In Search Of Heroes Spreads Good News About Everyday, Real-Life Heroes Who Deserve Recognition For Their Good Works

30. Power comes from stripping away appearances and seeing things as they really are. Socialism appeals to psychological and intellectual weaklings. Identify and replace all external authorities with internal strength and competence. Take full control of, and responsibility for, your conscious mind and every aspect of your life.
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Dave Kekich: Yeah, I really do, but it takes work and it takes willpower. But the stakes are so much higher now, where 30 or 40 years ago, where our parents and grandparents 50 years ago, were alive, sure they could live longer. They could take care, they could read SALADS™, the information was available then, not all of it, but most of it, and they could have added ten years to their lives.
They would have felt better and would have suffered less at the end. They still would have died from some biological condition. Well, now that might not be the case. Now the opportunity is not just for an extra ten years, or fifteen years.

Now the opportunity could be for more years than you could possibly imagine. We have a company called Stem Cell Products, by the way, and we are coming out with our first product about at the end of February, and that, we think, as do some people in the industry, think it is one of the biggest breakthroughs in years and years in the health supplements technologies.

It is a master antioxidant that is so much more powerful than anything out there now that it is not even calculable. And there have been 70,000 pages of public studies on this compound, and up until now, nobody's been able to take it effectively without it breaking down in the digestive system.

And people know it is effective against things like AIDS and Parkinson’s and Lymphoma. And there have been studies, 70,000 studies, for years and years and years, pointing to the benefits of this compound, which we finally have been able to put into an oral form.

People will be able to take this soon, so there are things like that that are going to extend your lifespan. And one example is that people were getting some benefits of this through IVs, through injections, and doctors’ use of them, but we believe we have even surpassed the results that you would get from IVs.

That is just one of many things coming up that we are developing. We do have about five or ten products in the next year or so. But we are not the only ones; there are people like us and people in other areas who are doing some incredible things, a lot of things I know about, which will be hitting the market in a few years.

A lot of things, of course, I don't know about, because you can't know everything. Five years from now we are going to have things that we couldn't imagine today that are going to be adding even more years to our lives, so I would say the best thing you can do right now is just take care of yourself and start with SALADS™.

Ralph Zuranski: Ah, that is great. I will go to the site today and download that, and I will start applying that today. So thanks for the good advice.

Dave Kekich: Sure. Then stem cell products, if you have any--it is bare bones right now, but we are going to get bigger and better. It is www.StemCellProductsLLC.com.

Ralph Zuranski: Okay. I will have to search that out, too. I will put that in your report.

"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 04:51 PM | Permalink

29. Most accomplishment (and problem avoidance) is built on clear persuasive communication. That includes knowing each other's definitions, careful listening, thinking before talking, focused questioning and observing your feedback. Become a communications expert.
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Ralph Zuranski: Yeah, boy! I fully agree with that! Well, Dave, I really appreciate your time, and I just am excited. I hope I can live long enough so that I can live indefinitely.

Dave Kekich: Well, how old are you know, Ralph?

Ralph Zuranski: Fifty-seven.

Dave Kekich: You are fifty-seven? If you follow the rules that I spell out in SALADS™, and I am going to have to have an expanded version in a month or so, so check back in a month or so because there will be more there. I don't see any reason, barring an accident or bad luck.

You could come down with a bad disease or something, but if you take your normal life span, which is you could probably be expecting to live to at least 80, at 58, that gives you another 23 years.

However, if you take care of yourself and the average lifespan accounts for all the people who died young, so that means you should actually live longer if you take care of yourself, if you account for people who don't take care of themselves, that should put you well above 80.

All of the things that we are developing now, between now and the time we are able to control aging, are going to add more and more years to your life, and there is going to be a point--right now, we are adding a couple of months to a lifespan, a couple of months or so, every year, and it is growing more and more.

There is going to be a time when, every year that goes by, we would have learned enough to add more every year to people's life- spans. So if we hang in there long enough, we are going to be living well beyond what is considered to be our expected lifespan today.

So do I think we are going to be able to reverse aging in 23 years? No. But maybe not too much after that. And there is no reason, if you take care of yourself now, and if you don't have a disease or condition that will shorten your life, or some terrible genetic condition that we won't be able to reverse in the near future, there is no reason we couldn't live to 100.

I think that would give you plenty of time, Ralph, to make that milestone.

"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 04:49 PM | Permalink

27. The choice to exert integrated effort or to default to camouflaged laziness is the key choice that determines your character, competence and future. That critical choice must be made continually - throughout life. The most meaningful thing to live for is reaching your full potential.
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Ralph Zuranski: You know, it is funny, when you have interviewed so many heroes, everybody related that the book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, was one of the most powerful books in their lives.

He believed if his theories were taught to young people, that it would cut their learning time in school by half. I wonder why his theories and this information hasn't been passed down to them?

Dave Kekich: I thought about that over 30 years ago, when I first read that book, and it is actually criminal that it is not taught in schools.

Ralph Zuranski: Or taken and put into the super learning format so kids could find it in a format that appeals to them, to make it easy for them to assimilate the information and then look at heroes like yourself and their lives, and see what it has taken to be actually successful, because it is not so much of a twist.

But it is about the eternal process, and about what you think is the major thing that is going to make the difference in how healthy you are, and how long you are going to live, and how successful.

"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 04:26 PM | Permalink

26. Religiously nourish your body with proper nutrition, exercise, recreation, sleep and relaxation techniques.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, what do you think about the In Search of Heroes program and its impact on youth, parents and business people?

Dave Kekich: Oh, it is empowering, especially to young people. And by going through a program like this, Ralph, especially with young people, it can shave years of painful trial and error from people’s lives.

It can set them on a positive track they might never have discovered on their own. I stumbled across these ideas, mostly late in life, and I just wish I could have had something like this when I was young. It just could have changed my life dramatically.

Ralph Zuranski: Yeah. That is the reason I created the program.

Dave Kekich: Yeah, my hat is off to you; this is a great program. I just hope you can spread it far and wide.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, with people like you helping out, there is no reason why we can't and just spreading the knowledge that has been around for all of eternity, as it seems to be the same all the time: personal responsibility, believing in dreams, seeking a different path rather than one that is well-traveled.

Dave Kekich: In this there aren't many new ideas; there are new slants on these ideas, but the core values have been there for thousands of years, and for some reason they are not passed on. They are not learned early in life, and I think people get so busy working in their lives that they just don't have enough time to work on their lives or on their children's lives.

"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 04:25 PM | Permalink

25. Working for someone else gives you little chance to make a fortune. By owning your own business, you only have to be good to become wealthy.
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Ralph Zuranski: So personal responsibility is probably the core thing that people need to address?

Dave Kekich: Very much so. Yeah, very much so.

Ralph Zuranski: If you could have three wishes for the world that would instantly come true, what would they be?

Dave Kekich: Well, that is an easy question for me because I have given this a lot of thought, and one would be that everyone would have complete control over their lives and property without interference from anyone or anything. And in one word, you can call that freedom.

And two, perfect health and longevity for everyone; that is something we work on every day. And three is opportunity for anyone who wants to do it, to better their lives.

I’m not saying that anyone should have to do anything, but for anybody that wants to do it, anywhere in the world, to have the opportunity to put food on the table, to get as much education as they want, to create as good a life as they can for their families, and their neighbors and their loved ones, and the rest of the world.

"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 04:23 PM | Permalink

Where are Heroes located?

Ralph: They are located everywhere. They are every person that you come in contact with. I actually believe that angels walk this earth and there are good angels and bad angels. I believe that angels are there to miraculously help you.

They are like the ultimate spiritual Heroes that step in and intervene in the most miraculous ways. I believe that people can find miracles occurring in their lives on a daily basis, if they just look for it and realize that when they do good things without expectation of good in return, that God actually rewards them. People don’t believe in the Christian God, just the universe will reward them.
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Sharif Khan: Heroes are all around us. They are among our friends and family and relatives. They’re in different parts of the world in different cities. People are doing small random acts of kindness every single day. And the media doesn’t go out and video tape them. So when we pick up the newspaper we see all the tragedies and the harm and wars that are going on around the world. But we don’t recognize that heroes are all around us and we don’t have to look far.

With all your world travels would you say that people in different cultures look at heroes differently?

I think so, because people have different connotations of what a ‘hero’ means. For example, in Australia they talk about cutting down the ‘Tall Poppy,’ and so any one who gets to be too ‘heroic’ or too big on themselves, they like to cut down, because they feel that person is trying to be too self-indulging.

People have very different attitudes as to what heroism is and what a hero actually means and who they look up to as heroes. It’s really interesting to see the different world views. I don’t think they share necessarily the common elements because of the different connotations they have about heroes.

With the world the way it is, especially the war against terrorism, you’ve lived in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, do people in Middle Eastern countries look at heroes differently like the bombers or Al Qaeda?

That’s a very difficult question because unfortunately there are some people out there that,. I’m not talking about the Middle Eastern culture, the Iraqi culture, or the Pakistani culture in general…but there are some people who have a twisted mentality and see the terrorist, or the Osama Bin Laden’s as heroes.

