“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
...Napoleon Hill

My Mastermind Group kicks off tomorrow @ 10 AM EST with our next topic... an in-depth breakdown of "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill ...“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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"The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness." Oprah Winfrey

A SPECIAL INVITATION & NOTE FROM RADIO HOST, RIC BRATTON... Join us "LIVE" 1:30 PM EST TOMORROW! 1/20/ 2011 ~ Looking for a Home Business? Wondering why so few SUCCEED?

To ask a question LIVE call 260-422-8708.

Ric Bratton, radio host of "This Week in America" is focusing on this very important topic tomorrow!

BE PART OF OUR LIVE SHOW and join "The Home Business Diva," Robin Firestone this Thursday @ 1:30 EST.

Watch, listen and ask questions live on Ustream. http://ping.fm/7VFaE

Email your questions anytime prior to ric@bluefunkbroadcasting.com or send to Robin ...at http://ping.fm/U0VPW

Be part of our national radio program Thursday at 1:30... To ask a question LIVE call 260-422-8708.

Robin Firestone, is known around the world "The Home Business Diva." She is highly respected as an international coach, speaker and trainer in the Personal and Prosperity Development industry. Her monthly business advice column "Ask The Diva" is featured in The Home Business Connection magazine. She has a daily Mastermind Call, by invitation only, where she teaches Success Strategies, Skill Mastery, and advanced Personal Development Techniques, on what it really takes to take a buisness from ground zero to off the charts! Robin has been interviewed on TV, Radio, and recently by Mark Victor Hansen, CO Author of the New York Times, best selling "The Chicken Soup" series.

You are in for a real treat tomorrow... Bring your questions, and get answers from an EXPERT!

... "This Week in America" with Host Ric Bratton

Each week Ric Bratton talks with nationally-known guests about the issues that affect all Americans.

This Week in America is a compelling human affairs program that will add true value to your listening... Each week Ric Bratton talks with nationally-known guests about the issues that affect all Americans. This Week in America is a compelling human affairs program that will add true value to your listening experience.

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Ric Bratton

Nationally recognized after 33 successful years on television and having worked with the likes of Larry King, Hugh Downs, Chris Matthews, Jay Leno, George Clooney, Katie Couric and many others, Ric now has two radio shows in national syndication.

This Week in America with Ric Bratton is on over 100 stations, and growing. The weekly program features nationally-known guests and contemporary topics of interest.

The show is recorded for local TV and recently won the Philo T. Farnsworth Award for the Best Professional Talk Show. The award is given by the Central States Alliance for Community Media. The region covers Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky.

Ric also is the host of the daily feature Just So You Know that airs on over 40 radio stations nationwide.

His television career has involved news reporting and anchoring, weather, and sports. The Ric Bratton Show was the longest-running and highest-rated local TV talk show in the country!

Ric served for 28 years as a chapter president for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and hosted telethons in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, St. Croix, Lima, Youngstown, Savannah, Flint, Naples, and Lafayette, Indiana. His involvement as host for the telethons since 1975 has helped generate over $20,000,000 for St. Jude; and he has never been paid for his services.

At the 1990 St. Jude National Convention in Detroit, Ric was awarded the St. Jude Man of the Year Award by hospital founder, Danny Thomas. The award is given each year to only one recipient and signifies the nation’s top St. Jude volunteer.

He has been a national board member of the Arthritis Research Institute of America, and in 1990 was one of only five national recipients of the prestigious Bobby Bonilla Award.

He is busy with free lance assignments. He was host of a satellite sports collectibles show, a home shopping program based in Cleveland, and master of ceremonies for the annual Ms. American United States Pageant held in Orlando, FL.

QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO SUCCEED IN A HOME BUSINESS? Confused about what's real and what's not? ASK ME "LIVE" Thur. Jan. 20th between 1:30-2:00 PM EST@ 1-260-422-8708
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QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO SUCCEED IN A HOME BUSINESS? Ask "The Home Business Diva" tweet me @ http://ping.fm/BVLnC
or ask me on LIVE RADIO this Thursday! "The Home Business Diva," Robin Firestone - one of This Week In America's most popular guests - will join us for a special taping, Thursday January 20 at 1:30 EST. You can watch, listen, and participate. Call 260-422-8708 during the LIVE taping of the show. The taping will be live on UStream. Go to http://ping.fm/68oQH ... You will see and hear the show as it is recorded and wil be able to talk to Robin on the air.

Take a few moments out of your day today, read Martin Luther's King speech. This great human being lived and died because of his dream. I have a dream too... Do you? What are you willing to do to see your dream live on, long after you?
Martin Luther King, Jr: I Have a Dream
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"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." — Nolan Bushnell: Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's

"If you wait until all the lights are ‘green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top." - Zig Ziglar

Don't wait — just do it! Most of us have plans to do something momentous — start a business, double our salary, write a book, run a marathon, or befriend someone in need. And we plan to start as soon as… the new year or new month begins… the kids are out of school… we scrape together more free time… etc. The truth is, there will always be something to wait for. Always excuses. You just have to start. NOW.

Thought For The Day... Sunday, January 9, 2011

"If life hands you a lemon, don’t complain, but instead make lemonade to sell to those who are thirsty from complaining."

Wally Amos, the man whom many consider to be the father of the gourmet cookie industry, has turned lemons into lemonade so often in his life that in his official portrait he holds a pitcher in one hand and a glass of lemonade in the other. A perennial optimist, Amos refuses to acknowledge that obstacles are anything other than stepping-stones to success. In a career that has spanned several decades, he has made it to the pinnacle of success several times, only to lose everything and be forced to start over. But he's never lost faith. "You have to have the trust and faith to let go and not agonize," he says. "Don't waste your time worrying. Worry is not preparation. Analyze the situation and focus on solutions. There is always an answer."

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"If you are not willing to risk the unusual,
you will have to settle for the ordinary." -Jim Rohn-

Live 2011 DIFFERENTLY. If you want different results, you must live differently. Start by getting up on the other side of the bed. Make yourself a new breakfast. Take a different route to work. Then your new resolve will translate into new habits for your work, your health, your relationships… with extraordinary results!

Why wait for spring cleaning, time to free your brain of all the accumulated dust and clutter!

"Inner peace and the sensation of calm, is a wonderful state of being! An achievement to be experienced by all." Robin Firestone

Before opportunity crowns you with great success, it usually tests your mettle through adversity.

"When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune."

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There are few things in life that are as bad as they seem at first. Dealing with adversity begins with analyzing and accepting your situation for what it is. When you realize that things are not nearly as bad as they might have been, you have taken the first step toward working your way through the problem. It is a truism that you will never be asked to carry a heavier load than you can bear, but it sometimes helps you better appreciate that fact if you volunteer some of your time to help those who are less fortunate than you are.

"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." — Warren Buffett: Investor, billionaire, and philanthropist
Look around… can you remember a time in your life when so many people were this fearful? This is the time when the Warren Buffetts of the world shine. This is the time when those who take a chance can truly thrive. Might it take you out of your comfort zone? Of course. Can you accomplish something extraordinary if you are truly focused and determined? Absolutely! The time is right for you to finally achieve your entrepreneurial dreams in 2011! Who on earth would start a new business today? Only those who want a steady, reliable income and their greatest opportunity to build wealth. Make a bold decision today to become EXTRAORDINARY!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: "If you don’t know why you failed, you are no wiser than when you began."

There's an old adage that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So it is with our failures. Unless we learn from our mistakes, we are likely to repeat them until we learn from such experiences and correct our course -- or give up and accept temporary defeat as permanent failure. Every setback you encounter in life contains valuable information that, if you study it carefully, will eventually lead you to success. Without adversity, you would never develop wisdom, and without wisdom, success would be short lived indeed.

