The Language of Love

Many “walk-the-walk” but statistics show that nearly 50% that are walking in marriage don’t actually know how to “talk-the-talk”.

I recently purchased the New York Times Bestseller book entitled: “The Five Love Languages – How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate” by Gary Chapman. This purchase came as the result of several conversations I recently had with a very dear friend of mine who mentioned the book.

After reading the book from the front cover to the back cover I must say that I know why it is on the “Bestsellers List”. The book is not only well written but it is practical. The “fly on the wall” method of communicating the “Love Languages” that Mr. Chapman uses though storytelling of real situations and conversations helps the reader to understand the concepts presented in a manner that is easy to digest.

Mr. Chapman opens the book with 3 “foundational” chapters such as:

1 – What Happens to Love After the Wedding?
2 – Keeping the Love Tank Full
3 – Falling in Love.

These chapters help to set the stage for the actual “Love Languages”. I especially enjoyed Chapter 3 in which Chapman dissects and dispels the common misconception found during the “In Love” experience which psychologists M. Scott Peck and Dorothy Tennov calls “limerance” which could be defined as highly advanced stages of infatuation.

This book is a must read for everyone no matter if you are married or single. For the married even if you feel that your relationship with your spouse is “great” and that you “get along fine”, there is so much more we can learn from this book that might help in zeroing in on your spouse’s specific love language and better help us to identify and communicate our own love language as well. Now for the single person, using this book as a companion to other books on relationships and personal development will help to give you a good foundation and head start in any future relationships. I would recommend having any potential mates read the book as well and you both use the book as a basis to build better communications going forward.

Anyone with a sincere heart and a willingness to see another person happy with their “Love Tank” filled to the brim and running over would be wise to get this book today, read it, study it and immediately apply the principles found within after identifying the language of your spouse and yourself.

The Languages are:

1. Words Of Affirmation
2. Quality Time
3. Receiving Gifts
4. Acts Of Service
5. Physical Touch

Once you are done reading the book there is a “Love Language Profile” test you can take to determine your language (one for men and one for women). And while some of the questions do assume that the reader is already married, if you are honest and single you will get true results.

So you ask: “Rodney what is your Love Language?” Well I was brutally honest in my responses and survey says (DING!) Quality Time and Physical Touch.

So at least now I have something else of substance I can talk about with any potential mates regarding those things that will definitely help to keep my “Love Tank” full, full, full as a matter of fact if she can keep that coming along with honesty, self improvement and spiritual studies I can tell you that my “Cup Will Runneth OVER!” and that’s the truth.

So go ahead and get the book now and get busy learning a new language…it might just change your love life.

The Heart of the Five Love Languages

Is that what friends are for?

Over the last 40 plus years I have had many experiences all of which assisted me in forming the beliefs, opinions and prejudices I have. These experiences have also assisted me in crafting my understanding of the words FRIEND and FRIENDSHIP.

The Oxford Universal Dictionary defines FRIEND as coming from the Old Teutonic word frijojan meaning to love or ‘One joined to another in mutual benevolence and intimacy’. And FRIENDSHIP is defined as: The state of being a friend; association of persons as friends; a friendly intimacy.

I have come to realize that the vast majority of the people in my life are not actually my friends but are simply associates, acquaintances or just simply needy people. Many years ago one experience in particular helped me to understand something about friends and friendship in general. I had known the person on the other end of this learning experience for about 6 or 7 years at the time and I considered them a friend. Over the years we talked, ate, traveled, struggled and worked together with very minimal challenges. I would even occasionally take this persons car to get it washed and even buy them a meal when buying my own meal on those days we would be working with our team late into the evenings because I thought that is what friends were for.

