Hello all,

Thanks for all your help this year, gifts and support of my work. The farm had a great year with an abundant harvest. Many trainings were held and the new Men's Weekends were started.

I am grateful for all the help provided by Dave Gilman, Mike Melampy, Tom Lindsley, Drew Boescher, Brian Mihelis, Jim Kaloutas, Jim Robbins, Warren Gibbons, Perry and Freda, My Janice, Toni Stone, Phil Albright, Jeff Ferreira, Jeannette Sullivan, Mark Callahan and all of my many clients and students.

Thank you, I am grateful for the many gifts of your time, treasure and talent. I am still in the land search or farm search mode and now have the possibility of support for a conserved farm combined with a CSA housing development. More details will follow as we progress. Endowments and pledges are now over $10,000 in total and for this I am grateful. If you have pledged your support, you will receive a bill as soon as the IRS clears our tax exempt status. Again, I will keep you posted. My goal is to pass the farm and the training center on to future generations of teachers and farmers. We are always harvesting something we planted. Facing our harvest is not always easy, unless it is in the garden. Have a wonderful, healthy, prosperous, joyous and satisfied New Year.

Now, for the final Sales Newsletter of the year...

The following are my commitments to insuring another record year of income and growth for me and my business. It is behavior that insures my success. Included in that behavior are my thoughts and deeply held beliefs. If my results are less than I expected in any moment, I realize that somewhere I have given up on my beliefs and I re-commit to them.

The following are my beliefs and behaviors for 2007:

I am a CEO.

I am a successful salesperson, teacher and trainer.

I am a dynamic, energetic, enthusiastic motivational speaker and teacher of the Universal Laws.

I commit to making more calls asking for what I desire than ever before. On the days that I feel like knocking off early, I will make at least one more call and then one more.

I will ask for what I desire daily.

I will detach from outcomes. Outcomes are not my job. Action is my job. Asking is my job. Outcomes are guaranteed if I take enough action. Outcomes are guaranteed if I ask enough people. Rejection is a necessary ingredient of any successful business or sales person. I embrace rejection. No is a wonderful word. NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO , NO YES, NO, YES... THIS IS THE REQUIRED PATH FOR SUCCESS.   

If I have a complaint, I will make a request to help solve the complaint.

I will make those around me right.

I will work on my relationship skills remembering that the "greatest journey in life is the distance between two people."

I recognize that the greatest distance in my life is actually the distance between my ego and my real self, my soul.

I will listen to my soul. I will act on the intuition, the thoughts that come to me from "no where," now here. I will accept that guidance and act on it.

I will push beyond wherever I see the world as flat. I will set sail for destinations unknown, remembering that "heroes step where there is no floor and the floor rises to meet them."

I will praise and acknowledge those around me and those who support my efforts.

I will recognize that the people who bug me are gifts, moving me to something or somewhere new in my life.

I will recognize that when I think someone else is "doing something to me," or if I think that someone else is wrong, it is actually me and I will take responsibility for correcting my thinking.

I will remember that "I am always harvesting something I planted."

These and more thoughts and actions will insure another successful, record year, with the key being, as I go along harvesting, to remember who planted the seeds. Me.

Each month, I will look at what is working and take pleasure in that. I will look at what is not working and make adjustments.

I will remember the quote "If you do not like your experience of the world, change how the world is experiencing you..."

You can try some of these... and add more of your own. E-mail me your thoughts and suggestions.

All the best in 2007... may your deeply held beliefs come true... (they will whether you like them or not... admitting that can be the tough part).

Gratefully yours,
Steve