Can You Write A Killer Ad?

If you can, I invite you to join me and by New Year"s Eve, you might be toasting yourself and 2009.

I invite you to make 2009 your best year yet.

In 1982, I wrote FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF.

It has attracted over one million readers who have gone on to change their lives by owning heir own business.

One can say and more than one has said that I helped launch a Renaissance entrepreneurial age.

Now, 27 years later, I plan to repeat my success by teaching the power of mental imagery.

The unlimited income which will accrue from this project can find its way into your pocket.

And I will teach you every step of the way.

Isn't about time that you were fortunate enough to work with someone who created an idea and not some associate who just happened to discover the idea before you?

I am looking for a two dozen superstars during the next month who can help me launch my mental imagery business across America.

I am selling the power of the mind here.

I am not selling herbal products, skin care, soap or vitamins.

I am a CPA with an MBA and have been a teacher and professor since I was 22 years old and that was not yesterday.

This is not network marketing.

I pay my associates extraordinary commissions based on book sales and tuition.

You must email me today at stevetarde@yahoo.com in order to be included in the Mental Imagery First 24.

What Do You Hate About Work?

From time to time, I am going to inckude comments made from my students about work before they discovered the life changing potential of promoting mental imagery with me to be so very special.

What I hate most about work is eating lunch/dinner on the job. We have a tiny cafeteria, 30 minutes and lousy food in the vending machines. I cry often to myself, wishing that I was home with my little children who are being watched by a neighbor while I work for such a low wage. I feel trapped, but what can I do?

Delia
Brooklyn, New York

Are you a Champion?

My new book WORD PICTURES changes lives.

Whether you become a student and read WP or you go on to make a gread deal of money and join me in spreading my simple, but powerful mental imagery formula to the world, I can promise you this.

In more than 3 decades in the business of motivational education, I have come to realize that there is a formula for becoming a champion.

Whether one truly will do what it takes to become a champion is another matter.

Champions are mostly associated with sports, but there are champions in all aspects of life.

There are champion moms and dads.

Champion entrepreneurs.

Champion students.

Champions in keeping their tempers always in check (I am still a student of this championship learning formula).

The new San FRancisco 49er Fotball coach knows about champions.

He won a Super Bowl championship with Mike Ditka's Chicago Bears.

After taking a 34-13 drubbing at the hands of the lowly Seattle Seahawks, Mike Singletary defined what it takes to becoming a champion.

The coach was talking about football champions.

To me, his cogent quote applies to life as well.

The coach was asked when the attitude of his team will change.


"It will change because they want to change....It will change because they want to be champions."


So I ask you.

Do you want to become a champion in life?

Take the first step by reading WORD PICTURES.

Together, we can change lives.

First, we will begin with our own.

MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS WITH ME IN 2009!

I have already started my formula, so we have an extra 66 Days until New Year's Eve.

Visionaries think like that.

Are you a visionary?

I plan on making a million dollars in 2009.

Would you like to join me?

I am simply following the formula I used in 1982 when I wrote FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF (also available through my account ay paypal.com at $49).

That book changed my life at age 32.

Suddenly, I was eating at Ruth Chris Steakhouse in cities around the USA.

My dad might have preferred Sizzler, but let's be real.

I was vacationing in Maui and not fighting traffic at the local beach.

I spent my days at home with my then 5 year old son who I played with each and every day the way few fathers ever have the opportunity.

Does having unbounded time to pursue your dreams appeal to you?

I am applying the very same formula to my new book WORD PICTURES.

This 15,000 Word book includes my very best in studying the power of mental imagery over the past 15 years.

My students have included those trying to get into the very best colleges in the land, athletes seeking to become champions and of course, entrepreneurs, whom I have been advising for three decades as the most innovative CPA, applying WORD PICTURES to their business and life success, in America.

WORD PICTURES is my life changing formula for success in school, sports, business and life.

