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January 31, 2007

"' Did you ever create a secret hero in your mind that helped you deal with life’s difficulties?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero or Heroine Within"

Did you ever create a secret hero in your mind that helped you deal with life’s difficulties?

Cameron Johnson: Well, fortunately, going back to the previous question, I have lived a charmed life and I have had very few difficulties, other than some arguments with my parents when I was growing up.

I always admired successful business leaders, and I would read business book about the Donald Trumps and the Michael Dells, Bill Gates, and Richard Bransons of the world. That kind of always helped me stay motivated, because I had my dreams or my goals set on being a successful business leader myself. So that kind of helped me along.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, you know I really did as a child. I had tremendous health problems. I was born three months premature and it just seems that I was addicted to sugar, and I was eating crap all day. My teeth started rotting in my mouth at an early age and every time that I went into the dentist, I would have to get four or five fillings. It got to such a point that I absolutely would bear the pain of having the dentist drill on my teeth without going for the Novocain shots.

Sharif: Oh boy!

Ralph Zuranski: Just because it was so painful. To help me deal with that, I created a character in my mind; I didn’t know who it was but just a character. I was always hearing him say, “You can do it! You can do it!” because eating sugar all the time, I was extremely depressed.

Plus, I was having severe problems with my hormones because my blood sugar was constantly going up and down and I was using up all my cortisol to basically just keep my blood sugar level up, so I didn’t die and go into a coma. In the process of doing that, what happened is that my body was utilizing all my sex hormones, especially the testosterone just to keep my blood sugar level up and burning it into cortisol.

So what happened is that I was the 99 pound weakling. I was like the midget in the class. I was sick all the time, I was depressed and suicidal. I just hated how I looked; I had a big nose and big ears. I was of Polish heritage, so I got all the Polish jokes.

I would look in the mirror and tell myself, “I hate you! I hate you! I wish you were dead!” It was that special character that I created that helped me get through life. It was all the way through high school and college that I was depressed. I didn’t know why, and it was just because of a hormonal problem. There was always that super Hero there that kept me going.
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Sharif Khan: Very interesting question. I have a Council of Light or imaginary team of heroes if you will. I got the concept from Napoleon Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich, where he talks about creating a team of heroes in your mind, where you go deep within your mind and choose your greatest heroes to sit on your round table and council you. I actually go to a secret place in my mind in meditation where I have a council of these people.

Some include greats like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Sinatra, Jodie foster, Oprah, Einstein, and an eclectic mix that changes from time to time. I actually talk to them in my dreams and imagination and they give me answers encouragement and advice. It may sound strange, but that’s how I’ve developed my own ‘wisdom council’ if you will.
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Debra Berg: My mother is probably the best role model or hero anyone could have had. I didn’t need to create a hero because she was right in front of me most of my life.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:10 PM |

"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

7. You're successful when you like who and what you are. Success includes achievement… while choosing and directing your own activities. It means enjoying intimate relationships and loving what you do in life.
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Dave Kekich Shares Amazing Advances in Longevity and Health Research

We also have some pretty good ideas as to how much it will cost. And when we spend the money on it, we can speed it up a little bit by putting more money into it, and that is what we are all about. We are all about raising money for this project. And that is why aging is going to be solved.

That is why heart disease and cancer and every other disease are going to be solved. That’s why we’ll get control over biology and over the aging process.

So for the few of you who don't think I am a total crackpot at this point, I think this is going to be very profound, and whether you believe me or not, or even understand the concepts, the Law of Accelerating Returns is going to have a greater effect on your lives than anything you have ever heard of before.

Things are going to happen so much faster, and so much more dramatically in the technology world and in biology that it is going to make your head spin pretty soon. So hang on for a good ride, and take care of yourselves now.

My main message to the people who are living right now is take care of yourselves, because the technologies that are going to be happening in the future are going to benefit you in ways that you couldn't imagine. And you are going to benefit from those if you are alive.

If you are not, of course, it is going to be too late for you. And that is why taking care of yourself right now is so important, and Ralph, we have some information at www.MaxLife.org. If you click there on the icon in the middle it says "How to live to 120 and Still Remember Where You Left Your Car Keys."

If you click on that and scroll to the bottom, click on SALADS™ and see how to increase your chances to live a long, long time with today's technology and today's knowledge. Basically, it is a how-to report to add more years to your life and more life to your years.
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"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 03:16 PM |

"Inspirational Quote To Help You Be the Hero You Have Become"

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.
[ George Washington ]

Posted by ralph at 11:26 AM |

January 30, 2007

"Inspirational Quote To Help You Be the Hero You Have Become"

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.
[ George Washington ]

Posted by ralph at 11:25 PM |

"'Why is it valuable to know exactly how much money you want to have in your bank account, and when?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero or Heroine Within"

Why is it valuable to know exactly how much money you want to have in your bank account, and when?

Cameron Johnson: I think the first question to ask is why do you want that amount? What is that amount of money going to do for you that you don’t already have now? Is it going to buy you things you don’t have, or is it going to pay off debts, or make you more financially stable and make you happier that way?

But why do you think any amount of money will make you any happier than you are now? So I think that is kind of the first question to ask yourself. Then, if you actually put a dollar amount on that, then I think you need to put a date on it, too, and then use that as a goal to be there by that certain time.

But the first question I would say is, “Why do I want this amount of money? Why do I think I am going to be a happier person? Why do I think I am going to be healthier or love my family any more, or anything else? Or my family is going to love me any more?”

Why would you think that is going to happen, just because you have that amount of money in the bank? You know, money does not buy happiness, by any means. So I think that is an important question, too.

Debra Berg: It’s part of the goal-setting process. If you are not specific about what you want, your brain doesn’t know what it should strive for. Your subconscious mind is very powerful, and once it knows what it should target, it works day and night to help you achieve it.

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:09 PM |

"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success and Longevity and Health"

6. Produce for wealth creation and accumulation. Invest profits for wealth preservation and growth. Produce more than you consume and save a minimum of 20% of all earnings. Pay yourself first.
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Dave Kekich Shares Amazing Advances in Longetivy and Health Research
And we had experts all over the place; the people who were nay- saying this whole program from day one, people who jumped on the bandwagon and started doubting, and halfway through the project we had accomplished one-tenth of the entire human genome project that could be identified with mapping.

We had experts all over the place; the people who were nay- saying this whole program from day one, people who jumped on the bandwagon and started doubting, and halfway through the project we had accomplished one percent of mapping the entire human genome.

The experts were using this as proof that they were right, and that it would take a hundred years, or a thousand years to do it. There is not enough money to do it; it is impossible, it is not going to happen. And so forth and so on.

But the scientists who were working on this project kept working. Ralph, not knowing how it is going to turn out, take yourself back seven and a half years through this project, and you will find it one percent accomplished, and all the experts saying it is not going to happen.

From that perspective, would you believe it was going to happen or not happen?

Ralph Zuranski: I would believe that it would not happen.

Dave Kekich: That is what most people thought. But the people working on this project were familiar with the concept of exponential growth. They knew they went from one ten- thousandth of the problem being solved, to one percent of the problem being solved.

That means they progressed by one hundred times. The technology and the knowledge had increased by a hundred times. And they knew they were right on schedule, because if they did that again, over the next seven and a half years, a hundred times that one percent would be one hundred percent.

And that is exactly what happened. It actually took place quicker. And under budget; by the way, part of the law of accelerating returns shows the price of technology falls in half every year. Roughly falls in half. So it was no surprise to them that they came in on time, ahead of time, and under budget.

But it caught the rest of the world by surprise, because they were not familiar with the Law of Accelerating Returns. They knew what they had to do; they just knew they needed more powerful technology, they needed more time, and they needed more money.

We have the exact same situation now in extreme life extension, in that we have a scientific roadmap. We know what needs to be done. We don't have the technology to do it. We know what the technology needs to be, and we know how powerful it needs to be. And we know how long it basically will take until that technology happens.
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"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 03:13 PM |

"Inspirational Quote To Help You Be the Hero You Have Become"

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
— Annie Dillard

Posted by ralph at 03:10 PM |

January 29, 2007

"'How important was it to believe that your financial dreams would eventually become reality?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero or Heroine Within"

How important was it to believe that your financial dreams would eventually become reality?

Cameron Johnson: I think, in order to set a goal, or set a dream, you have to actually understand that this has to be a realistic goal. So I think it is almost crucial that we are able to believe that we can make our dreams come true, if we just take the necessary steps in achieving those goals, and accomplishing them.

So I think it is crucial. It is hard to set a goal or have a financial dream for yourself if you are not going to believe that it has a chance of being real. So I think we need to set realistic goals, and then I’d say that is 100% valuable.
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Debra Berg: It’s very important.

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:08 PM |

"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success and Longevity and Health"

5. Always show gratitude when earned, monetarily when possible.
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Dave Kekich Shares Amazing Advances In Anti-Aging and Health Research

So if you take this same concept and apply it to our technology, which is doubling in power and this is basically information technology, which is driving everything including biotech right now, that means in ten years we are going to have tools that are 1000 times as powerful as we have today.

That means in 30 years, we are going to have tools that are one billion times as powerful as the tools we have today. And these are the tools that are going to help with cancer, avoidance and cure, heart disease, you name it, all diseases, and at the end of this, let's talk about aging.

I have spoken about this with a bunch of people who say, "That sounds awfully interesting. Yeah, it sounds good in theory, but does this really work in your life?" I am going to give you an example in real life as to how this works. In 1989, we started studying the human genome, mapping the human genome.

Then, only one ten thousandth of the human genome was sequenced. And some people got together, some very smart scientists, and the government, and some people in the public sector rivaling the public sector’s efforts, and they formed a thing which we all heard of by now, which is called the Human Genome Project.

Are you familiar with that, Ralph? We know what the result was, but it was a 15-year project, and we had one ten-thousandths of the genome sequenced when we started this thing, or when they started this thing. And halfway through the project, seven and a half years later, they had one percent of the human genome sequenced.
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"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 03:10 PM |

January 28, 2007

"'Are you slow to revise or reverse on important decisions?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero or Heroine Within"

Are you slow to revise or reverse on important decisions?

Debra Berg: Usually, unless I see good reason to change it and a quick response is needed.

Cameron Johnson: Typically, when I make a decision, I don’t look back and I move on, no matter what that decision is. I went to a boarding school in high school and I left the sophomore year.

I came home at Christmas break and I didn’t want to go back because actually, to make a long story short, I met this girl and I didn’t want to go back to an all boys’ school, and I’d just gotten my license. But my dad said, “You are going back; I’ve paid this amount of money for your tuition.”

So I said okay, so I went back to school. A week later I called back and said, “Dad, I will reimburse you the tuition. I don’t want to stay here.” And he said, “Okay, if you want to write me a check for $25,000, then you can come home.” This was when I was in 10th grade, and I said, okay, that was fine.

I paid my dad $25,000, which was a big decision at the time. But I never looked back; I never regretted it, and I never, of course, tried to reverse it.

I have made several decisions since then that, once I make them, I just move on and accept it, and hopefully you don’t have to reverse or revise a decision. So I think that it is important, especially on decisions we can never change, that there is no use fretting over them or second guessing, or anything of the sort.

We have to move on. So I would say I normally don’t revise or reverse decisions like that.

Ralph Zuranski: Sounds like you make decisions very quickly and stick with them. [Laughter]

Cameron Johnson: Often times we buy in with emotion, then we try to rationalize later from facts and reasoning.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:07 PM |

"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success and Amazing Advances In Anti-aging and Health Research"

4. Real regrets only come from not doing your best. All else is out of your control. You're measured by results only. Trade excuses and "trying" for results, and expect half-hearted results from half-hearted efforts. Do more than is expected of you. Life's easy when you live it the hard way... and hard if you try to live it the easy way.

Dave Kekich Describes Amazing Advances In Longevity and Health Research

And most in the twentieth century. Yep. It is because of the Law of Accelerating Returns and the rapid growth, and accelerating growth. We would accomplish in 20 years what we accomplished in the entire 20th century if we were to use the rate of growth that we had in the year 2000.

And we would see that same growth by the year 2014, we are going to accomplish by the year 2014, from 2000 to the year 2014, as much as we accomplished and as much as we learned in the entire 20th century. And then we will do it again in the next seven years, by 2021.

Now as you can see, the time frame is getting shorter and shorter, and if you take this calculation forward, and I am going to back this up with a real simple explanation after I give you this next projection, we are going to accomplish, by the end of the 21st century, in those 100 years, 1000 times as much as we have accomplished in the 20th century.

