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“Is this…(fill in your name) – I’m calling because your daughter has been in an accident.” Words we fear hearing, we don’t dwell on it, that would be called paranoia, but we don’t like hearing those words, and we dread the thought.  Two weeks ago, some families heard those words, and they were being notified that the man of the family was in a disastrous accident in the Gulf of Mexico- in the worst of all possible end results, eleven of these brave men, lost their lives.
The question now is- is this merely blow-back from the sealant, or is there something else going on here?

When the United States of America begins to dig into it’s so called energy crisis- built around petroleum consumption; three questions come up:  1)  Can we curb our consumption or change the way we consume the petroleum.  2)  Are we so tied into the petroleum use that we cannot change.  3)  If we begin to drill for our own oil resources, designed to come into American tanks for storage, will that lessen our dependence in America on what is called foreign oil?

These three questions eventually hit the cost factor – and the companies which drill for oil, have to operate as any other company for a profit.  So the oil drilling companies are used to a certain standard of operation, and, the consuming and storing companies are also used to a certain standard, and the pricing of petroleum is consigned via certain economic mechanisms having very little to do with consumption, and much more to do with speculative value which homegrown American storage would impact upon.

At the end of the day, the question will come up, was this a disaster that occurred because of error, flaw in design, or- is this something else?  We aren’t talking about a ship which moves with currents and charts and can get off course, or be blown or maneuvered off course through many different factors, rather this is a set platform with set operating procedures.  Were those procedures altered- and if so, was that alteration part of standard or non-standard behavior?  At the end of the day, is this disaster meant to make America once more hunker down about drilling for her own oil?

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Dr. Joe Vitale a nationally recognized marketing guru
makes the point constantly that the universe loves speed,
meaning, when you get an idea, don’t sit on it, act on it.
Don’t think about it (much), put it into play, and see if
it moves something into a different phase? One of my
favorite mentors is a fellow named Chris Voss, he has a
Podcast plus blog plus Net show he does in which Chris
just blows you away with info- can you tell he is “my man!”
On one of his blogs Chris gets off on Facebook, and really
I’m starting to see his point, I like Facebook as well, but
if you are into marketing products over the web, my goodness
consider this chart:

Okay, now for the kicker…you knew there had to be one,
right? Check out where the mighty Twitter has landed itself?
Six months back the clamor over Twitter was so loud you
couldn’t hear your tweets as they came in? “What happened?”
You ask, “glad you asked, here is my guess…” Twitter had
some hangups that they’ve gotten past I hope, about how you
did what you did in terms of Tweeting…and in being kind of
Twitter management of posts happy, I think they got legal minded
about who could tweet what and when and where, and they forgot
who was payin’ the bill? Now I’m thankful for Twitter don’t
misunderstand me, it’s a tremendous way to get the word out,
on some things, but it isn’t nearly as well used as Facebook
according to this review. So for my money, I guess I better
learn how to tweak out the Face, huh?

What if there were an enormous Christmas secret that was knowable, you could find it out, and it would be wonderful when you did, and you weren’t aware of it? That would be some secret wouldn’t it? You might not like somebody who knew something that would be good for you and chose not to share it, so that they kept it a secret, would you? Ever play a game of hide and go seek, and the other players all got together and left you hiding there? After a while you got suspicious and came “all-e-all-e ins that’s free.” and there wasn’t anybody there? Well this isn’t a secret like that, rather this is more like a fly that is on the wall of the Grand Canyon; you would need to know specifically which rock outcrop that fly was on, to the inch, in order to set your scope up to find it, wouldn’t you? This Christmas secret is going to be revealed to you, and so, in this brief writing that’s what we’re going to get into, the “how do I,” find this Christmas secret?

First we’ll talk about Christmas just a bit, because it is so important, before it happens, as it happens, and after it happens. Then we’ll talk about, in the next paragraphs, the Christmas secret and how you can find it before Christmas, during Christmas, and we hope, after Christmas, so let’s go?