If you join my team, you will be in position to help me spread it far and wide through the power of the Internet and word of mouth.

There was no Internet in 1982 when I wrote FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF and still it has attracted more than one million readers!

If you are truly a visionary and seriously want to make million dollars in 2009 and beyond and would enjoy changing lives for the better while you do so, take this insider first step today.

Order WORD PICTURES in bulk.

For every 100 books that I ship, I will sell them to you at half price ($25 per copy)!

This means you are set up to make $2,500 on your first 100 copies you resell and that's just the beginning.

You will get a percentage of all the email lessons accrued from your first group of 100 and their residual tuition payments for as long as you work with me.

The money will add up quickly.

I am seeking visionaries here.

I am following a simple plan.

As simple as the explosive power of Mental Imagery.

I look forward to hearing from visionaries only.

Do you want to join me in making a million dollars in 2009?

This is your wake up call.

TIME WARNER LOVES WORD PICTURES!

Alfredo Duran Jr., is now a top executive with Time Warner.

I have had a special interest in following Alfred's ascent.

He was one of my first WORD PICTURES students 30 years ago.

Alfredo still sends me love.

"Every parent and child should grab a copy of WORD PICTURES. Steve Tarde has an exceptional mind. The mental imagery he taught me as an 18 year old is the basis for the great vocabulary and communication skills which have served me so well today." Don't miss your chance to study the philosophy of this exceptional teacher."

Alfredo Duran, Jr., Time Warner
Miami, Florida
Studied Mental Imagery with Steve Tarde at age 17

MAKE MORE MONEY: CPA SHARES FORMULA!

CNN is filming a series these days:

THE TIMES WE LIVE IN.

It is pretty depressing stuff.

College grads, owing 6 figures loans and they can't even hook up at Starbucks, because America isn't buying coffee as it did years ago.

Unless you have a very secure job (and even if you do), you will need to be at your creaive best to make it through this economic downturn.

I have been helping people with their creative powers for many years.

I urge you to get and read my book WORD PICTURES.

The stunning simplicity of mental imagery will provide unlimited options.

If you take advantage of the included email lssons, you might even want to pass the formula along and you will be paid well for that too.

There are still ways to make money in America.

Maybe your dady left you a fortune.

Trump's daddy did and yet most of Ameruca believes he was a rags to riches kid.

He wasn't.

Unless you have a great deal of capital behind you, you need a simple plan.

I have that plan.

Let me teach it to you.

Then you might wanbt to teach it to others.

That's a plan I have dedicated my life to.

Sales Opportunity: Market CPA's Mental Imagery Wealth Formula

Take a few minutes to read my blog.

I can guarantee you that what I have to offer in this blog and especially in my new book WORD PICTURES is life changing.

If you choose to join my sales organization, I can promise you regular email communication and a product (book and email lessons) which I have taught my students for nearly 40 years.

WORD PICTURES helps make students better by dramatically increasing their vocabulary after one lesson.

WORD PICTURES has helped the athletes I have taught from amateur to professional win championships in multiple sports.

WORD PICTURES (along with my first book FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF) has helped those who want to become independent through a business of their very own.

In short, my formula, developed from the time I was 18 years old, nurtured in my teaching in New York City's South Bronx, augmented through my MBA and CPA training and then taught to athletes who wanted to become champions, changes lives!

Can it change yours?

All I ask from anyone wanting to join my marketing group is to purchase WORD PICTURES at my $39 price (includes priority mailing and email lessons).

I will do the rest.

You will make money.

You will help others succeed.

And like me, you may have the time of your life.

Do you want to make 2009 the best year of your life?

Join me and let's make that happen.

Together!

JOE PLUMBER SHOULD BE DONALD TRUMP!

I resent Joe Plumber being used in this campaign.

I don't know him.

I mean he looks and sounds like a normal guy.

But until this week nobody knew him.

Sort of like Sarah Palin before and after.