And that rate of growth would be 20,000 times the rate of growth that we saw in the year 2000. So we would see a thousand times more progress--a thousand times--in this century than we saw in the 20th century, which was the most amazing century in history.

Now, here is a real life example for you; here's a common sense example of how and why this happens. Let's say, well, we are all familiar with compound interest, so let's take a dollar. Let's say we take a dollar and we double that dollar every year.

We double it in value every year, and after the first year we have two dollars, after two years, we have four. And eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two. And if you carry this forward for ten years, you have about a thousand dollars. A little bit over a thousand dollars, but let's call it a thousand dollars.

Then, if you take it forward for 20 years, you don't have two thousand dollars, but you have a million dollars. And then you go 30 years, you’ve got a billion dollars. And on and on into a trillion, quadrillion and so on and so forth.

"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 03:08 PM |

"Inspirational Quote To Help You Be the Hero You Have Become"

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
[ Nietzsche ]

Posted by ralph at 08:57 AM |

January 27, 2007

"'Is it beneficial to make decisions quickly?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero or Heroine Within"

Is it beneficial to make decisions quickly?

Cameron Johnson: I think that can depend on the situation and also the decision that you are making, depending on how big the decision is and what kind of results the decision might have, negative or positive.

You know, I definitely try to think through every decision. Before I make a decision I like to think about the consequences, so I think it can be beneficial to make decisions quickly but I’d also say that I like to think through everything very thoroughly first, as well. I think that is very important.

Debra Berg: Yes. Otherwise opportunity can walk right on by.

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:06 PM |

"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success and Hope For Longevity Through Scientific Research"

3. Think carefully before making any offers, commitments or promises, no matter how seemingly trivial. These are all contracts and must be honored. These also include self-resolutions.

Dave Kekich Exlplains Amazing Advances In Health and Longevity Research

They will see the day when diseases are a thing of the past, or are instantly or readily curable, and almost always, in most parts, avoidable. There will be a day where serious injuries are going to be easy to repair, and where life spans are going to be basically open-ended in young, healthy bodies.

Now that I have sounded like a complete, off-the-wall quack or idiot, let me explain my position and say why this is going to happen. And we even have a good idea as to when it is going to happen, but why is more important. There is a law called the law of accelerating returns, and that was formulated by Ray Kurzweil.

He is one of our foremost thinkers and futurists, engineers and inventors and one of the leading minds in the world right now. And Ray has thousands of pages of calculations and documents leading up to his conclusions. And by the way, we have a foundation called Maximum Life Foundation.

Ray has kindly agreed to join our Board as one of our most valuable advisors. But the law of accelerating returns basically says that things are growing. Technology is advancing at a faster and faster pace, and it is growing exponentially, but again, at a faster pace as time goes on.

He calculated that all the progress we made in the 20th century, which was an amazing century for progress, I mean if you look back at the beginning of the 20th century and then see where we ended up, then we had life extension where people were living on average to average ages, 47 years old in this country, and not even that old in many parts of the world.

Now people are living to almost 80 years on average. People born now are expected to live to over 80, if you are a woman; men are a little bit less. But if you take a look at things like telephones and airplanes and cars, and on and on, computers; I mean, virtually none of that existed in those days - everything that we take for granted today.

All the technologies, almost all of it was developed, with the exception of the basic things like electricity, rudimentary communication equipment, crude automobiles, almost all the technologies we take for granted today, or at least 95% of them, were developed since then.

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"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 03:05 PM |

January 26, 2007

"'Do you take time out of your day to feed your subconscious positive thoughts about you, your goals, and your drreams?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero"

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

Cameron Johnson: I try to. I try to take time every day to forecast and look at my progress and just have some positive thoughts. I like to just have some down time every day and it’s just not possible. But I would like for it to be, and I try to make it so that every day I have time to do those things.

But sometimes with traveling and business and everything else, and personal life, and trying to be in three places at once, it can be difficult.

But the down time is probably the most enjoyable and relaxing, because I am able to reflect on whatever it is I am working on, and to, hopefully, also help me push forward with new projects.

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Debra Berg: I do this through prayer off and on throughout the day. Some people may perceive this as telling God what to do, but I don’t see any harm in asking. I believe worry is prayer for something I don’t want, and affirmations are a prayer for what I do want.

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:07 PM |

"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

2. Cherish time, your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. It's the most important value for any productive happy individual and is the only limitation to all accomplishment. To waste time is to waste your life. The most important choices you'll ever make are how you use your time.
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Dave Kekich: Well, ten words or less is a little bit tough, but at the risk of sounding like a fruitcake, I am going to explain this after I tell you what I expect out of life. Actually expecting and wanting are two different things, and I both want and expect these.

Number one is an open-ended life span. Two is a free and peaceful world for us all to live in. And I think we all want the free and peaceful world and many of us work in some ways toward that. But when I say open-ended life span to people, they go, "Oh, my God; you are talking about immortality.”

“What are you talking about? Are we going to be old, decrepit people living for a long, long time?" Gee, pretty much everybody has always died on time or died on schedule. It can't be any different for us; aging is too complex to solve.

And I had those same questions. I had those same concerns when I got a real strong interest in life extension, which by the way goes back to before my getting hurt. It goes back to when I was in my 20’s.

And there are some very good, plausible, scientific reasons why open-ended life span will become a reality for many people alive today, and probably most of the people listening to this. Because I assume that your audience is a little bit younger, many are going to have an opportunity for having bodies that don't age.

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"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Anonymous (all those wonderful insightful heroes who influenced me one way or another, either consciously or unconsciously, but whose names I can't attach to any particular Credo.)

Posted by ralph at 02:50 PM |

"Inspirational Quote To Help You Be the Hero You Have Become"

You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
[ William J.H. Boetcker ]

Posted by ralph at 02:32 PM |

January 25, 2007

"'Do you feel that optimism is valuable?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero or Heroine Within"

Do you feel that optimism is valuable?

Sharif Khan: I am a perpetual optimist. I am always looking at the glass half full versus half empty.

Ralph Zuranski: Not all the time. I know how important it is to have positive thoughts, but just in being a situation where you are taking care of your mom and dad and they are both near death. You don’t know what is going to happen today.

You have to change your parent’s diapers and do all kinds of stuff that you wouldn’t normally realize you had to do. Just how much you have to sacrifice in your life. My wife and I can’t go anywhere by ourselves anymore, because somebody always has to be there. It is hard. Sometimes it can be depressing.

Debra Berg: It’s crucial. In all the years I trained entrepreneurs, the one thing I found that kept people from persevering despite obstacles was their own negativity. How they’d read the situation made all the difference in whether they were willing to get out there and keep going. If they couldn’t generate a good level of optimism …see things from a positive perspective, there wasn’t anything I could teach them that would help them succeed.

Cameron Johnson: Of course. I think optimism is so valuable because you have to have a positive outlook, and you have to be able to be optimistic about what it is you want to accomplish.

If you can’t be optimistic and be positive, then it is very difficult for you to wake up each morning and get out of bed and go do whatever it is you are doing. You have to be able to be positive and be proud of what it is you are contributing.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:05 PM |

"Inspirational Quote To Help You Be the Hero You Have Become"

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."
— Jim Rohn

Posted by ralph at 02:31 PM |

"Dave Kekich Credos and His Heroes Interview Inspire You and Teach You the Secrets Of Success"

1. People will do almost anything to stay in their comfort zones. If you want to accomplish anything, get out of your comfort zone. Strive to increase order and discipline in your life. Discipline usually means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing. The easy roads to discipline are 1) setting deadlines, 2) discovering and doing what you do best and what's important and enjoyable to you and 3) focusing on habits by replacing your bad habits and thought patterns, one-by-one, over time, with good habits and thought patterns.
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Ralph Zuranski: Hi, I am Ralph Zuranski, and I am on the phone with Dave Kekich. He is one of the most amazing people I have ever had the opportunity to talk with. How are you doing today, Dave?

Dave Kekich: Fine, Ralph. Thank you very much for the nice compliment. It might be an overstatement, but thank you anyway.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, my friend, Joe Polish, who I did one of the Heroes interviews on just speaks very highly of you, and told me you went through some amazing things in your life, and triumphed over some major difficulties. And I was wondering if you could share that with us?

Dave Kekich: Sure. I would be happy to, Ralph. A long time ago, 28 years ago, or more than 28 years now, I had a sudden spinal cord injury, which paralyzed me from the top of the chest down. And prior to that I was very, very active; not just in business but extremely active physically.

I was a long distance runner and an avid bodybuilder, and more. But I lost that in an instant. As a result, I ended up losing my business, my home, my girlfriend and everything that was important to me. I had a beachfront home in Southern California.

It was a great life, and it suddenly changed. I thought it came to an end at that time, but it didn't. It actually in some ways got better as time went on. But it was very devastating at that time, and it took me a long time to get through it emotionally.

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David co-founded Exceptional Producers, Inc., the country's largest life insurance master general agency, which raised $3.1 billion of premium income for First Executive Corp., co-founded a national financial services company and arranged venture capital funding for private companies for 11 years.

He is a recognized expert on private investing and authored the venture capital handbook "How the Rich Get Richer With Quiet Private Investments".

David founded both public and private companies, was engaged as a consultant and served as director to numerous public and private corporations. He also sold and developed real estate.

In 1999, Mr. Kekich founded the "Maximum Life Foundation", a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to curing aging related diseases. He founded MaxLife Capital, a venture capital group for life sciences industries targeting anti-aging technologies. He also co-founded Stem Cell Products, LLC, a privately held biotech company specializing in stem cell signaling factors and advanced peptide technologies.

David serves as a Board Member of the American Aging Association He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and studied under Dr. Andrew J. Galambos at the Free Enterprise Institute for two years.

714-641-0700/Fax 714-464-4135

www.maxlife.org

Posted by ralph at 12:01 PM |

January 24, 2007

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
[ English proverb ]

Posted by ralph at 11:11 PM |

"'Ralph Zuranski: Well, do you have courage to pursue new ideas?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero or Heroine Within"

Well, do you have courage to pursue new ideas?

Cameron Johnson: Yes. One of the things I have always been able to do ever since I was basically nine years old was to have the courage, whether it was to start a new business or whether to buy a lot of inventory when I started the Beanie Baby business.

It started because I took my sister’s Beanie Baby collection, and she was six years younger than me, so she was about six years old at the time, and I sold it on eBay when eBay had just started, and I sold it for $1,000. I gave her $100, so I was happy to have made $900, and she was happy to make $100.

What it taught me was that I needed more Beanie Babies. So I went out and became a retailer for Beanie Baby manufacturers, and I basically took my life savings at the time, which was several thousand dollars, and I purchased several thousand Beanie Babies.

But I had to have the courage to do that, and the courage it takes to take calculated risks is a lot better than just taking irresponsible risks, but I think they pay off in the long run. Being able to have the courage to do that has always rewarded me very well.
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Ralph Zuranski: Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. It’s really hard sometimes to know when you change the direction that you are going and to pursue new ideas. There is going to be a lot of people that will try to prevent you from doing it.

So you know that you are going to experience a lot of pain in the process of doing that. Some of the time it’s the people that you really love and love you that don’t want you to change, because they are comfortable with the way that you are.

When you strive to overcome the negative aspects, it’s really difficult to make those changes, because those people get angry and they are going to punish you for doing that. It’s so crucial just to make those changes and to have that courage, because you are going to have to pay a price to change your life.
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Sharif Khan: Yes it does. It takes a lot of courage because typically, in the new development stage of an idea, people tend to bring us down and want to put us at their own level. So having the courage to succeed and not taking “no” for an answer and going beyond is important. Including myself.

Writing has been a passion of mine since I was probably 8 years old, and people around me, especially in South Asian culture, and even sometimes within my family, were admonishing me not to be a ‘writer’ because I’d be a struggling artist all my life and telling me “why don’t you be a doctor, or lawyer, or accountant, or get an MBA, so you can make money.”

It took me courage to say “no” this is what I’m passionate about, this is what I love doing, and this is what I’m going to do and I stuck to it. I disciplined myself to write two hours every day and ten hours on the weekends (not including research) and in a period of about two years, I had a finished book, Psychology of the Hero Soul, which is an inspirational book and awakening the hero within and developing people’s leadership potential.
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Debra Berg: Yes. I’m a sponge. If there’s an idea that’s new that might help, I give it serious consideration. Occasionally, I go too far the other way assessing more new ideas than I have time for. But I’d rather error on the side of too much information than miss an option that might make my goal come about faster.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:04 PM |

January 23, 2007

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking about life.
[ Katherine Logan ]

Posted by ralph at 11:13 PM |

"'What do you think about the In Search of Heroes Program and its impact on youth, parents and business people?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero Within"

What do you think about the "In Search of Heroes" program and its impact on youth, parents and business people?

