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Motivators to Watch in 2006

Top 10 Motivators to Watch in 2006

2006 will be a breakthrough year for anyone interested in self-improvement. Never before have so many gifted motivational minds been available to help you in so many unique ways.

The following 10 individuals are harnessing the power of the Internet to improve lives with their own individual methods. Whether it's books, teleseminars, videos or audios, 2006 promises to bring the levels personal and professional development to a new plateau.

Let's take a look at the people leading the charge, in alphabetical order:

Paul Bauer
Dream Minder Software
Paul has found a way to allow people to discover and access their dream life using an innovative software program. A tool that taps into your inner passions, releases your creativity and gives you the freedom to feel your feelings, not just think about them, which makes all the difference when it comes to taking the action necessary to achieve them. To learn more about Paul Bauer's amazing Dream Minder Software click here:http://www.dreamsalive.com/cgi-local/af/b.cgi/1866

Matt Clarkson
Stopping yourself from the daily ego-driven activities and practicing inner reflection on a regular basis is critical to long term physical, spiritual and professional growth. Matt Clarkson makes meditation mainstream at his Secrets of Meditation site. Even if you're not aware of the power of this exercise, give it a shot in the new year, and you might surprise yourself. http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=198458

John DiLemme
Certain people need to be watched every year because they are always coming out with new and exciting material, with their fingers constantly on the pulse of up and coming trends and passionate consumer desires. John DiLemme continues to be a major force in both network marketing and personal development, because of his unique approach to success training. The man is a powerhouse in every sense of the word, and his energy is contagious. He's helped thousands over the years to become better marketers and better human beings. In 2006 he releases “Find Your Why & Fly – The Ultimate Success Factor” in paperback. In the meantime, check out his complimentary CD offer here: http://www.1automationwiz.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=153708

Hypnosis Network
Whether it's conquering procrastination, quitting smoking or losing weight or any number of other ways to improve yourself, this website will help you do it effortlessly through the power of hypnosis. Armed with an all star team of hypnotherapists and jam packed with answers to any question you ever had about the process, the people behind Hypnosis Network are poised to make 2006 a banner year for you. My personal favorite is the way they help people end procrastination forever. Here's the link: http://www.hypnosisnetwork.com/hypnosis/procrastination.php?kbid=1096

Jim Rohn
Jim's Ultimate Collection for Entrepreneurs and Sales Professionals speaks for itself. It wouldn't ever be a complete list without mentioning the legend who has changed so many lives over the years. Jim Rohn is one to watch for a lifetime. http://www.jimrohn.com/shopping/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=157&kbid=4138

Zev Saftlas
21 Empowering Messages for Women
Zev has paid his dues, becoming a poster child for highly effective networking. He's made connections and friends with the biggest names in the business and built the phenomenal empoweringmessages.com site from scratch. Zev Saftlas is truly one to watch, not just in 2006 but for years to come. Zev enters 2006 with his new 21 Empowering Messages for Women, destined to become a classic, and available at this link: http://toolkit03.emfw21.hop.clickbank.net/

Brian Tracy
January 9th Goals Teleseminar
Brian does it again, constantly re-inventing how things are done. Follow his advice on pretty much anything in your life that has to do with personal or professional success and you can't go wrong. Brian Tracy is one to watch in 2006 because he's become even more accessible than ever, enabling anyone to listen and interact with him in live teleseminars. The next one, on achieving goals in the new year, happens on January 9th and can be accessed at
this link: http://www.briantracy.com/r.asp?LID=2631

Joe Vitale
If you're looking to purchase a new car in 2006 then Joe's your man. No, he's not a car salesman. He actually came out with an incredibly innovative method that allows you to actually attract a car, or anything else, into your life without stress or struggle. Joe also broke records with his Attractor Factor book in 2005 and has a new book being released in early 2006. To learn more about how to attract a new car go here: http://hop.clickbank.net/?toolkit03/outrageous

Judith Wright
Judith starts the year off with a bang. This best-selling author and lifestyles expert who has appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America has just released her new book, The One Decision, to rave reviews. The book allows the reader to have more time, money, energy, and fulfillment by making one simple yet, powerful decision, The One Decision. There's a great offer on this book at her site, but only until January 8th.
Here's the link: http://www.theonedecision.com/cmd.php?Clk=1265802

Brad Yates
The man behind eTappings and the Key to Success ebook has a new product just released that has already started to change the tax brackets of people worldwide. The product empowers you to free yourself of limiting beliefs and roadblocks to wealth. It's called Money Beyond Belief and is available at this link:http://toolkit03.beyond1.hop.clickbank.net

We at AudioMotivation.com hope you benefit from this list of Motivators to Watch in 2006. Of course, even if you decide to follow the advice of one or more of these masters, you'll still benefit from an ongoing, daily injection of positive energy and motivational messages that can be found at AudioMotivation.com. We hope you'll complement your 2006 self improvement actions by becoming a member. You'll have unlimited access to over 100 interviews in our member area, with more added each month. Our 500% growth in 2005 is just the beginning.