It is Donald Trump I am after.

Let me explain.

If you want to share the wealth in America, if you really want to redistribute the wealth from the very rich to benefit those forever looking up, you don't waste your time with plumbers.

You go to the penthouse.

In the penthouse, you will find a suite reserved for Mr. Gates.

You will find a bevy of rooms under the name of Mr. Buffett.

You will not be invited to the rooftop pool party under the brightly colored tent unless you are on the list of one Mr. Pickens.

Of course, the entire building is owned by Mr. Trump.

Let's bring these fellas into the limelight of this campaign.

Let's redistribute their wealth.

Let's leave Joe Plumber alone.

Don't think that the wealth distribution plan works?

Ask the Tampa Bay Rays.

Tonight, they can punch their dance card to the World Series.

Where did they get some of the cash for this championship team?

Go find the New York Yankees, the Trumps of baseball, who had to fork over millions in cash to lowly teams like the Rays under baseball's version of share the wealth.

You might have a problem finding the Yankees all in one place.

You see they usually play baseball this time of year, but it appears they are on vacation.

Replaced by the Rays.

Now that's sharing the wealth!

It's an idea whose time has come.

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Share the Wealth with me and my new book WORD PICTURES, Order today and begin making money immediately!

Today is Bosses Day! Are You the Boss of You?

Almost 30 years ago, I penned the underground best seller FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF.

To date, it has been read by over a million entrepreneurs in waiting and is still available in reprint (with email lessons and priority shipping included) at $59 through my account at www.paypal.com

Regular readers of my blog will know that FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF made a great deal of money for me and was the driving force behind me spending unbounded time with my then 5 year old son (now an executive and public speaker).

Time as well as money is central to the American dream of owning a successful business of your own.

Now, with the publication of my latest book WORD PICTURES, I am offering my readers an opportunity to own that American dream of time and money.

I only ask you to read it for yourself at a one time investment of $39 (I will pay priority shipping and personally supervise email lessons).

For less than what most of us will pay for a tank of gas at today's ludicrous prices, I can deliver an opportunity to you to finally take the steps necessary to own a business and develop an immediate cash flow overnight.

As a lifelong teacher, I will teach you how to do it.

If you doubt me, invest the time to fully read my blog.

If you simply read what I have written in the past six weeks (since September), you will learn about John, who was a former student who studied mental imagery with me and applied it to his senior season of football.

John's original letter is reprinted as he first wrote me after his dream season was completed.

You will meet Monica who applied mental imagery to becoming a wordsmith with an amazing new vocabulary and a confidence which helped her transition from a schoolgirl to a woman.

Monica's letter to me is included as well.

As I did with my students from FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF, I am once again building a special group of people here, but this time based on the mental imagery featured in WORD PICTURES.

I once built an empire which provided me with everything I coveted in life.

I estimate my empire will be exponentially greater with the power of the Internet, not available my first time around the rodeo.

Are you ready to do something big with your life?

Convince yourself and me by ordering WORD PICTURES today.

When you do, I will be in touch.

T. Boone Pickens, Me, You and Comebacks!

I am reading T. Boone Pickens THE FIRST BILLION IS THE HARDEST. Should be on everyone's reading list, entrepreneur or simply American. I will write more after I absorb it over the next 24-48 hours or so.

Boone believes in comebacks.

So do I.

Over the past year, I have been mugged, had kidney stones, had my wife move out and took with her my young daughter and I had to start a business again that I had semi-retired from years ago.

But after the pain subsuded...........

Here's what happened and is still happening.

I am making a comeback and WORD PICTURES will be better than FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF (see preceding entry and better yet, read my whole blog or as much as you can handle).

And you know something? Life is becoming sweeter than ever.

Want to join me?

Order WORD PICTURES and let me participate in your comeback.

What a story it will be!

Stocks Have Worst Week Ever! I had my Best Week Ever! And so Can you!

