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The Coaching With Results Monthly Newsletter
Self Improvement Through Stories July 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. About CoachingWithResults.com
7. How to subscribe and unsubscribe to this newsletter
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Editors note: This Newsletter has one Goal: To provide
quality self help stories that make a difference. It is
built on the premise that "Content is King". We hope you
will enjoy it, and please pass it on to a friend, because we
thats the only way we will be able to reach out to a large
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We thank you in advance,
The Editor
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THEME OF THE MONTH: ACCEPTING CRITICISM
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Section 1. Quote of the month
"I only take negative criticism from very positive people"
Author: Zev Saftlas
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Section 2. Story Of The Month (with a meaningful lesson)
Jack Canfield in his bestselling book Chicken Soup for the
Soul tells this incredible story.
I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch
in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-
raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he introduced me by saying,
"I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes
back to a story about a young man who was the son of an
itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable,
race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch,
training horses. As a result, the boy's high school career
was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he was
asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do
when he grew up.
"That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his
goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his
dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-
acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the
stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan
for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre
dream ranch.
"He put a great deal of his heart into the project and
the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two day later
he received his paper back. On the front page was a large
red F with a note that read, `See me after class.'
"The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after
class and asked, `Why did I receive an F?'
"The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a
young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an
itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse
ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You
have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll
have to pay large stud fees. There's no way you could ever
do it.' Then the teacher added, `If you will rewrite this
paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your
grade.'
"The boy went home and thought about it long and hard.
He asked his father what he should do. His father said,
`Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this.
However, I think it is a very important decision for you.'
"Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy
turned in the same paper, making no changes at all. He
stated, `You can keep the F and I'll keep my dream.'"
Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, "I
tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-
square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch.
I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace."
He added, "The best part of the story is that two summers
ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on
my ranch for a week." When the teacher was leaving, he said,
`Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your
teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those
years I stole a lot of kids' dreams. Fortunately you had
enough gumption not to give up on yours.'"
Lesson: Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your
heart, no matter what.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Soul
by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
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Section 3. The Road To Success Is Paved With Failure
Charlotte Bronte's first novel, The Professor, was rejected
by several publishers and wasn't printed until 1857 - two
years after her death.
Charlotte Bronte is the author of the all time classic
novel, "Jane Eyre".
This was a Book Excerpt from
The Road to Success is Paved with Failure
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Section 4. Humor
A father and his son, who used to travel from town to
town selling their goods, once went to a town market with a
donkey. The father sat on the donkey and the boy walked.
Onlookers said, "What a terrible thing, a big strong man
sitting on the donkey's back, and the poor boy has to walk."
So as they went to the next town the father got off
the donkey, and the boy got on. When they reached that town
they heard People say, "How terrible, this poor man walking
and the boy sitting on the donkey."
So as they went to the next town both the father and
son got on the donkey's back, and when they reach the next
town they heard people say, "The poor donkey! Two people
sitting on his back - that's terrible."
So as they went to the next town the father and son
got off the donkey. And when they reach the next town they
heard people say, "How crazy, the donkey has nothing on his
back, and two people are walking."
So as they went to the next town the father and the
son picked up the donkey and began to carry it…and they
never made it to another town.
(Speaking about handling critism!)
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from these empowering messages.
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