Before Christmas happens things begin to change, in different cultures the world over, people begin to adjust to the idea that something really “neat,” really wonderful in terms of a holiday, is going to happen. Christmas is a world sized holiday, by the way, which, while celebrated differently, by style, takes place on the same day, December the 25^th. For some it’s just a recognition that the rest of the planet sees this day as significant; for most of those countries, however, it is the celebration of the birth of Jesus the Christ. It’s becoming, in America, and in many other countries, unpopular to state it so, which does not make much sense, given that all that Jesus ever did, no matter what else you may think, all He ever did was good for everybody! So in that He was so unlike so many other people, maybe that is why they have chosen to reject celebrating His birthday? But actually, my sense is that good people everywhere know that Jesus the Christ is real, was a real baby, actually lived here on earth, and really did do nothing but good the whole time He was here. If there’s a problem with Jesus the Christ, it’s probably not about Him at all, but about the people who say they know Him; but act like they don’t. People who are supposed to be loving and kind, but sometimes have a very odd way of showing it? Maybe if they weren’t like they are, people would be happier about celebrating their King’s birth? I don’t know, all I know for sure about Christmas is, it does change the world, each year before it gets here, the world gets ready for it, and if you are looking for Christmas, you might find it in that fact?

When Christmas day shines out, my heart rejoices, with so many other hearts, because it is the day in which Jesus the Christ, was born. Historically, maybe not, history is good to study, my preference is to believe that history is kept in the humans heart who knows love, and this day celebrates the birth of the Man who taught love, lived love; and is love. That to me is what Christmas is all about, but it really happens that morning because the night before we have a family tradition, which began when we were extremely poor, a year where we lost just about everything, and even our families health wasn’t good. That year both of us, the wife and I, were trying to think of something that we could do which would be good; we needed something good to take place, those were hard times. So I’d seen this clip of a movie called “A Christmas Carol.” several great actors who have since died, George C. Scott and Edward Woodward, to name a couple; were in it; it is an incredible movie, if you don’t have it, it’s worth the $5.00 it might cost to get it today. Anyway, in our state of down, somehow this movie seemed from the clip to be good, so my suggestion was, “hey, let’s watch it.” She agreed and so was begun the Christmas tradition of watching “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens. If I had a wish to be granted, like they do at the TED meeting each year, I wish every wealthy greedy world sized corporate pirate leader, who believed they had no need of Christmas, would get to watch this with us.

After Christmas things aren’t the same. Children who had hoped that Santa Clause, or, Saint Nicholas, Shengdan Laoren of Chinese name, JuiTomten of Sweden or others, can be found smiling. In fact this website: http://www.lone-star.net/mall/main-areas/santafaq.htm seems to be a pretty good one, for checking out Santa’s name, but back to the hoping, smiling, children; they are enjoying what Santa has left. Parents who have actually listened to their children and each other (these would be the 50 or so percent who aren’t getting divorced) are smiling inside, just a little, and that “just a little,” may be the about the only smile they get for a while. Things aren’t the same and that is certainly hard to dispute when such a large scale holiday takes place, Christmas doesn’t leave things the same, so if you are looking for a clue about the Christmas secret, that’s a huge one, things after Christmas change.

We’ve spent just a little time together about before, during and after Christmas itself, because nothing is like it, as a holiday, I don’t know one that world wide, has it’s power? New Year’s is celebrated world wide, but it doesn’t have the significance of Christmas and the secret which we are going to discuss, may be a fundamental aspect of why?

Now let’s go into the Christmas secret, because it can be found before Christmas, let me tell you how. You will need to find a quiet place, where you won’t be disturbed for about five minutes; this is going to be tough on you, so you will really have to want to know the secret, because you will need to find a quiet place for five minutes! Here you do nothing, shut off the cell phone and sit – still. Just sit still, for five whole minutes. While you are there ask your heart how many more hurts it can take before it breaks enough to realize that the hurt that you suffer must tell you something about your ability to take hurt? Ask your heart then, if your hurts are worse than the mother who watched her baby die yesterday; because it couldn’t get water. Water- not food, not medicine, WATER- now, ask your heart if you really understand what hurting is? If you will listen to your heart and be honest, you’ll realize that Dickens’s was right, and in the eyes of God “these may be of more importance than you ever will be;” and, we, you and I, and everyone, are letting it happen. It’ll be an interesting five minutes if you do it; and remain true to your heart, I guarantee it will affect how you look at suffering.