When I wrote FIRE YOUR BOSS AND HIRE YOURSELF (FYB) more than 25 years ago, I had no idea it would be read by more than one million students and readers.

In those days, word of mouth, radio and TV and my well attended lectures were my only marketing tools.

Remember, this was still a decade before the explosion of the Internet.

FYB caught the imagination of entrepreneurs everywhere, many who would go on to brainstorm with me about their version of the American dream to own a business and stop working to make others rich.

This brings me to today and my new book WORD PICTURES.

I am inviting you to be among the first to receive your copy of WORD PICTURES , a study guide based on my mental imagery formula for success in entrepreneurship, athletics, the classroom and life.

Whether you want to simply read WORD PICTURES and apply my simple but powerful formula to enhance your life or partner with me and teach and promote WORD PICTURES, this is your opportunity before others get the word in 2009.

Take some time to familiarize yourself with my writing in my blog.

Then order my book at the special deep discount investment of $39 (the book will be offered to students in 2009 at $99).

After you receive your copy of WORD PICTURES (shipping is free), I will email you to gauge your interest in helping me to spread the extraordinary power of mental imagery.

My goal will be to help you make 6 figures in 2009 teaching and promoting a subject which has been my life's work for nearly 40 years.

I look forward to helping you make 2009 your best year yet.


You can order WORD PICTURES at $39 (One copy only at this special rate) two ways.

Use the security of the Internet by using my account (stevetarde@yahoo.com) at
www.paypal.com

You don't need an account at www.paypal.com to send funds.

You can also mail your check or money order to:

Steve Tarde
Post Office Box 19811
San Diego California 92159

Rick Neuheisel is a Fan of Mental Imagery

Add UCLA football coach Rick Neuheisel to the mental imagery fan club.

This is what he recently told the New York Times when asked how his players could prepare better mentally.

"We've got to get guys with more anticipation skills. A lot of that is just one-one conversation with coaches. Just come and ask more questions. Watch the tape and come and ask.

The more you learn about the game, the more you start to anticipate what's going to happen> Now you can be where you needed to be on a fitted block or you can be where you need to be running a route or let the ball go a little early. It is why great players are great players. They have great anticipation."

Thanks, Rick. You have captured the essence of a champion with those final two sentences.

It is why great players are great players. They have great anticipation.

If you are reading this, you should know that I teach my students (athletes, entrepreneurs and students) how to apply the powers of mental imagery to master anticipation and become a champion.

Maybe you want to master that power in your own life or maybe you want to make extra cash teaching it to others.

My new companion manual WORD PICTURES is used exclusively as a study guide for my students and you can use it as your study guide for your students.

Want to know how you can begin making money teaching mental imagery in 2009?

Email me today at stevetarde@yahoo.com

On The Day Martin Luther King Was Shot AKA The Steve Henry Story

On that life changing date in American history, our varsity baseball team was playing the one school on our schedule that was a largely African-American.

Over the years, what happened on that day to me and my 16-18 year old teammates would make me wonder and my wonderment often results in words delivered from my mind to the page.

So, due to the personal request of Jacqui Harris, one of the great educational treasures keeping watch over my alma mata in South Huntington, New York, I am repeating a story which was first published in September 2003.

Having had the opportunity to visit New York last month and speak again with some of the principals, my 2008 editorial revisions can be noted parenthetically.

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FREE AT LAST!

Those were the words I and 600 classmates screamed when he exited the doors of our high school in June 1968, a watershed year in American history which would be written about forever more.

Another man was using that line as 1967 became 1968.

One of our baseball team's losses in April 1968 was a defeat which didn't come quite clear until many years later. I still can't wait to test my theory on some of my teammates (I did at our 40th Reunion in September, 2008, 40 years later)! Harry (ubiquitous sidekick and still best buddy to this day) swears by my logic, but Harry is my pal. He hardly ever disagrees with me.

It all had to do with our left-fielder, Steve Henry.