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To Your Success in 2006 and Beyond,
Andy O'Bryan and Josh Hinds
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Greg Reid and Max Steingart Success Interviews added...

We just wanted to share a quick note to let you know we just added two new interviews with Greg Reid, The Millionaire Mentor & Max Steingart. Each of these folks shared some truly awesome advice in their success interviews. In fact you can hear samples from each of the interviews below:

Listen to the Greg Reid interview clip as Greg talks about how important it is to have a positive attitude whatever you do, wherever you go.

Listen to the Max Steingart interview clip as Max explains the significance of the Internet in creating new business relationships.

Here's to your success,
Josh Hinds & Andy O'Bryan
Co-founders, AudioMotivation.com

Ruben Gonzalez and Rene Godefroy Interviews Added

We just added two new AudioMotivation.com success interviews with Ruben Gonzalez and Rene Godefroy.

* Listen to the AudioMotivation interview sample with Ruben Gonzalez as he explains why it's important to believe in your dreams and your natural talents in order to realize your potential in life -- Click here to listen.

* We've also added a new excerpt for you from the interview with Motivational speaker and author, Rene Godefroy. Now listen as Rene talks about staying persistent toward your dreams and how important it is to never give up -- click here to listen to Rene Godefroy's interview excerpt.

Rich Fettke Speaks with AudioMotivation

Rich Fettke is the author of Extreme Success and is an amazing coach and speaker who shows people how to stand up in the face of adversity to achieve true greatness.

Rich spent some time with us at AudioMotivation.com for our 75th interview. You can hear a sample of this here.

To hear the whole thing just go to AudioMotivation.com and join up! It's our one year anniversary celebration and we're giving out $2000 in bonus products right now.

Tom Hopkins Audio Success Interview

Tom Hopkins is a sales legend. He has personally trained over three million students on five continents. He has shared the stage with some of the great leaders of our times including Ret. Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf, former President George Bush and Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Lady Margaret Thatcher.

Tom took time out to speak with us at AudioMotivation.com.

You can listen to a sample from this amazing session with Tom Hopkins here.

-- Here's to your success,
Josh Hinds & Andy O'Bryan
Co-founders, AudioMotivation.com

Are You Sabotaging Your Career?

Are You Sabotaging Your Career?
by Brent Filson

My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide for the past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up their careers. On a daily basis, these leaders are getting the wrong results or the right results in the wrong ways.

Interestingly, they themselves are choosing to fail. They’re actively sabotaging their own careers. Leaders commit this sabotage for a simple reason: They make the fatal mistake of choosing to communicate with presentations and speeches -- not leadership talks.

In terms of boosting one’s career, the difference between the two methods of leadership communication is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Speeches/presentations primarily communicate information. Leadership talks, on the other hand, not only communicate information, they do more: They establish a deep, human emotional connection with the audience.

Why is the later connection necessary in leadership?

Look at it this way: Leaders do nothing more important than get results. There are generally two ways that leaders get results: They can order people to go from point A to point B; or they can have people WANT TO go from A to B.

Clearly, leaders who can instill “want to” in people, who motivate those people, are much more effective than leaders who can’t or won’t. And the best way to instill “want to” is not simply to relate to people as if they are information receptacles but to relate to them on a deep, human, emotional way. And you do it with leadership talks.

Here are a few examples of leadership talks.

When Churchill said, “We will fight on the beaches ... “ That was a leadership talk.

When Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you ... “ that was a leadership talk.

When Reagan said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” That was a leadership talk.

You can come up with a lot of examples too. Go back to those moments when the words of a leader inspired people to take ardent action, and you’ve probably put your finger on an authentic leadership talk.

Mind you, I’m not just talking about great leaders of history. I’m also talking about the leaders in your organizations. After all, leaders speak 15 to 20 times a day: everything from formal speeches to informal chats. When those interactions are leadership talks, not just speeches or presentations, the effectiveness of those leaders is dramatically increased.

How do we put together leadership talks? It’s not easy. Mastering leadership talks takes a rigorous application of many specific processes. As Clement Atlee said of that great master of leadership talks, Winston Churchill, “Winston spent the best years of his life preparing his impromptu talks.”

Churchill, Kennedy, Reagan and others who were masters at giving leadership talks didn’t actually call their communications “leadership talks”, but they must have been conscious to some degree of the processes one must employ in putting a leadership talk together.