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." -Zig Zigler- Motivational author and speaker

The first couple of weeks in 2011 mark your chance to PLAN to win. You'll do this by setting clear, specific goals in every life area in which you wish to excel. For the next few months, you'll challenge your mind, your body, and your spirit to give it everything you've got to achieve your goals. The reward comes once you reach a point that you literally expect to win... because you most certainly will. Feeling challenged? Overwhelmed? Get in touch with me and we can discuss a fresh approach! robinfirestone@hotmail.com

Count Your Blessings & Begin to Change Your Life in 2011...

My brother-in-law Brad shared this note with me; it had such a positive impact, I'd like to share it with all of you...

1. Give thanks. Once a day take quiet time to feel gratitude for what you have, not impatience for what you don't have. This alone will bring you halfway to happiness. We already have most of the ingredients of a happy life. It's just that we tend to take these for granted and focus on unmet wants, unfulfilled desires. Giving thanks is better than shopping ? and cheaper too.

2. Praise. Catch someone doing something right and say so. Most people, most of the time, are unappreciated. Being recognized, thanked and congratulated by someone else is one of the most empowering things that can happen to us. So don't wait for someone to do it for you: do it for someone else. You will make their day, and that will help make yours.

3. Spend time with your family. Make sure that there is at least one time a week when you sit down to have a meal together with no distractions ? no television, no phone, no email, just being together, talking together, celebrating one another's company. Happy marriages and healthy families need dedicated time.

4. Discover meaning. Take time out, once in a while, to ask, 'Why am I here? What do I hope to achieve? How best can I use my gifts? What would I wish to be said about me when I am no longer here?' Finding meaning is essential to a fulfilled life ? and how can you find it if you never look? If you don't know where you want to be, you will never get there however fast you run.

5. Live your values. Most of us believe in high ideals, but we act on them only sporadically. The best thing to do is to establish habits that get us to enact those ideals daily. This is called ritual, and it's what religions remember but ethicists often forget.

6. Forgive. This is the emotional equivalent of losing excess weight. Life is too short to bear a grudge or seek revenge. Forgiving someone is good for them but even better for you. The bad has happened. It won't be made better by your dwelling on it. Let it go. Move on.

7. Keep learning. I learned this from Florence in Newcastle, whom I last met the day she celebrated her 105th birthday. She was still full of energy and fun. What's the secret? I asked her. 'Never be afraid to learn something new', she said. Then I realized that if you are willing to learn, you can be 105 and still young. If you are not, you can be 25 and already old.

8. Learn to listen. Often in conversation we spend half our time thinking of what we want to say next instead of paying attention to what the other person is saying. Listening is one of the greatest gifts we can give to someone else. It means that we are open to them, that we take them seriously, that we accept graciously their gift of words.

9. Create moments of silence in the soul. Liberate yourself, if only five minutes daily, from the tyranny of technology, the mobile phone, the laptop and all the other electronic intruders, and just inhale the heady air of existence, the joy of being.

10. Transform suffering. When bad things happen to you, use them to sensitises you to the pain of others. The greatest people I know ? people who survived tragedy and became stronger as a result ? did not ask, 'Who did this to me?' Instead they asked, 'What does this allow me to do that I could not have done before?' They refused to become victims of circumstance. They became, instead, agents of hope.Most of these are, of course, integral elements of a religious life, which may be why so many surveys have shown that those who practice a religious faith tend to live longer, have lower levels of stress and report higher degrees of wellbeing than others. This is not accidental. The great religions are our richest treasuries of wisdom when it comes to the question of how best to live a life.

Life's too full of blessings to waste time and attention on artificial substitutes.

... Live, give, forgive, celebrate and praise: these are still the best ways of making a blessing over life, thereby turning life into a blessing.

Happy New Year Everyone!
Robin Firestone "The Home Business Diva"