Well I will spare you all of the minute details of the situation that occurred and tell you that it ultimately resulted in this person manipulating a situation to get money from me. During the “mediation” or more like “negotiations” because I was unwilling to just “pay up” the conversations became very intense and from my perspective I felt that the way this person was seeking to get money from me had not only crossed the line (because I was present when another plan to get money was being hatched) but was a violation of what I thought friends do, besides after all of the rides to work I had given this person, free computer assistance, car washes and meals purchased this is how you treat me? In this meeting I began to make it clear that I was unwilling to budge just on the principle of how friends should treat one another and then the “mediator” asked me a very powerful and thought provoking question…he said: “Rodney so are you telling me that you wouldn’t do the same to him?” and I replied “no sir!” and then the “mediator” said: “Well just because that’s the kind of brother [friend] you are, does not mean that’s how someone else has to be .” Simply POWERFUL! That statement or better yet wisdom immediately caught my attention and I had to submit. He was right! Just because my way of being a “friend” or my understanding of how “friends” treat and respond to one another is absolutely that…my way and no one else is compelled to accept or adopt my way. But was this love? Was this “One joined to another in mutual benevolence and intimacy”? I would say not.

That situation not only helped to change my understanding of what a “friend” is it also assisted me in reevaluating the people in my life as well as the role they play. Most of these people have been downgraded to associates, some I no longer have a relationship with and a very small group I would even consider a “friend”.

John 15:12-13 “This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
If we are unable to lay down, pride, ego, envy, distrust, malice, hatred of self, fear and all other disempowered behavior and attitudes how can we be called a “friend” and say that we are willing to lay down our lives?

“Friends” do not intentionally deceive or bring harm to another. “Friends” do not manipulate and control one another. “Friends” do not call only when they “need your help” nor do they “just check in on you “when something is wrong in their life and they want to dump it on you.

Face the facts they are not your “friend” if you are keeping them around then they are most likely your “crutch”, “feel better about yourself person” or “abuser”. And if you cannot or are unwilling to change the relationships you have with these kinds of persons (not to mention if you are this person yourself) then the chaos in your life will continue as it has for as long as you have known this person or persons.

You see, two people joined together in mutual benevolence and intimacy is what friends are for!

Now go use somebody else and let me be…I need to make room in my life for “Friends”.

What about you?

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And Two Shall Become...

Genesis 2:24 (KJV)

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The dictionary defines cleave as a verb:

1. to adhere closely, stick; cling.
2. to remain faithful; to cleave to one's principles in spite of persecution.

Do most women really want a man to cleave? Really! Are most women ready to respond in a proper manner if and when a man leaves father and mother and adheres closely to and remains faithful to principles in spite of persecution even if the persecution is coming from her? Do women really want a man to cleave?

Are many men ready to cleave? Are they willing to give up even mother and father and grab hold of a principled mission to become one flesh with his woman?

I believe that in order to form a more perfect union of two people they both must be in the businesses of cleaving! Working together, striving together and planning together to accomplish goals and objectives for their family, community and world. If you want to see relationship success...then fellas don't call your boy cleon and ladies don't grab a cleaver...you both need to just cleave a little.

Now go and apologize to your significant other self for trying to be an individual when you know darn well that ain't working for you and you need to take a cleave pill. The only side effects are success, love, joy, accomplishment and unity...and don't forget the nightly cleaving meetings. LOL

No Go and Be ONE!

Maintenance Man

In the Chapter called The Woman in the Quran it is stated that: "Men are the maintainers of women...as God has caused some to have more responsibility than others..." However what is maintenance and why would she even need maintenance?

The Dictionary defines Mantainers as:

1. To keep in continuance, preserve, retain.
2. To keep in appropriate condition.
3. To sustain or support.

Maintenance! How many males are actually MEN and maintaining the woman? Are you preserving her high state? Do you keep her in appropriate condition. Have you sustained and supported her. One of my mentors Minister Farrakhan said one day that Elijah Muhammad said to him personally that "A man doesn't give a woman a baby and then send her off to work..." Maintenance. If Christ is the Head of the man and man is the head of the woman and family then you would know that by his level of maintenance of said woman.

