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The Coaching With Results 
Self-Improvement Through Stories Newsletter   Mar 2003

http://www.CoachingWithResults.com/
"Where We Achieve Success, Your Success"
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1. Inspirational Quote Of The Month
2. Story Of The Month (with a meaningful lesson)
3. The Road To Success Is Paved With Failure
4. Humor
5. How to recommend our newsletter to a friend
6. How to subscribe and unsubscribe to this newsletter	

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Editors note: This Newsletter has one Goal: To help you 
become a better person and get more out of life. It is 
built on the premise that "Content is King". We hope you
will enjoy it, and please feel free to pass it on to a friend. 
thanks again,
The Editor

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Section 1. Quote of the month

"Goals create motivation, motivation creates energy,
energy helps make your dreams a reality."
Author: Zig Ziglar

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Section 2. Story Of The Month (with a meaningful lesson)

When I first read this story, I was struck by the message. 
I realized that this story underscores the reason why many of
us continue to try and make a difference. It is a perfect
example of how one person can make a difference. 

The Starfish
Author Unknown

I awoke early, as I often did, just before sunrise, to walk 
by the ocean's edge and greet the new day. 

As I moved through the morning dawn, I focused on a faint, 
far away motion. I saw a youth, bending and reaching and 
flailing arms, dancing on the beach, no doubt in celebration
of the perfect day soon to begin. As I approached, I realized
that the youth was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending
to sift through the debris left by the night's tide, stopping
now and then to pick up starfish and then standing, to heave 
it back into the sea. 

I asked the youth the purpose of the effort. "The tide has 
washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot return 
to the sea by themselves," the youth replied. "When the sun
rises, they will die, unless I throw them back into the sea." 

As the youth explained, I surveyed the vast expanse of beach,
stretching in both directions beyond eyesight. Starfish 
littered the shore in numbers beyond calculation. The
hopelessness of the youth's plan became clear to me and I 
countered, "But there are more starfish on this beach than 
you can ever save before the sun is up. Surely you cannot 
expect to make a difference." 

The youth paused briefly to consider my words, bent to pick 
up a starfish and threw it as far as possible. Turning to
me he simply said, 

"I made a difference to that ONE."

We need people who can keep throwing back the starfish, 
time and again, realizing that some may wash up to the shore 
and need to be tossed back into the ocean again. The rewards 
are realized by recognizing that every so often, we really 
do make a difference, a life is turned around and that 
starfish becomes a star. 

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Section 3. The Road To Success Is Paved With Failure

Walt Disney's first cartoon production company, 
Laugh-O-Gram, went bankrupt.

Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse and became the most famous 
name in film animation. He produced Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, and Cinderella, and 
founded Disneyland.

This was a Book Excerpt from 
The Road to Success is Paved with Failure

     

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Section 4. Humor

A couple of boys were fishing at their special pond off the 
beaten track. All of a sudden, the Game Warden jumped out of
the bushes. Immediately, one of the boys threw his rod down 
and started running through the woods like a bat out of hell. 
The Game Warden was hot on his heels. 

After about a half mile, the boy stopped and stooped over 
with his hands on his thighs to catch his breath, so the
Game Warden finally caught up to him. "Let's see yer fishin'
license, little man!" the Warden gasped. 

With that, the boy pulled out his wallet and gave the Game 
Warden a valid fishing license.

"Well, son," said the Game Warden, "you must be about as dumb
as a box of rocks! You don't have to run from me if you have 
a valid license!" 

"Yes, sir," replied the boy, "but my friend back there, well,
he don't have one." 


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