Debra Berg: I think your program is a valuable concept because it brings together the hero role models of parents and communty leaders with kids who are our future. Through role models they learn important life and vocational skills. Many kids are missing both good heroes and the skills. The result is that they end up floundering throughout the rest of their lives. It’s tough enough out in the real world, even with the best training. Many schools are lacking what the In Search of Heroes program offers.
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Robert Channing: I think everybody in the world should benefit from this and will benefit from it. I think the word has to get out. I think I mentioned to you before that I want to do something with you Ralph, with my Power Performers and I’m going to promote "In Search Of Heroes" in everything that I do. That’s one of my life goals.
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Ralph Zuranski: Yes, that really does. Robert, I just really appreciate your time. I know how incredibly busy you are. I was just so impressed with your presentation and just the humor. It still blows my mind on how you can read people’s minds. I don’t know how you do that, but it is incredibly awesome.

I just really encourage you to do the Power Performers and do interviews on those guys to just spread the knowledge that they have. Excellence is such a fine thing, it’s such a great role model for young people, for those that are giving service above self, that are providing quality and integrity in the fields they are in.

That’s what young people need to know, they need to find out how these people that are attaining the level of success they want to attain, and listen to the people that they become. I’m sure that you would agree with this, you have to become a person that is worthy of incredible wealth and fame before it ever shows up, or it will completely go down the drain.

Just like a lot of people feared success, once it arrived they completely dumped it down the drain by their actions. You’ve had a lot of impact with very famous people. What do you think about that idea?
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Robert Channing: What I think is you are absolutely right. When I was younger, just to make a point back to what I was doing was I did very well when I was 18 or 19 years old and I was at the top of my field performing in what I did. People used to say to me, “This guy is going to get involved in drugs, he’s going to do this or he’s going to do that.”

But I didn’t do that. You have to pay your price. You have to do your diligence. You have to learn. There’s a way, yes. You can go from to zero to one hundred and cut out that curve. But most of the time you have to go through the bumps and bruises. Once you go through those bumps and bruises and you do obtain your success, you will learn how to keep it.

If something is given to you, if somebody gave you one million dollars, there’s an old expression, you can spread out all the money in the United States, put in one lump sum and spread it out between all the people in the United States equally. At the end of the year, 10% of the people would have all the money back.

That’s because they learned how to control their emotions their life and learn by their actions. Meaning, having their goals, accomplishing them, going through the struggles. Going through struggles is good. When you go through a struggle, you are teaching yourself a lesson in life.

When you do that, if something was given to me, you won’t appreciate it as much as if you worked for it. So work for what you have, appreciate what you have, and here’s something else too.

Teach your children to work for what they have, because you as a person, if you decide you want to build your life up to make a fortune in wealth and riches with everything that you do, don’t give your children everything because that generation will lose it.

The next generation, their children will have nothing, and they will have to rebuild it themselves. So teach the children that you do have, and the young people listening today, or reading this interview, is that you don’t get something for nothing. Work for it. When you work for it, you will appreciate it, and you will keep it. That’s all I can say on that.
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Sharif Khan: I think it’s the greatest thing Ralph! I’m so glad you were able to find me on the web somehow. And when I took a look at your “In search of Heroes Program” and what it’s doing for the youth, as well as for promoting local heroes, and helping their businesses, which will allow them to further give back to their communities and further be mentors to the youth and students, who in turn can learn more about writing and more about becoming heroes; it’s a wonderful positive cycle that you’ve created and I really admire what you’re doing and respect you. You are a hero in your own right.
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Cameron Johnson: I mean, just imagine if every single person in this great country and in the world could hear all of these interviews, and what they would take away from them. You know, the people that we can touch are really the people who are normally seeking out help.

They are actually the ones who have the ambition and motivation to take the first step, though, and actually go and find positive influence such as the “In Search of Heroes” program. But I think its impact on youth, parents, and business people is only positive. I think that anything that is positive is good.

I think positive cash flow is good! So I think positive impact is so powerful, and I think that I am thankful that you have spent so much time doing these interview and creating this program, because there is so much value in it. So many people can learn so much from all the different people you have interviewed.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:04 PM |

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment."
— H. Ross Perot

Posted by ralph at 02:00 PM |

January 22, 2007

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
— Napoleon Hill

Posted by ralph at 11:05 PM |

"Is it valuable to have highly charged emotions about achieving your goals?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero or Heroine Within"

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

Cameron Johnson: I think it’s crucial. I get so excited and so fired up when I am achieving my goals, and I think having so much energy and everything else just helps you move along and helps you push forward in the hard times or in the slow times.

I think being able to motivate yourself is one of the greatest abilities, and one of the most crucial abilities for an entrepreneur to have. I definitely feel it is so valuable to have highly charged emotions.

Debra Berg: I think it’s critical otherwise, it’s too easy to lose focus. If I didn’t have a strong desire to do what I’m doing, I wouldn’t have invested 8 years of my own money and time pursuing dozens of interviews with civic entrepreneurs across America. And I wouldn’t have quit my job to write the book The Power of One either. I think a person must have a strong desire to overcome personal inconvenience, which would otherwise block their success.

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:03 PM |

January 21, 2007

What are the things that parents can do that will help their children realize that they too can be heroes and make a positive impact on the lives of others?' by In Search Of Heroes Core Mastermind Members To Inspire You"

What are the things that parents can do that will help their children realize that they too can be heroes and make a positive impact on the lives of others?

Robert Channing: Giving, learn that it is better to give than receive. Don’t you feel better, I feel better, anyway. I know that a lot of people love to get gifts. I love to get gifts but it’s always hard for me when someone gives me a gift to say “thank you.”

I would not feel like I deserved it, I don’t know why, something in my psyche but I have learned to say thank you and to appreciate it. By them giving them a gift, you are giving them a gift. So be giving, you will receive 100 fold.

Teach your children to give, to help, to praise and to praise them. Just something that I learned by some statistics, I think there is a lot of validity here, is that if you are a parent and you have a daughter, you as the male person will influence your daughter’s life, her emotions and her self confidence more so than the mother will.

And it’s true of the opposite sex, meaning the mother will dominate and influence the child’s psyche because it’s the opposite sex. If you learn this when you are growing up, if you have children, to also compliment, to support, to bring them up, not in a false way. Of course you have to correct them, but in a delicate way. Does that make sense?
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Cameron Johnson: I think our society has become so disconnected, parents and young people. It is not that young people are just trying to be rebellious and not connected to their parents, although there is a time period when young people do that.

I think that it is just that there is a disconnect on the relationship, and whether it is because parents don’t talk to their kids about what it is they do on a daily basis in their job, so that means when kids get to college and they have to choose a major, they really don’t know anything about any industry and they don’t really know what they want to do.

I read a statistic the other day that more than 70% of college graduates enter a field other than the one they graduated in. Or they end up going back to school to major in a different field, which means they just spend more money on education, which is great.

I am a huge fan of education and a great supporter of education, and believe that education is the key to success. But we have to look at these things from a younger age and an earlier standpoint, like they do in so many other countries that are getting so much further ahead of us. That’s because we have this reverse mentality of not setting goals earlier in life on what it is we want to do.

I think parents can be a huge influence on their children and on their nieces and nephews and on society by being more involved in trying to help their kids find out what it is they want to do. Get them involved in internship programs or sports in high school, or even earlier. I think it really pays off in the long run.
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Ralph Zuranski: The thing that they can do is first love themselves, love their kids and give a good example of what parents should do just by showing their kids through example on how it is to live a life that serves others.

They are laying their lives down for others by feeding and clothing the kids, making sure they get a good education. Just by being that example and being willing to be the parents, to provide discipline and show the kids that selfishness is not the way to go and that there are certain things that they should actually do.

So the parents have to provide discipline, they just can’t be their kids best buddies and want the kids to be their friends. They have to be willing to accept the anger and a lot times hatred of the kids and teaching kids the right way to go.
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Sharif Khan: The #1 thing that parents can do is to be role models for their children by living their own dreams and doing what it is that they love doing; encouraging their children when they have ideas, goals, and aspirations, and instead of putting them down and saying it’s not realistic or that your vision is ‘too big,’ to actually encourage them, and give them hope and inspiration and give them an avenue to go out there and do what they love doing.

Sharif Khan’s website for his work in developing heroes is at www.herosoul.com. He also has a success blog at www.sharifkhan.blogspot.com. His book, The Hero Soul, is available at Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Indigo bookstores. To reach Sharif directly, call (416) 417-1259 or email: sharif@herosoul.com.
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Debra Berg: Parents can introduce their children to good role models and support them in the pursuit of activities that build their character. Your In Search of Heroes program is a great venue for this.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:02 PM |

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse- however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
[ Goethe ]

Posted by ralph at 12:19 PM |

January 20, 2007

"'If you had three wishes for your life in the world that would instantly come true, what would they be?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

If you had three wishes for your life in the world that would instantly come true, what would they be?

Robert Channing: Three wishes. One would be to the drug industry, first of all, not to have so many drugs to fix people but to have holistic solutions and the world to be a better place. This is going out on a limb here, our government, whether people want to believe it or not is one of the biggest mafias in the world.

We control the world but we do it for a reason because we have to protect ourselves. But I would love to have the world be a utopia like John Lennon used to sing about, that would be my wish to have a utopia. Almost like heaven.

The second wish would be that the young people in this world could be educated and know how to model success when they are younger.

And the teachers that are teaching them will learn how to teach them how to manage their life, not so much as how to do the sciences and mathematics but how to manage their life with the relationship with themselves their family, financially, emotionally. I think they don’t teach that in school now, Ralph.
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Cameron Johnson: This is kind of a tough question, because I could probably think on this for several weeks and still not come up with an answer that hits me and strikes me a special.

But I want people to be happy, and that sounds like such a cliché or a beauty pageant answer. But I want people to be happy and to be able to help others, and to get satisfaction out of that.

So many people and so many young people are depressed, and they live these very difficult lives, and there are these huge pressures from their parents and from outside sources to make the best grades possible. I think making good grades is very important, and it helps you get into a good school, or get a good job and everything like that.

But when people go so far as to go on antidepressant medicine because they are so depressed because of their grades. Or at the high school I attended there was a young guy who was a few years older than me. He was literally stressing out about his college applications, and he committed suicide.

That story will stay with me for the rest of my life, because there is really no reason to let things—nothing is that bad. One wish would be for people to be happy and help everyone else.

Number two would be to try and do whatever it is you want to do, and that sounds like a cliché, also. But if you want to start a business, find out what the first step to starting a business is, whether it is an Internet business and you need to come up with a name and register the domain name.

Or that’s a brick and mortar business, and you need to go sign a lease and move into your small location. Every business should start small.

Then third I would say, a very strong wish I would have would be for young people and families and adults and everyone just to have a stronger relationship with their families, because I think that strong family relationships and connections really help give back.
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Ralph Zuranski: First would be that people would love themselves and love others. The second would be that there would be peace on earth. The third would be that people would realize that there are alternate ways of attaining incredible levels of health and well being rather than the conventional pathways of chemicals and drugs.

People would realize that we don’t have to pollute the world to basically achieve the wealth and leisure that we have in the United States and other countries. If people would just realize that there is a natural way to learn, a natural way to heal, and a natural way to take care of our world.
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Sharif Khan: My first wish would be to have people in the world live in harmony and for people to find ways to be prosperous doing what it is that they really love doing. I’d love to see a world where we can actually accommodate that and help people to do what they love doing and prosper.

I see so many people and see so may youth out there who have all these aspirations and dreams, but they’re not finding an outlet to be able to live those dreams. And they are really perishing inside. It’s so sad to see so many people who don’t find a direction or calling in life and are thinking of committing suicide. That is one wish: to see everyone living a prosperous life doing what they love doing.

My second wish, if there was a magic wand and it was a utopia, to end the wars and famine and disease, and have a world where there is just peace and love and respect for each other.