Now if you have a man that is a maintainer then sisters you have a duty to that kind of man. He does not deserve argument, resistance, nagging, mean spirits or anything unkind...if he is actually a maintainer. You have a duty to that kind of man to help him to meet the goal of maintaining you...keeping you in a high and lofty state. You can have all that your heart desires if you simply realize that when you as a woman can use your womanly power for good to get that man to want to darn near kill himself to provide for you. And you make home such heaven that he would be willing to conquer worlds and nations just for you.

If men are the maintainers of women then women have a duty to respond accordingly to give payment to the Maintenance Man.

Be and it is!

The Power of Now!

Greetings,

I'm live in Anaheim, California watching a fellow trainer and friend Jeff Compton of www.JeffCompton.tv train about 75 people on How to Supervise People.

While watching the awesome presentation from Jeff a thought came to mind about the Power of Now! Now I know things like this are fast becoming a cliche but really think about NOW! Now is all we have, Now is all we need, Now is all there is!

NOW! What are you doing now? Reading this blog obviously...but once you are done what will you be doing with your coming NOW? How are you treating your Now's? Are they filled with hurt, anger, animosity, pain or any other dis-empowering emotion? Are your Now's happy, excited, love filled and joyous? How are you doing your Now?

Here is a challenge:

I want you to make every NOW you have count by doing those things you always wanted to do. No more procrastination, no more debating and researching, DO IT NOW! You have everything inside you that you need to get the job done including the ability to ask questions about the things you don't know.

Get your Now's out and dust them off and get busy because a wide open field awaits the wide awake person to work out in...NOW!

Thank you for reading and share it with a friend NOW!

Minister Rodney 'Asaad' Muhammad

The F.A.S.T. Track to Success

(Prospecting for Pro’s)
Find – Access – Show – Test


Did you know that there is no such thing as getting rich quick and that there is no magic wand or short cuts to success? You absolutely have to follow a specific plan of action if you want to increase your success ratio. The principles I am going to share with you were developed out of countless hours of study of some of the most successful Direct Sales and Network Marketers in the world and I’ve condensed the information into a simple yet powerful system called the F.A.S.T. Track to Success – Prospecting for Pro’s.

Do not think that because there are not hundreds of pages the information is not powerful. I have chosen to not waste your time by using unnecessary words and fluff just to impress. In addition, I expect you to think long and hard on the four principles I am going to reveal to you and take your studies of this material very serious.

Now if you are reading this article then you have obviously gotten a copy of my audio program Meet The Goal – Strategies for Self-Improvement. Moreover, if you do not have a copy then you should immediately go to www.MeetTheGoal.com and pick up a copy for yourself as well as everyone in your sales team or down-line. My purpose in revealing this system and creating this document was to serve as a special bonus just for those courageous enough to see the value in learning strategies to assist them in being more courageous in an effort to meet their life goals. Now without further delay lets get on the F.A.S.T. Track to Success.

What would life be like if each person in your sales force or down-line were successful? I mean all the numbers are up stat and they bring in new business daily. The bonus checks are rolling in faster than you can deposit them and everyone is showing up for the training calls. Well your organization might not be operating at that high a level but it can. You know that you are in the business of people and everything you do rests on how you interact with people. However, where do the kinds of people I mentioned earlier come from and how would you recognize them if you saw them?

FIND

You must first Find the proper candidate to join your business or purchase your product. Now there is something to be said for reaching out to large numbers of people, however I want you to develop the tools necessary to see a good prospect long before you actually approach them. I call this technique, “Prospervation” where you learn to observe the prospect long before contact. A common mistake among unsuccessful sales persons and network marketers is being self-absorbed to the point of mental blindness. Prospecting is not about you and how many people you can “get”, it is about the prospect and how you have what they need. At the very point in your journey that you become comfortable with who you are and where you are in life, always knowing that there is more, yet operating in a perpetual state of gratitude you will have reached a condition of “flow” or what some would call: “Being in the zone.” Once you achieve this state you will notice the difference in the way others stand, walk, the motions they make and how to determine if they are in a proper place in life to receive what you have to give them.

Prospervation: The science of observing the prospect before contact.