I can't quite figure Steve out. I have tried to reach him by regular mail. He is one of the few out there that still has no email (Steve has email today) and he is a teacher and former football coach at then rival Huntington High School.

Harry is the current baseball coach at Huntington (retired in 2005) and he finds Steve reclusive as well.

Steve wasn't always a recluse (I spent time with Steve at the reunion and what I see as reclusive is mostly shyness). He visited my home when we were both 7 or 8. Steve's birthday is in December, a week before mine. When my mom and dad entered my bedroom, they were somewhat surprised.

Steve Henry wasn't white like me.

As the only African-American on our 1968 baseball team, I can personally state unequivocally that there was never any racism at our school. That might come as a surprise, since our African-American student population in our class of 1968 was no more than 5% at most.

Steve was our Willie Mays.

He had a beautiful body (and is still in GREAT SHAPE today), blazing speed and an uppercut swing which often sent majestic, towering drives out of any yard we played in.

Along with Frank Clancy (I saw at the weekend after 40 years and the first thing he remembered out me was how he beaned me in Jr, High and thought he had killed me) and Marc Fellman (the only one of our eight seniors who couldn't make it last month), Steve was one of our most consistent power hitters.

This leads to the events which threatened to tear apart America on the afternoon of our seemingly casual baseball game with Amityville High, 6 years before Ron Defeo killed his entire family, unleashing the events which led to the "Amityville Horror" saga.

The date was April 4, 1968.

It would go down as one of the historical dates in American history.

Our world split open on that date. Not because of our late inning rally falling short at Amityville that early spring afternoon.

The real news was happening on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.

It was our non-league opener and Amityville was a very athletic team. they were also mostly an African-American team. Not that we thought twice about that then. In fact, most of us never gave it another thought ever again.

I did.

Years later, with life experience and a bit of wisdom, it is hard to deny the sequence of events that happened that day.

I had a bases loaded hit against their baseball and basketball star, Jerry Crocker, but we still trailed by 3 runs as we moved into the last inning.

What followed in that last inning is one for the history books.

Steve Henry walked to the plate as our last chance. The score was in favor of Amityville, 8-5, but the bags were loaded!

One of Steve's uppercut drives and we could take the lead on a single pitch.

Our only African-American athlete competing against a team of African-American athletes.

The count went full.

Let me reset the scene.

Amityville leads 8-5. Two outs, last inning, bases loaded and a 3-2 count on one of our best hitters.

As the baseball saying went, there was no place to put Steve.

Either the next pitch was a ball and we drew a run closer or Steve put the ball in play or struck out.

The entire game, the past few hours of work (and play) was riding on the very next pitch.

As the Amityville hurler looked at the catcher for the sign on the payoff pitch, "time" was suddenly called on the field.

The umpires quickly conferred with the two head coaches (40 years later, our coach, still going strong at nearly 80, has no memory of the final seconds of this game).

Suddenly, the umps began waving their arms wildly over their heads.

What was going on?

The game was being called because of darkness.

What?! We screamed in protest.

Our power hitter was at bat with the bases loaded and a full count and you call the game at that point?

What the Hell (we have been known to use stronger language)!

Coach Ralph (Lewis, who still when I spoke to him 40 years later, had the same voice as he dis when he was 39 and coaching us in what was then his 6th season, which would encompass 14 years before he was through, including a Long Island Championship and an undefeated season in 1975) quieted us down and ushered us to quickly boars the bus back to Whitman High.

There would be no Joe Christopher stories this evening (stories I developed to ease the tension and entertain my teammates based on the fictitious travels of the former Mets outfielder).

We felt we were robbed in Amityville that afternoon.

Later that evening, when we returned to our homes, we learned what had happened earlier in our country that day.

Vietnam had been slicing our world apart. Now, news came down that our world was about to fall off its axis.

Dr. Martin Luther Ling, the best known African-American of his day, had been shot and killed in Memphis.

