Dome, Dumber and Winter Baseball!

Have you been watching the baseball playoffs?

I hope you had more than a Snuggie if you were watching live in Colorado.

Temperatures were in the 30's.

That's not baseball.

That is ludicrous.

And just one more instance of why Bud Selig, the man who made sure we had no World Series in 1994 and an All Star game that ended in a tie is a mixture of visionary (he invented the concept of playoffs) and a fool.

Consider this.

The Metrodome, the outgoing home for the Minnesota Twins (by the way, no set of twins have ever played for the Twins) was the recent site of the Yankees-Twins Series won by the Yankees.

The game in Minnesota was played indoors and it is a good thing. Miserable weather in the Twin Cities would have made this game and the playoff game earlier that week against the Tigers unplayable.

And what does the Twins and management do?

They build a new stadium outdoors.

The next time you see the Twins playing home games in October expect delays. Minnesota and October baseball don't mix.

And yet a solution was always available.

Parks in Phoenix, Seattle, Houston and Milwaukee were built with retractable roofs.

What a concept!

You get the best of weather when it is fresh and fun and yet you protect the fans and players from horrid conditions and the games are played on schedule.

You play 162 games to get to the most important games of the season.

Why play them at all if they are not going to be played in the best possible conditions.

I played baseball in high school in New York in March.

I wore an overcoat on the bench.

When I took off my coat to pinch hit late in the game, I felt like I was nude.

The last thing I wanted to do was walk to the plate.

What had happened to my clothes?

Possibilities for similar conditions exist in Philadelphia and New York in the upcoming league championship series.

Both of these franchises make mega bucks.

Both have moved into new stadiums.

No roofs!

Why?

To save 20% on construction costs?

I don't buy it.

If you are going to extend the season to November as this year World Series is scheduled to do, make sure the games are played on time and the game is baseball.

Games in frigid conditions are just dumb.

What is your opinion?

Share them with me and FRIENDS on facebook.com/steve.tarde

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GETTING RICH IN AMERICA!

If you are not GETTING RICH IN AMERICA, you are not living your best life.

Note that I wrote GETTING RICH.

This means no matter what you are currently doing at this moment in your life, there is hope that beginning today or tomorrow, you can begin GETTING RICH IN AMERICA!

My blog will be addressing this very subject over the next year.

I want to know what Americans are doing to enriching their lives.

I am particularly interested in those who want to enrich their lives with the freedom that comes along with money.

What would you do if money was no longer a problem in your life?

Buy the home of your dreams?

Plan each minute of your day around the passions in your life?

Travel?

If you take a minute compiling your list, you will soon realize that you will add to it regularly.

And that is the beauty of GETTING RICH IN AMERICA!

You will own the power to add to your list and every item on your list will become more than a dream.

It can become your reality.

If you want to explore this journey with me as part of my team, call me today and leave a message with your phone number.

619-647-5234

I will get back to you.

And what an exciting journey we will take together.

VISUALIZE KINDNESS!

There is far too much rudeness in the world.

There is no reason for it.

We can all do something about it.

It takes a little visualizing.

When I speak to groups of little leaguers, I share this with the players and coaches.

What is the most important thing you can teach a young ballplayer?

KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THE BALL BEFORE IT COMES TO YOU!

This power of anticipation is an axiom that the great athletes in sport master on their way to excellence.

It is also a great way to practice kindness.

When we visualize or anticipate that we will be kind to another, we most often are just that.

Kind to each other.

How often do we meet rude people?

We make an honest mistake on the road and someone flashes an obscene sign.

What's with that?

When questioned about their boorish behavior, the offending driver often says that things had built up during the day and they were ready to explode.

Can't we do better?

How many acts of little KINDNESS can we do today?

We can be nice to everyone we speak to on the telephone.

We can be kind to everyone we meet.

We can open a door for a fellow human being.

We can say PLEASE and THANK YOU!

We can return a smile or a greeting and perhaps, even initiate one.

We can know how we are going to act before we act.

We can VISUALIZE KINDNESS!

It can attract KINDNESS in return.

It was Seneca who wrote WHEREVER THERE IS A HUMAN BEING, THERE IS A CHANCE FOR KINDNESS!

VISUALIZE KINDNESS!

It's so much nicer than visualizing rudeness.