And finally, my third wish would be to have a world with people dedicated to EXCELLENCE. Because God is Excellence! Being the best of the best, holding ourselves to high standards and to quality. We would really have a paradise on earth if were committed to excellence – towards truth, and nobility, and something grand.
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Debra Berg: #1. For the Power of One to be a New York Times and Amazon bestseller so that the word can spread.
#2. For my stepdaughters and husband to have greater success in their chosen professions.
#3. For the Center for Civic Entrepreneurs to be established. And to network thousands of CE’s nationwide so as to share techniques that solve a wide range of social problems.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:01 PM |

January 19, 2007

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without words, and never stops - at all.
[ Emily Dickinson ]

Posted by ralph at 04:11 PM |

"'Do you have any good solutions for the problems facing society today, especially racism, child and spousal abuse and violence among young people?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team"

Do you have any good solutions for the problems facing society today, especially racism, child and spousal abuse and violence among young people?
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Debra Berg: YES! That’s exactly what The Power of One: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities is all about. The solutions to all of these issues, and more are in its chapters. Civic entrepreneur heroes of all ages have invented these solutions. And most of them are still involved in cities nationwide. They need our support, both financial and emotional.
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Robert Channing: That’s a tough question, Ralph! Because there are so many stereotypes, there is so much racism still. To solve that, the solution would be to do what you are doing right now. To give the young kids in this world mentors, heroes to emulate themselves by.

Let them know that if anything they are going through now, there are people in the past that have gone through things as bad, if not worse and they have made themselves through it. They have grown stronger and more successful in their lives because of that persecution in their life.
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Cameron Johnson: I think that it is just a lack of positive influence, and a lack of heroes in the country and in the world. I don’t even enjoy watching the news anymore, because anytime you turn on the news, the only things you see are the number of shootings that occurred today, or car accidents, or anything else. It’s almost impossible to find a good, heartwarming story.

Or if you do, it is on page 12 of your newspaper. So I mean I feel like we are doing it to ourselves, and it is ridiculous, and it’s disturbing, and I don’t know how you change that. Because we, as a society, only get to see whatever it is the media brings out to us.

There are so many hundreds of thousands of positive stories that we never hear of, that we would really rather hear about, because it motivates all of us to try and do things like that rather than go out and commit crimes.
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Ralph Zuranski: Absolutely. That’s what the Heroes program is all about, to help people become friends with themselves and learn how to love both of their personalities, their right brain and their left brain. That’s the idea of creating the Bioman and Biowoman, to get people to realize they truly have the ability to become Heroes by first realizing that they have two personalities in their brain and becoming friend with those personalities.

Then just loving both of those personalities and accepting that once you become an integrated brain, you can do tremendous things in teaching kids and everybody how the brain actually works to process information. In our schools, it’s mostly left brain teaching that destroys the creativity, and suppresses the creative part of the brain that has super memory and super creativity, that’s just suppressed in the schools.

My goal is to teach people how to find their own Hero within, to become friends with both of their brain hemispheres and become Biomen or Biowomen. Then to learn how their brain processes information, and present that information in a way that people can become successful and teach them the aspects of business.

They will know that by working correctly, by using their God given abilities and being able to process information in the right way, that they can be incredibly successful. Learn how the tax system works so they can save the money that they have and pay the least amount of taxes and basically give back to society by becoming successful financially.

I think that that’s part of our society’s and our country’s fault, but I don’t know how we are to go about changing it. But it needs to happen.
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Sharif Khan: Our own image is reflected in every single human individual around us. What we do to others we are actually doing to ourselves. And if we mistreat somebody else, or if we call somebody else names or harm somebody, we are actually harming ourselves, because what goes around comes around and the law of motion says, ‘for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ If you want to be respected and treated with love and compassion, then you need to treat other people with love and compassion and respect – and you’ll get that back ten times over.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 04:00 PM |

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

Fear less, hope more- whine less, breathe more- talk less, say more- hate less, love more- and all good things are yours.
[ Swedish Proverb ]

Posted by ralph at 12:45 PM |

January 18, 2007

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Posted by ralph at 11:05 PM |

"'Well, how are you making the world a better place?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

Well, how are you making the world a better place?

Robert Channing: Making the world a better place, I’m providing my experience of how to get into the industry. For example, when I book somebody in my company, or my sales reps book somebody, we are doing a service to our client by giving them something they want.

We are doing a service to the speaker, because all we have to do is call the speaker and the speaker picks up the phone and says, “Hello.” We say, “Hi, we have a date for you!” So it makes their life easier, it makes my life easier, and our client is happy when they experience a stellar performance.

Also the people that work in my office, I try to give them an opportunity to improve themselves with goals. I also try to build people, not just teach them how to make money but build them. If you can teach them to fish, they will do that much better in the future.

You can show them how to do something, but if you don’t teach them and implement the information in their minds and take consistent action with that information, they are not going to be able to do it on their own.

I guess what I’m saying is that I provide an atmosphere to the people in my life to benefit from what I can do in my own experience. I hope I made sense with that, I tried to.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, I’m doing it through the “In Search of Heroes program™”. I’m looking for people like you to create a Mastermind group of people that want to make the world a better place. Ones that actually are good examples that have overcome trials and tribulations in their lives and have basically sacrificed wealth, fame and finances just to basically make a difference in the lives of other people.

I firmly believe that God is not going to judge us for how much wealth or material possessions, or how much power that we gain in society, but how we treated the people that He put in our paths. As we went through our lives, we either do good or evil to those people.
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Cameron Johnson: I am trying my best! I have a book coming out that is not a book I wrote to try and sell and become a best selling author. That is really not one of my goals.

But one of my goals is to help young people and parents and adults and everyone, business leaders and small business owners make smart and educated business decisions. I think my book can help do that, and I think the book will definitely help change society, maybe in a very small way, but in a way.

Also, you know the non-profit organizations I am involved with, and the speeches that I give, I get so much reward from that. So that is definitely how I get so much satisfaction these days.
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Debra Berg: Right now, I’m taking on the roles of a stepmother, wife, and researcher/writer about America’s civic heroes. I hope I’m adding value and encouragement to all existing and future civic entrepreneurs. There’s an adage by Edith Wharton that goes, “There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” I view myself as a mirror, reflecting these incredible solutions.

Many of the kids in your program may become civic entrepreneurs one day if they have these role models to follow. And if they have the financial resources, a network of friends, and the desire to help others, they could help reverse a major social problem in our society. I also see myself as the front and center cheerleader for all of these inventors, now and in the future!
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:58 PM |

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, What are you going through?
[ Simone Weil ]

Posted by ralph at 11:50 AM |

January 17, 2007

"'How does it feel to be recognized as a hero?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

How does it feel to be recognized as a hero? I know a lot of the people that I have interviewed don’t consider themselves heroes. But I think it’s important to accept the good that you are doing and the benefits that you have in the lives of others and not be ashamed to be recognized for the good things that you do.

Robert Channing: I’m very flattered, first of all. It’s flattering to even be considered being a hero. The place I always thought I was a hero was in raising my family. I never thought I was a hero in anything else, other than I love doing what I do.

I’m passionate about what I do, and I try, whoever I come in contact with is bring and build them up. So if that’s being a hero, thank you for knighting me a hero, Ralph.
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Ralph Zuranski: It feels great. I created a character Hero when I was in the skate board industry called Captain Biorhythm. I was so impressed with biorhythms and how I charted the ups and downs of life. Everybody does have ups an downs and to know that there are cycles that you can actually watch and you prepare yourself with your attitude and just never give up when you see different events occur, because that’s part of life, ups and downs.

I was doing research on accidents and injuries in the skateboard parks and in the top skateboarders back in the late Seventies. I saw there was a real correlation in accidents and injuries, just as the researchers in Japan saw that you can cut accidents and injuries by at least 70% by just warning people to be more cautious on certain days.

I created my character Captain Biorhythm in a slalom race, where you can go down a steep hill through cones like skiing on a skate board. I had never done it before and I thought for sure I was going to kill myself and have a severe injury.

It was on Halloween, all my friends told me, “Yeah, yeah, why don’t you do it Ralph? You can do it.” I decided I would create a Hero called Captain Biorhythm that was able to overcome his fears and realize that there was a potential for accident and injury.

I got one of my girlfriends to create a Heroes costume out of a woman’s velour dress, it was like a tunic. It said Biorhythms on the top and had a big blue cape. I was trying to get the idea of wearing skateboard safety equipment across to the skaters because I saw so many horrific accidents and injuries.

So I got all kinds of elbow pads and knee pads out of the motorcycle industry. I had a helmet and I had a big giant blue cape, and I showed up at the skateboard event. Unfortunately on my way up there my car conked out and so I had to change in my car and I hitchhiked and got a ride from a girl named Robin Logan who was on the Logan Family skateboard team.

She gave me a ride up there. I showed up there and I was in my costume and unfortunately the skaters had lied to me and nobody else was dressed up in a costume but me. So, boy did I feel pretty stupid and on my first skateboard run, it was in a costume and it was a day when the wind was blowing incredibly strong and my cape billowed out behind me.

I had this chain that was around my neck. As I started going down the hill, the cape acted like a parachute and at the same time the chain was strangling me as I was going through the course in slow motion. All the skateboarders were standing on the side and I stopped and they thought it was the funniest thing that they had ever seen.

From then on, I was Captain Biorhythm no matter whether I was dressed in my costume or not. I got a lot of guff for that, a lot of ridicule and people recognized me as a Hero then.

But now just being recognized as a Hero for trying to make the world a better place and doing something about it, it really is a great joy. I’m very grateful that people think that I am a Hero because ever since I created that character back in 1976, I’ve been using that character as a way to overcome disappointments, sorrow and health problems and setbacks.

Captain Biorhythm is my alter ego. He’s my right brain, he’s the spontaneous, intuitive, the emotional. He’s the one that is the character that brings balance to my entire life.
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Sharif Khan: It’s a really rewarding feeling. Coming from a stage in my life, having grown up in Scarborough here in Ontario, Canada, where I was suffering so much low self-esteem and feelings of worthlessness that I never took any leadership roles at all in school and in my young adulthood; to now come full-circle and be respected as a ‘leader’ as a ‘hero’ training entrepreneurs, executives, and educators and students alike on the qualities of leadership and being a hero…it really is a very rewarding feeling to be held in respect and esteem. Words can’t describe it.
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Debra Berg: It’s humbling anytime someone refers to me as a hero.
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Cameron Johnson: Well, I don’t know that I would go that far, but it is an honor to get an e-mail from one person saying I have motivated them in business in any way, or helped them try to find success. I probably get 100 e-mails a month just like that, and that is motivation for me. At the same time, it’s extremely rewarding and surreal, and almost unbelievable, so I totally can’t even put words to it.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:58 PM |

January 16, 2007

"'Why are heroes so important in the lives of young people?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

Why are heroes so important in the lives of young people?

Robert Channing: Well, first of all, a hero, people look up to different heroes nowadays. There are some bad examples of heroes meaning there are some sports celebrities and stars that are smoking cigarettes and doing drugs and anti-depressants, things along this line.

I remember watching Tom Cruise, a few weeks ago being interviewed by Matt Lauer on the Today show, talking about psychiatry and how he thought it was a pseudo science and all this. I believe a little bit of that, but I believe heroes are people that have done it before you that are successful.

You want to model success and duplicate results. That’s the reason you have heroes in your life. You see something that they are doing that you would love to emulate, that’s a positive in your life that you know if you could attain, you would be happy.

How you do that is just model what they are doing. You become that much successful in your learning curve. You will get there that much faster. Does that make sense?
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Cameron Johnson: I think young people need someone to look up to. I was able to make a connection, for some strange reason, with business leaders that are 40 and 50 years older than I was.

But I think heroes, whether it is a neighbor or a parent, a local business leader or a sports star or an athlete, I think they are so important because they give young people the drive and ambition to say that, “There is no reason why I can’t do that, also. There is no reason why I can’t be a professional athlete. There is no reason why I can’t be a business star.”

I think they are crucial to young people, and I think if young people had more people to look up to, more positive influences, then they would be that much more successful.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, young people, everyone was young at one time or another. When you hit that flood of hormones, it’s such an interesting time when you have different peer groups based on physical ability, financial wealth, just appearance that everybody gets stuck in a different category.

From my experience of being sick all the time and just being a 99 lb. weakling and one of the smallest kids in the class and being a nerd, it was an incredibly hard time in my life. So, the real Heroes in my time were the people that I read about in books, people that had overcome incredible difficulties and trials and tribulations.

I was so rejected as a kid that I spent most of my time reading books. I loved the stories about average, every day people that became Heroes by doing something that nobody thought they could do. The only way that young people can live lives of Heroism is by modeling their lives after people that are successful, people that have done great things.

If they can find those people in their family or in their neighborhood or church, or at school as a coach or a teacher, or if they don’t have access to that, some of the greatest people they can read their biographies.

They can become Heroes just like they are for you in your secret group of Heroes that you have chosen that are in your dreams, that when you meditate that they are there giving you good advice. I think that if you don’t have real life Heroes in your life that you can find them in books, you can find them in comic books like I did. You can find them virtually everywhere.