For example, when Hitler was running Germany, so many German youths had been through propaganda at a very early age, having been set up to view Hitler as a Hero, as a God to be looked up to. And where I find there is a problem is many of these terrorist operations that are occurring in these countries are sending out this type of propaganda and setting up schools and infiltrating young minds with a lot of garbage and a lot of nonsense about who are heroes and who are not heroes and what are the requirements of heroes.

That’s something that myself, being a South Asian, and having lived in some of those countries, I’m trying to change with my work with The Hero Soul, to let people know that there are options, there are ways of looking at what a true hero really is, where the origin comes from is the Greek root to ‘serve and protect’ and I’m hoping to change perceptions.

Posted by ralph at 12:30 PM | Permalink

28. Keep an active mind, and continue to grow intellectually. You either grow or regress. Nothing stands still.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, do you have some good resources on www.MaxLife.org that young people can access?

Dave Kekich: For the young people, the best thing they can enact on there is SALADS™. And SALADS™ is the report I mentioned to you. It is an acronym, by the way. It stands for things you need to do in your life, and it doesn't stand for the things you find in salad bars. But part of that is about salads, the D is for diet, and the S is for supplements, and the other S is for stress--stress reduction, for example.

But they can go to www.MaxLife.org, and there are three icons in the middle of the home page. Just click on the one in the middle that says, "How to Live to 120 and Still Remember Where You Left Your Car Keys." That will take you to some pages that will give you some resources.

Right at the bottom of that page, just click on SALADS™, and that will take you to a downloadable version. Now children are probably not going to pay as much attention to that as adults would, because we all kind of feel like we are immortal when we are young.

We all kind of feel like we know it all, and we can get away with a lot of things, physically, that we can’t get away with when we are older. We can get away with a bad diet, although kids are getting much better now, and they are actually seeing Type II Diabetics, millions of cases in children, where you never saw that--you just never saw that 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Now it is rampant. But they still get away with it. I mean, they can get away with lack of exercise more than adults do. The older you get, the harder it is to do some of these things, or at least you think it is harder. It really isn't. But we actually need these things more as we get older.

We need to exercise more, and the older we get, the more we need it, not that we need to get more and more and more as we get older, but the more we need it, because we start to break down. When you are young, your body is pretty forgiving, and it can take a little abuse.

However, if your goal is to live a long time, and feel good and look good, then the earlier you start in life, the more these things are going to help you. Teaching children that is the challenge and it is up to the parents.

"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 04:28 PM | Permalink

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

Dave Kekich: In the short term, and I call the short term the next immediately, of course, I am trying to reach people, anybody that will listen to me. I will show them how they can live longer and healthier lives with today's technology.

And again you can go to www.MaxLife.org to find that out in the more immediate term. We are making the world a better place by solving aging and being able to cure diseases and conditions that lead to biological death, and that is raising a lot of money, and making people aware that these things are really possible, and getting the technologies off the ground and managing them, and building management teams.

There is a lot to it. In the long term I have some ideas that could, in my humble opinion, make the world a better place to live through technologies and philosophies.

Ralph Zuranski: Do you have any good solutions to the problems facing society, especially racism, child and spousal abuse, and violence among young people?

Dave Kekich: Well, that is a pretty big challenge and a bit out of my scope and anybody's scope. But I just think that my best solution would be to work toward a system that would be where everyone is 100% accountable for their actions. And mostly where everyone would get exactly what he or she deserves.
And that eliminates a lot of forced social programs. That is on a personal level and on a corporate level. This is not a very popular idea, and it is hard to implement, but I think the solutions are basically getting to the core of the problems and not fighting symptoms.

"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 04:22 PM | Permalink

24. Enthusiasm covers many deficiencies - and will make others want to associate with you.
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Ralph Zuranski: How do people become heroes?

Dave Kekich: In my mind, by establishing a strong code of ethics and sticking to it, no matter what. And especially if no one is looking.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, how does it feel to be recognized as a hero?

Dave Kekich: Well, it is nice to know that someone thinks of me as a hero, Ralph. I don't, so I just really don't.

Ralph Zuranski: I think Joe Polish considers you to be a hero, and why do you think you were selected for this honor?

Dave Kekich: Again, I don't know. You would have to talk to Joe.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, how will being recognized as a hero change your life?

Dave Kekich: Oh, kind of like the peer pressure scenario, I think. Anytime you go public with your opinions, and your goals and ideas and your philosophies, it puts more pressure on you to make sure you are right, and it also puts more pressure on you to do something positive with it.

"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 04:20 PM | Permalink

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I have to qualify that, because these people aren’t retired in the traditional sense. They are for all intents and purposes, on a very long, relaxing vacation, able to re-start and go kick butt at any time, yet having the luxury of doing nothing, no pressure, no worries (except their kids!).

Another very good friend of mine has not one, but two jets. He flies all over the U.S. investing in real estate, making millions and millions each and every year (more on him later). His family doesn’t now and never will have another worry about finances – unless it’s trying to decide where to spend it.

Then there’s my good friend Chuck, or Wayne as some people call him. He’s a Dentist in a small town here in Oregon, over on the coast – in the Banana Belt of Oregon (didn’t think we had one, did ya?). He has 3 practices, does very well for himself in Dentistry, but makes his REAL fortune (having stashed away millions) from Real Estate Investing.

Let me repeat: He’s a Dentist. Just like you.

So, how are the two of you different? Really one thing, MAYBE two (you’ll have to decide on the second one).

He noticed what I noticed: All the wealthy people he knew were business people that had leveraged themselves into huge fortunes in real estate!

That, my friend, is about the sum total of the differences between the two of you.

Except, once he realized what was in front of him, he did ONE MORE THING that most of us, at some time or another left out:

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Consequently, Wayne, or Chuck as I call him, is a millionaire not from Dentistry, but from real estate investing. He and I partner on a project now and then, but only if it will give us a profit of at least a half-million or more.

To be fair, Chuck is a little over 50 years old. However, he only recently got started in real estate – just about 4 years ago (gee, it DID take him 2 or 3 years to HIT the millionaire real estate investor status!)

Then there’s my other friend, Dr. Frank.

Frank’s a superstar Dentist Real Estate Investor. I don’t have the figures on his real estate wealth, but I know it’s in excess of a million net. I DO know that he sold his practice when he was about 40 and ran off to a sunny state with his bride and retired, dabbling in real estate on occasion, but really, and I mean really enjoying the good life.

I have one other example, just off the top of my head – although not a Dentist, but an MD. His RETIREMENT wasn’t selling his practice, it wasn’t/ isn’t Social Security (God help you if you think THAT will get you through retirement...You’ll be lucky to get ANY SS!). It was his building that he sold on contract TO A DENTIST that gave him an extra $5,800 per month income. Guess who bought his building? Another VERY ASTUTE Dentist!

Call Jerry Jones Direct For DVD Training Programs from the Real Estate Boot Camps in 2005 and 2007 at: (503) 371-1390

Guess what his plan is? That’s right...Earn about $10,000 a month in retirement income from the very same building!

I could go on and on.

Smart Dentists all around the U.S. are beginning to see the future crystallize before their very eyes. Here are some startling statistics from the April 2006 issue of Dental Economics issued by the American Dental Association – yet so real and so in our faces, that you should consider, and ignore/refute/dismiss at your own peril. I’ve paraphrased the article which appeared on Page 153 by Thomas Financial:

Recent ADA figures indicated that only 6% of Dentists nationwide retire comfortably at age 60. [Note: it didn’t say EXTRAVAGANTLY]. Worse, many Dentists believe, incorrectly, that the big money in retiring from Dentistry is in the sale of their solo practice. The number of practices being purchased has dropped 10% in just the last few years. Your odds of having a buyer for your practice are getting worse. 25% of the new Dentists are buying 75% of the start-up practices: In other words, 3 of 4 new Dentists are starting from-scratch practices! To compound this already alarming trend, Thompson Financial reports, in this same issue of Dental Economics, that the average return of the S&P Index over a TEN YEAR period is a “whopping” 12%.

[A Side NOTE: If you invested $100,000 for 10 years at 12% you’d earn just over $230,000 in interest. Is that anything for us to get excited about? No, because you KNOW you’re going to have heartburn, sleepless nights and days while that darn, unstable market over which you have absolutely NO control goes up and down like a yo-yo.]

Let’s look at another scenario:

IF disaster struck today (you injured an arm or hand or worse, your vision became compromised), how would you survive financially?

Have you decided that you would have to face facts and lower your standard of living based on what your disability policy will support?

I don’t have any intention of being a Doomer and Gloomer here, but reality is scary...for the vast majority of Dentists.

There IS something you can do about it. Or, not. You DO have the choice of sitting on the sidelines while others move forward, building giant reserves of cash, securing an always uncertain future.

Don’t just take my word for it though..

Here’s what a Conservative by Nature and Profession,

Certified Public Accountant Had to Say About Real Estate Investing…

I recently (July 7th to be exact) had a conversation with my CPA, Ron Hunsaker, here in Salem. I asked him a very candid question:

“Ron, out of all of your clients, the wealthiest are doing what?”