The Christmas secret however, is also to be found, by you, right there in the midst of the great times of great joy; you see, we need those, oh we desperately need them, here is why. When you are down, and those times will happen, even when you compare the depth of your down to the greater suffering of someone else; you need to be able to think about good Christmases and good times- its a way of keeping your balance with reality. The Christmas secret, begins in the persons heart, and so, for some, sadly, it’s gonna remain a secret, their heart, is, unfortunately, only a muscle that pumps blood; and that, is, one of the saddest realities of this world. The Christmas secret might have something to do with, changing that; if it is possible to change that heart with little feeling, to one that feels, the Christmas secret might bring it about.

After Christmas if your heart cannot change, the Christmas secret will help you in ways that you might not believe were possible, but all the time were. A very close personal friend who let other things get between us; realized, not too long ago, that “we don’t talk like we used to.” While I almost said, “
no duh,” I stopped my mouth, stayed quiet (like in the car), and listened, because what they said next was something that if your searching for the Christmas secret, will help you, they said, “so every once in a while, let’s just call each other, think we can do that?” You know I really do think we can, and somewhere I hear Charles Dickens agreeing with others “they’re getting close to finding the Christmas secret aren’t they?” What do you think the others say back to them about us?

Two elements of business elude the less successful and the
enormously successful seem to find them in abudance.
We are going to discuess one, here, briefly, and then;
well we shall see what develops.

Get Ready There Is No Fluff Here

Napolean Hill, famous author, wrote a book which was

largely a study that he compiled of the people who had

amassed wealth and gained power within their realms.*

Hill famously titled his work, “Think and Grow Rich,”

it is only outsold, we’re told by some statisticians,

by the Bible; as an all time best seller; so powerful

is Hill’s study that people in every generation since

it’s inception have rediscovered it and sent it’s sales

reeling yet again. What would you suppose is the key

element which makes Hill’s work so compelling?

Wrapped within the enigma of it’s powerful ability

to transform is the result oriented mass popularity

which is in fact, the key element which must be

present in order for a business to succeed. The

business must be, massively popular. Now to

accept that as axiomatic consider that sheer

numbers are gained by the successful in two

ways, positive and, negative. Both ways benefit

the successful- and that, finally, becomes the

element which yields them absolute success -

they cannot lose, when you can’t lose, you …win!

It Is About Massive Popularity

Let’s think of that in this way, in the world of

public relations, the story that stirs the imagination

of the population, brings with it the potential to

make sales. Whether that story is positive, as

when a superstar baseball player helped a child

with cancer achieve their dream; or negative, as

when that same baseball superstar was accused

of not being the real deal when it came to, of

all things, training! Both stories about the same

person, one positive, one negative, both increased

sales of that stars cards and game pieces! Can

it be true? Take the case of gasoline sales- if

the story is positive, that there is plenty of gas,

people have flocked to the pumps, because one

can never tell when it wouldn’t be that way, or

negative, gas amounts decreasing, folks go to

the pumps in order to have some just in case.

Same gasoline, story runs negative or positive

either way, gas company wins. What makes the

final difference? The sheer amount – massive

amount of popularity.

OK I Get It, Now What?

One factor that cannot be taken away from this

truth (axiom) is that massive popularity comes

as a result of doing one thing, meeting peoples

needs; it is so simple, and yet, to this day, it is

the defining difference between the success and

the failing business. One meets the peoples needs

the other doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if the need,

by the way, is real, let’s face it, much of what is

purchased in the United States doesn’t have to

do with need, but rather, has to do with what

used to be called higher order needs (Maslow)

such as aesthetic needs, pride based behavior,

the needs that aren’t health and survival based.

In this brief we examined one point which is

the central or axiomatic fact of Napolean Hill’s

great work being so successful; that one being

massive popularity, which is based upon the

needs of people being met. When this really

gets into your process, suddenly many of the

things which were blocking you will fall away,

and when that happens you will find yourself

in a place called, success, and it will be on the

heels of massive popularity.

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