Without those examples and those models, they just don’t know what to become. They don’t know how to get there. They don’t have a path charted out. I know for myself, I was just wavering in the wind. I didn’t know which way to go.

A lot of my Heroes were fictional characters and they were good at killing evil invaders from space and horrible creatures and stuff like that, but they didn’t have a way of telling you how to be successful in life.

Unfortunately, in a lot of our Heroes in the comic books these days, there is no black and white, no good and evil any more. A lot of the Heroes that are promoted these days, I would say they are tragic characters because they don’t know what is good and what is evil. They have all these self doubts, but the good thing is that a lot of the time they do the right thing most of the time.
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Sharif Khan: Heroes are so important in the lives of young people because there are not a lot of role models out there. And some of the role models give a very negative impression. So when we see someone in movies or even in school, when we see gang leaders who are profiting from criminal activity and wearing nice clothes and driving a Mercedes, these people have a negative influence on younger people.

I think the younger people really need to see heroes and leaders who are not only making a difference in peoples’ lives but also prospering themselves so they can look to those people as examples and follow in their pursuit. Our children and young ones are going to be the future leaders of tomorrow. So it’s very important to have the right heroes and the right leaders impacting their lives.
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Debra Berg: Without good role models in society, children have no vantage point for how to respond to others or to be good citizens.
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Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:57 PM |

January 15, 2007

"'Well, what place does the power of prayer have in your life?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

Well, what place does the power of prayer have in your life?

Cameron Johnson: Well, I am religious and I think prayer is so important, because there has to be a higher power that we all look up to. It helps guide us in the tough times and it is very important to me.
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Ralph Zuranski: I pray every day. The first thing that I do in the morning is I go through all my prayers and I pray for just about everybody that I know. It takes about a half an hour to do all that. Then I say the rosary and contemplate just the Stations of the Cross and the Mysteries of the Rosary.

I just think how incredible it is that an entire almost supernatural event changed the way humanity looks at the world and looks at others. I think that the reason I love Christianity is the power that God puts in the lives to cherish every human life and every person no matter what their faith.

Just the commands He has, to love others as ourselves and to lay our lives down for others. It’s beautiful because Christianity doesn’t put individuals at odds with others, even if they don’t believe the same way that they do.

It’s the idea that you love others no matter what. You have to love first and accept their beliefs and walk a mile in their shoes just to find out what they believe. So many people just out of hand reject others, condemn others and want to kill others because they don’t believe the same way they do.

I believe that it’s time for compassion, it’s time for love, and it’s time for being longsuffering. It’s time to look for the reflection of God in the lives of every other person. I don’t care where they live or what they believe. I believe there is humanity in every person. Every person is made in the image and likeness of God and that we need to respect that and cherish that.
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Sharif Khan: The power of prayer has really changed my life a 180 degrees. I believe at the time when I was at a low point in Queens, NY and had nowhere to turn to, if I had not prayed to God and asked for guidance and intervention, I would definitely not be here today; I would have probably been in an alleyway somewhere with a knife stuck in my back or ended up being a criminal. So prayer has been an important and daily part of my life.
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Debra Berg: Prayer is a regular part of my day and is not set aside for just one part of the day or day of the week. I prioritize some meditation and quiet time, even if it’s only for a few minutes at a time at my desk or wherever I am. It makes me more productive and easier to be around.

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Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:55 PM |

January 14, 2007

"'Are your goals consistent with your beliefs?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

Are your goals consistent with your beliefs?

Debra Berg: As I achieve goals, I set new ones, but I work to keep them consistent with my beliefs. If they’re not, I get too focused on the wrong things. So I make adjustments. Otherwise, I simply don’t have the energy to fuel a successful outcome.
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Cameron Johnson: Yes; I like to think so, at least. I try to act on them. I set my goals based on where I want to be and where I believe I should be. I try to act accordingly to get there. So I totally believe that those two things are in line.
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Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:56 PM |

January 13, 2007

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."
- Anthony Robbins

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"'What specific philosophy or philosophies guide your life and decisions?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Develop Your Own Hero Or Heroine In Your Mind"

What specific philosophy or philosophies guide your life and decisions?

Debra Berg: I am a Christian and was raised that way. My goal is to put God and others first before any selfish interests. Interestingly enough, when I do, I’m more balanced and focused on my personal mission. It also helps me to remember that I can’t control everything. God has his timing and ways for things to happen. Instead of getting uptight over my personal agenda, I’ve learned to relax.
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Cameron Johnson: Well, I was raised by my parents, who are both entrepreneurs. My dad owns a Ford dealership back home in Roanoke, Virginia, that my great-grandfather started back in 1938. And my mother inherited a very successful business as well, that she sold more than 20 years ago.

But they both raised me on the principle that you have to work for things you want in life, and that nothing is going to be handed to you. That’s what motivated me to get started at an early age, and to choose a career path that is different from the traditional path of graduating from high school, going to college, going to work for a company and moving your way up ten or fifteen years down the road.

So my philosophy has always been to create whatever it is I want, and I work for myself, and that is kind of what I have enjoyed so much, is the instant reward and gratification of working for yourself and motivating yourself to do great things.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:54 PM |

January 12, 2007

"'How important is it for you to stay focused on your primary goal?' Answered by The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover Your Own Hero or Heroine Within Your Own Mind"

How important is it for you to stay focused on your primary goal?

Cameron Johnson: I think setting goals is the first step in being successful, and in order to reach those goals you have to stay focused, and I think it is the most crucial aspect of succeeding in life; setting one goal in life and then reaching it and setting another goal.

So I believe in short term goals in addition to long term goals. But the short term ones are the ones that help you get through, and I think it is so crucial for you to stay 100% focused all the time.
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Debra Berg: It’s a critical but very challenging skill. It’s so easy to get off on tangents and to think, “Who am I that I think I can actually achieve this huge goal?”
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:54 PM |

January 11, 2007

"'Who are the heroes in your life?' by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover Your Own Hero or Heroine In Your Own Mind"

Who are the heroes in your life?

Robert Channing: The heroes in my life, one that comes to my mind is Reverend Russell Little. He is a gentleman that taught me how to do magic and a little ESP and mind reading when I was a child. I used to walk to school in the morning and pass his house.

He used to use magic in his sermons to get attention, to make people pay attention to the Word of God. He used to make his thumb disappear. He would put sugar in his hand and make it disappear as I was on my way to school.

He’s the one that I had to write a report about, that my teacher gave me in third grade. What did I want to be when I grew up? I didn’t know. I want to be a magician. I went and I did some research, I went right to his house and said...

That’s the key, Ralph, anybody that wants to know what they are doing, don’t be afraid to ask for advice, because people will give it to you. Ask and you shall receive information that you are looking for. Remember to ask.

So that’s what happened, I asked, and he brought me up to this room upstairs, I remember to this day, I walked into his house, up the stairs, and this whole room filled with magic props, magic cool stuff, and my eyes, it was just unbelievable.

He was a mentor of mine. He was someone that I respected. He put a foot in the door when I was leaving his house. Robert, he said, “See my foot?” He opened his door and put his foot in the door and said, “What I just did for you, I put your foot in that door, now it’s your job to open it for yourself.”

From that point forward, I’ve been opening it for the rest of my life. It’s brought me to meet spectacular people. It has brought me all over the world to see different people and different cultures. To do what I wanted to do, perform, entertain, to make a great living performing, and have a great speaker’s bureau and entertainment agency.

The reason that I opened that was I had my second child; I was on the road a lot. I told my wife I need to make some more money not being on the road so I can spend some time eating popcorn with you at home and still make some money.

That’s what I did, I opened a bureau and I book people and at night, when I’m on the road and not at home, I’m still making a decent living and booking people that I respect and admire.

Ralph Zuranski: Who do you feel are the real heroes in society today that aren’t getting the recognition they deserve?

Robert Channing: The mothers, the teachers. You and I were speaking before that in a school, the teachers are phenomenal. They are teaching how to have a job, and to go in the world and work for somebody else.

But I think the Heroes program that you are working on now is going to bring a different dimension, a different philosophy to the schools and to kids that don’t work for somebody else.

Although it’s a great opportunity, try to work for yourself and try to grow yourself to rely on yourself. For example, you can rent a lifestyle, meaning you can have a job at IBM making $100,000 a year, have a beautiful home, a BMW, a car, two children and all of a sudden BMW lays you off, I mean, IBM lays you off.

Who are you working for? Now you are scraping, trying to find a job, minimum wage, a lot less than you made. But when you work for yourself, you have investments; you invest in yourself in your mind, and your opportunities.

Meaning real estate, your business meaning when you go out and work, you are being compensated for your own mind, not by working for somebody else to make them a millionaire. Work for yourself to make yourself get ahead in this life. Does that make sense?

Ralph Zuranski: Boy, that’s good advice, that’s what all the other heroes have said. It’s so important to become an entrepreneur and be the captain of your own ship and direct it to where you want to go. Just working for other people, you never will be able to attain the dreams that you have, maybe retiring down in Florida when you get to be 65.

And you forget all the things that you could have done that you wanted to do that you should have done. It’s the difference between having a dream and having a life.

Robert Channing: I agree. Robert Kiyosaki in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I learned this from him by reading his books. Books unlock the secrets of the universe, Ralph, and I know you know this. I teach my children this.

My daughter, I ask her all the time, “Gabrielle, tell your teacher what we talked about!” She says to the teacher all the time, “Books unlock the secrets to the universe.”

They really do, the books, they have studied different subjects. If I have an ailment, I’m not going to go to school to be a doctor to find out how to fix my own ailment. I’m going to go to the top surgeon or top doctor in the world and I’m going to get fixed.

Robert Kiyosaki has studied how to become a successful person by investing in real estate, and investing in yourself.

Here’s the point I wanted to bring across. Even if you have job and you are in the job right now, and you are sitting and working for somebody else, that’s okay. You can be wealthy, and have a comfortable lifestyle.

I think it’s a great lifestyle sometimes Ralph, because my friends are teachers and they make a comfortable living. They have summers off. But also what you want to do with your time off. When you go to work, that’s your time to work but that’s your living.

But when you come home, if you are going to work every day, that’s when you make your life. That’s why Robert Kiyosaki says, that’s when you go out and you find real estate, or you find your business that you can open. You can have the best of both worlds.

I’m not putting down going to work for somebody else because 95% of the people in this country do that. The top 10% of people, entrepreneurs, they are doing for themselves and providing these wonderful experiences and jobs for people.

But you can do both, that’s what I’m saying. I’m not putting them down, I’m giving the opportunity to open your mind that if you work for somebody else on your off time, when you go home instead of watching television or doing something not productive, go and look at a property. Invest in a property, invest in real estate. Study commodities; study how to be a marketing person for internet products. So that’s my point with that.
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Cameron Johnson: The heroes in my life now are people that are very close to me, and of course my dad is a hero to me, and my mom, and my family. But in the business world it is very similar to what I grew up with. Michael Dell and several people in the technology industry serve as my heroes.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, you know there are a lot of Heroes in my life. There are so many Heroes, just the people that I have met on the Internet that I interviewed as Heroes, like yourself, who are making the world a better place.

I think that both my mom and dad are Heroes, struggling with the difficulties that they have right now with their poor health. I think probably one of the greatest Heroes is my dad, even though he’s pretty much paralyzed on one side.

He’s trapped in diapers, and trapped in a world where he has no control over his life. I’ve never heard him say a negative thing or complain, or get angry at anybody. How embarrassing it must be not to have any personal privacy and to be totally dependent upon others, and not just be upset at that, but be kind and compassionate and accept it. Being able to accept that situation and do it graciously, just having a positive word to say, and having a smile. That’s so incredible.

I truly believe that my wife is my other greatest Hero after my mom and dad, because she is here helping to take care of my parents. She’s changing the diapers, sacrificing her life being here helping my family when her family back in Dallas is going through their own trials and tribulations.

How hard it is for a mom to be away from her grandkids and from her family. Talk about sacrifice, that’s what I really believe sets Heroes apart, serving and protecting others. A lot of times sacrificing what they want to do in their lives for the benefit of others.
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Sharif Khan: My father was a hero. Jim Ross, who I dedicated my book, The Hero Soul, has been a hero to me because he was a teacher and a mentor, a messenger, a carrier of truth. I think the people out there making a difference in peoples’ lives, teachers, coaches, entrepreneurs; I think all those people who are serving people or helping solve problems and showing people how to overcome their own problems are the real heroes; and it’s unfortunate that the media doesn’t pay enough attention, which is why I really like your “In Search of Heroes Program” because it’s really unique.
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Debra Berg: The people I consider heroes today are those I’ve written about in The Power of One. I’m in awe of their sacrifices, generosity, persistence, lack of fear, and concern for others.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:52 PM |

January 10, 2007

"'Do you maintain a sense of humor in the face of serious problems?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover and Nurture Your Own Hero In Your Mind"

"Do you maintain a sense of humor in the face of serious problems?"