He said, without ANY hesitation, and I do quote him here, now:

“The bulk of my wealthiest clients’ wealth is no doubt in Real Estate. They buy, hold, sell…my wealthiest client is a Real Estate Investor.”

-Ron Hunsaker, CPA

So here’s my challenge to you, before you necessarily believe me, go ask someone you trust, someone who has EXPERIENCE with wealthy people and ask them the very same question. I’m willing to bet the overwhelming majority of the time you’ll hear a very similar answer to what I got from Ron.

Call Jerry Jones Direct For DVD Training Programs from the Real Estate Boot Camps in 2005 and 2007 at: (503) 371-1390

In fact, Ron also said to me, and keep in mind, he’s not seen ALL of my K-1s (partnership returns I give to him at some point for tax purposes) for 2005 and he won’t believe 2006, “Jerry, you’re going to be Rich someday.”

What Ron doesn’t yet know, and he will soon, is that 2005 and 2006 were unbelievable wealth building years for me. Amazing. And, it’s ALL due to real estate. Nothing else!

Ron got going pretty strong on this topic – you have to understand, he’s a man of few words, and chooses them very carefully when he does speak (He has to be accurate, right? That’s his job!) – going so far to say that his ultimate goal and retirement strategy was to implement real estate investing much like his clients!

And I might suggest to you and to Ron both:

Get Started NOW.

But just like Dentistry and the ongoing CE, training, practice, and so forth that you undergo (and I do to a certain extent with my SofTouch Family Dental Group Dental Practice Management Co.), real estate investing isn’t something you want to run off half-cocked and just start buying without the proper training.

At the urging of my clients over a year ago, I began to assemble the group of professionals that I sought out to teach me the ins and outs of real estate investing – this group of individuals, each and every one of them multi-millionaires in their own right – are now available to teach YOU.

I’ve assembled the most seasoned, skilled teachers, mentors, every one of which is a real estate investor on their own, to bring you up to speed in the world of real estate wealth building in a convenient, fun, action-packed and educational 3-day training event.

(I have to remind myself: Without the guidance, counseling and prodding of this awesome faculty, I wouldn’t have 1/10 the net worth I now have.)

The effects of their teaching have been far-reaching. They’ve enabled me to become the proud-bearer of the title, “Ex Job Slave.” Their teachings have given me the ability to earn $10,000.00, $20,000.00, $50,000.00 and more on a regular basis, month-in, month-out, and most importantly, given me the skill-set to seek out and find hugely profitable deals – like one I just closed the first week of September year – where profits were in excess of $475,000.00 in just 9 months (we closed on this property in January – and we talked about it last December at the first Real Estate Boot Camp) on a less-than-$10,000 investment. Folks, that’s 2 years of hard work for most, high-earning Dentists.

Call Jerry Jones Direct For DVD Training Programs from the Real Estate Boot Camps in 2005 and 2007 at: (503) 371-1390

So, let me introduce you to your faculty at this incredible 3-day event coming up February 16-18, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona:

My original mentor – the one responsible for introducing me to the incredible word of real estate investing, none other than the Grand-Daddy of Quick-Turn Real Estate (and master of huge, multi-million dollar commercial deals), Ron LeGrand®.

Keep in mind it’s costing me SIX figures to bring these gentlemen to you. One is from Jacksonville, Florida and once you listen to him for just 30 seconds, your mind will be overflowing with possibilities and you won’t sleep for days!

My friend, mentor, and millionaire-maker, Ron LeGrand® will cover:

Exactly how to make HUGE profits with no money OR credit! This is my favorite part! WHY? I HAD no money or credit when I started investing in real estate. With RON’S methods, that quickly changed! Here’s what he will show you!

Where the big money is in real estate, and how you can get it with NO money, credit or risk on your part. You’ll see how some of this teacher’s students (himself included) make consistent paydays of $25,000 and more on each deal, and how you can quickly duplicate it!

The 5 Steps to success in real estate or any business and why one out of place will crush your empire.

Why the best money is made on this type of real estate in beautiful areas…contrary to conventional “real estate broker” wisdom.

How to quickly capitalize on the projects that do need renovations and avoid costly entanglements.

Ron LeGrand® has become known around the world and has taught more people more about real estate than any other GROUP of teachers combined! He’s created hundreds and hundreds of (probably well over a thousand) real estate millionaire investors!

Call Jerry Jones Direct For DVD Training Programs from the Real Estate Boot Camps in 2005 and 2007 at: (503) 371-1390

And, you know, if there’s one thing I’ve learned from Ron over the years it’s this:

“The Less I Do The More I Make."TM

Ron’s whole curriculum is built around this focus. You’ll see why it’s not about how hard you work but what you work on. You and I both know this country is full of hard working people who are broke! They all have good intentions but continuously lousy results!

Ron will also reveal:

The two fastest ways to pick up a big check ($10,000 or more) within 30 days after the Boot Camp. This has become common with his students. You’ll see real examples, including one from me where I bought a house for $30,000 and sold it within just a few days for a $15,000 profit because I followed EXACTLY what Ron taught to me in his seminar!

How you can work yourself out of a J.O.B. and into a real life within just a few months! This is NOT a joke! He’s done if for a few thousand folks already. I fail to see why you could possibly be any different! If you want your life back, come spend a couple days with Ron, myself and a few other Millionaire Makers!

How THOUSANDS of his students are getting FREE houses in gorgeous neighborhoods with one key phrase you’ll learn. In fact, this will probably be your chosen method of “buying” houses when you are exposed to these secrets. No, I don’t mean the houses are free and clear. They all come with a mortgage, but they don’t require you to assume or qualify for anything, and most won’t cost you a dime! Yes, it is true! It’s perfectly legal, ethical and very real and actually, very common. This technique alone can and will make you wealthy IF YOU USE IT! I’ve picked up TWO houses myself using this very same technique (and so have several Dentists from my December 2005 Event!) And much, much more!

Incidentally, all of these techniques are taught using real case studies from real students on real houses, many in YOUR area. You’ll see indisputable evidence that everything I’ve written here is 100% true.

Call Jerry Jones Direct For DVD Training Programs from the Real Estate Boot Camps in 2005 and 2007 at: (503) 371-1390

What else will you learn from Ron?

How to buy a million dollars worth of real estate without coming out of pocket with one red cent or ever applying for a loan of any kind.

How to build a passive income that comes in every month even if you don’t feel like working, or in fact, even if you’re dead. And, I’m not talking about rental properties or being a landlord!
How you can own a beautiful home for your family within 45 days and never fill out an application, apply for a loan, or put up a down payment. Your credit is irrelevant because you won’t be using it.(this LITERALLY saved my own rear end!).

But that’s not all. Ron will also take you through an incredible expose on GETTING RICH in your IRA!

Learn how to use real estate to grow your IRA to a MILLION DOLLARS in less than five years, without ever contributing another dime.

My friend, this very special session with Ron alone is worth many times your investment to get yourself to Scottsdale, Arizona February 16-18, 2007. And believe you me, every word I just said here is absolutely true.

Did you know your IRA can buy houses just like you can? Once you learn to do it without money, you simply make your IRA the buyer instead of you. Now all profits go into your IRA…TAX FREE! (I just closed on a piece of land – 5 acres – where I partnered with my daughters’ Roth IRAs! Their profits will be 100% tax-free for LIFE! NOT tax-deferred! I’d love to show you HOW to do this!)

Your CPA and attorney can’t and won’t teach you this because they don’t know about it! Why? Because they don’t understand real estate investing Ron’s way. Trust me when I tell you it will be a long night after hearing this. You won’t sleep a wink when you hear how you can put your children and grandchildren through college - absolutely FREE.

Call Jerry Jones Direct For DVD Training Programs from the Real Estate Boot Camps in 2005 and 2007 at: (503) 371-1390

Posted by ralph at 10:46 PM | Permalink

23. Incalculable effort and hardship over countless generations evolved into the life, values and happiness we take for granted today. Every day should be a celebration of existence. You are a masterpiece of life and should feel and appreciate this all the way down to your bones. Aspire to create, achieve and build onto the great value momentum taking place all around you.
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Ralph Zuranski: What is something parents can do to help their children realize that they, too, can be heroes and make a positive impact on the lives of others?

Dave Kekich: I never had children, so I am kind of preaching from Mount Olympus now. But I think just based on my observation, of basically my friends and family who did have children - and I am kind of an uncle to, a real uncle to some and a not-so-real, but an uncle in spirit to others - I think it starts with home education, because the things I think children should learn are not typically taught in schools, like entrepreneurship and rags-to-riches stories, great biographies, but especially values. You just don't seem to find those things in schools.

Also, you will never find the relationship between effort and reward, especially productivity and reward. That is something that has to be instilled in children at a very early age. I think that is going to make their lives so much easier to cope with, and it is going to make it so much easier to grow, to prosper, to walk on the right side of the road if they learn that early in life.

Understanding money is important and its value, because basically in economics, I think young people don't really see the value in money and don't really appreciate what it took to create it. And then the physical things: diet, exercise. Our children now are overweight, more overweight than they have ever been.

They are more out of shape than they have ever been, and a lot of that has to do with the fast food industry and processed foods. A lot of it has to do with the technology that I love so much, because a lot of kids are gamers and are not getting out and running and playing soccer. They are playing soccer with their video games.