Here’s how to start. If you plan to give a leadership talk, there are three questions you should ask. If you answer “no” to any one of those questions, you can’t give one. You may be able to give a speech or presentation, but certainly not a leadership talk.

(1) DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE AUDIENCE NEEDS?
Winston Churchill said, “We must face the facts or they’ll stab us in the back.”

When you are trying to motivate people, the real facts are THEIR facts, their reality. Their reality is composed of their needs. In many cases, their needs have nothing to do with your needs. Most leaders don’t get this. They think that their own needs, their organization’s needs, are reality. That’s okay if you’re into ordering. As an order leader, you only need work with your reality. You simply have to tell people to get the job done. You don’t have to know where they’re coming from.

But if you want to motivate them, you must work within their reality, not yours. I call it playing the game in the people’s home park”. There is no other way to motivate them consistently. If you insist on playing the game in your park, you’ll be disappointed in the motivational outcome.

(2) CAN YOU BRING DEEP BELIEF TO WHAT YOU’RE SAYING?
Nobody wants to follow a leader who doesn’t believe the job can get done. If you can’t feel it, they won’t do it. But though you yourself must “want to” when it comes to the challenge you face, your motivation isn’t the point. It’s simply a given. If you’re not motivated, you shouldn’t be leading.

Here’s the point: Can you TRANSFER your motivation to the people so they become as motivated as you are?

I call it THE MOTIVATIONAL TRANSFER, and it is one of the least understood and most important leadership determinants of all.

There are three ways you can make the transfer happen.

* CONVEY INFORMATION. Often, this is enough to get people motivated. For instance, many people have quit smoking because of information on the harmful effects of the habit

* MAKE SENSE. To be motivated, people must understand the rationality behind your challenge. Re: smoking: People have been motivated to quit because the information makes sense.

* TRANSMIT EXPERIENCE. This entails having the leader’s experience become the people’s experience. This can be the most effective method of all, for when the speaker’s experience becomes the audience’s experience, a deep sharing of emotions and ideas, a communing, can take place.

There are plenty of presentation and speech courses devoted to the first two methods, so I won’t talk about those.

Here’s a few thoughts on the third method. Generally speaking, humans learn in two ways: by acquiring intellectual understanding and through experience. In our schooling, the former predominates, but it is the latter which is most powerful in terms of inducing a deep sharing of emotions and ideas; for our experiences, which can be life’s teachings, often lead us to profound awareness and purposeful action.

Look back at your schooling. Was it your book learning or your experiences, your interactions with teachers and students, that you remember most? In most cases, your experiences made the most telling impressions upon you.

To transfer your motivation to others, use what I call my “defining moment” technique, which I describe fully in my book, DEFINING MOMENT: MOTIVATING PEOPLE TO TAKE ACTION.

In brief, the technique is this: Put into sharp focus a particular experience of yours then communicate that focused experience to the people by describing the physical facts that gave you the emotion.

Now, here’s the secret to the defining moment. That experience of yours must provide a lesson and that lesson is a solution to the needs of the people. Otherwise, they’ll think you’re just talking about yourself.

For the defining moment to work (i.e., for it to transfer your motivation to them), the experience must be about them. The experience happened to you, of course. But that experience becomes their experience when the lesson it communicates is a solution to their needs.

(3) CAN YOU HAVE THE AUDIENCE TAKE RIGHT ACTION?
Results don’t happen unless people take action. After all, it’s not what you say that’s important in your leadership communications, it’s what the people do after you have had your say.

Yet the vast majority of leaders don’t have a clue as to what action truly is. They get people taking the wrong action at the wrong time in the wrong way for the wrong results. A key reason for this failure is they don’t know how to deliver the all-important “leadership talk Call-to-action”.

“Call” comes from an Old English word meaning "to shout." A Call-to-Action is a "shout for action." Implicit in the concept is urgency and forcefulness. But most leaders don’t deliver the most effective Calls-to-action because they make three errors regarding it.

First, they err by mistaking the Call-to-Action as an order. Within the context of The Leadership Talk, a Call-to-action is not an order. Leave the order for the order leader.

Second, leaders err by mistaking the Call as theirs to give. The best Call-to-action is not the leader's to give. It's the people’s to give. It's the people’s to give to themselves. A true Call-to-action prompts people to motivate themselves to take action.

The most effective Call-to-action then is not from the leader to the people but from the people to the people themselves!

Third, they error by not priming their Call. There are two parts to the Call-to-Action, the primer and the Call itself. Most leaders omit the all-important primer. The primer sets up the Call, which is to prompt people to motivate themselves to take action. You yourself control the primer. The people control the Call.