Begin to spend more quiet time just people watching. Try going to the park or the mall, just sitting, and watching the movements of the people. This exercise will allow you to practice without the pressure that some feel while prospecting. Just sit back and watch the people. Begin to notice the difference between the confident and the timid. Now to do this you must be in a heightened state of “Empowered Awareness”. You must, become fully connected to all of your sensory awareness (sight, sound, smell, taste, and feeling). Now if you begin to create a sense of moving twice as fast as everyone else you will begin to notice their movements will begin to slow down.

Now start to notice a few of the external clues that people give to the internal dialog that they have. Watch for movement in the jaw area of the face and attempt to notice the person mouthing words. Watch for movement of the head as well. If you can, notice the breathing as well as the posture. These things will serve as clues to each person’s internal state. This is something you must practice often in order to develop proficiency at it. Getting into a heightened state, cutting off your own internal dialog and truly observing…will yield the results you seek.

You are looking to find and identify those persons that are leaders, big thinkers and those that feel they deserve to have it all. You can spot them easily if you use the strategies I have just given you. Now that you have found a great prospect by using the “Prospervation” technique and since I know that you have taken the time to create a great opening when approaching people, it is time to act.

ACCESS


Once you have completed the steps for your particular company, whether it is showing the products and the compensation plan, or even having home meetings or telephone talks. You must now begin to Access the persons particular abilities. Now in the area of direct sales and network marketing the skills or training that the individual brings to the industry is of very little value. The actual skill that you are required to access is the person’s ability to follow directions. When I got started in network marketing my mentor and sponsor asked me to perform a simple task: To get equipment that would enable me to record our phone conversations. He explained to me that doing so would enable me to listen to the training calls as often as I needed and allow me to critique myself when cold calling, which would ultimately lead to faster growth. He also gave me a time and day to give him a call and informed me that we would talk further then. Well, I found the equipment I needed (which was very inexpensive) and called him as scheduled. Now the very first sentence that he spoke was in the form of a question: “Did you get the equipment so you could record our conversations?” Absolutely I replied. He then informed me that a large majority of the people he connects with fails that simple test.

The purpose of his requesting I perform that task was two fold.

1. There is a definite need to record training calls as well as prospecting calls. This will enable you to not only hear yourself, but also give your sponsor the ability to hear you as well and assist you with developing strategies that might make your phone prospecting more successful.

2. It was a simple test in following directions. Network marketing and direct sales have very little to do with what you think and a lot to do with what is best to do. If you can accurately follow the directions of those who have achieved even the smallest commission check and you are just getting started…it should be obvious that if you would like to see commission checks in your mailbox or account, you would be wise to know that you just might not know what you think you know.

So learn to access the ability of the prospect to follow basic instructions to full completion. Any sign of resistance calls for a different method of training and will serve to lengthen the time it takes for the individual to “get it”. If you have found someone that is eager to learn and mentally submissive enough to follow basic pre-prospecting instructions then you just might have a leader on your hands.

SHOW

Once you have determined that you have a potential leader on your team, it is now time to show them the business. This is often called, leading by example. You should do three way calls with your new people and for those that are in your area, you should occasionally get together and do off the cuff and spontaneous connecting with people you meet.

The importance of showing the new person what can be done is not to produce clones but to generate a familiarity of flow for them. If you are reading this, you are someone that knows the value of flowing in this industry. Networking is something we live and prospecting is something we do. You are showing the person that every moment of everyday we are networking or connecting with people and that the process of sifting and sorting people is the actual act of prospecting.

Showing the new person the empowered idea of what “no” actually means. Most of the new net-workers (and some old ones) cringe at the thought of being told, “no” by someone. You must get across with a spirit of excitement that “no” simply means yes. Yes, I am not a leader…Yes, I want to remain a cow on the pasture…Yes, and I would quit before I got started. If properly trained in the art of prospecting which simply is a matter of “Self Mastery”, the more qualified “no’s” you get the larger your business will grow. Yes that is correct the more qualified “no’s” you get the larger your business will grow. Many of us focus on the wonders of the “yes” and they definitely count, however it took the qualified “no’s” to get to the “yes”.