Cameron Johnson: Yes. I think humor can often fix serious problems. I think some serious problems aren’t really that serious, and I think humor sometimes brings them down to a ground level.

I definitely use humor in the business world, and when I give speeches and talks and do consulting. I totally believe in humor and in lightening people’s lives.
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Ralph Zuranski: I do, sometimes. I think it’s important to have humor in life, but as with everybody else, I definitely have my weak moments. Some days I am a pretty humorless person, and not a very fun person to be around.

I think that humor can change a situation instantaneously, the ability to laugh at your own selfishness, your own greed or doubts, or to find something funny in an event that so tragic. I think that a lot of times it’s important that you either have to laugh or you have to cry.
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Sharif Khan: I try to. Sometimes it’s very difficult when something overwhelming occurs and it’s difficult to laugh in the face of fear and obstacles, but I think it’s important for heroes and leaders to not take themselves seriously; to take their work seriously, but not take themselves seriously. Being able to admit faults and weaknesses is what endears other people to leaders. They can say “he’s one of us. That this person is one of us and we can relate to this person.”
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Debra Berg: I have to say that I struggle with this from time to time myself. It’s one reason I married Paul. No matter what’s happening, or how bad it looks, he has a funny take on it and it makes me smile. Then I put the problem in perspective. And if anyone I know has a difficult time pulling themselves out a funk, I suggest a couple of distractions. One is funny movies. The other thing I do as humor-therapy is play with my dog or take him for a walk. He’s so much fun, it makes me pull back and look at a situation in a better light.
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Robert Channing: I think it’s very, very important. Humor actually is the proven fact, I think you know this. When you laugh, it actually creates endorphins in your brain that stimulate your mind to be happier. When we laugh, you have to laugh.

I remember being depressed when these people left me. I popped a DVD in, Jeff Foxworthy and a couple of other funny comedians. I just laughed and laughed, it brought me up. It just brings your emotional state up. If you ever get a depressed mood, just put a smile on your face if you can, those endorphins will make you in a better mood.

Try to get out, relax, laugh with your friends, it just brings that blood pressure down, brings the reality of life back to you. Look around you, go out in the woods, go out in a stream, go out with your family, your dog or if you have a cat.

Be with that person, just look up in the sky and say do you know what? Life’s not that bad, there are people in this world that are dying, that are going without food and my little problem is nothing. It feels like a lot, but it really isn’t.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:51 PM |

January 09, 2007

"'Do you experience service to others as a source of joy?' Answered by The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Discover Your Own Hero or Heroine Within Your Mind"

"How do you experience service to others as a source of joy?"

Robert Channing: Oh yes, there’s nothing more than going in and for me, if I can bring it back to my ESP mind reading show, I go in and read people’s minds. I make them laugh, I’m a comedian. One thing that I do is I always surprise my clients with doing more.

When they see my program, my ESP Robert Channing show, motivational talk, I will deliver to them an experience that they will never forget. How I do that, here’s one of the things that I do, Ralph. I’m the only one in the world that does this. I’m known as the world’s foremost mind reader and motivator.

I will mail you a prediction at your event of what three people, including yourself, will be wearing the night of the show. I will mail it out a month in advance; you give me the names that are going to be at your key event. This is the climax of the whole show.

I’ll mail it out; you will hold it in a sealed prediction. I’ll never touch it again. At the end of my show, I’ll say, “Ralph, do you have the envelope that I mailed you a month ago?” “Yes, I do. Robert, I have it right here.”

You are 100 feet away from me. “Ralph, would you stand up a few minutes? Would you hold the envelope up? Ralph, have we pre-arranged anything?” You are going to say no.

Because I give $100,000 away to anybody in the audience who proves that I used stooges, meaning that I planted people from the audience to help me out. I don’t do that. I’ll say, “Ralph, just to prove that, I want more people to randomly stand up in the audience. They are going to randomly stand up, doesn’t matter who they are, four people.”

I’ll also say I also predicted in an envelope what these four people are going to create in their minds as a dream vacation. It’s a lot of fun. It’s a show. It’s entertainment. I’ll say, “Sir, if you were to go anywhere in the world on a dream vacation, where would you like to go?” That person might say Hawaii, or Bermuda, or Tahiti. Whatever it is, I’ll say thank you.

The next person, I’ll say, “Young lady, if you were to go with a special person, give me the name of the person.” They can make a name up, or they can say their husband, wife, or boyfriend. They’ll say John. “Okay, John, terrific!”

Next person, day month and year. “When would you like to go?” “March 28, 2098.” “Fantastic.” “Young lady, how much money would you like to spend? You like to spend money, I can tell.” They will laugh a little bit. She’ll say, “$10 million?” I’ll say, “Make it something really cool up. They will say $10,000,428.67. “Terrific. Ralph, would you open that prediction?”

You open it up and it will say, “Hi, this is Robert Channing. I’m sitting in my office in Hartford, New York in July 21 writing this prediction for Ralph. The conference is coming up in January of 2006. I predict the following to be true. Four people will create a dream vacation. Given this chance, they will select the following.”

And you are reading this, I’ve never touched it. It’s live on the spot. It will say, first person will say Tahiti. The second person is going with John. The day month and year is March 28, 2098 and will cost $10,000,437.67. Whatever they said, people just drop their drawers, jaws. Not their drawers, their jaws! You’ve experienced it at the conference.

Ralph Zuranski: It was incredible. I almost dropped my drawers there.

Robert Channing: And on the back of that, I’d say Ralph, turn the piece of paper over and I predicted what those three names that you have given me, maybe the VIP of the conference, or the medium that I am performing for a corporation or association. They will say, “Jane Reynolds will be wearing a red blouse with polka dots and she will have on gold shoes with a gold ring.”

Whatever it is, I get right to the details. If I don’t get that prediction correct, down to the color of the sock or stripe in the shirt, I give my whole fee to them, my whole paycheck, which is substantial.

Ralph Zuranski: It’s amazing; I don’t know how you do it. I was impressed when you bent that spoon just by running your finger over the top of it. I thought, oh my God; don’t let him near my mother’s silverware.

Robert Channing: That’s funny.

Ralph Zuranski: That is astounding. I’ve never been more impressed with a presentation than your presentation that I saw at Joe’s. It was one of the highlights of my life of being at your presentation. It was incredible and working with you at Joe’s, I ran the computers and photos.

Robert Channing: You did a phenomenal job Ralph; and we became instant friends.
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Cameron Johnson: Yes. I have always enjoyed giving back. I am involved with several non-profit organizations now, and I serve on the board, and I try to give back and donate my time to high schools and other local events that I can try to help at.

I really do get a joy out of it, and one would say since I live such a successful or very busy business life, how could I actually get such a joy donating my time and doing stuff like that. But one of the most rewarding things I do is that I am fortunate that I am successful in business so I can have the time and have the money to be able to give back, and I really appreciate that.

My parents introduced me to that when I was just ten or eleven years old, and I started giving money to our local church. I really got satisfaction out of it.
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Ralph Zuranski: I look at Jesus Christ as the greatest example of laying his life down for people that didn’t deserve it. I pray the Rosary every morning and just think about the Stations of the Cross. I’m just so amazed at what He did for us and so grateful for the great gift of eternal salvation that I look at the suffering and pain that He went through to gain that for us.

Just awestruck, and I’m so amazed to know that there is nothing that I can do to gain eternal salvation. That everything that I do now is basically just in gratitude for the great gift that He has given me. So yes, I do experience service to others as my greatest joy.

I do want to be one of the greatest servants of all because I know that’s the only way that in the afterlife that I can be one of the greatest in the Kingdom.
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Sharif Khan: Yes I do. I sincerely believe the hero’s journey is about following one’s bliss and doing what one loves doing in service to others. That is what really brings the most joy, and that is what really brings the most success as well, because the only way to get what we want is by helping enough people get what they want first.

I’m a big believer in serving. If you want to increase your wealth and influence by ten times, just ask yourself the question, “How can I help ten times as many people as I am helping right now?”
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Debra Berg: Yes. I think people fundamentally enjoy feeling needed and that’s a good feeling. Even when people don’t appreciate the help, I try and remember the bigger picture of why I’m doing it.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:49 PM |

January 07, 2007

"'How important do you think that forgiveness is?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes' Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You"

"How important do you think that forgiveness is?"

Robert Channing: Very, very important. That was my second challenge. You asked me before, what was one of my toughest challenges? Well, the company Power Performers, I hired a few people to help me out, top sales people in my industry and I hired consultants to come in and train them in my office.

I respected them. They asked me to be in their weddings, they asked me to be part of their families, and I have generously given to them. Over given. I would buy them lunch every week, almost three or four times a week.

I would take them on trips, give them bonuses, and buy them color televisions because they did so well. What they loved to do was selling entertainment and speaking to celebrities, and I gave them bonuses them because we would have monthly goals, weekly goals, yearly goals, they would hit all the goals.

After three years, they decided to, two of them, I won’t mention their names because I don’t want this to get out, but two of them actually stole all my business. They stole my company and downloaded all my information. They put up a website while they were working for me.

They came in on a Friday afternoon and both gave me their resignation and said, “Bob, we loved working here. Thank you so much for the opportunity. It was the best job that we have ever had but we are going to go work for my father in another industry.”

This other gentleman who was a friend of his left as well. They gave me this big story Ralph. I found out a week later from one of my clients who said, “Did you know, Robert that they have their own website and they are in competition with you?”

At that point I had a 24 page employment agreement that every word in the agreement, Ralph, they went against and they just totally raped and pillaged my company. I was depressed. I was down because these were friends of mine that I lived with for three, three and a half years, every day.

We laughed, we cried. We went through 9/11 together. Different things, one gentleman had eye problems; I went to the hospital to see him. Two weeks before this, the other gentleman was having a baby and I brought gifts to them. You can tell, it hurts me right now talking about it, but that was about a year, a year and a half ago.

Since then, Ralph, my business has tripled. I’ve hired more people, and I’ve learned that these people were planning and plotting against me and I had that faith. I believed in them. I gave. I was blind.

What I learned form that was yes, give, but to leave my eyes open a little bit, to protect myself. Like I said before, when people say I can do something that’s what inspired me to motivate this business, to move higher and further.

I’ve gone further, and it’s going to go further. I’m going to build this so that people who work for me can benefit from the fruits of my labor. I hope that answers that question.

Ralph Zuranski: Did you actually forgive those people for what they did to you?

Robert Channing: I have forgiven them. It’s a challenge, because from day to day I’m in competition with them. Although we are in a lawsuit because my attorneys, friends and mentors said you can forgive them but it’s like, for example, Ralph, if you had a child, or if my child, God forbid, got hit by a drunk driver and was killed, I could forgive the drunk driver.

It would be hard but you have to serve due diligence and justice, so they wouldn’t do it again. That’s the reason for the lawsuit. That’s to hopefully stop them or make them feel…

Ralph Zuranski: What they did was wrong.

Robert Channing: Exactly.

Ralph Zuranski: There are consequences for actions. You always need to stand for the right thing. If people promise and say they are going to do something, they need to be held accountable and you can forgive them for the offenses. But still, they are consequences for actions that don’t have integrity, that’s for sure.

Too many people that should be held accountable are not. I respect that you are doing that, because people that do that, if they continue to do it and nobody calls them to accounting, they just continue on and on. They do it to more and more people, that’s what I’ve found.

Too many people, once they get screwed by somebody they don’t say anything and people that they know wind up getting screwed by that same person. It’s hard to tell the truth about people that aren’t doing their jobs with integrity and honesty which is what the Heroes program is all about.

It’s to show people just from asking hard questions what type of attitude and what type of mind process the people that I recognize as heroes actually have. The neat thing about those heroes is a lot of them experience service to others as a source of joy.

By forgiving, everybody has their own sins that they have committed, if you want to call it that, or the mistakes that they have made that they need to be sern for.

So what you forgive, you can’t expect to be forgiven for some of your things that you have done if you can’t forgive the people who have sinned against you. It’s a double edged sword.

By forgiving, you do two things. You help yourself by forgiving them and you help them, because they need to be forgiven too. You have to forgive yourself for things that you have done.

