificent, marvelous brains, that are able to take in and understand so much more, so much faster, than we could ever put words on.

So I don’t know what intuition actually is. I don’t know if it is something from inside of us that we get a glimpse of. I don’t know if it is something totally biological, ordinary, and natural. What I do know is that the more that I have allowed myself to be guided and to connect with these intuitive insights, and trust them, and act based upon them, the results that are coming to me are occurring with greater regularity, greater reward, and greater relaxation.

It is becoming effortless effort for me to act in a heroic way that has the rewards of heroism.

Ralph Zuranski: What is the specific philosophy or philosophies that guide your life and your decisions?

Paulie Sabol: When I prepared for this question, I misread it Ralph. I thought you were asking about the philosophers who had impacted me. So let me first share some of that, and then I will talk about a couple of specific philosophies that do guide me.

I did want to share that Oscar Wilde is one of my biggest guiding philosophers. He had some great things to say that I think are illustrative and important for all of us. One of his quotes is that, “A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”

This difference between value and price I thought was so very important. Very often we want to try to create numbers and let numbers be the way in which we rank one another, judge one another, experience one another, and even consider our traits, whether it is a social trait like hanging out with somebody, or whether it is a financial trait.

However, he said the cynic understands the price of everything. They understand only the price, but the value of nothing. The fact that there is a difference between what something may cost us or its price and its value is dramatic.

Think about it this way, what is the price of a marijuana joint? It is whatever it is – it is some number of dollars. That is the price. But what is the impact of developing a habit where we are consuming drugs, we’re giving up some of our passions and giving up some of our control to an outside substance.

The impact, the real cost in that case is large. That is the difference between price and cost. Now look at it the other way. What is the price of eating in the most healthful way possible – avoiding some of the fast food choices that are out there, avoiding some of the fried foods, and instead eating the healthy, nutritious live foods.

They might even have a slightly higher price than a lot of the fast foods, but the value to your body, the composition, the power, and the wellness that it gives you, is quite a bit greater than that little incremental price difference.

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Posted by ralph at 08:07 AM | Permalink

RALPH ZURANSKI: What is your perspective on goodness, ethics and moral behavior?

TOM BEAL: I feel that every person has an inner thermometer about what’s good and what’s bad, what’s right and what’s wrong. But I also know that we also choose whether we want to partake in things that are good or things that are bad, or things that are right and things that are wrong. It all boils down to the power of choice.

No matter where you are in your life you can continue walking that path or you can choose to take a different route.

RALPH ZURANSKI: What place does the power of prayer have in your life?

TOM BEAL: I pray pretty much all day long. I have an inner talk and am always communicating and just try to be in touch with myself and God and the universe. While I’m driving and while I’m sitting I’ll try to have conversations. I feel it’s very, very important part of my life.

RALPH ZURANSKI: What principles are you willing to sacrifice your life for?

TOM BEAL: What’s right? I have a scar on my knee and on my eye because while I was in the marine corp. Mike Tyson had a comeback fight and we had a party in our apartment. When we went outside there was a group of people, because he fought McNealy, and I remember it because there was an event that occurred afterward that I’m leading up to.

Mike Tyson knocked McNealy out very quickly. We went out to our car. There was several marines and a couple of there wives. There was a group of other people who were apparently not satisfied with ending of the fight so they all circled up from different apartments.

They were having ultimate fighting championships and they were fighting one another. It happened to be right near our car. We stop and all of a sudden they start picking on us. Saying “You guys think your tough?” We said “NO, no everything is good.”

But then one of them pushed my friend’s wife. Without even thinking I just grabbed that guy and my wrestling came out and I took him down. What I didn’t think about was that we were out numbered at least 5 to 1. So what I would sacrifice?

I would stand up for what is right. If I have to have surgery a couple of times afterwards so be it. I was kicked in the head and had to have seven stitches in the eye and had to have knee surgery and all that fun stuff. But what’s right is right.

The guy chose to push my friends wife and I had to stick up for what’s right. I’ve since hung up my fighting shoes. There was a lot of testosterone going on back in those years. I try to talk things out.

Hopefully I am able to communicate things a little better than choosing physical aspects like that. But I will not sit back and keep my tongue tied if someone is doing wrong to someone else.

Actually just recently at one of the seminars I saw you at we were in the back of the plane and one airport was shut down, Chicago/O’Hare and this guy was just going off on the stewardess.

Saying “This is unacceptable. This is why your airline is going out of business, blah, blah, blah.” She said “Sir I apologize. It’s out of my control.”

He’s saying “I’m so disgusted with this!” I said “Sir I’m disgusted with the way you are talking to the stewardess. You need to put yourself in check here and give her some appreciation.”

His wife agreed. I’m just not the type to sit by if someone’s being treated wrongly I will communicate that.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Are your goals consistent with your beliefs?

TOM BEAL: 100%. I feel that to achieve any greatness or to achieve any goal you need to be congruent with your beliefs. Your goals need to be very congruent with your beliefs in order to fulfill them, is my belief.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Are your actions consistent with your beliefs?

TOM BEAL: Yes, and many times as a child my walk didn’t equal my talk or vice versa. I feel the people you see achieving the great results, and there are exceptions to the rule, but the majority by far, people’s walk equals their talk. I feel that’s a goal. To be congruent you need to have your thoughts, words and actions be congruent with the beliefs that you have internally.

RALPH ZURANSKI: Is it valuable to have highly charged emotions about achieving your goals?

TOM BEAL: Emotions are extremely vital to achieving your success. There’s a movie out now, that if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. As a matter of fact it should almost be required in my opinion for teenagers, for kids growing up and adults to watch. It’s called www.whatisthesecret.tv. That’s an awesome documentary. Have you seen that yet Ralph?

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Posted by ralph at 06:36 AM | Permalink

Paulie Sabol: Thank you. In the challenge to reduce my life mission into 10 words, I think this is it: It is to have high achieving friends worldwide with fundamental abundance for all.

Ralph Zuranski: What is the dream or vision that sets the course of your life?

Paulie Sabol: One of my mentors, a fellow by the name of Hakim Bay,