I think that another thing that children should share in, that young people should share in, is self-development programs. I think that parents should participate with them in a lot of programs that are available today, and I think that would bond the parents with the children, and parents would learn a lot from it, too. Most parents don't really understand what children need to learn.

"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 04:19 PM | Permalink

22. The value of any service you have to offer diminishes rapidly once it's provided. Protect your compensation before performing.
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Ralph Zuranski: Yeah; I can imagine so. Well, who do you think are the real heroes in our society today who are not getting the recognition and rewards that they deserve?

Dave Kekich: I think while generally entrepreneurs and business leaders are becoming a little more popular, they are still being more vilified than glorified, in the entertainment industry, especially. And in the press.

You get a lot of bad press; people attack them, and when people rise to the top, they tend to get attacked, but the entertainment industry seems to glorify more villains, more drug dealers, and when they portray business people, they often portray them as evil, conniving, destructive, greedy people.

In reality, sure, every field has those kinds of people, but most successful business people and entrepreneurs are exactly the opposite.

Ralph Zuranski: Yeah, I really believe that is true. Well, why are heroes so important to the lives of young people?

Dave Kekich: Young people are impressionable; the most impressionable times of your life are when you are young. That can be good or bad, and other people are just going to sway them, and that is why it is important to have heroes sway them rather than some of their peers and the media who are at the opposite end of the spectrum, and don't forget the media.

Don’t attack the media because a lot of it is great, but it is entertaining, and business and entrepreneurs maybe aren't very entertaining. Maybe killers and thieves and drug dealers are more entertaining than entrepreneurs and business people.

But the media impresses young people's peers, your children's peers, and they, in turn, impress your children, and often in a negative way, so I think many of the wrong people are emulated, and that is why it is important when people are at their most impressionable ages, they are given heroes, real heroes, to emulate.

"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 04:17 PM | Permalink

21. Always have lofty explicit goals and visualize them intensely. Assume the attitude that if you don't reach your goals, you will literally die! This type of gun-to-your-head forced focus... survival pressure mindset, no matter how briefly used, stimulates your mind, forces you to use your time effectively... and illuminates new ways of getting things done.
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Ralph Zuranski: How important is it to have trusted friends and a mastermind group to bounce your ideas off?

Dave Kekich: I don't think it is essential, Ralph, but it is a huge advantage. You need to select very carefully who that mastermind group is going to be, though I think you want people who have been selected carefully, who are in tune with their goals, not necessarily their skills, or their experiences, because you want to have a wide variety with different disciplines in there. I think those people do have a huge advantage.

Ralph Zuranski: How do they make a positive difference in your life?

Dave Kekich: For the amount that I have done, they validate or correct my ideas, people to bounce ideas off of, and then I get ideas and inspirations off of them. And I think mostly they give me someone to answer to, and that is a very big, overlooked advantage to mastermind groups.

You basically come out in public and you expose your ideas and dreams and aspirations and your goals to other people. And there is a certain amount of peer pressure to implement your ideas at that point.

It is real easy to have goals and ideas and to keep them to yourself and die with them. But when you start sharing them with other people, it puts a lot of pressure on you.

"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 04:16 PM | Permalink

Did you believe your dreams would become reality?

Ralph: You know, I do believe my dreams will become reality. I look back to 1992 when I first started the Heroes program. I realized that was something that God wanted me to do. I just saw the huge amount of work it would take, and the massive amount of investment of time and money.

I’ve been funding it with my time and money for almost 13 years now. Just the sacrifices that I have had to make, during those times I’ve had to basically live out of my car because in pursuing my dream and doing everything I could to work with people that are ethical and have integrity.

A lot of the people that have taken advantage of me, I have had to break those connections. Even though it was a way that I was making a living, I had to cut back on my life just to pursue my dreams. But I always believed they would come true and I was willing to pay the price to make them become true.

Sharif Khan: It is very important! I believe you have to taste and feel and smell your dream as if it is a reality right now. I’m a big believer in seeing the reality and the vision and dream right up front, right now, the way it is. If you can’t visualize and see the tears of triumph running down your face when you win that award or get that promotion, nothing will happen.
It doesn’t matter how many goals you set, or how many affirmations you say till you’re blue in the face, if you don’t have that feeling or that knowing that this is going to be a reality, then nothing is going to happen.
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Posted by ralph at 12:28 PM | Permalink

20. Rationalizations are generally convenient evasions of reality and are used as excuses for dishonest behavior, mistakes and/or laziness.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, what is your definition of heroism?

Dave Kekich: It is probably a couple of things. Facing your fears and acting in spite of them would be one. Standing up for your convictions when faced with adversity would be another one. You talked about being wiling to die for your principles, and that would certainly be one: one I hope most people won't have to take.

I say walking the talk, when you have a lot to lose. Doing the right thing when it is not popular. I would say that all those things go into making a hero.

Ralph Zuranski: Did you ever create a secret hero in your mind that helps you with life's difficulties, especially after you had your injury?

Dave Kekich: No, no. I never did.

Ralph Zuranski: Who are the heroes in your life now?

Dave Kekich: My heroes are almost all dead. But there are so many of them. Giordano Bruno was one of them. He was burned at the stake for heresy, and he was a scientist.

Thomas Jefferson was one of them for me, and Thomas Paine, and Sir Isaac Newton, who is probably the most important person who ever lived, who based his work on his breakthroughs and his work on the amount of property that has been affected. Basically everything that is electrical or mechanical stems from his integrations, and Einstein.

There are a lot of people who are alive today, without naming them. Basically they are people who rise to the top with humility and integrity, and people who set positive roll models. And my heroes tend to be scientists and business people.

"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 04:14 PM | Permalink

Well Ralph, what’s next for “In Search of Heroes™?”

Ralph: Well, next is to do the In Search of Heroes book that I’m working on right now, the answer to In Search of Heroes on the Internet. The second book will be In Search of Heroes in Medicine with all the answers kids need to realize, and parents too, that can help make such a big difference in the health and lives of themselves and their kids.

If we can teach kids how to love themselves, how to utilize their brains to their full power, how to be healthy and successful in business and actually provide a vehicle that they can be successful in publishing and promoting the eBooks they create about the Heroes in their community, we should be able to generate enough income to help people in the communities fund their own programs to make their communities better than they could ever be.
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Posted by ralph at 10:32 PM | Permalink

The Wonder Women Of the Web Seminar, February 9-11, Friday through Sunday, focused on how to successfully market products and services to women.

The information was worth its weight in gold and the food was the best and most expensive I have ever enjoyed in four years of going to internet marketing seminars. Click the link below to see the gorgeous photos of the attendees, speakers and delicious cuisine. You can see all the photos from this amazing event with the links on the In Search Of Heroes Home page.

This was a incredible event. Some of the most successful women on the internet shared their copywriting, psychology and marketing secrets with the attendees. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and breaks were filled with delicious food, fine wine and awesome fellowship. It truly is amazing how much fun and how many intimate friendships women are capable of creating in a short period of time.

As one of the lucky males to attend this action-packed event, I learned a tremendous amount about marketing products to women. Being surrounded by so many powerful and successful women was an eye-openinng and mind-exspanding experience.

It was thrilling to again see all the women heroes I have selected to be a part of the In Search Of Heroes Program. I also had the unique opportunity to do a heroes interview on Jennie Armato, which was truly astounding. The emotional content of woman's perspective on life and being a hero truly talks directly to the heart of the matter. Her emotional transparency was very special and a great gift to everyone who listens to her interview. It will be available next week.

In the near future, I will be sharining in this blog some of the amazing truths I discovered at this outstanding event. The Wonder Women Of the Web Seminar should be a "must attend" event for all men and women who want to deliver their message effectively and sell their products massively to the financial decision makers in almost every family.

Click the links below to hear the heroes interviews of the speakers and attendees:
Donna Fox
Paulie Sabol
Rhea Perry
Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero
Mike Stewart

Other individuals already recognized as heroes and soon to be interviewed are: Dr. Fran Harris, Dr. Letitia Wright, Terri Romaine, Vee Comstock and Jeanette Cates.

Posted by ralph at 06:06 PM | Permalink

19. Use leverage with ideas (the ability to generalize is the key to intellectual leverage), work, money, time and people. To maximize profits, replicate yourself. Earning potentials become geometric rather than linear.
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Ralph Zuranski: That is amazing. Well, how important is it to believe that your financial dreams will eventually become reality?

Dave Kekich: Most of what I want to accomplish depends on wealth generation, and huge wealth generation. I know I am not going to be single-handedly solving aging; I am going to make an impact on it though, and I know I don't need to do all the research, but I do know what needs to be underwritten now that isn't being funded.

And that is going to take an enormous amount of money over time, and I believe that will happen, so that is very important to me.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, why is it valuable to know exactly how much money you want to have in your bank account, by when?

Dave Kekich: Getting back to focusing on raising money, my focus is on a venture fund. We have a foundation, and we have a venture fund, and we have a roadmap, a scientific roadmap on aging, and we have costs involved.