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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:49 PM |

January 06, 2007

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

Make no little plans- they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans- aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
[ Daniel H. Burnham ]

Posted by ralph at 07:49 PM |

"'Were you willing to experience discomfort in the pursuit of your dream?' Answered by the In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You To Be a Hero Or Heroine In Your Life"

Were you willing to experience discomfort in the pursuit of your dream?
Robert Channing: Oh, sure, Ralph. I remember when I was getting out of high school, my father told me, “Why do you want to make a career out of this? Go out and get a real job!” I understand that he came from a narrow minded search, because that’s how he was brought up. He was brought up to go to work, work hard, come home and feed his family and provide.

I thought to myself, I was working, in the summertime I worked at a drapery company in Newport called Reynolds Draperies. They are still there. They service all the east coast for stage and scenery curtains.

I was working there. I probably earned $150 a week and I probably worked 50 hours. I would go out and do a show and earn $150 for a 45 minute show and I would say to myself, “Why would I work 50 hours a week if I could just do a show?”

That was my dream, that was what juiced me too was saying, “This is my passion. This is my dream.” No matter what, if anybody said stop to me, it gave me more juice to keep moving. I’m the type of person if someone says you can’t do it, I want to do it even more. I love it, I like when people say it to me.

I guess it was the way I was brought up. My mother was always supportive, my father was always trying, he was a supporter, but he tore me down a little bit, and I think that was a good thing. That’s what created who I am today.

So, you are going to have times that people knock you down. You are going to have it during the day and during the nighttime. You are going to have it when you are on the road, you are tired, you are exhausted, and you don’t want it to happen.

At that point, you have to look at yourself and say, you know what, here are my goals, and read them every day. Write them down. Put them in front of you, put them on the mirror.

Read them before you go to bed, when you wake up in the morning. At lunchtime, when you are just relaxing, you are going to feed your subconscious mind the direction you want to go in.

It’s going to move you. Ralph, you and I spoke before about the four principles that you went over, how the mind works. The mind works on what you concentrate the most on. You will get that in your life. So if you can plant positive seeds and positive emotions, you will reap those.
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Cameron Johnson: Sure. I think no one appreciates or no one likes discomfort, but it is necessary, and it happens to all of us. There is nothing we can do about it but to accept it and to deal with it and continue pursuing our dreams, whatever they may be.

We have to understand that it is not, we are not going to be floating on cloud nine all the time, or floating in the clouds. I think we have to be able to experience discomfort and move on, and deal with whatever the problem or issue it is. Then go from there.
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Ralph: Zuranski: I was and it seems that I’ve been ten years ahead of my time as far as researching health at the age of 13, and telling people about vitamins and exercise. I’ve been there just trying to get people to realize that Heroes are our moms and dads and people around us.

It seems that a lot of the time people aren’t interested in your dream because they’ve got their own dreams. It’s hard to get people to realize that you’ve got a dream, and you are trying to do things. Most people seem so wrapped up in sex, drugs and material possessions and personal power.

Just having what society says they should have makes them happy that they see on television and all the advertisements. It’s so frustrating sometimes just to realize that most people don’t share your dream and that you just have to continue on with your dream and never give up.
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Sharif Khan: Yes. That is something that is necessary because it takes a lot of hard work and effort. Nothing really comes easy. Anything worthy of great achievement requires hard work, effort, persistence, and perseverance.

Sometimes things don’t work out the way we expect, but if we let those things bring us down then we’re not able to move forward. For example, in the book publishing world, only 5 % are making it, and 95% aren’t. The reason is the 95% give up within the first year or two, and so it requires continual effort and continual perseverance.
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Debra Berg: Success is seldom easy or convenient for most people. In my case, I gave up large amounts of personal time and, in the pursuit of the interviews I did for the book, found myself in a couple of scary situations. In one case, I was in LA at night and had a flat tire just at the time a gang came through the parking lot. Were it not for a helpful stranger (I often refer to as “the angel”), I’m not sure what might have happened. I also left my job to write the book for a year and I invested considerable resources out of my retirement fund to make the research and book a reality.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:48 PM |

January 05, 2007

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski


"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."
- Anthony Robbins

Posted by ralph at 06:44 PM |

"'Everybody has doubts and fears. It seems that’s an inevitable part of life. How do you overcome your doubts and fears?' Answered by The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You"

Everybody has doubts and fears. It seems that’s an inevitable part of life. How do you overcome your doubts and fears?

Robert Channing: Also I have a confident in my wife. I ask her some things and she is my psychiatrist/psychologist sometimes. I have friends like you. I have mentors, peers and coaches. Also, I go inside myself, because education means you learn from the outside, but you bring it in. You translate it and it comes out of yourself as a process.

So, by learning to be with myself, to pray, to ask God to take my concerns, my heartaches, my wishes and give them to Him, that’s the release process that you have to do. It comes back to you, just pray and have faith. Does that make sense?
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Cameron Johnson: Well, I try to use the same principle that I just shared; I don’t really think about it and try to second guess it. When I was in college at Virginia Tech, I started an Internet company called CertificateSwap.com, and I took my second semester off of college to go out and raise ten million dollars in venture capital.

We were subsequently offered ten million in capital, but I actually turned the offer down, and we ended up selling the company instead.

Now that offer, had we accepted it, we might have grown into a hundred million dollar company, and it could have been one of the biggest or stupidest decisions I’ve ever made. But I still don’t question the decision and I have moved on with it.

I still to this day think we made the right decision to sell the company. So I am able to overcome doubts and fears just by accepting and, like we were talking about earlier, trusting my intuition.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, that is rare for most people to do that. A lot of people are afraid to trust their intuition.
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Ralph Zuranski: That’s a daily effort to overcome doubts and fears. Every day I wake up, I have both doubts and fears. I have doubts about what I’m doing, if it’s ever going to become successful, whether I will be able to do this full time, or whether it will generate enough income so I can give the program life and have it go to every community. It takes money to be able to do that. It’s hard to generate income when not everybody has accepted your dream as ready to be supported.

Fear, everybody has fear. Fears are things you perceive that aren’t real. I think that people that are really true to what’s going on realize that those fears are something that are part of every day life and every body has them.

The most important thing you can do is do the things that help you over come fear. Do those things that you do fear. There is a certain aspect to that you can fear a rattlesnake. Fear is good to a certain point, but the idea of fear of failure and fear of loss and fear of rejection, those are things that everybody experiences. Those are things that you have to take a positive view and just think, “I’m going to do this because it is part of attaining my dream.”

I know that a lot of times that it’s not personal when people reject me, when the things I hope will happen don’t happen. It’s just a part of learning how the way things work. It’s like Thomas Edison, how many times he tried to find a way that worked, to create a light bulb. He did it thousands and thousands of times.

I think that as you continue on, ultimately you build a momentum and you start doing small things better. You start doing things right and associate with people that are doing the right things and you learn from them and they become your mentors. They teach you the right ways to do it. Your fears diminish because you have greater success in doing things the right way.
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Sharif Khan: One of the ways I’m able to overcome my doubts and fears is using a technique which I learned from Tony Robbins, where I conditioned myself to feel pain whenever doubts and fears entered my mind.

I put a rubber band around my wrist and every time I had a little inkling of doubt or fear of the little voice saying, “Sharif you can’t do this,” I just snapped that rubber band and it produced pain. There are two things that motivate human behavior: the desire to gain pleasure or the desire to avoid pain; the desire to look good or avoid looking bad.

Another way of overcoming my doubts and fears is having a vision for myself of the future and where I expect to be. This would actually be a really good exercise that anyone could do: on a single sheet of paper in the present tense, write down where you want to be ten years from now.

What type of an income level would you want to be making? How would you be perceived and treated? What type of clothing would you be wearing? What type of lifestyle would you be living? Write it all down and then start being that person right now. Start commanding that presence right now and you will attract the circumstances and the people in your life to be able to accomplish that vision. Those are the two ways that I overcome my doubts and fears.
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Debra Berg: I still work at this. Mostly, I overcome them with action. Long ago I learned the adage “action cures fear.” Whenever I feel paralyzed by something, I take some type of action. It may not be the best action, but any action is better than doing nothing and fretting over something you have little control over.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:47 PM |

January 04, 2007

"'Is it important to take a positive view of setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes?' Answered By The In Search Of Heroes Core Master Mind Team To Inspire and Encourage You"

Is it important to take a positive view of setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes?

Robert Channing: They are like a ship without a rudder. If they don’t have a rudder, they are just going to wash up upon the shore or the rocks. If you have a rudder, you can steer your ship. You can steer your way through the seas and as you coast along, the winds blowing your sail, you have learned to work for that. Then you are going to get into some rough waters again and you steer your way through there.

Ralph Zuranski: I absolutely agree. I’m just listening to Earl Nightingale in The Strangest Secret of the Mind of Man. That’s what he says, 95% of all the people who strive when they are young to become a success end up failures because they never set any goals. They are not working for anything or in any direction.

Robert Channing: It definitely is. Believe me; even the most positive person in the world has their setbacks. You can be a positive thinker but you have to take control. You have to say to yourself, you need time to grieve if something happens.

I forget the steps in the grieving process, but you need to get back off the floor. If you get knocked down, you’re into martial arts, Ralph, and I have been too. When you get knocked down, you need to pop back up.

It’s going to take some time after you get the wind knocked out of you to get back up, but the reason you have to get back up is if you don’t, you stay down. You’re going to lose.

Don’t ever give up. Always get back up, dust yourself off, and keep moving forward. You will get ahead, you will. You will learn. You will take the bumps and bruises.

Just study as well. Keep the positive, motivational talking coming through your mind. All the videos and audio courses that I have taken in the country meaning like Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines by Mark Victor Hansen, has a great audio course. Where you are reading right now and listening to Ralph now, is phenomenal as well. "Think and Grow Rich."

There’s a lot of information that you need to keep filling your mind with, and the top 1% of the country, the people who are top in their field keep trying to get better, better and better. CANEI, Tony Robbins says the acronym for CANEI is Constant and Never Ending Improvement. You just have keep working and moving ahead.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, you know that is so true. A lot of times I sit down, I wake up in the morning and sit down at my computer and just think, gee, how many new software programs do I have to learn today?

It’s hard to do it. Sometimes you just don’t feel like doing it. I know that you probably agree with this, it takes a tremendous amount of courage to pursue new ideas. What do you think about that?

Robert Channing: I agree. I would say there is another way to look at it. I get excited about new ideas. I’m excited, I know we spoke before this interview about a marketing plan that I’m working on. I’m so excited about it. I think that if you work up that fire in your belly and the excitement about it, it is challenging. You get a little afraid sometimes.

But once you get into it and you see it starting to work and the fruit comes off the trees that you planted, that’s what makes me move. That gives me juice, Ralph. It makes me feel like what I’m doing is working.

But also, Ralph, I study the top people in their industry. If I know someone in marketing, if I have to learn marketing, I will go and find the best marketing people in the world. I’ll call them up and go to their conferences, just like you do, Ralph. That’s what we are doing right now on the phone.

If I need to know something in the medical industry, well, you just told me today a few doctors that could help me out with some blood pressure problems that I have. So I’m going to go and search them, and track them down, the top 1%.

So always strive to find the answers from the top in their field. You don’t want to learn from someone that’s just starting out, although you can learn by their mistakes. You want to take that learning curve and cut it in half, if not more and learn from the top people that have been studying all their life. Would you agree?

Ralph Zuranski: I know that you have done a lot of different things in your life. A lot of the time it’s very uncomfortable to pursue your dreams because of people in your peer group, your life and even in your family that don’t want you to change.

They don’t want you to make transformational decisions in your life that may leave them behind.
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Cameron Johnson: Definitely. I have always tried to learn from my mistakes or learn as I go along, and each of my businesses has built on the previous business. So each business is a little bit bigger than the previous business and that is just because I have learned as I have gone along.

If you make a mistake, that is okay. But to make the same mistake twice, there is really no excuse for it. So I have always tried to learn from my mistakes and to always move forward.

A setback is just something that slows you down; it is not something that is supposed to turn you away or tells you to quit trying or quit following your dreams. So, definitely.
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Ralph Zuranski: No, I don’t always do that. I know I should, but having suffered with depression for so many years it seems that every day I am always battling fear, doubts, thoughts of mistakes that I’ve made, the misfortunes that I’ve had, and the setbacks that I have had are almost paralyzing. It’s just incredible.

The only thing that I found that can help me do that is by using a rubber band on the wrist and snapping myself big time. The other thing is praying to God and asking Him to remove those. I see those as temptations from satan that is trying to destroy my path and doing the work that God set out for me.