The primer/Call is critical because every leadership communication situation is in essence a problem situation. There is the problem the leader has. And there is the problem the people have. In many cases, they are two different problems. But leaders get into trouble regarding the Call-to-action when they think it’s only one problem, mainly theirs.

For instance, a leader might be talking about the organization needing to be more productive. So, the leader talks PRODUCTIVITY. On the other hand, the people, hearing PRODUCTIVITY, think, YOU’RE GOING TO GIVE ME MORE WORK!

If the leader thinks that productivity is the people’s problem and ignores the “more work” aspect, he/she’s Call-to-action will probably be a bust, resulting in the people avoiding committed action.

Let’s apply the primer/Call dynamic to the productivity case. The leader talks PRODUCTIVITY: but this time uses a PRIMER. The primer’s purpose is to establish a “critical confluence” -- the union of your problem with the ader moves from just getting average results (YOU MUST BE MORE PRODUCTIVE: i.e., you’re going to solve MY problem) to getting great results (YOU COME UP WITH WAYS TO TIE PRODUCTIVITY INTO MEANINGFUL WORK: i.e., you’re also going to solve your problem.)

So, here’s what the leadership talk Call-to-action is truly about: It’s not an order; it’s best manifested when the people give themselves the Call; and it is always primed by your creating the “critical confluence” -- they’ll be solving their problem as well as yours.

The vast majority of leaders I’ve worked with are hampering their careers for one simple reason: They’re giving presentations and speeches -- not leadership talks. You have a great opportunity to turbo charge your career by recognizing the power of leadership talks. Before you give a leadership talk, ask three basic questions. Do you know what the people need? Can you bring deep belief to what you’re saying? Can you have the people take the right take action?

If you say “no” to any one of those questions you cannot give a leadership talk. But the questions aren’t meant to be stumbling blocks to your leadership but stepping stones. If you answer “no”, work on the questions until you can say, “yes”. In that way, you’ll start getting the right results in the right way on a consistent basis.

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Finding The "Yes-Man"

The following article comes from Bob Burg -- one of the many success experts you'll be able to listen and learn from through your AudioMotivation.com Membership. If you haven't done so already, click here to get your membership started... To Your success, Josh Hinds & Andy O'Bryan :-)

Finding The "Yes-Man"
By Bob Burg

What does the term, "Yes-Man" (or, "Yes-Woman") mean to you? Possibly, the person who is so insecure that he says "yes" to any person, thing or idea in order to be liked and accepted.

Well, when it comes to Winning Without Intimidation, that kind of Yes-Person is not the kind we mean. Instead, we are talking about the man or woman who can and will step up, work with you and solve the problem/challenge you are having.

For example, you are having difficulty getting the person at the service desk (of course, you could substitute practically anything here, whether in person or on the telephone) to change a "really bad" policy. "Really bad" meaning something that doesn't give you what you want or need :-).

Despite utilizing your very best wwi methods, you find you're just not getting anywhere. That's okay; it happens sometimes. It's not necessarily that you are doing anything wrong; it may just be that you are dealing with a "problem person" instead of a "solution person." A "no-person" instead of a "yes-person."

The next step is to speak with their supervisor. If you have to go through this person, simply ask with the utmost courtesy, kindness and respect. "I apologize for putting you through all this hassle (I know, you have nothing to apologize about - *they* do. That's okay; go with it). "There are rules I know you have to follow. It might be better if I dealt directly with your supervisor. What is his or her name? Great, thank you, may I speak with Ms. Johnson please?" Or, perhaps you found Ms. Johnson's name on your own. Regardless, now it's time to find out if she is the "Yes-Person."

"Hi Ms. Johnson, I'm Pat Davis. Thank you for taking time to speak with me. I know you're very busy." These words will, nine times out of ten, elicit this supervisor to go to whatever ends necessary in order to see that you are satisfied. Mainly because you presented yourself as being different from most others, who only ask (or demand!) to speak with a supervisor in order to complain.

Now, if Ms. Johnson can find a solution and say yes, great! If not, continue up the ladder. Along the way, continue to be polite, patient and persistent. Naturally, you need to decide just how important it is to get this particular "thing" that you want. It may not be worth your effort.

If it is important, though, by all means continue. Eventually, you will more than likely (in fact, let me say, practically always!) find the person who not only wants to see you satisfied, but has a natural tendency to be a problem-solver. That is the solution person, the "Yes-Man" (or Woman) :-)
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Bob Burg (http://www.burg.com) speaks on "Endless Referrals" and "Positive Persuasion." He is author of "Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales" and "Winning Without Intimidation: The Art of Positive Persuasion." To sample his popular ezine go to http://www.burg.com/newsletter.html . To book him to speak at your next major convention call 800-726-3667.