And in order to follow all that roadmap and reach our goal, we have to know how much money we have to raise by a certain period in time, and how much after that to raise in a certain period of time. Just looking at these goals and writing them automatically makes you visualize them, and you have got to make them explicit.

But when you visualize explicit goals, it really helps you to bring them to reality, at least much more surely and much faster.

"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 04:13 PM | Permalink

The Wonder Women Of the Web Seminar, February 9-11, Friday through Sunday, focused on how to successfully market products and services to women.

The information was worth its weight in gold and the food was the best and most expensive I have ever enjoyed in four years of going to internet marketing seminars. Click the links below to see the gorgeous photos of the attendees, speakers and delicious cuisine.

Friday Morning
Friday Afternoon and Evening
Saturday Morning
Saturday Afternoon and Evening
Sunday

Click the links below to hear the heroes interviews of the speakers and attendees:
Donna Fox
Paulie Sabol
Rhea Perry
Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero
Mike Stewart

Other individuals already recognized as heroes and soon to be interviewed are: Dr. Fran Harris, Dr. Letitia Wright, Terri Romaine and Jeanette Cates.

Posted by ralph at 11:37 PM | Permalink

18. Find out what works, and then do more of it. Focus first on doing the right things, and then on doing things right by mastering details. A few basic moves produce most results and income.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, was there anyone who gave you the will power to change things for the better in your life at that time?
Dave Kekich: Not exactly at that time, but right around that time. And his name was Wallace Ward, and he had a publishing company, and it was interesting. I read a lot of things he published, and they were very inspiring, but the most motivating thing to me was a questionnaire that their company sent to me.

And one of the questions on there was, "Do you still get regular aerobic exercise?" But it might have been just exercise, but I think it was aerobic exercise. And I hadn't been working out, and I used to work out six days a week, and usually seven days a week, and I lifted very heavily three days a week.

I ran very hard and very long four days a week. Then I went from that and getting hurt into doing nothing. But in my mind I was a long distance running, body building fanatic. In reality, I hadn't worked out in a couple of years.

So, I didn't know how to check that box. So I knew if I put down no, it would be something that I don't see myself as. If I put yes, I would be lying, so I checked yes and started working out that day. And I haven't quit since.

"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 04:11 PM | Permalink

Who helped give you the will power to change things in your life for the better?

Ralph: Well, back when I was thinking about committing suicide, even though I had material possessions and money, drugs and sex, it brought no happiness. If it wasn’t for God offering me that free gift of salvation, eternal salvation and giving me the grace that I needed to make the right decision, I would be dead.

I would be dead or in some alley like you when you were going down that trail. So first, I have to say that God gives me the willpower to change things in my life because I’m selfish and I want things for myself.

It’s so hard sometimes just to sacrifice your life for others, especially if it’s a big sacrifice of wealth and material possessions when you have to take care of others who are sick in your family. I think the other person who has given me will power is my wife, even though we have been through a lot of difficult times over the past ten years because she’s had severe health problems herself.

It has taken ten years to find out why she was going through premature menopause, with all the hormonal problems that she had. We met Dr. Borkin over the last five years who is an expert in hormones and understanding how the hormonal process works.

If I just would have known when I was a kid, and if I were a parent and knew about the hormones in my kids and how major the impact is, and how you can balance those things out, it would have made a huge difference.

So I say that first God, and then my wife supporting me no matter what and dealing with the problems in her life, but always saying, “Yes, Ralph, I know that you can do it” and always having faith that I could do it. Dr. Borkin coming into my life and showing me what I needed to balance out my hormones so I could have victory over the hormones to cause depression..
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Debra Berg: My new husband, my mother, and my extended family were all very supportive. I know I couldn’t have marched as quickly toward my goals without their encouragement.
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Sharif Khan: My father passed on a lot of wisdom and guidance and encouraged me to study the lives of successful people and read successful biographies. My father was a PhD. in Psychology. Ever since I was 8 years old he immersed myself in the classics like James Allen, Wayne Dyer, Shakti Gawain, Dale Carnegie, and all of these personal development greats I started learning at a young age. So he was an inspiration to me.

Another person that was a real inspiration to me is a gentleman by the name of Jim Ross, who I dedicated my book to. He is the founder of the Canadian Academy of Method Acting, and he taught me a lot about the psychology of the hero and psychology of the villain. He was a mentor to me, a messenger, a carrier of truth. He is definitely a hero in my life.
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Posted by ralph at 12:29 PM | Permalink

17. Life operates in reverse action to entropy. Therefore the universe is hostile to life. Progress is a continued effort to swim against the stream.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, when was the lowest point in your life, and how did you change your life afterwards to win a victory over the obstacles you were facing at that time?

Dave Kekich: Well, the lowest point was my injury. I lost basically everything I had, emotionally and physically, and relationships. Well, they actually endured over time. I lost my business, and my attitude. Primarily, that was the worst part. But there really is no magic bullet or quick fix to overcoming obstacles.

A lot of people talk about, well - this is a life-changing event and so forth. And when you see a life-changing event, usually a lot of things have led up to that to lay the groundwork for it. And when you see a certain breakthrough, they almost always follow slowly building a foundation for that breakthrough.

Now, if there was one breakthrough in my life that changed my life and got me back on track, it was when I decided to hold a fundraiser for spinal cord injuries. And I was working with the Spinal Cord Society at that time; I had a local chapter.

I held a drug-free power lifting event back in Pennsylvania, a small town in western Pennsylvania, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. We called it, or I called it, the Eastern United States Power Lifting Championships. And it was the first positive thing I had done in a couple of years.

I mean, I pretty much vegetated after my injury, and I put together this event, and it turned out we had people from all over the East Coast, and some people from the Midwest came to this relatively small town, and we got local newspaper coverage, all local, lots of local radio coverage, and sponsors.

And after it was all over, I realized my brain still worked. And that yes, it got me back on track. And I didn't go from stagnation to being in the stratosphere that day, but gradually it got me going, and I had ups and downs after that, but mostly ups. Overall I am way ahead in many ways now than I was when I was hurt, or before I was hurt.

"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 04:09 PM | Permalink

The Wonder Women Of the Web Seminar, February 9-11, Friday through Sunday, focused on how to successfully market products and services to women.

The information was worth its weight in gold and the food was the best and most expensive I have ever enjoyed in four years of going to internet marketing seminars. Click the links below to see the gorgeous photos of the attendees, speakers and delicious cuisine.

Friday Morning
Friday Afternoon and Evening

Click the links below to hear the heroes interviews of the speakers and attendees:
Donna Fox
Paulie Sabol
Rhea Perry
Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero
Mike Stewart

Other individuals already recognized as heroes and soon to be interviewed are: Dr. Fran Harris, Dr. Letitia Wright, Terri Romaine and Jeanette Cates.

Posted by ralph at 09:08 PM | Permalink

Learn Why Experts Agree That Small Business Owners Are Accidentally Alienating 85% Of Their Customers In The Wonder Women Of the Web Seminar Videos"

This seminar is one of the best I have ever attended. The information is phenomenal and the food is nothing short of scrumptuous...and plentious...Hurray. It is beautifully displayed and the amazing s"mells are worth killing my diet for the guilty pleasure of consuming massive amounts of superb, tasty treats. Gluttony will be my sin this weekend as I enjoy the Marriot's divine cuisine, chosen specifically by Donna to bless her "Wonder Women that make men wonder."

After the first day I suddenly realized that women are the real life heroes who raise, nurture, teach and motivate their sons and daughters and grandkids. They have a greater influence on children than any other powerful force for self-determination and self-confidence.

Anyone who is not learning how to reach this huge market that controls 80% of all expenditures are really leaving a lot of money on the table. The information I am learning is incredibly valuable and I have begged Donna to let me make the entire video DVD and audio CD training program available to those who value women and understand the power of their purse strings.

I will let you know if she will allow me to make an early bird special available to you with the entire program to be delivered in around 30 days. I will ask her again today to see if she is willing to provide this unique opportunity.

You've heard of Web 2.0, the second generation of the internet, focusing on networking sites that emphasis online collaboration and sharing... What you likely don't realize, and it's costing you money, is who the driving force is behind Web 2.0.

You see, there's a secret and dramatic buying trend shift affecting your market. Understanding it early will give you an advantage over your less informed competition.

Further, knowing how to react to this buying trend means the difference in reaching 566% more buyers. Can you imagine growing your business by 566%? What would it be like to reach almost 600% more buyers? It's possible, and the Wonder Women of the Web will show you how.

If you ignore this trend it you might not only have a business that doesn't grow to it's full potential...it's very likely to kill your business.

In order to connect and grow your business, you'll need to know what’s still working, what doesn’t work anymore, and what’s going to work in the future. It's vitally important to be aware of what's coming in marketing so that you can respond to it and grow your business and profits.

Marketing experts know that it’s still important today to know the fundamentals of good marketing for succeed. It doesn't matter if your business is selling widgets, information, services or houses.

Here's a checklist of what's still working today, even during this dramatic marketing shift that's taking place...

1. Use long copy in your sales messages, packaging, and support materials.

2. Contact prospects repeatedly (multi-step marketing) to increase both the number and the size of sales

3. Educate your clients and prospects in what to buy, how to buy, and how to use the product and benefit.

Focus on referrals by creating raving fans and faithful devotees who send others to you.