The new net-worker must see the value in the process. Find joy in the adventure. Your energy and excitement about the business will rub off on many in your group. If you consider yourself a leader, which I know, you are, and then show them the way and if they follow then good for them and if they do not, your efforts alone will guarantee a healthy list of replacements. Work cheerfully and fear not.


TEST

Now that you’ve got the new net-worker or sales rep. to the starting gate, it’s time for them to run a few laps of they’re own. In the early “critical stages of business building, it is suggested that you pay close attention to the movements of the new person. Do not simply leave them to fumble along without your guidance. Now I suggest you set a limit to the amount of time that you are directly in contact with them. This will only serve to make them needy and dependant upon you. It is advised that you “place” the new person under one of your qualified leaders for further development.

Your contact with the person should have given you an excellent view into what behavioral style that most dominates with them. Now if you are not familiar with understanding how to identify and interact with different types of people. Then I strongly suggest you immediately get yourself a copy of “The Magic of Colors” from my long time friend Jerry “DRhino” Clark over at www.ClubRhino.com I’m certain that “The Magic of Colors” if put into practice by you will enhance all of your communications with others. It has done wonders for my life and has even assisted in generating additional income from its direct use. Now once you have learned about the behavioral styles as presented by DRhino you will have insight as to which person to place with the correct leader. I cannot stress the importance of the proper mixture of people to keep your team, group or organization moving in the proper direction. Just as with food, the improper combining of people can bring a stomachache to remember.

Here are some testing tips that you can use. I do recommend that you develop additional testing measures so that you can properly direct the people that have trusted your ability to lead them. Remember you prospected them and just like any precious jewel, they have a healthy expectation to be cut, buffed and put on display.

• The ability to meet and call at predetermined times absent of excuses for failure to do so.
• The consistency of follow through. (Once tasks are assigned you do not have to contact them for the results…they contact you)
• Show a willingness to learn more about themselves as well as the business (includes the company, products and compensation plan).

Now these are just a few areas to check and I think you get the point. There must be systems in place if you expect to progress in your business and grow your organization and it’s effectiveness in the marketplace. I am sure that you have taken plenty of tests in your life thus far. It is a vital component to accessing a person’s ability to perform certain tasks at a particular level. Remember through each process that you are qualifying the person to work with you and your group and there are some, which will not qualify for advanced leadership training and development. Some are the people that will become distributors and some will be customers. However, no matter what level they successfully test at they are valuable to the process of creating a great organization.

Lastly, if you do not have “Educating Your Expectations” by Artemis Limpert of www.PaidMyDues.net you should get that series. This audio program alone will shave years off your learning curve of this industry and better assist you in communicating to those in your down-line what the process is actually about. Artemis takes you step by step through her own journey and exposes many misconceptions you might have about yourself and the industry…if you think you know, you might not know so log on to PaidMyDues.net and Educate Your Expectations.

I encourage you to send me an email letting me know what you like and even what you might disagree with about the process I have shared with you. Email me at Asaad@MeetTheGoal.com and be sure to stay updated on where I will be speaking, new and exciting projects being released or just drop me a line and let me know how I can better serve you in the future.

Always remember that no matter what else you do in life you must…Cultivate the Courage to Roar!

Asaad

The 1st Thursday Night Call to Courage

Greetings,

Tonight I hosted the very first "Thursday Night Call to Courage" and it seemed to be a success. I was fortunate enough to have some great listeners on the line. And I got a lot of wonderful feedback.

If you didn't get a chance to listen in live you know I'm going to hook you up with information on the replay. Now I'm only going to leave the replay up for 2 days to give everyone an opportunity to listen to the call and after that it will be taken down. Now if you are not a member of my "Courage Committee" you should log on to my web site at www.MeetTheGoal.com and sign up.

