October 16, 2008
7 years of massive achievement
Hello my friend:
I guess this one got caught in the schpam filters, so
here we go again. If you got it earlier, my apologies
for the dupe.
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Every month or so, we find a diamond... a gem. Someone
who sticks with Think Right Now programs for such a
long time, that they literally grow like a weed and become
completely different, from the deepest levels of their being
all the way to the outer person, unrecognizable by those who
knew them before their transformation.
Here is the story of one of those people.
A success story in the purest sense.
Enjoy.
Meet Desa Abbamondi...
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Hi Mike,
7 years ago, I first started listening to Setting and
Achieving Goals - http://thinkrightnow.com/a/goals.asp
At first, I only listened to it at night once through
while I slept because I couldn't do repeat on my old CD
player. When I purchased this CD, I was very skeptical,
but at 20 years old I was desperate for help. Being out of
high school and having blown off a chance to go to a
prestigious college scot free.
I had no friends, no ambitions, no plans, no goals, no
career, no driver's license, no car, no money, no hobbies,
no life and NO HOPE! I was overweight and out of
shape...at 20!
I lived in a dark and gloomy and messy apartment, was a
lousy employee and an unreliable person in general. My
days were wasted away by oversleeping, rushing to work,
making a feeble effort to do the bear minimum my job
required of me (that is if I showed up at all) whilst
doling out copious amounts of sarcasm, then coming home to
watch TV or play video games until I passed out. My home
was filled with books I never bothered to enjoy and mail
piles I never bothered to open, read and sort. Thinking it
would help, I purchased pretty, fancy planners and journals
and office filing and organizing furniture and accessories,
used them for a week...then tossed them aside.
I made countless to-do lists with impossible daily
targets. Failing to complete anything on my list made me
feel even more like an irreparable misfit.
Even in high school, where I was considered a top student,
I lacked follow through. I'd join a club or start a
project and then drop it soon after. I'd write brilliant
papers...at the last minute. I'd ace all of my exams
because I had mastered cramming.
In fact, I had done so well from my freshman year through
my junior year with these "techniques" that when I decided
to blow off my senior year and even failed a couple of
classes, I still graduated in the top 10% of my class
(number 13 out of 335 graduates, actually). I was
considered "so smart" but truly lacked genuine education.
Perhaps this is why I choked when it came time to move to
NY to start my college career. I knew I was a scholarly
fraud. Well, that, and I couldn't get my act together long
enough to finance the move from Texas.
Setting & Achieving Goals
- http://thinkrightnow.com/a/goals.asp turned out to be
the kind of help I needed, the kind that worked.
Like I said, when I first got my hands on this CD 7 years
ago, I listened to the whole thing once per night while I
slept. After about 3 months, I started catching myself
doing or saying things that were not like the usual me at
all.
At first, it was just the little things like picking up
after myself or getting up and off to work a bit earlier
instead of in a mad rush. I started sorting through the
piles of built up mail, read what needed to be read, set up
organized filing cabinets to file what needed to be filed
and recycled all the junk.
Then, greater changes manifested. I started growing real
bored real fast with the computer and video games I used to
play for hours to escape the life I couldn't bear to
examine by the light of day.
Television shows started to annoy me, too. As I sat there
watching TV, I noticed that I wasn't even paying attention
to it all anymore. Instead, I was thinking about all the
things I could or should be doing instead. About all the
wonderful life I could be living for myself rather than
just watching others having a good life on the screen.
At this time, age 20, I gave up television permanently.
That's right. For the last 7 years I have lived without
cable or even public television access set up in my home.
And, when I do occasionally IMAGINE that I might enjoy
squandering a few hours on some sort of videogame, I can't.
They just BORE me to tears in less than an hour's time.
These were two HUGE time wasters and my mind won't allow me
to waste my life that way anymore. Period. Things like
this were just the beginning. Soon, I started writing
realistic to-do lists that were challenging without being
overwhelming...and I'd get it all done.
Then, I started writing goals -big and small - in one of
those many planners I had tossed aside. But I didn't just
write out a list of things I wanted to do, admire it all
and then put it away somewhere. I wrote out the action
steps needed to achieve these goals and started visualizing
myself achieving them. Started believing I would achieve
them. Then, started to KNOW I would achieve them.
I started reading all those books - now dust bins. Then,
I started wanting different books. Not books with
entertainment value only. But books that gave me useful
information to help me on my path to achieving my new
goals. I wanted to know things...more and more and more
things!
In total, I listened faithfully for about 4 months. At 4
months, my old CD player broke in a move.
Replacing it was so low a priority compared to everything
else. So for the next 4 years, I rode the wave of benefits
I had gleaned from just four months of faithful listening
once a night.
During those four years I kicked out the deadbeat
boyfriend...completed a career certificate that helped me
qualify for a much higher paying position at a different
company...moved from that crummy apartment into a bright
second story condo that I kept scrupulously clean...slimmed
down...made and maintained several new friendships...re-
established a relationship with my parents and
brother...made it to work every day (and early)...got a
promotion...met and courted the man of my dreams...then
together we planned and paid for the entire wedding and
honeymoon.
While all of the above seemed like an out of body
experience for me, these first four years are MEDIOCRE as
hell compared to the last three years.