And when you use these time-tested building blocks of great marketing, you can almost see the money bulging out of your bank account.

While above is a very short list of tactics that are proven to work regardless of the trend, many other strategies that small business owners are using now can cost you a lot of money... even your whole business... if you continue without adapting to the fact that...

There’s a new reality affecting your market causing some business’ profits to plummet while others soar like a hot air balloon.

New photos of today's events and training will be posted after lunch and tonight. You will kick yourself when you realize you missed the seminar of the century!!!

Posted by ralph at 08:11 PM | Permalink

When was the lowest point in your life, and how did you change your life path to one of victory over obstacles?

Ralph Zuranski: I decided to turn away from my faith. I still remember the first day that I didn’t go to Mass. I decided I would go surfing instead. I was sitting out in the ocean and it was the time of the movie Jaws and I just kept on thinking about this big giant shark opening up its mouth and just consuming me, like the whale consumed Jonah.

Sitting out on my board as punishment for turning away from God, and when nothing happened like that, that sent me on a spiral on getting involved with sex and drugs and rock and roll, and psychedelics.

It completely evolved into a situation where I was smoking pot all the time. I was living with a guy that was into coke and all the horrible things involved in freebasing coke and I saw all that. Ultimately it led me to a point where I was just so depressed and I was ready to kill myself. I still had that problem with depression. Even though I had money, sex and drugs I was just so depressed.

The idea of training a child in the way they should go and when they are old they won’t depart from it. I know my parents were praying for me and spontaneously at the lowest point of my life when I was ready to kill myself, out of the blue, subconsciously I started saying the Lord’s Prayer and Hail Mary.

That seemed to put me in a situation where I was able to find my relationship with God as either accept the free gift of salvation or just kill myself. Thankfully God gave me the grace and the faith to make the right choice.
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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"

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 04:17 PM | Permalink

16. Competence starts with guaranteeing your work.
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Ralph Zuranski: Would you experience service to others as a source of joy?

Dave Kekich: Yes, I do. But I actually try to do it profitably. And the reason I do that is it is more durable. One example is the life extension pursuits I have. We believe we have a pretty strong team, by the way, and have a really strong group of scientists on our board, and we have a very strong management team and a really strong team as advisors.

And things aren't just automatically going to happen, because of the law of accelerating returns. Well, they will happen, but they will happen when people make them happen if it is not something that is on remote control.

And we think we are going to make it happen a lot sooner, and by doing that we believe we are going to be able to save millions, if not tens of hundreds of millions of lives of people who were dying prematurely. Now, if you try to do something to save yourself, and try to extend your own life, you just aren't going to be able to pull it off.

There is just, you don't have enough resources. In order to make this work you have to make it work for the world. You better make it work for humanity. And that is what I mean by durability, and that carries over to all kinds of other things.

You have heard the old adage over and over about you can give a man a fish and you can feed him for a day, and you can teach him to fish, and you feed him for life. That is a philosophy I like to follow. It is more sustainable, and again, it is more durable.

A lot of people want to be a martyr. They stand up and they say, "Well, gee, I am servicing others," and often that is self-defeating, because you run out of resources. In order to give you have to create, because if you are not creating, you won't have anything to give.

"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 04:08 PM | Permalink

15. If it's not proprietary, it won't work. Pay only on performance. Proprietary interest is one of the most powerful forces ever known. Whatever you reinforce or reward, you get more of.
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Ralph Zuranski: Are you slow to reverse or revise an important decision?

Dave Kekich: I am slow, but I am willing. Once I make a decision, then I have thought it out. Hopefully, I have thought it out, if I do what I say I should do. But once you make a decision, if you do it the right way, it is probably right, but it is not necessarily right. You should spend more time changing it than you did making it.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, how were you able to overcome your doubts and fears? It must have been pretty catastrophic when you got paralyzed.

Dave Kekich: Well, it was, and I didn't overcome it at first. I ended up just facing them. But not just fears from being paralyzed. It was fears from making a sales call, or fears from asking somebody out on a date. There are a lot of fears we face in our lives.

I mean, you just have to face them. But when you do, you are going to find most of your fears are over-hyped. They really weren't that bad.

Ralph Zuranski: Would you readily forgive those who upset, offended, and oppose you?

Dave Kekich: I think for the people who upset, offend or oppose me, there isn't anything to forgive. There is always somebody that is going to oppose you. You have different opinions, and people feel just as strongly about theirs as you do yours.

So just because they are opposing you doesn't mean there is something to forgive, and people offend other people all the time. It is just their nature; I don't think it is anything to forgive. People upset you from time to time. I think the thing that is a forgivable offense is when you are cheated, you are lied to, you are stolen from, and you have physical harm.

Or when someone does those things to somebody you love. That is a whole different category. And in those cases I try, but I have to say it is very difficult.
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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 04:06 PM | Permalink

What were or are the qualities and attributes of your secret Hero?

Ralph Zuranski: My secret Hero was positive all the time. My Hero was always telling me, “You can do it! Don’t give up! Even though you failed, never give up! Everything is going to be okay! Don’t focus on the negative. Just continue to be positive and just try. You are only a failure if you don’t get back up and try again. You are going to fail a lot, but if you learn from your failures, you continue to find how to have a better and more successful life.”

So, my character really gave me hope and said, “You can do it!” There is that one piece of life that always was there to keep me going in times of difficulty and depression, fear and self worthlessness.
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Sharif Khan: They had a dream, they were determined, and knew exactly what they wanted and they had a larger than life vision. They went out there with courage and did what they wanted to do and didn’t take “no” from anybody and were able to accomplish their dreams; and so I look up to these role models knowing if they can do it, I can do it.
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Debra Berg: Mom surmounted incredible odds and obstacles to become successful, and mostly she did it while she was a single parent raising me. She was a secretary to generals and college deans. She also headed up a large organization that helped thousands of women achieve a better financial situation. Perseverance was her battle cry. Now, whenever obstacles come up for me, I just remember her example.
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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 11:16 PM | Permalink

14. The primary purpose of business is to create and keep customers. Marketing and innovation produce results. All other business functions are costs. Prospecting and increasing the average value and frequency of sales are the bedrock of marketing and business.
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Ralph Zuranski: Do you think it takes courage to pursue new ideas?

Dave Kekich: Oh, yeah, sure; it is not very easy because the tendency is to go with the flow, and inertia is hard to overcome, but it is very important to keep from stagnating. The world is changing so quickly, and that gets back to the Law of Accelerating Returns, that if you don't, you are not going to keep up. It is exciting. There are a lot of exciting things happening.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, were you willing to experience discomfort in the pursuit of your dreams?

Dave Kekich: I wish I didn't have to but yeah, you have got to. We all have comfort zones; at least, perceived comfort zones. And if we just try to stay in those, we are going to guarantee stagnation. Usually when you get out of your comfort zones, you will find the effort that you make to get out of your comfort zones and be uncomfortable, really leads to more long term comforts.

So I think people are kidding themselves when they say, "Well, I am comfortable here now, and things are great, and I don't need to do anything," they are going to find that they are sacrificing comfort as well as other things for short-term gratification.

Ralph Zuranski: Was it beneficial to make decisions quickly?

Dave Kekich: Not necessarily. I admire people who can make very quick decisions that are right. I find that when I act impulsively it is almost always wrong. Now, having said that, I think it is important to make decisions quickly once you do your homework, and once you get all of the facts, or most of the facts. Or at least enough of them. But make sure, once you get the facts, you look at them and then make a decision. At that point, it doesn't pay to vacillate.
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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 04:02 PM | Permalink

How will being recognized as an Internet hero change your life?

Cameron Johnson: Well, hopefully it will change the life of others and of the people listening. But also it changed my life just by thinking about the questions we have talked about today, and I hope that further discussion on these questions will not just help me, but help everyone who is listening.
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Ralph Zuranski: You know it already has changed my life. That other people think that I am a Hero confirms and reaffirms all the years and all the sacrifices that I have ever been through since I created Captain Biorhythm back in 1976.

It’s been a hard road, and I can’t tell you how embarrassing it was to wear my costume around. For one year, I lived as Captain Biorhythm. I wore my costume to work every day, the costume I designed went through a series of evolutions. Ultimately it became a test of people’s brain integration, whether they were right or left brained dominant.

So when I was director of a chain of health spas in charge of health research, family fitness centers, I wore my costume to work every day to test people’s brain hemisphere. I had my car painted up as the Biomobile and it had Captain Bio on it.

Everybody kept asking me, “Gee, who is Captain B10”, just this thing that I did had the reverse consequences. I was ridiculed, but still, I persevered and went to the comic conventions in San Diego and went up on stage.

I remember one time when I was doing the first Heroes program, I had a young man, stay with me and we went on In Search of Heroes in the comic industry, the comic convention at Sea World and Disneyland. I was up on the stage; I was going to have three stages where I had Ralph Zuranski on the outside.

Underneath that costume I had Captain Biorhythm, and underneath that costume I had Captain Bioman, where you integrate the right brain and the left brain. Bio means two, so when you join your hands together that integrates both your right brain and your left brain, and people do that naturally when they put their hands together in great joy or great sorrow. Some people pray, it’s like integrating the person instantly.

