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9780375757105

Rich Minds, Rich Rewards : 52 Ways to Enhance, Enrich, and Empower Your Life

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    9780375757105

  • ISBN10:

    0375757104

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-10-01
  • Publisher: Villard
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Summary

A rich mind nourished with positive thoughts, learning, and encouragement can indeed reap rich rewards, writes dynamic author Valorie Burton as she offers 52 simple but powerful ways to enrich your everyday life and do those things that will bring you the rewards you so richly deserve, such as: Count Your Blessings Change Your Ways to Change Your Life Create a Vision Statement Mind Your Own Business Create Your Own Opportunities Listen to Your Inner Voice

Author Biography

Valorie Burton is CEO of the Burton Agency, a Dallas-based public-relations firm she founded in 1996, as well as a motivational speaker. She was selected in October 2000 by PR Week magazine as of the nation's "30 Under 30". She is a former Miss Black Texas USA, Miss Black USA Top Ten finalist, and third runner-up to Miss Texas. She lives in Dallas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xv
Count Your Blessings
3(3)
Recognize That Everything in Life Is a Choice
6(3)
Speak in a Way That Lifts You Up
9(2)
Change Your Ways to Change Your Life
11(2)
Meditate
13(4)
Listen to Your Inner Voice
17(3)
Allow Peace to Guide Your Decisions
20(4)
Have a Mission
24(3)
Create Your Mission Statement
27(5)
Have a Vision
32(2)
Create a Vision Statement
34(3)
Write Down Your Goals
37(4)
Don't Downsize Your Dream
41(2)
Take the First Step
43(2)
Feel the Fear and Don't Let It Stop You!
45(3)
Let Go and Let God
48(3)
Use Failure as a Learning Tool
51(4)
Do What You Love and the Rewards Will Come
55(4)
To Do Your Best Work, Be Your Best Self
59(3)
Personal PR
62(4)
Save the Drama
66(3)
Say Please and Thank You
69(4)
Express Love
73(2)
Mind Your Own Business
75(2)
Emulate Successful People
77(3)
Surround Yourself with People Who Are Going Places
80(3)
Don't Make Excuses
83(3)
Don't Play the Blame Game
86(2)
Focus on the Most Important Task First
88(3)
Don't Try to Do Everything Yourself
91(3)
Get a Mentor
94(5)
Practice How You Want To Be
99(3)
Take Control of Your Financial Life
102(4)
Don't Let Age Block Your Path to Success
106(4)
Live in the Moment
110(3)
Cure Yourself of the Overdrive Syndrome
113(4)
Understand That Education = Preparation
117(3)
Love Yourself First
120(2)
Practice Patience
122(3)
Do Nice Things (But Keep Them to Yourself!)
125(3)
Volunteer
128(3)
Understand Rather than Judge
131(3)
Forgive and Let Go of Grudges
134(3)
Visit a New Place at Least Once a Year
137(2)
Reward Yourself!
139(3)
Pamper-ize Yourself
142(3)
Make Your Home Your Sanctuary
145(3)
Learn to Network
148(4)
Write Handwritten Letters and Make an Impact
152(4)
Spend Time with Yourself
156(2)
Stress: Less, Not More
158(3)
Create Your Own Opportunities
161(3)
Planning a Discussion 164(4)
Suggested Reading 168(2)
A Conversation with Author Valorie Burton 170

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Excerpts

Count Your Blessings

"The difference between ‘not enough’ and ‘more than enough’ is your attitude,” noted Bishop T. D. Jakes at a conference I attended in July 1999. As we live our lives from day to day, it can be easy to take so much of what we have for granted. For example, when we are unhappy in a job and we are looking for a new one, sometimes the last thing that we think to do is to thank God for the job that we dislike. When we want to purchase a new home, it is too rare that we stop to appreciate the roof we currently have over our heads. When we are working out to get a “new body,” we should not fail to be thankful that the one we have right now allows us to walk, talk, and breathe. We can get so wrapped up in trying to get what we don’t have that we don’t take time to appreciate what we do have.

I know these things may sound very basic, but it is the most “basic” aspects of our lives, those things that we often don’t even give a second thought to, that we should be most grateful for. It is these “basic” things—people, places, our well-being—that it would be most devastating for us to have to live without. When you come to understand what is most important to you, and make it a priority in your life to honor and take care of those aspects of your life, then you find your center. Your center is that place you discover when your life is healthy and balanced. It takes some true soul-searching to find it, and it takes practice to maintain it. But once you find that peaceful, joyful place called your center, you’ll always feel off balance when you leave it.

One way to stay centered is to count your blessings every day. Why every day? Because it can be too easy to fall into the habit of taking life for granted and feeling sorry for yourself when things don’t go the way you had hoped. By counting your blessings, you remember just how rich you are—in spirit, family, friendships, health, career, education, personality, and the list goes on.

Count your blessings in the mornings. It is a very uplifting way to begin the day. After all, a new day is one more blessing for which you have to be thankful. Try this exercise: Turn off all the noise around you and go to a place where you can find as much solitude as possible. Close your eyes. Breathe deeply and slowly. Now think about all that you have to be thankful for. Stay in this quiet state for at least five minutes. When you finish, write down everything that came to mind.

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It’s a pretty good list, isn’t it? When you find yourself feeling down or sorry for yourself, take out your list. Read it and be thankful for what you do have instead of focusing on what you don’t have.

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