These last three years are my TRUE success story.
Shortly after my 24th birthday, my husband and I were
rooting through our now combined closet belongings with
another "urge to purge." We were both pretty content, but
over the last couple of years I had started to lose my long
term focus.
While I still considered myself a taskmaster, I had
started to notice some of the old ways creeping back in to
my character. Procrastination and disorderliness were
returning at the same time I felt myself losing a thrill
for achievement and creating the future I wanted. I was
starting to let life happen to me again, instead of me
happening to life.
When I found my old Think Right Now! Setting & Achieving
Goals CD tucked away in a box in that closet, I literally
leapt for joy.
Seems I had forgotten the source of all the last four
years' achievement. When I saw that old familiar CD cover,
I remembered why things had changed so much for me. At the
same time, I kicked myself for never getting a new CD
player. Just think of everything else I might have done!
Allowing no more time for regrets, I showed my hubby the
program, explained to him all that I've mentioned here, and
together we set off to the store to purchase a new radio
with a dock for my iPod. We came home, imported the CD
into our iTunes software under its own special playlist,
and each of us then uploaded this onto our iPods.
By day we listened via our headphones at work (we both
write all day and this actually helped keep us more alert
and focused), by night we docked one of the pods on the new
radio and set the TRN playlist on repeat. While we slept
the whole program had a chance to play through maybe 5 to 8
times.
We listened like this for over a year straight. Then, we
dropped down to just listening at night while we slept.
In less than 3 years we have saved for and taken two trips
abroad (my first two times outside the US!)...saved for and
taken 5 trips in the USA...got my driver's license (even
though I had to take the driving test 3 times, I wouldn't
give up this time)...saved for and purchased my first
car...paid off my husband's car...earned our Associate's
degrees (with a 4.0 GPA), moving on to our bachelor's...I
won employee of the year two times...my husband achieved
two large pay raises...almost perfect attendance at
work...perfect attendance at school...paid for and arranged
my grandmother's funeral...paid off $45,000 of our $60,000
debt in the last 18 months...saved up an emergency fund (so
we NEVER have to use debt again)...painted our entire house
ourselves (every room a different color)...wrote and mailed
out 100+ Christmas cards every year without fail or
stress...discovered our TRUE PASSION for our career lives
and are making all steps to quickly put us in the line of
employment we'll be most satisfied with ...volunteered over
100 hours per year ...I was asked to spend a year writing
the definitive training manual for my current position, my
employers considering me the ideal...and best of all, we
have made even more new friendships and nurtured all
existing relationships faithfully because we plan and make
time to do so.
We're just a few years away from financial independence,
passionate employment, and a completed Bachelors education.
All of this took disciplined, practical planning and
vision and the will to follow through on those plans. It
took an intense hunger for learning and exploring and being
willing to experiment or experience temporary setbacks and
failures.
We're constantly looking for new ways to expand our skills
and knowledge. We're not afraid to totally switch gears if
we find a better way to do something. Change is welcome
and looked forward to. Not feared.
There's no way I could have become this driven and
responsible, this goal-oriented and optimistic all on my
own. That sad, apathetic, wasteful and LAZY girl I was 7
years ago is no where to be found now.
This new Desa doesn't leave home without her posh pink 4
year old Franklin Covey planner. It is loaded with my
goals, action plans, organized thoughts and ideas,
prioritized daily and monthly task lists, call notes,
property inventories and contacts. Each year's sheets are
stored in their own labeled case by my bed, all contents
neatly indexed so I can access any information or details I
might need from the past in seconds.
And we just keep getting better and better.
Sure, we're not millionaires yet, but I know we'll retire
that way. Sure, we don't have the jobs we love yet, but
both of us are considered indispensable treasures by our
current employers. Sure, we don't have the perfect
physiques yet, but thanks to our constant enthusiasm for
learning and exploring, we've figured out what works and
what doesn't and we're on our way. Sure, many of our
friends and family members have Masters or PhDs by now, but
we're pursuing an education for the love of the knowledge
and not just for money.
Thanks for these amazing programs. This family has no
doubts about whether or not Think Right Now! has the power
to change people that it promises it does. Looking forward
to seeing what new heights we will achieve by using a new
program.
Desa Abbamondi
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MB: All from just one program, 'Setting & Achieving Goals
Now!' Whew. That is what becoming a goal achiever is
about... not just setting goals and doing the things that
will make them become reality, but identifying what you
TRULY want in life and PASSIONATELY going after it with
love, with desire and with faith that you will get what you
want and become who you want to be.
Goals that fit with who you are and stretch you.
Desa is just 27 years old and is living the life of her
dreams, not because she's achieved all her goals, but
because she HAS big goals, is going after them and is
enjoying the whole ride - every day of it... with the "man
of her dreams."
Yowsa.
How'd you like to be in a picture like that?
You can by plugging in the thought patterns that Desa is
plugged into. The passionate goal achievement mindset.
You can get it in 'Setting & Achieving Goals Now!'
- http://thinkrightnow.com/a/goals.asp
For what can be done with this and our other Accelerated
Success Conditioning Programs,
- http://thinkrightnow.com/catalog.asp it's literally the
opportunity of a lifetime. Just ask Desa!
Love,
Mike Brescia
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