At that time the people that were running the convention turned the lights off when I took my first layer off. They thought I was probably a pervert and that I was going to expose myself. I intended to expose that there were three aspects of human beings, there is your right brain, your left brain, and anybody can be a Bioman or Biowoman when they join hands together and they form a circle of completion and become friends with themselves. Both brain hemispheres are working together rather than trying to destroy one brain hemisphere.

Most of the time our worst enemy is ourselves, and our dominant brains, either the left brain that is the logical, judgmental, mathematical, verbal skills. It’s the one that’s competitive and the judgmental one. It internalizes all the negative stuff that people have told us over our lifetime and a lot of times, destroy our self image and make our lives the worst ever.
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Sharif Khan: It already has changed my life. I know if I were to pass away right now, that I have already done something that will leave a lasting legacy and a gift to humanity with the work that I’ve already done. And it gives me a great sense of peace. And what really gets me going, the drive, is thinking what will be written on my epitaph when I die, how do I want to be remembered.

That’s what allows me to want to serve as best I can using my God-given abilities to help as many people as I can within the shortest time frame that’s left because life is really fragile. Life is so short. I heard about Cory Rudl (world-renowned internet marketing expert) who recently passed away in a car accident, I think he was racing with a buddy, he was such an inspiration teaching people about the internet. Life is really fragile and short and we need to make the most of it right now.
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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 04:14 PM | Permalink

13. Protect your downside. The upside will take care of itself. Cut your losses short - and let your profits run. This takes tremendous discipline.
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Is optimism valuable?

Dave Kekich: Oh sure; absolutely. I am a long-term optimist. In fact, a lot of people think I am overly optimistic and too optimistic, but I don’t think that is possible, unless it becomes a way to avoid reality or depression. Some people may get so optimistic, they may say, "Well, everything is all right,” and they don't take any action because they are hoping against hope for the future.

So you have to be careful about optimism. Actually I am a short- term pessimist in a lot of areas. There are a lot of things I don't like going on in the world, and I don't see them turning around very rapidly, but I think in the long term, things are going to be fine.

Ralph Zuranski: Do you maintain a sense of humor in the face of serious problems?

Dave Kekich: I try to. It is not always easy, but I try to. If I don't, I try to catch myself.

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

Dave Kekich: Sure. Sure. In the mornings, I go over my goals and my dreams. And in the evenings before I go to sleep I think about them. We all have, some more than others, counter-productive thoughts, and I know that when I have them, I try to catch myself.

And when I do catch myself, I try to substitute those thoughts for something that is more positive, or take a positive slant on those thoughts.
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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 04:00 PM | Permalink

"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
— William J. H. Boetcker

Posted by ralph at 11:31 PM | Permalink

Why do you think you are selected for this unique honor?

Cameron Johnson: I think through interviews and through talking and everything, I think there is just so much value that can come out of just a conversation.

By sharing a conversation, just as we are having right now, Ralph, with an unlimited number of people, I just think so much value is created for them, and so much value is created for you and me by having this conversation, that I think it just creates value and gives back to society.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, you know, I was selected because I honored other people first. I honored other people as Heroes first and looked for the good in them, and the good things they were doing. I was doing it without trying to get money or make money in the whole process. I was doing it for the pure joy of trying to make the world a better place by focusing on the good that people do rather than the negative, and realizing that if you help enough people get what they want, you will get what you want too.

My ultimate dream would be to generate enough money with this program that I would be able to do this full time and be able go to every community and help people set up a program “In Search of Heroes™” in their community and honoring all those people that deserve to be recognized.
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Sharif Khan: I believe that early in life, because of the unique situations that happened in my life, and the tragedies which I suffered, I connected at a deeper level, at a spiritual level, and found out at a very early age what my calling in life is. And my calling, my purpose, is to enrich the lives of as many people as I possibly can, using my God-given talents, writing being the main one. So I think I’ve been privileged because I saw my calling at an early age, and I took action and decided to pursue my calling regardless of what others were saying around me.
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Debra Berg:Perhaps because I’ve made some difficult decisions in my life that others might not have made which ultimately resulted in helping 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 04:15 PM | Permalink

12. Success comes quickly to those whom develop great powers of intense sustained concentration. The first rule is to get involved by asking focused questions.
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Ralph Zuranski: Was it useful to you to take a positive view of setbacks, and misfortunes, and mistakes? I know that you had quite a few of those, but yet you have bounced back.

Dave Kekich: Well, yes I have. I have had setbacks both physically and personally, and I have made my share of mistakes, and of course, the misfortune. You have to deal with these things. It is really not what happens to you so much.

It is really more how you react when it happens to you, Ralph. Sure, it is useful and helpful to take a positive view of everything, and not just setbacks either, but everything in life in general.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, do you think if you don’t get out there and start making mistakes that you are not going to get anywhere, because you learn by your mistakes?

Dave Kekich: Oh, exactly. You hit the nail right on the head. You learn way more from your mistakes than from successes or from other people. Now, it is an unusual person, in fact, who learns from others’ mistakes. That is part of one of my Credos. It takes a genius to learn from other people's mistakes.

You know, we read other people's books, and we hear talks and lectures and know mistakes that people make. But until we make them ourselves, we really don’t learn them, and I wish that weren't true with me, because I would have saved myself a lot of pain. So if there was one lesson to be learned, look at other people's mistakes and try not to repeat them.
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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 03:27 PM | Permalink

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
— Maya Angelou

Posted by ralph at 10:18 PM | Permalink

How do people become heroes?

Cameron Johnson: Well, I think the only thing you need to do to be a hero is to help someone else. So if you can give back to anyone, then you are being a hero.
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Ralph Zuranski: It’s similar to what you say, serve and protect. It’s the people that sacrifice part of their time or their money. I think the most important thing is that they sacrifice their time. It’s the most valuable thing that they have. They help others, whether it’s people in their family, community, I don’t care who they help. When people help others, they are basically making the world a better place.

I really love your analogy as far as the darkness that society is trapped in, seeking after greed, the darkness of pornography, of lust, of power, of material possessions. Most people get so caught up in that. We look at our politicians and we look at a lot of the people, sports stars, movie stars, all those people are the worst examples for young people.

The sooner they realize that there is a Hero within themselves, that they just learn what Heroes do. They can be a Hero every day. Just look at their moms and dads and people within their family, and the good things they can do. Not be so concerned about themselves, the hardest thing in the world for people to overcome is selfishness. Being depressed, being upset and not choosing what you have, just being in a state of always wanting other things.

The only way that you can overcome that is serving others. It’s so crucial to not be concerned about yourself, but be more concerned about the people around you. I think that’s where you overcome depression, unhappiness and sorrow by helping others, because it’s such a great joy to help others.

You can see how paying it forward, by doing random acts of kindness, like you said, it can be so transformational in this world. If you help one person, you are helping yourself and you are helping the entire world.
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Sharif Khan: That’s a very good question. To start, self knowledge is really important. On the Greek temple of Apollo there is an inscription that reads, “Know thyself, and you will know the gods and the universe!” To know your strengths and weaknesses, your deepest desires and your deepest fears, really being able to understand where you begin and where you end and beyond.

Self knowledge is so important because through self knowledge we learn what it is that we really want to do, what our calling in life is, what our blessings are. By pursuing those blessings, by following our bliss, and doing what we love doing in service to others, we automatically become heroes.
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Debra Berg: I believe people become heroes when their character qualities intersect with an unexpected opportunity to act or to make an important decision that will save or improve the lives of 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 04:13 PM | Permalink

11. Never enter into nor invest in a business without a solid, well-researched and well thought-out written plan. Execute the plan with passion and precision. Plan and manage your life the same way.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, are your actions and goals consistent with your beliefs?

Dave Kekich: Yes, I believe they are. I work really hard on following the Credo, and that is why I wrote it.

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

Dave Kekich: Oh, absolutely. The more emotional you are, the more the goals mean to you, the more of a personal chord they strike, the easier they are to achieve. They burn themselves into your whole psyche, your whole being. Here’s an example.

If you have an experience that is really a deep emotional experience in your life, the chances are you are never going to forget it. But we have hundreds of thousands of experiences in our lives, and for the most part, we forget most of them.

It is the same concept when it comes to goals. The more highly charged your emotions are, the more sure you are going to be able to accomplish them.

And you can do that; you can guide your own emotions. You can make these highly charged by visualization and repetition, and just basically getting in and believing those goals have already happened, or by visualizing those goals have already happened.

Many people who are listening to this have seen a lot of information other people have put out about goals. Anyway, another long-winded answer, but I would say the answer is absolutely.
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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 03:25 PM | Permalink

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
— John Quincy Adams

Posted by ralph at 11:42 PM | Permalink

"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth."
— Pierre Abelard

Posted by ralph at 11:23 PM | Permalink

Who do you feel are the real heroes in our society today that aren’t getting the recognition and rewards that they deserve?

Cameron Johnson: Well, when you just read me this question, on of the first things that just came to my mind was that Warren Buffet just gave $43 billion to charity and he made the news for three days. He didn’t do it because he wanted his name on the cover of every newspaper for a certain amount of time, or anything else.