Sharif Khan: Absolutely! I think it was Mr. Thomas Watson Sr., founder of IBM, who said, “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” So failures and setbacks and mistakes are stepping stones towards greater and greater success. We need to ask ourselves: “What can we learn from this experience? How can we grow from this experience?” Because nothing really is a failure; everything is a learning experience.
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Debra Berg: No one likes to think that they can make a mistake, even the most humble of us. It’s easy to get your ego tied up in whether you’re right or why something failed. What I make a point of doing is to remind myself that I’m a spiritual being have a human experience and that I can’t always make perfect decisions. I work to forgive myself first, then others, and then make any necessary course corrections before going on.

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroes” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:47 PM |

"Daily Inspirational Quotes That Inspire You To Think and Act Like A Real-Life Hero or Heroine" by Ralph Zuranski

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. (1914-1995, Virologist, Discovered The First Vaccine Against Poliomyelitis)
[ Dr. Jonas Salk ]

Posted by ralph at 12:24 PM |

January 03, 2007

"'What is your dream or vision that sets the course of your life?' by the 'In Search Of Heroes Master Mind Team Inspire and Encourage You As They Answer the In Search Of Heroes Questions"

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

Robert Channing: My dream and vision that sets the course of my life would be to create, plant seeds, grow trees that I could shade my family and friends with when I pass on. So they can live off the fruits of my labor.

Also to provide information and success and knowledge to people like you are doing. That’s why I’m on the line with you as well, is for the people that struggle all their life, not knowing where they want to go.

I’ve performed for hundreds of colleges a year. People come up to me after my program and always say, “What do you see in my future? What should I do with my life?”

Tony Robbins always says, “If you don’t know, pretend that you do know.” What would you do? And most people will come up with the answer. At that point, that’s the toughest part in the world is trying to find out what you want to do with your life. Once you know, you can plan your course of action.

So, by planting those seeds in these students’ minds or the minds of people that are listening today, it’s probably one of the toughest questions. Wouldn’t you agree, Ralph? What do you want to do with your life?

Ralph Zuranski: You know, I do have a dream or vision and that vision is to make the world a better place, especially for young people. I know my childhood, teenage and college years were so miserable because I didn’t know why I was so depressed, and why I had so many health problems and I was sick all the time.

I was plagued with one problem after another problem. It had to do with my mindset, as far as what my thoughts were and just my health problems. So I spent the last 30 years researching why I felt so bad and what was wrong with me.

I finally found out at the age of 13 when I started taking vitamins and working out. I went from being a C and a D student to an A student almost overnight. I got a scholarship to Catholic high school. It was at 13 that I dedicated my life to the study of health and human awareness, and trying to discover what are the ultimate limits of human performance in all areas.

It took me 30 more years of studying alternative medicine and learning about all the great leaders in alternative medicine that it created incredible therapies that helped people overcome all the types of diseases and health problems that I was suffering from.

My dream and my vision is the “In Search of Heroes™” program, to share that health knowledge and share the mental processes that people have that will help them become such great successes, a lot of times over unbelievable odds, even like you.

When you are addicted to alcohol it’s basically self suicide or making a change in your life. My goal is to help people realize how they too can be Heroes in their own life and make a real difference in the lives of others within their life and within the society.

Sharif Khan: Absolutely. My vision is to inspire the world and make a positive difference in peoples’ lives. To help create a global culture of heroes and responsible citizens dedicated to promoting peace and prosperity in the world. That is a vision that’s larger than life. It gets me going and energizes me whether I’m having a good day or bad day; it gets me up every morning and allows me to stretch and grow.

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:46 PM |

January 02, 2007

"Part Eight: The 'In Search Of Heroes' Core Master Mind Team Inspire and Encourage You As They Answer the In Search Of Heroes Questions"

Do you follow your hunches and intuition?

Debra Berg: I usually do because the hunches are almost always right. It’s the “noise” of other’s opinions or multi-tasking life priorities that sometimes gets in the way of listening to yourself…some might call it intuition. But the older I get, the more I heed it and it’s served me well. Sometimes it’s also a matter of one door closing and another opening.

Cameron Johnson: Yes. You can say I am guilty or one of the best people at following hunches and intuition. But when I believe in something, I totally act on it right away. Of course, I go through and do the necessary research and due diligence. But I very much act on my intuition.

Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:45 PM |

January 01, 2007

"Part Seven: The 'In Search Of Heroes' Core Master Mind Team Inspire and Encourage You As They Answer the In Search Of Heroes Questions"

Do you readily forgive those who upset, offend, and oppose you?

Cameron Johnson: Yes. I try to be very good about forgiving people. I always like to think that I might remember things and look at a person differently, but I forgive them for whatever actions or words or anything else that they say or do to me.

I think it is important that we forgive, because we are all going to have bad days, we’re all going to make mistakes. So I think we have to be able to be quick to forgive. But not necessarily quick to forget, you know?

Ralph Zuranski: Well, again, what you have to realize is that, what you said earlier, the consequences of their actions and their personal integrity. They are providing service to their client, realizing that you only succeed to the level of quality of your products and your service to your customers. The greater the service, the greater the quality, the greater your success.

When people strive to spread evil or not spread good, that has its own consequences because it’s their thought process. If you have negative thoughts, it’s going to ultimately generate negative in your life and it’s the seeds that you sow.

Negative thoughts, negative actions will always reap a horrible harvest somewhere down the line. Positive thoughts and positive action, you get rewards but it might not be from the source where you actually did those positive things.

But the universe is impeccable, it never fails and good will always be rewarded with good, somewhere down the line or maybe immediately. Evil will always be rewarded with evil; it’s an exponential type thing.

I would like to say that I do but it’s easy to hold on to hurts and people that oppose you all the time, especially when they are in your family and a lot of times, it’s on a daily basis. It’s so hard to be forgiving and forgive people instantly and just not hold grudges. I know I really find that in my relationship with my wife…

Sharif: Your wife is your life!

She is my life. I think everybody has battles in their marriage. Satan is always warring against the marriage and the family, because it’s the foundation of our spiritual life and society. There are so many things at war against marriage and doing the right thing. Loving your wife as if she were your own body and not harming her in any way.

It’s so easy when you have all these things going on; financial problems, health problems, just all the things that can go wrong and do go wrong. Everybody tends to hold the people they love the most responsible and just blame them.

I do my best. I would love to say I forgive people instantly but thank God for the rubber band! Snapping my wrist, it’s better to give myself pain than to give others pain.

Robert Channing: I agree. It just came to my mind that when I was a child, when people got mad at my mother, when people had something against her for some goofy reason, or somebody said something, she would always wave to them. She would always say hi. She would always have a kind word to them. My mother, I call her a saint, she was phenomenal, and she still is. She always does well.

And that’s what I’ve learned to do, even when these people are trying to tear me down in some way, I’ve always come back by being nice to them and have a kind word for them. Even though, in the back of my mind, I’m like, I’d really like to do something.

But by forgiving them and having peace with yourself, you’re actually helping yourself as well as them. Because they don’t have anything to go back on, they can’t keep their momentum going with trying to get feed off of your emotions. Just let it go and keep working with it.

But what I learned from that experience is to keep moving ahead. I became stronger from that, and I got into Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It says; don’t ever mind what they’re thinking, because they don’t know what you can do. You only know what you can do.

Don’t mind the people that are pulling you down or are trying to. Just ignore them and have your own schedule of events. Schedule your time. Schedule your goals, what you want to do in this life.

They can pull at you all you want, but at the end of that, if you draw a line from here and 100 yards from now and saying that’s the end of your goal, in between you are going to have all the obstacles. But remember; keep your eye on the target, at the end, because you will get there. It makes it easier.

Sharif Khan: It is absolutely critical to be able to forgive people that have offended or harmed us in any way. It’s a very difficult thing to do, but if we really think about it, harvesting the anger and hatred inside against the other person is not doing anything for that person.

It’s only harming us and creating toxins and bad energies in our bodies which is going to ruin our health. I think there was some study where they said that even ten minutes of feeling angry had enough toxins in the blood to kill a guinea pig.

Can you imagine half an hour or an hour or many years of feeling anger and hatred to somebody and what kind of damage that can do to our health and mental well being? So it’s very important to forgive others and be able to let go and move on.

Debra Berg: I try to. It’s not always easy, but if I don’t forgive, I find that I waste too much time fretting over the situation. Replaying offenses takes away from the energy I need to do important things.
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Click on each name to listen to the heroes interviews of Sharif Khan, Author of "The Psychology Of the Hero Soul," Debra Berg, Author of "The Power Of One," Cameron Johnson, Author of "You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want", Robert Channing, the World's Greatest Mind Reader and Mental Motivator and Ralph Zuranski, the Creator Of the In Search Of Heroes Program.

Sharif Khan is President and founder of Diamond Mind Enterprises, an organization devoted to transforming coal minds into diamond minds through the applied pressure of higher knowledge, wellness education, and leadership training. His vision is “to inspire the world with hope, faith, love, respect, excellence, and the courage to dream”. He is the author of the inspirational book about Promoting Heroes in the Workplace and Everyday Life in his "The PSYCHOLOGY OF THE HERO SOUL."
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Cameron Johnson started his first business at the tender age of nine. By age 12, his company was selling Beanie Babies™ over the Internet and he profited $50,000 that year. At the age of fifteen, he became an advisory board member of a Tokyo-based company and published his autobiography in Japanese which became an instant best-seller.

At the age of 21, he has founded and sold more than a dozen businesses and has been featured in more than 250 media outlets worldwide including Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, USA Today, CNBC, and MSNBC. He’s served as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and is a frequent speaker to a variety of audiences including high schools, colleges, and corporate executives.

In January, 2007, his new book titled You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way – And Live the Life You Want – With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship is being released by Simon & Schuster. Cameron Johnson lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. Visit his official website http://www.cameronjohnson.com.
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Debra Schweiger Berg is an author, researcher, and public speaker. She holds both a B.A. in political science/economics and an M.P.A., (public administration) degree from the University of Illinois. As an undergrad, she staffed the Watergate hearings in Washington, D.C. Post-college; Debra was one of the first women to serve on the staffs of the Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota state legislatures. In all three states, she served as a finance analyst for billions of state agency dollars and led studies on special education, welfare, and education. Following that, Minnesota’s largest HMO recruited her as a senior financial analyst.

Then, in the mid-eighties and early nineties, she founded a successful international marketing and training company, TeamNet, Intl., in which she trained and mentored entrepreneurs. That success led to her eventual recruitment by Amdocs, Inc. and Gcom, Inc., both software industry leaders.

In 1995, Debra launched a 10-year personal quest during which she interviewed 130 of America’s new civic heroes, civic entrepreneurs. Her interviews exposed a hidden trend in America, which she chronicles in her book, The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America’s Cities. Debra speaks to a wide range of audiences and captivates them with tales surrounding her 10,000-mile quest and the heroes who’ve invented eye-opening, working solutions to America’s toughest social problems.

She’s received acclaim by the Pew Foundation and cited by the Chicago Sun-Times for her groundbreaking findings. Debra is presently the President of Power of One Publishing and of PowerQuest, a leadership training company that empowers leaders of all ages to realize a life quest.
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Ralph Zuranski is the creator of the The “In Search Of Heroes" Program. It is a local franchise business opportunity for individuals with high integrity. The purpose of the business is to train young people how to be successful in their personal lives and business.

The goal is to teach high school and college students how to generate income for their local ISOH Program, themselves and community businesses by spreading the “Good News” about local heroes and their businesses, if they have one. Students learn how to promote people, products and businesses on the internet and through local newspapers, TV and radio, using the latest techniques and technology.

Students learn the importance and value of spreading “Good News” in their communities about heroic individuals who deserve recognition for their service to others. This valuable information inspires everyone. It helps each person to take pride in their community and the good people that live there that are making a positive difference in the lives of others.

The businesses that deserve recognition for their integrity, service and generosity are also promoted. This increase in income allows local business owners the opportunity to give back even more to their community. With their increased financial independence, they can invest more time and money into worthwhile community programs.

The students become interns for their local “In Search Of Heroesä” Program. As they learn copywriting, online and offline marketing, website design and how to create audio and video programs, they provide these services to local businesses at a discounted price.

Many small local businesses need skilled help in marketing their businesses, but cannot afford high priced companies. Students are the perfect choice to use their developing marketing skills to help these businesses become more successful. As these businesses increase their revenues, the local community can afford to do more to help local community programs. Everyone benefits!

Posted by ralph at 03:44 PM |