Riots had broken out throughout the nation.

That night, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., addressed a crowd in Indianapolis.

The brother of our slain former president, was now running himself for the American presidency of 1968. Good friends with Dr. King, he tried to find the words that would heal a hurt and divided nation.

"What we need in the United States is love. wisdom and compassion toward one another and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our own country whether they be white or they be black." (American Century, pg. 300)

Some of that wisdom RFK referred to was practiced at Amityville High that very afternoon of April 4. By rounding up our white butts with our solitary black teammate, officials did what they thought was prudent at the time.

That game was never called for darkness, unless we are talking about the fact that darkness settled that evening over an entire nation.

I was never convinced of that.

That game was called to prevent a riot.

That evening, America was torn apart by Riots in Memphis and 124 cities across America (take note that another African-American man will return to Tennessee tomorrow night to debate his opponent as the first African American to ever run for the American presidency).

Few listened to RFK"s calming words and in fact, 60 days later, RFK would be killed by another senseless bullet (and we were still weeks away from graduation).

We could only wonder what kind of a world we were graduating into.

Baseball kept us sane. At least until graduation.

Eventually, more than 68,000 soldiers were called out to curb the violence. At least 40 blacks and five whites were killed in the riots.

Over 45 million dollars in property was destroyed and more than 20,000 people were arrested. There were major outbreaks in Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.

By that summer, riots would be the word most associated with the year 1968.

And in Amityville, we lost a baseball game by the final score of 8-5, suspended and never to be resumed.

Officially, the game went into the score books as called for darkness.

It might have been America's first game cancelled due to preventing a race riot.

I'm sure the Amityville Nine had as little interest in rioting as we had in stopping play. Yet, when an all white (except for our Willie Mays) baseball team on the day that the most celebrated African-American is shot by a white man, certain measures must be taken.

Game called on account of darkness.

I agree.

One of the darkest days in American history.

More were soon to follow.

This was 1968, the year me and my classmates graduated in the year that forever changed America.

(Final Note: Steve Henry was most gracious to me to discuss a period of history he didn't particularly feel as comfortable as I did pursuing. He did reiterate often that he never felt any racial tension on our team or anywhere growing up in Huntington. He also had no memory of the game. However, newspapers of the day document my recollection. I stand by my story and thank all of my teammates who helped me review the facts as they recalled them on that day, 40 years and six months ago).

Entrepreneurs Struggle to Hang on Across the USA

Have you fired your copywriter yet?

Maybe you don't have anyone to help you use the power of words to attract business.

If you are an entrepreneur like those profiled in yesterday's USA TODAY Page One, you need something.

Because according to Mindy Fetterman, writer of the piece, America's entrepreneurs are in big trouble and it isn't going to get better anytime soon.

I know this.

If you are an entrepreneur and you haven't learned how to write or speak effectively to promote your own business, you may soon be out of business.

No matter how well you did 5 or 10 years ago, this is new territory.

Consider some of the quotes in this story.

Judy Robertson who runs Judy's Pet Depot in LA, says:

"The economy is very scary right now. As for me, being a small business owner, I've felt it."

In Atlanta, Steve Rayman owns nine car dealerships:

"It's devastating. We're 75% off. We're having to cut costs, trim budgets and trim spending. We're cutting 75%."

Samantha DiGennaro, founder of public relations agency DiGennaro Communications was thinking seriously of taking extra space to expand her business.

She has decided to put that off for now.

"This is not the right time. We can pile more people in my current space."

What does this mean for current entrepreneurs and those who have always dreamed of finally setting out to make it on their own?

Gloom and doom?

I think not.

All I know is that I continue to add students who are entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs in waiting who want to become skilled in writing and speaking to enhance their business and eliminate the costs of doing what they can easily learn to do for themselves.

Using the power of the written and spoken word to improve their skills and attract CASH now!

I will see you in class.