WHAT IS THE WORD?

Who's on First?

Not to digress into an Abbott and Costello classic, but many of my new readers ask the question.

They see me write that they are one word from success.

It follows that they want to know:

What is the word?

Now, for the first time, here is the answer.

What do you want the word to be?

As a motivational speaker, that leads me to still another story.

An escort slides into the passenger seat of the client's vehicle.

"What is your name?" The excited client queries.

"What do you want my name to be?"

And so it goes.

I have created a thinking system for futurists of tomorrow.

You come with a goal that you would like to reach in your life.

It might have to do with your career, your relationships, your money, your health, you name it.

And that's exactly the answer.

You put a word name to your focus.

I will show you how to create a cluster of words to help you reach and satisfy your goal.

In the coming weeks, I will share some of those words with you.

Some will come from words I have chosen and others will come from my readers.

If you have one which symbolizes your goal, send it along to me and it might make it to this blog.

All words lead to your success.

With my system, you will learn to focus on the one which best helps you speed your journey.

Have a safe trip.

WILL YOU JOIN US?

Do you think the world can be changed by teaching a single word?

What about a flood?

Does it begin with a single drop?

I have been teaching words to parents and kids for 40 years.

I have one very special dream.

I want to join those who are willing to teach one word as a way of making a difference in a person's life.

This blog will deal with the philosophy of the matter in the coming days, weeks and months.

My posting today is simply a shout out to all my readers.

Would you be willing to join such a movement?

If you are, please shout back at me.

I would appreciate your noise.

DEAR DESPERATE STUDENT

Note: My response to the letter published in this blog yesterday


Dear Kiki


How great to hear from you after 30 years!

I am so sorry that you write from pain and not happiness.

My bet is that there is still a happy woman somewhere buried within the agony.

Yes, I will do everything in my power to help you find that woman once more.

You must realize that my entire work these days is helping others achieve their life purpose of becoming a personal coach.

That, along with my writing and other activities, takes up my days here in San Diego.

However, I hardly can turn down the compelling and well written, I may add, request of a former student who wants to return to the classroom once again.

As with Honors English, thirty years ago, I have rules.

If you follow them, I can help you.

If you don't, I can't and won't.

I have a 30 day program to help you begin your quest.

From what I have read, you have never been educated to eat right.

For the next 14 days, I will be reviewing what you eat now and how you can substitute foods that are good for you and that you enjoy.

I will write about portion control, my "last bite" theory, visualization, the liquids you should be drinking, and how the simple act of walking can help you once again take control of your life.

I will suggest a reading list of no more than 3 books which you will read and internalize as you complete my 30 day program and graduate on to a lifestyle where eating is no longer a diet, but a lifestyle.

I will teach you to think about food in a way that has never occurred to you before.

Kiki, together, we can do this.

Just like 30 years ago, I will be your mentor.

But you must become the "A" student once again.

This time we are goal is not college.

This time our goal is helping you discover that beautiful woman looking to escape from the prison she now sits.

Kiki, your enclosed pictures tell me you are still a beautiful woman.

Let's take this journey together.

Are you ready?

I can't promise you this will be easy.

Great pursuits never are.

But I can promise you a rewarding journey, if you set your mind to this goal.

And now our journey begins............


Today, Kiki is around 140 pounds, remarried and a very content woman. She will never buy "diet" foods again and she laughs when people ask her what was the name of her diet.

As Kiki writes, her answer is that she connected with a former teacher who taught her another lesson about life.

Kiki gives me too much credit.

Kiki simply learned a better way to eat.

And if you have the time, I can teach it to you.

LETTER FROM A DESPERATE STUDENT

Dear Coach:

I am desperate!

I now weigh 295 pounds and my weight in high school was 130 pounds.

Can you see the tears on the page which I now write?

How did this happen to me?

I hear laughs and jokes where I work.

I have a respected executive position with a big company and lately, I feel that my fellow employees are trying to push me out of my hard earned position.

They are ashamed that I represent them.

Last week, we were at a fancy downtown restaurant for a night of drinks and celebration for an outstanding project we completed as a team.

We had no sooner been handed our menus, when one of the new associates, said, "Let's have Kiki order for us, she probably has eaten everything on the menu at least once."

I was crushed.

How dare he insult me with such a crude comment?

Yet, I felt that I deserved it.

I rushed to the restroom, engulfed in tears.

What was worse, Steve, not a single one of my "friends" followed me.

I called in sick for the rest of the week and only recently returned to work.

I am an attorney and I don't know if there is movement on having me terminated after more than a decade with the firm.

I have tried every diet from ones where you buy the food, to ones where you weigh the food to others where you practically starve yourself.

Nothing works.

I was on Facebook recently and a friend from Miami asked me to FRIEND you.

Now, you might remember who I am.

I am Kiki from your Seniors Honors English class.

You were such a marvelous teacher.

You taught me vocabulary in such a way that I soared through college and Law School with a magical flair for words which astounded my friends.

Now, I see you are bringing your talent to a wider audience, by being a mentor to new personal coaches worldwide.