But he is clearly a hero in that every value that he created his entire life, almost every penny, has been given back to charities. With Bill Gates’s foundation, a large portion of his donation went to Bill Gates’s foundation, and that is exactly what Bill Gates’s passions are now.

He has already set a time frame for when he is leaving Microsoft and how he is going to be less involved. He is going to be working with the charity full time because that is where he gets value, and that is where he gets rewards.

I think those are true heroes, those that give back in every way possible through the creation of these successful businesses that they have built. They are now able to give back to our entire nation and the world. They are there for the long term through their donations.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, of course it’s the moms and dads first of all. The moms and dads are laying down their lives for the kids. The kids don’t even realize just how much sacrifice it takes for the moms and dads to go to work every day, and buy food, clothes and love the kids, and take a lot of the guff that kids give them.

Anybody who takes care of somebody that’s sick in their family is not only a Hero, but a saint. The teachers, the coaches, the spiritual leaders, the priests, the pastors, all the different faiths, all the people that take that time and sacrifice fame, fortune and material possession and free time to make a positive difference in the lives of others.

The real Heroes are people that help others. My acronym for a Hero or actually Heroes is somebody that Helps Enthusiastically, Responsibly, Optimistically, Exceptionally, Socially and or Spiritually.

Anybody can do that at any moment in time. Anybody can step up to the plate and help somebody, and instantly become a Hero. Gregory Alan Williams was one of the first Heroes that we did who was the black cop on Baywatch.

He actually saved an Asian man’s life in the L.A. riots as he was being beaten to death at an intersection. Gregory Alan Williams went out and pulled the guy out of the car even though the mob was there trying to kill him. They were getting ready to turn on Gregory Alan Williams and the Asian guy and a Mexican guy stepped in and took the beatings so he could get that man that was injured to the neighbors. They were able to get him to the hospital, and he survived.

Gregory Alan Williams said there is a little bit of good in the worst of us, and a little bit of bad in the best of us. No matter how bad a person is, they can step up to the plate and become a Hero. Even in a moment in time they can change somebody’s life by doing good. I think that there are Heroes all around us. Anybody can be a Hero, no matter what their status in life is, no matter what their attitude is.

Just as you believe that it is important to give people a good example of what real Heroes are. Those are the people that lay down their lives for others, that aren’t so focused on material possessions and fame or driven by green or lust. They are just experiencing the pleasures of life, trying to make the world a better place by helping people that are in their lives.
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Sharif Khan: As I mentioned before, many of the teachers, many of the coaches, many people who are training and teaching young entrepreneurs, these people are not getting the recognition they deserve because we are all focused on the celebrities or the actors or the sports heroes that we tend to forget our friends and families and the people around us who are making a small difference in people’s lives on a daily basis.
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Debra Berg: I really believe they are the civic entrepreneurs I’ve written about. The reason being that the social ills of poverty, at-risk youth, neighborhood decay, housing shortages and a host of others were escalating and not being addressed in an effective way by our large institutions. Otherwise, these problems would have been solved long ago. The civic entrepreneur in our society is having much greater success at solving these tough issues at a fraction of the cost of government programs. They’re doing it in such a way that is more compassionate, inclusive, and engaging of people in the community (to become volunteers and donors).
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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 04:11 PM | Permalink

10. Learn the other side's needs, offer as little information as possible, never underestimate youropposition, and never show weakness when negotiating.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, we are going to be posting that with your interview also, and parts of your presentation on the In Search of Heroes blog, so people can take advantage of that. What is your perspective on goodness, ethics and moral behavior?

Dave Kekich: Oh, that is extremely important in my life. I mean, those are the bases of enduring civilizations and relationships and business success. If you don’t have that, you need to go back to the drawing board.

Ralph Zuranski: What place does the power of prayer have in your life?

Dave Kekich: In my life, none. I am not religious. Therefore, I don't pray. I do a little meditation, but I really don't pray personally.

Ralph Zuranski: What are the principles you are willing to sacrifice your life for?

Dave Kekich: Well, that is a choice I hope I never have to face, since my whole essence is centered around longevity and not death. But one thing I will say, and I don't know what my life to me is worth, what everybody's life or most people's lives are worth. You can't calculate what it is worth.

But many people who are sacrificing their lives for their principles today would probably not sacrifice their lives if they knew they had an open-ended lifespan. Let's say we have already achieved my goal, and we all had an open-ended biological life span.

Accidents and things are still going to happen, but let's say we have control over the biology, and we have peace and prosperity in the world, and we at least have hopes and things in abundance, I think people would think a lot harder before they would lay down their lives for their principles.

And principles are not necessarily positive, you know. We see people all over the world today, terrorists, for example, who are laying down their lives for their principles, and is that good or bad? Well, no, I think it is bad.

I mean, they can do with their lives what they want, but they are taking other lives with them, and I think they are misguided, whether they take anybody else's lives or not. Now I applaud people who will lay down their lives for moral principles, and maybe I would, and maybe I wouldn't; I just never want to be faced with that choice.
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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 03:22 PM | Permalink

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 05:06 PM | Permalink

How did your heroes make a positive difference in your life?

Cameron Johnson: I think they save you a lot of time! They save you a lot of time from trial and error. You can read books about things that have worked and things that haven’t, and you can also ask people that have been in that exact same situation.

You can see what decisions they made and whether they would agree that they were the right decisions or the wrong decisions. You can use that advice to move forward, and hopefully to make better decisions in your life, and to save time.

Because we are only here for a certain amount of time, so we need to be as effective as we can be. So I think that is exactly how they can make a positive difference every day.
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Ralph Zuranski: Just by their example of sacrifice, love for others and compassion. It’s something that, I’ve never been a real emotional person, and I’ve always been sort of a right brained person and goal oriented. I don’t have many emotions.

Learning and seeing what emotions are, and how powerful they are in a person’s life and how good they are. They give you peaks and valleys. They make life interesting other than just totally dedicated, “I’m on a mission and I’m going to succeed.”

It forces you to look at the people around your life and I think the most important thing that you can do is minister to the people that God puts in your path. The only way you can really do that is by showing your emotions and experiencing your emotions, and having those emotions of love, hate and anger. Just be willing to go through that.

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 04:12 PM | Permalink

9. A little caution avoids great regrets. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Keep fully insured physically and materially and keep hedged emotionally. Insurance is not for sale when you need it.
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Ralph Zuranski: Well, what specific philosophy or philosophies guide your life and guide your decisions?

Dave Kekich: Specific philosophy: I guess you could call me a soft-hearted objectivist.

Ralph Zuranski: I haven't heard that one before.

Dave Kekich: Well, I just made it up.

Ralph Zuranski: What does that mean?

Dave Kekich: Objectivists are looked at as pretty calculating and cold, but objectivism really is a humanitarian-type philosophy, but it is not perceived that way. But I also have a personal code of ethics and rules that I use to guide my life. I call it Kekich's Credo.

Kekich's Credo is basically a summary of the most important things I have learned in my life, and I boil those down to 100 rules or Credos.

"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 03:20 PM | Permalink

How important is it to have trusted friends or a mastermind group to bounce your ideas off?

Cameron Johnson: I think it is so important that you have trusted friends. First of all, if you have friends you can’t trust, then you can’t bounce an idea off of them. You have to be able to trust your friends, and your friends also need to be able to trust you, likewise.

I think a mastermind group is so rewarding, because it is not just rewarding to you to be the center of that group, but it is rewarding to everyone who gets to participate. I am a participant in several mastermind groups, and I have one myself.

It is so rewarding to just bounce ideas off for each other and help all of us move forward and be more successful. I think it is also probably one of the most important things you can do, and the most cost effective, to bounce an idea off of someone before you spend the money or go out and write the check to do it. So I think mastermind groups are so rewarding and so valuable.

Debra Berg: I believe we go through many transitions in our life, and it’s critical to have like-minded friends and mentors who can help keep you steered in the right direction.

The members of the Mastermind group may change over time and should be chosen carefully. Sometimes they’re there for a reality check. Many times you need them to help you out in a creative way. Still other times, you need them to help you think on a completely different level from your usual way of looking at 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 11:10 PM | Permalink

8. Learn from the giants.
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Ralph Zuranski: So that is the dreamer vision that sets the course of your life?

Dave Kekich: It is.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, how important is it for you to stay focused on your primary goal?

Dave Kekich: Well, it is extremely important. It is paramount. All the successes I had in my life were when I focused on one thing, and most of my life, my focusing abilities were pretty inadequate. I was scattered all over the board, and I can attribute, looking back, almost all the failures in my life, and I have had them, I can attribute almost all of them to lack of focus.

Ralph Zuranski: Well, do you follow your hunches and intuition?

Dave Kekich: Yes, I do, it took me a long time to learn to do that. Ignoring my hunches and intuition has cost me in the past. And it has cost me big time. Most of the big losses I took, most of the big hits, the failures, the big financial losses, cost me because I did not follow my hunches and intuition.

By the way, hunches and intuitions improve over time. The more, and the better the education you get, and the more experienced you get, the better your intuition gets.
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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.)

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