Motivator Brendon Burchard Targets Small-Business Owners and Marketers in His Latest YouTube Video, 'Success & Winning Streaks'

"Live fully. Love openly. Go out and make a difference." -- Brendon Burchard

This morning, one of ProsperNOW's favorite motivational authors/speakers/coaches -- Brendon Burchard [pictured], of "Life's Golden Ticket" fame -- posted a video on YouTube.

Titled "Success & Winning Streaks," Burchard's 10-minute coaching session effectively illustrates the steps that small-business owners, marketers and would-be experts need to take in order to win in their chosen niche:

1. Hunger
2. Ownership/Accountability
3. Learning
4. Focus
5. Initiative/Massive Action
6. Collaboration
7. Accessibility
8. Mastery
9. Coaching
10. Gratitude

Neglect any of those 10 critical success steps, he says, and you're right back to Square One.

Invest fewer than 10 minutes now to seize upon this infectiously energetic young man's insightful and inspiring life/business lesson: http://bit.ly/cCjugO
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Suze Orman's Advice to 'Larry King Live' Viewers: Use Rebate Checks to Pay Down Debts, Invest for Retirement

"People first, then money, then things." -- Suze Orman, financial expert, New York Times best-selling author [e.g., "Women & Money" and "The Road to Wealth -- Revised Edition"], speaker, Emmy award-winning TV show host, PBS fundraising partner

In January, President Bush announced that the federal government will be sending rebate checks in the amount of $300, $600 or $1,200 to American households -- perhaps as soon as this May or June. This so-called "stimulus package," he said, would boost the U.S. economy and, thus, help steer us clear of a recession. How? By enticing people to buy more stuff.

Last evening, during her guest stint on CNN's "Larry King Live," lauded financial guru and best-selling author Suze Orman declared the economic-stimulus plan "stupid." Rather than go out and spend those checks, she advised, the viewers, callers and folks who e-mailed desperate pleas for her insights should pay down debts and invest in their retirement funds.

Here's a brief excerpt from Larry King's interview with Suze Orman:


...KING: But the government wants them to spend it. That's the point of it.

ORMAN: It's the point of it, but it's a stupid point. They never should have passed that stimulus package. They should never continue to count on saving this economy, because, again, the ordinary person out there is going to continue to spend. They can't continue to spend. They have credit card debt. They have car loan debt. They have mortgage debt.

KING: You're saying take the money and pay off bills?

ORMAN: Get out of debt. If you have -- if you get that money and you haven't yet funded your retirement account, put it in a retirement account. Do something so that little 600 dollars grows to 6,000 dollars and so forth, but don't go out and spend it. Stop it, people. Grow up already.

KING: But the government's case is: if you spend it, you stimulate the economy.

ORMAN: For a little bit. Can't they figure out another way to save this economy, except on the backs of the consumer who are so spent out it's not even funny? I mean, why would you even do that? Again, I could not be against this stimulus package more if I tried...

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, my question would be, when are they going to lower the gas prices? $3.74 a gallon is hard to make decisions on what are you going to do for the week, the weekend. I need some answers.

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ORMAN: You know, it's funny. It's hard to decide what you're going to do for the week and the weekend. It's true. You can't even drive to work anymore, and then you start hearing things like here in New York City, where they're thinking about actually raising the tolls to come into the city. How are you going to do anything?

That is the problem, ladies and gentlemen. The oil companies -- we said this last time. We were sitting right here. Record profits, yet they're charging you record prices. I don't understand it. I wish we could do something about it. It seems like we can't.

It seems like oil at 100 dollars is here to stay. So all I can say to you is you better get used to these prices, because they are here, which means you have to cut back on everything, which is why you're also upset.

Again, Larry, don't get me started on this. It makes no sense that oil should be this high. It makes no sense that -- that commodities should be this high, that wheat and milk -- doesn't make any sense, but yet it's here...


To read the entire transcript of last night's show, go to: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/25/lkl.01.html

ProsperNOW's take: Thank goodness for Suze Orman's keen, candid, common-sense approach to managing finances! Perhaps our nation's next president will have the good sense to enlist Suze's wide-angle expertise in getting us out of this economic mess -- ? One can only hope...

SOURCE: CNN
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Dr. Daniel Amen Wraps Up Valentine's Week on "Live with Regis and Kelly" on Feb. 16

Tomorrow, psychiatrist and best-selling author Daniel G. Amen, M.D., will join talk-show hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa to wrap up Valentine's Week on "Live with Regis and Kelly."

Dr. Amen is a child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc., which have the world’s largest database of functional brain scans relating to psychiatric medicine -- now totaling more than 34,000 scans.

He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California's Irvine School of Medicine. There, Dr. Amen teaches seminars on brain imaging, brain injury, behavioral neuroanatomy, adult ADD, hypnosis, biofeedback, and the use of natural supplements in psychiatry.

Dr. Amen's work has been published around the world. He is the author of numerous professional articles, plus popular articles that have appeared in Newsweek, Parade Magazine and Men's Health.

He's also written 19 books, including "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life," "Healing ADD," "Healing the Hardware of the Soul," "Healing Anxiety and Depression," "Preventing Alzheimer's," "Making a Good Brain Great," and "Sex on the Brain" [released in January 2007]. His audio and video programs include "New Skills for Frazzled Parents" and "Which Brain Do You Want?" -- both available from MindWorks Press.

Given this week's focus on Valentine's Day and all things romance-related, it is expected that tomorrow's visit with Regis and Kelly will include at least a few insights from Dr. Amen's latest book, "Sex on the Brain." Check local TV listings for tomorrow's broadcast time, then tune in to find out.
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