What an amazing following you have!

Please, Mr. Tarde, I am begging you here, can you play your magic one more time in my life and coach me to take my life back.

I am heading down a bleak, lonely road.

You were my prince in shining armor in Miami, so many years ago.

What a story it would be if you could come back into my life for a second act.

I will be your faithful student once more.

I promise.

Please help me.

I have nowhere else to turn.

Kiki


NOTE

COME BACK TOMORROW FOR MY RESPONSE TO KIKI'S REQUEST...............

ARE YOU INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY?

The first thought here is that I am writing about money.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

If you have enough money to live each remaining day of your life in the manner you choose, then you are independently wealthy.

That's what is so exciting about being a personal coach.

You live each day of your life helping others to follow their dreams.

By doing such noble work, you achieve your dreams as well.

When you can wake up each morning and live the day as you plan it, the energy, freedom and exhilaration is available in unlimited supply.

The personal coaches I teach begin their journey responding to a single question.

What is your life purpose?

If they share with me that they believe their purpose in life is to help others, I know for a fact that personal coaching should become their journey.

Will it be your journey?

It begins with a single step.

WHAT YOU WERE NEVER TAUGHT IN SCHOOL!

Father's Day has passed.

So what do we look forward to now?

Sports nuts are caught in a bind.

Football season is still a couple months away, basketball season is over and baseball's pennant races won't be heating up until later this summer.

It seems like the couch potato will either have to go outside and become a baked potato or just roll over in the hammock and go back to sleep until the cold weather arrives.

Or you could spend the next 60 days or so working on yourself.

My personal coaches are focusing on a variety of students as we head to the halfway marker in 2009.

Let's consider those students seeking a way to lose weight and keep it off!

Those of you who have worked with me know that I believe there is no such thing as dieting.

If you are yo-yoing on diets, you have probably lost a ton of weight and even more likely, gained it all back.

That's what statistics tell us.

First, we teach our students to realize that weight control is not their fault.

The fact is that we have never been taught the right way to diet.

All those years in school!

For what?

How many years of English grammar were you subjected to?

Couldn't a few nutrition and weight management courses been snuck in somewhere?

And don't get me started on what foods you found when you headed off to the school cafeteria.

My personal coaches are loaded with those who are looking for a personal formula to lose weight and keep it off.

We have that formula.

And so do you.

We just have to ignite your genius within.

Have a great summer!

And make it a memorable one by committing to do something for yourself!

10 REASONS WHY YOU WANT TO BE A PERSONAL COACH!

1. It is your LIFE PURPOSE

2. You LOVE helping PEOPLE

3. Your current JOB bores the Hell out of you

4. You LOVE to WRITE

5. You love to TALK

6. You are GREAT at solving other people's PROBLEMS

7. You love your FREE time

8. You hate commuting

9. You have been waiting FOREVER for the opportunity to declare your INDEPENDENCE

10. You want to stop WORKING and start LIVING


My next question is

When can you start?

stevetarde@yahoo.com
facebook.com/steve.tarde
twitter.com/stevetarde

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF BEING A PERSONAL COACH?

Well, have you?

I have been coaching since I was 22 years old.

The coaching business enabled me to enjoy my first retirement at 32 years of age.

You will have to ask my kids, now 31 and 16 respectively, what life was like having their dad around as much as I was.

There is a story in legendary motivational speeches when a dying man is asked if he has any regrets from the life now about to end forever.

"Yes. I wish I had spent less time at the office."

Well, I must have grown up with that soundtrack playing in my brain.

I always detested offices.

My office is and was my home.

That is great for me, but what does it mean for you?

Well, I have taught thousands of my students how to coach others the way I have.

Personal coaching is a very easy business to learn and it is a CASH business!

If you are ambitious, open minded, studious and receptive to learning new things, I can show you how to begin making money in this business in less than 30 days!

But I am only looking for serious students who want to begin making money.

I won't waste your time and I fully expect you not to waste mine.

The fact is that there has never been a greater need to enter the field of personal coaching.

You can choose many areas to coach others, but I teach my students to be flexible.

I will show you how to promote yourself.

I will show you where you can find students/clients to begin working with.

I will help you decide what personal coaching area you would like to focus on.

In other words. I will be the coach you need to learn coaching.

And by phone and email, I will be there for you every step of the way.

So I have one question for you.

When can you start?

Email me and share with me why you want to become a personal coach.

If I like what you write, I will be in touch.

Visit me on FACEBOOK at facebook.com/steve.tarde

WANTED: Motivational Stories That Motivate!

I look forward to GIFT TO MY DAD and its publication later this year.

A book I have planned for next year as a compendium of motivational stories.

Many will be written by my new stable of motivational writers who have joined my network.

If you have penned or will be writing a motivational story that you believe would be of interest to readers, email it my way at stevetarde@yahoo.com

If it is good, I will be in touch.

WILL YOU BE FIRED ON FRIDAY?

Too many of my readers call me AFTER they were fired.

It seems no job is safe in America any more.

Is yours?

My readers want to hear about your job.

