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Kenrick E. Cleveland
Member since 13th September 2007
Occupation: Affluent Activator
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22nd September 2008
“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Last night I dreamt about shoes. Shoes have always been an issue for me because I have large feet and have found it difficult to find shoes that fit me (especially before the i...
22nd September 2008
“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.” -- Denis Waitley
I’ve been noticing something fascinating lately that I want to share with you. I have a group of advanced students who I’ve been working with for ...
22nd September 2008
“Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.” --Leigh Steinberg
If you stand for everyone and everything, you stand for no one and nothing. This is a common mistake that businesses make...
10th September 2008
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin." - Hermann Hesse
There are a lot of things that separate us from our animal friends. T...
09th September 2008
Not sure if you noticed or not, but the news is bleak. ‘The news’, as in, the actual, literal news on television, is a huge bummer. Every time I turn on any of the network or cable news providers, the news is bleak. Nothing in the country or abroad...
08th September 2008
When summertime rolls around, I get nostalgic for my youth -- the endless car trips down and up the coast of Oregon, hanging out at the farm with my grandfather, the carefree days that always seemed to last forever, summer camp.
I haven't had a summe...
08th September 2008
“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.” --Jim Rohn
This is a building block of persuasion and worth repeating: without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. That’s a powerful statement and is absolutely right on. Once you...
06th September 2008
“Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.” -- William Bernbach advert...
05th September 2008
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity...
05th September 2008
“An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.” -- Samuel Smiles
I, like many Americans, am (or have been in most contexts)an instant gr...
04th September 2008
When I was younger I worked with a group of people who worked for a large corporation. There was a woman I met who really needed my help. She spoke in an excruciating monotone. It’s hard to get this across in writing, but basically it sounded like a ...
28th August 2008
I started my career in sales. After having been in sales for a couple of years and I was excelling quickly so they made me a closer. I would be the guy that when the sales person was missing his or her mark, I would come in and try to still get the sale...
28th August 2008
Have you ever noticed that some people seem to achieve goal after goal and others can't seem to achieve anything? Part of what holds people back in their lives and in persuasion is that they clutter their minds with static and chatter, inane or unnecessar...
28th August 2008
Are we all having a group hallucination? And if we are, why are we hallucinating that there's a recession instead of something nice?
Not too long ago, John McCain’s key economic adviser (now ex-key economic advisor), Phil Gramm (one of the five p...
28th August 2008
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is.” -- Winston Churchill
How would your life change if everything you did and said had 100 percent integrity, was 100 percent the truth and ne...
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