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Launch Date: May 23, 2001
Last # of subscribers: 2847
Present # of subscribers: 2909
Thought of the Day
"Knowledge is NOT power...it is Potential Power..... released when APPLIED"
Message to subscribers
WORDS OF WISDOM: Article from the Houston Chronicle
Dear Subscribers:
Please send me your URL so I can illustrate a point.
The point is simply this:
1. By joining direct to me I will now begin to promote you in a zealous fashion.
2. This will result in others joining direct to you.
3. I will continue to promote them and so on.
4. This is not to replace any efforts you will put forth, but rather to energize, or fuel, the process.
This ezine is but one, albeit multifaceted, advertising venue. Other sources of exposure include opt-in e-mail lists, classified ads, and site submission, as well as traditional off-line advertising efforts. In short, this ezine is not beyond drumming up business on your behalf.
The thing to see is that this ezine is a growing thing. And, while not every subscriber will learn to love and trust the evolving systems here. There is a clear percentage that will. This ezine itself, among the other things it is, is a lead magnet. The kind of lead magnet that attracts many sincere marketers . . . The kind that take action . . . The kind that do the work.
It is my philosophy that a leader leads by doing, that no group will extend itself beyond the limitations set by the
behaviors of its figurehead. In other words, I mean to set an example about making every effort to insure the success of those who have made commitments to me.
You truly matter to me, as though you were myself. I am only doing what I can imagine I might want done for myself, in the best of terms. And just this, imagine a group of people like that. A growing group of people who are not content to sit by and let anyone fail.
There is so much garbage spawn daily, the likes of which purport to know the secrets of success . . . As though the secrets of success were a system or a mechanical set of stratagem. When the real truth is, success is how much we can materialize for others the same wonderful things we would have for
ourselves.
So, be encouraged. New subscribers are coming on board daily. Advertising efforts have only just begun. There are no limits to imagination, nor obstacles that can prevent the determined spirit.
Please send me your URL and let's get your downlines going.
Stephan Bourget
BMI's President & CEO
http://pros.bourget-marketing-international.com
http://wcl.bourget-marketing-international.com
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Do you ever feel somewhat disadvantaged in the business? A little "handicapped" perhaps? Remember our business is never dependant on others (who we've just enrolled or are hoping to enroll or who we're currently working with...) it is only and totally dependant on us. Let's not forget to "mentor" ourselves ...... daily.
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On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that getting on stage is no small
achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches.
To see him walk across the stage one step at a time, painfully and slowly, is an unforgettable sight. He walks painfully, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair. Then he sits down, slowly, puts his crutches on the floor, undoes the clasps on his legs, tucks one foot back and extends the other foot forward. Then he bends down and picks up the violin, puts it under his chin, nods to the conductor and proceeds to play.
By now, the audience is used to this ritual. They sit quietly while he makes his way across the stage to his chair. They remain reverently silent while he undoes the clasps on his legs. They wait until he is ready to play.
But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it snap --it went off like gunfire across the room. There was no mistaking what that sound meant. There was no mistaking what he had to do.
People who were there that night thought to themselves: "We figured that he would have to get up, put on the clasps again, pick up the crutches and limp his way off stage -- to either find another violin or else find another string for this one."
But he didn't. Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra began, and he played from where he had left off. And he played with such passion and such power and such purity as they had never heard before. Of course, anyone knows that it is impossible to play a symphonic work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, but that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. You could see him modulating, changing, recomposing the piece in his head.
At one point, it sounded like he was de-tuning the strings to get new sounds from them that they had never made before. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. There was an extraordinary outburst of applause from every corner of the auditorium. We were all on our feet, screaming and cheering, doing everything we could to show how much we appreciated what he had done.
He smiled, wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to quiet us, and then he said, not boastfully, but in a quiet, pensive, reverent tone, "You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left."
What a powerful line that is. It has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the way of life -- not just for artists but for all of us. Here is a man who has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, who, all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, finds himself with only three strings. So he makes music with three strings, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more beautiful, more sacred, more memorable, than any that he had ever made before, when he had four strings.
So, perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.
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Stephan Bourget
CEO & MLM Consultant
Bourget Marketing International
http://leads.bourget-marketing-international.com
Direct Phone # 418-664-0785
Direct Fax # 305-832-6135
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Stephan Bourget is an MLM Consultant & Trainer with WCL and with Success
Team Builders, the fastest and largest growing organization within WCL - as well as the founder of
Bourget Marketing International (BMI).
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