If you were fired this week, would you get the pink slip on Friday?

How does your employer can people?

Share it with me (I won't name names) and I will educate my readers.

And one more thing.

Don't wait for Friday.

Contact me ASAP.

Before you get fired.

Are you Worried About Getting Fired?

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

It has sold over a million copies and I will pen the sequel in 2012 to mark the 30th year anniversary.

We are all aware that the job market out there is treacherous at best.

What are you doing to give your self some leverage?

If you haven't considered a business of your own, now might be the time.

It might save your finances.

It might save your marriage.

It might save your life.

Would you settle for two out of three?

I have advised thousands of readers how to start their own business.

I can match you up with one which will take little or no capital.

I have ZERO participation in any business I recommend.

That is why I can remain 100% objective.

Read about me on FACEBOOK.

There are still 6 and one-half months left to 2009.

If we begin working on your new business in the next 30 days, you can be earning an extra income before year's end without giving up your present job.

That is unless that job of yours gives up on you first.

TOP 10 Business Ideas for 2010

A national publication has come out with this list.

No doubt you will be seeing many more as we approach the new decade.

There top 10 includes.

Gift Baskets
Lawn Service
Kitchen Repair
Senior Services
Pet Activities
Computer Tutoring
Academic Tutoring

Am i going out of mind?

This list is baloney!

These businesses will suck up your money and bleed you dry.

One June 7, the New York Times Sunday Magazine agreed with me and said that these kind of businesses are going belly up in this depressed economy.

And don't expect a bailout here!

You will be lucky to have $25 left over to pay H and R Block for your impoverished tax return.

The real money is being made these days in Network Marketing.

Want to make 100K in 2010?

Ask me about Network Marketing.

Yes, I have my favorites.

But I have zero involvement in all.

I am an objective observer.

Just like many of my students.

If you are ready to make money which will change your life forever, email me at stevetarde@yahoo.com

I am the CPA who has been predicting businesses who succeed with uncanny success for over 30 years.

I can help you.

But the first move, as it should be, is yours.

Why I Love Women Who Play Sports!

I will admit it.

I love watching women.

They don't need to play sports to qualify.

It's a love affair I have had my entire life.

But when women compete for championships, as the University of Washington women did last night, I love them more.

How else to explain a grown man watching on TV, breaking into tears of joy and compassion. as he watched the hero of the College Softball World Series in Oklahoma City, Danielle Lawrie, enjoy the greatest moment of her young life with her teammates.

At the same time, the agony of defeat, had turned Ali Gardener, Florida's last batter, to dissolve into tears, as she wondered what might have been.

On this night, Danielle would strike Ali out on a vicious rise ball.

In her most recent opportunity, Ali had hit a game winning grand slam homer, knocking Alabama out of the World Series.

Now, Ali was experiencing the same pain she had inflicted on the Crimson Tide.

In sports, the old adage was never more true than it was on this championship night.

ONE DAY A HERO.

NEXT DAY A GOAT!

So, my heart went out to Danielle who had hit and pitched her Huskies to their first ever Softball championship.

And my heart was broken, crying with Ali, as her teammates consoled her for her failure to do to Washington what she has so heroically done to Alabama.

I love sport!

I love championships.

It's life at its best, played out on a symmetrical diamond for the rest of the world to see.

These ladies put on a remarkable show this past week.

What a display.

Anyone ready for Women's basketball.

It's about to happen all over again.


Note: Steve Tarde teaches men and women how to win championships. The power of Visualization can be a life changing tool for athletes.

Steve and former Tennessee star Brittany Jackson (played in Four Final Fours) will hold clinics on how to shoot 3 pointers with amazing accuracy using Steve's Visualization techniques.

Contact Steve for more information.

stevetarde@yahoo.com

Contact steve at stevetarde@yahoo.com

Will June Be The Month You Change Your Life?

I have helped thousands of students to discover the purpose of their life.

I would like to help you.

But I can't help you, if you don't ask.

For many of my students, asking is the toughest part of their challenge.

For their entire life, they have been trying to convince themselves that they are happy and content.

One person remains unconvinced.

That would be the person staring back at them in the glass that they face each day.

I know this.

If you want to tap into an amazing energy force, which will give you greater vision and strength than you have ever imagined, you just need to know what it is that you were destined to do with your life.

I don't push anything on you.

I represent nobody

I am just a teacher.

That is the purpose of my life.

Remember the song Sinatra crooned, I HAVE BEE A PUPPET, A PIRATE, A POET, A PAWN AND A KING.....?

Well, I have been all those things.

I am sure you have had your share of titles as well.

If you are happy with your life today, I am happy for you.

If not, I ask you to make this month the one you alter your life's journey and search for your destiny.

I will come along as your guide.

If it sounds exciting, it is.

It's what I call the "chills" in life, missing from most lives.

I wait for your email.

Look for me on FACEBOOK and by all means, order my new eBOOK GIFT TO MY DAD.

It's only $9 and I will rush it to you after you complete the transaction on paypal.com (stevetarde@yahoo.com).

June has 30 days!

Use them wisely.