I believe that most of us have KINDNESS inside of us.

Let's encourage others to show it!

Start today!

BE KIND!

stevetarde@yahoo.com

DREAM SUCCESS TONIGHT!

Success thinkers don't get that way without thinking success at all hours of the day.

They are confident in what they do and approach life with a surety and definite purpose which shows through their personality.

When you meet a positive person, it's less about arrogance and more about their comfort level.

They just set off a radiance wherever they travel and whomever they meet.

I teach my students how to think success.

I start on the very first evening.

My students learn to think success by first dreaming success.

It's part of marinating in success.

You must believe that success is heading your way.

You need to see yourself in that picture in your mind.

You need to know where you are heading, so that when you get there, you will truly believe that you have been there before.

Top athletes, students and entrepreneurs share this very important quality.

They have seen themselves succeed before they succeed.

It's a very simple and powerful formula.

That's what I teach.

Are you ready to learn?

Dear Steve:

Dear Steve:

My daughter, Janice, studied your FORMULA with you three years ago.

This month, she begins a school at the college of her dreams and I wanted you to know what role you played in helping her dream become true.

Before we contacted you, Janice was shy and as you often repeated to her, "not comfortable in her own skin."

Well, Steve, I want you to know that she is secure in herself today and a largely in part of what your teachings have meant to her.

It wasn't that she was a bad student.

Janice had decent grades and friends.

However, she worried constantly about things.

This led her off track and jeopardized the many talents she had.

Your talent in teaching her the ability to visualize and accentuate the positive in both her studies and her life, provided the foundation for an almost instant breakthrough.

Her grades shot up to A and remained there.

Janice graduated at the top of her class.

I tell others that I am shocked, but not surprised.

I qualify that comment by explaining that I knew my daughter had this gift inside her.

I just wasn't sure anyone was ever going to witness it.

Thanks to you, everyone now sees it.

Most importantly, Janice sees it.

Her writing, her vocabulary, her essays, all shine with the same radiance of someone who is going to do great things in her life.

I am sure Janice will be writing you as well.

After all, she was your student and she will express things in a far greater way than me.

However, as a parent, I couldn't let another day pass without writing you and sharing with you this amazing triumph in my only daughter's life.

To watch her mix with people she both knows and has just met, to hear her speak in front of others and engage their minds and motivate their actions, well, I must say that I am not an emotional man, but this transition has moved me to tears.

Happy tears.

Tears of joy.

You are great at what you do.

Keep teaching your powers.

This parent will never forget you.

Alberto G
Miami, Florida

TALKING TO OUR KIDS!

Parents with children at home talk to their children all the time.

Are they communicating with them.

My grandson starts winter little league in San Diego this weekend and my son, a terrific dad, will coach the team.

I cringe when I see most parents interact with their kids in little league.

A perfect example is when a kid makes a mistake.

I have heard comments such as.

HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID!

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING OF?

YOU SCREWED THAT ONE UP BIG TIME!

A parent or coach is a teacher and it is so easy to teach and accentuate the positive while you correct a mistake.

A parent or coach could take the same mistake on the playing field and turn it into a positive experience.

Simply choose a different set of words.

I LIKED THE EFFORT! LET ME SUGGEST YOU TRY IT THIS WAY!

FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN YOU COULD BE A GOOD PLAYER! NEXT TIME TRY THIS...

It takes a little effort on the part of the coach and the parent to always emphasize the positive.

Many of us weren't brought up in a positive parenting environment.

And, like many bad habits, we have inherited these traits and continue to pass them down.

And it can all stop starting today.

If we THINK about it.

And our kids might really enjoy the experience of playing SPORTS or whatever the activity.

Wasn't that the idea?

What Is Your Purpose?

Have you thought much about that?

Do you think about little else?

What is my purpose in developing an organization with the goals of VISUALIZERS?

I wanted to create a unique personal development organization.

I didn't want to make it too costly to join.

I wanted to promote ideas and people within VISUALIZERS whose ideas were worth sharing.

I wanted to have our members attract other members and share the benefits of the growth of the organization.

I wanted to spread positive ideas to a world in need of positive ideas.

I wanted to help our members do good for others while we did good for ourselves.

This is what the mission of VISUALIZERS is all about.

VISUALIZERS!

Leaders of tomorrow wanted today!

All aboard!