The Free Replay Line is (218) 936-1005 and the conference ID is 73543#

For information on the next call sign up to be a member of the "Courage Committee" or log on to www.MeetTheGoal.com/calltocourage.htm for all the information. Next week I will be the debut of a great new training program I have developed called..."Vision Training" and I'm sure you will enjoy it. Don't miss this call!

I thank you for reading this blog and for all of your support.

Always remember to...Cultivate the Courage to Roar!

Rodney ' Asaad' Muhammad
"The Courage Coach"

Toastmasters to go...

Greetings,

I have finally joined Toastmasters International. Club #3828 Eclectic Dialectics...I great bunch of folks from various backgrounds and nationalities.

Now before I had chosen a club to become a member of I had decided that I would become the Toastmaster World Champion of Public Speaking for 2007. And soon thereafter become a recipient of a "Golden Gavel".

Jan 11, 2006 - Now my first meeting was great, I had the opportunity to meet a lot of great and interesting people some of which I'm sure I will work with in the future on many great projects. I had the old enrollment form so I was unable to sign up so I had to do it the next Wednesday.

Jan 18, 2006 - My second meeting was interesting as I was called up to do a "Table Topic" talk. Well I did my thing and was honored to win the ribbon for "Best Table Topic". Wow! My first award and I hadn't even turned in my form yet. This is the start of a wonderful journey. At the end of the evening I turned in my form and soon received confirmation of its acceptance.

Jan 25, 2006 - This is my first official meeting as a member and there is an opening for Speaker #1 and a great member by the name of Suguru asked me if I would be willing to fill the spot although I was scheduled to speak next week. I said sure! Since I had not gotten my manual from Toastmasters International I was given a book to look at for the first assignment. I looked it over for about 10 minutes to get a general idea of what was needed then put it aside and pulled out my tools. I figured after countless impromptu trainings and Boot Camps from Jerry 'DRhino' Clark and $1000 all day trainings with Les Brown along with unknown hours of self-study over the years and completed lectures I surely was ready.

I delivered what some called a "great" 6-minute presentation on "Breaking the Ice". I opened with a quote from Alonzo Newton Binn - "Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it, are the requisites for success." I was up against Gilbert who is a great humorist speaker and Stuart who is developing the gift of great storytelling. I was first so I had to make it memorable enough to last through 2 additional speeches and about 20 minutes of time before the other members were asked to vote...

Drum roll please..........

I was honored that evening to win the ribbon for "Best Speaker" for that evenings meeting.

My journey through Toastmasters will my winning speech for the 2007 Toastmaster World Champion of Public Speaking event held at the National Meeting.

Stay tuned...the best is yet to be revealed.

"Some pursue happiness, others create It." -Unknown

Rodney 'Asaad' Muhammad

Cultivate the Courage to Roar!

P.S. Due to popular demand I will be starting weekly "Thursday Night Call to Courage" telephone talks. Go to www.MeetTheGoal.com and sign up for the bi-weekly ezine and to be notified of the calls when they start. I have many special guests I will bring on for your benefit.

Out With the Old, In With the New

Greetings of Courage,

Wow! 2005 left with a big Roar...My car was broken into, window broken, Five to Six Thousand Dollars worth of products taken, Window repaired, Alarm System adjusted and then my battery needed a jump...I cut my hand massively twice and my oldest and most difficult son decided to leave the nest at 15...all in the same day mind you.

I am so glad that I don't take things personally and that I understand that every knock is a boost. And as Willie Jolley would say "A Setback is a Setup for a Comeback." Now with those things cleaned out and a little blood shed I can get down to some serious creating and earning.

I have just developed 2 new training programs one of which will assist: Parents, Teachers, Caregivers and Students and I have gotten great feedback on providing training to a few not for profit groups which will be great and an excellent way to give something back to the communities and at the same time create more audio content and video as well...did someone say DVD? And the other training program is so universal anyone can benefit from it's simplicity. This program will be the source of many Breakthroughs that people will experience as a result of this training.

I am wrapping up the 3 disc set of my next audio program called "Mental Meals" which I am sure you will like. If you enjoyed Meet The Goal this set will benefit you well into the future and you know me...I made sure I added a fun factor to the set and added new commercials of conciousness.

