Welcome to Your Roadmap to Extraordinary Success
Friday, May 16, 2008
– Vol. 36
Written and
Published by Natalie R. Manor
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In this Issue:
Note from Natalie:
Are You Getting Ready "To Be", Or Are You "Being"?
Feature Article: You Are Your Own Best "Success"
Expert
Natalie's New Book:
"Roadmap to Success" Co-Authored with
Ken Blanchard and Stephen
Covey
(Thanks for sharing us with your colleagues and friends!)
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Note from Natalie:
Are You Getting Ready "To Be", Or Are You "Being"?
My
Mother’s Day could not have been better. I got to spend
the day with lots of time planting flowers, in sticky
dirt, with intermittent rain showers and my beloved
eldest daughter. The wind blew so hard a couple of
times, I did not know whether I should be moving down
into my basement. It was nice to have a basement to run
to in case I had to. 
My
point in bringing up Mother’s Day is that it went by so
quickly. There were 3 weeks of ads of “stuff” you could
buy me (a mother) and then it was the day. The day
before had so much anticipation for so many people
preparing for their Mother’s own day – or thinking about
their mom – and then it was Monday.
The
analogy for me is very important for my success
practices. Am I spending time getting ready being
successful and powerful, or am I being successful and
powerful now? It’s a good question. Someone very
bright said that a successful life is not a destination,
but the whole journey.
 The
article this week is about your daily habits and
practices around “being” so that you can be successful
today…powerful today…influential today. As you
practice these skills they accumulate. Soon you are
loaded with workable, finely tuned and easily
demonstrated success skills.
Sweet greetings to each one of you.
My love and blessings,
Natalie
Natalie R. Manor. CEO
The Roadmap Team
Success@The-Roadmap.com
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Feature Article: You Are
Your Own Best "Success" Expert
Each of us has a title,
Mom, executive, teacher, brother, leader. And with each
of these titles, comes expectations of what we should
know and how we should be acting if we are “really good
at it” …the title we have been given. And so many of us
have multiple titles:
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Mom, business
women, community activist, churchgoer, gardener
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Brother, helper of
younger siblings, college professor, donates time to
needy, golfer and husband
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Teacher, parent,
volunteer, rock climber, deep caring for kids,
second job as retail manager
The combinations are
endless and the expectations that we have of each other
and ourselves in each one of these roles is daunting.
Everything we do, we must do well all of the time, each
day of the week, for the whole of our lives.
Success skills come
from practice and modeling those that come before us.
There are 2 million
books about success and yet the most important success
teachers are those that we mingle with in our chosen
lives. We either model their behavior or get very clear
about the fact that their behavior is not the way we
want to be.
We get to the point in
our life education that we KNOW what makes us
successful. This knowing comes from looking back at
where we have been successful and seeing the steps we
took to get to that success. We truly know what we
need to do each and every moment to be successful.
Because we are our
“best expert” of what is most important and what we
consider successful for our lives, I want to suggest
that you spend some time with that expert. She/he is
the keeper of your flame, the repository of your talents
and the storage unit of your strengths. I think it is
time for you to spend some TIME with you.
Here are some
suggestions that might prove to be good places to start
to spend time with the brightest resource in your world,
YOU.
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Find 10 minutes to
a half hour every other day to be still and be quiet
– some call that meditation.
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Write down your
thoughts from the day right before you go in and
brush your teeth – Thomas Jefferson said that if we
would review our day each and everyday we would find
more time and retain the best of what the day
brought to take to our next day.
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Read stuff…novels,
non-fiction, self development, history, science
fiction – just read. The pleasure it brings is long
lasting and it will keep your brain supple and
engaged for your imagination and creativity.
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Wander, walk,
mosey, move - not just exercise – take a nice long
mosey through your building, neighborhood, city
block and see what is happening around you and see
who you are in that walk.
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Play in some water.
It does not matter whether it is a long bath with
Epsom salts or in a puddle. Water is magic at
any age. In my humble opinion the best venue for
water is a fast moving creek in the middle of
nowhere just bubbling along.
I know as you add this
kind of behavior to your life, you begin to appreciate
the highly successful individual you are and you will
begin to accumulate more ideas – in real time – of what
is most important to you and your extraordinarily
successful life.
I am going to find a
good Nora Roberts book and sit in my favorite chair and
fill my imagination of what is possible in the land of
romance.
And what do you have in store
for the successful and magnificent You?
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Natalie's New Book:
"Roadmap to Success"
Co-Authored with
Ken Blanchard and
Stephen Covey
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