I thank you for reading this blog and I appreciate your support.

I resolve to blog more this year so everyone can watch the steps I have and are currently taking toward achieving more massive success in 2006. Stay tuned!

No matter what you do or where you go in life, always remember to...

Cultivate the Courage to Roar!

Asaad

Self Mastery Boot Camp

Greetings friends,

Wow! This XBOX 360 thing is interesting. As I watched some of the information about the things people were willing to do for a...let me get this straight...game console? I was fascinated to say the least. I recently met a young man who asked me: "Did you stand in line and get an XBOX?" I kindly told him no and offered a few reasons, just for his entertainment.

I told the young fellow that I make time for games while I'm on the beach or while sitting in one of my homes designed specifically for video game play. But that comes from doing today what others will not do, so I can have tomorrow what others will not have.

I wondered how many of those buyers actually have created the kind of lifestyle that would enable them play the "BOX" anytime they wanted, as long as they wanted, in a home as large as they wanted and on the size of screen that they want? If these same people were offered, excellent health, massive wealth and all that comes with those things would they stand in line for hours? Would they bid any amount on Ebay to have it? I think not. It is clear that many are seeking to game life away in hopes of never wanting to notice that they didn't have the courage to live.

Well in mathematics X represents the unknown and it is clear that they cannot see outside of the BOX which is why the don't do more.

Asaad

Cultivate the Courage to Roar!

From Goal-Setting to Giving

Hello Friends this is Asaad of www.MeetTheGoal.com and I am glad you have chosen to read this Blog and learn some strategies that you can use to assist you in meeting your goals.

On this Blog I will assist you in understanding just one of the many principles of wealth extraction that must be utilized in order to achieve the results you seek.

I’m sure that many if not all of you have heard or read of the value of “Goal-Setting”.

Goal setting has once again made its way to the forefront of most motivational speakers’ lectures and tape series as well as become the “hot” catchword of many books recently published. The success ratios are staggering for those that have set goals. And along with goal-setting and “stick-to-it-ive-ness” the world has seen and is seeing many “giants” being developed. However there is a not too often spoken of “success ingredient” that we must include in the baking our “wealth-cake” …what is this secret ingredient? It’s the principle of GIVING.

Many of you have heard that “in order to get you must give” and “in order to reap you must sow” or “it takes money to make money” etc. But how many of you really understand the principle of giving? How often have you made giving a condition of your wealth building? Now many religious organizations teach on the principles of tithing. And often times the understanding of the parishioners is one of giving something in hopes of getting something in return, which in my opinion negates the actual principle of giving. That is what is defined as bartering and bartering is not giving, it is exchanging.

GIVING! No expectations of return or payment just plain ole GIVING! I suggest that everyone begin to practice performing spontaneous acts of kindness. Purchase gifts for your down-line, buy Danish for everyone in your office, or give a hearty greeting or a smile to a complete stranger. Do anything you can and something everyday for someone while not desiring anything in return.

To those that much is given, much is required. Have you sown million dollar seeds? That is the best way to get at the very least million dollar crops. Have you sown fifty dollar seeds? That is the way to get at the very least fifty-dollar crops. However with the correct attitude or love your yield will increase ten to one hundred fold. However the yield is not your concern as the universal law of increasing returns will operate no matter what. Focus on the giving of your time, talents and love and nurture those things and the law of return will be there when you need it.

When setting your goals for life you must make sure that you include the ingredient of giving or your success will be haphazard and minimal at best. Include a percentage of your future success to go toward a charity that you are passionate about. Donate time, clothing or any talent you have today to that charity or group. Give!

If you desire to reach your goals…you must be a giver. Look at the lives of your most enlightened successful people and you will find a common thread running through them all…GIVING!

Now grab your goals, dust them off and insert some giving. Because if all of your goals are all about what you can get and what you want, then you are simply a “taker in disguise” and “Higher Power” does not reward the takers.

I’m Asaad,

Now cultivate the courage to give!