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Sam's Archived Newsletter's
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It's Better to Give
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December 2011 - January 2012
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"You can give
without loving; but you cannot love
without giving." – Amy Carmichael
You've heard it's better to give
than receive?
I don't think it's an either/or
situation.
I think it's both. It's better to
give AND receive.
I'm a little late to this party.
Like many of you, as a parent and
business owner, I've done more than
my fair share of giving. It comes
with the territory, doesn't it?
However, one of the greatest lessons
I've learned over the last few years
is that "Our strength taken to an
extreme becomes our Achilles Heel."
It was my good friend Mary Loverde
who brought this to my attention
when suggesting that my 2011 mantra
be, "Receive, receive, receive."
So, every time I walk Murph, (my
cute Jack Russell pictured above
who's been a constant companion the
last ten years), I think to myself,
"Receive, receive, receive."
I cannot begin to describe the
miracles that have come into my life
as a result.
Hopefully, I still give to others -
often in the form of brainstorming,
strategizing and POP!ing their
priority projects in the halls of
meetings, during meals or while on
walk-talks.
However, I balance that now by
graciously accepting offers of
assistance.
When people offer to initiate on my
behalf, my new answer is, "That
would be wonderful."
When a fellow flyer offers to put my
overnight bag in the overhead bin,
my answer is now, "Yes, thank you"
instead of "That's okay, I've got
it."
If I do a favor for someone and they
say, "What I can do for you?" I
think of something instead of
automatically (and unintentionally)
'dissing their offer with, "Nothing,
thanks. I was glad to help out."
I never realized that giving,
giving, giving is a one-way
relationship.
It often makes other people
uncomfortable because they feel it's
inequitable.
One of the great truths is - any
extreme is unhealthy.
Over-giving is as unhealthy as
under-giving.
Thanks to Mary's insights, I've got
that in better balance these days,
and my life's been enriched in ways
I couldn't have imagined.
For example, a strategic retreat
held at my lake-home this past
weekend demonstrated the miracles
that can happen when people come
together with the express purpose of
giving and receiving.
Notice, it's not giving and taking.
There's a gracious gratitude
inferred in the word "receiving"
that's crucial.
Over the course of two days, 12
leaders from around North America
supported each other, advised each
other, recommended resources and
operated as "rising tide raises all
boats" emissaries on each other's
behalf.
It was a beautiful thing to behold.
I'll be facilitating another
strategic retreat on June 22-24 as
the culmination of a 6 month Master
Mind program that starts in January.
If you'd like the blessing of being
involved in a group of smart,
talented professionals from around
the country - all dedicated to
helping each other achieve their
objectives - contact
Cheri@SamHorn.com to
receive details.
The focus is on connecting with
encouraging, accountability partners
via regularly-scheduled virtual
meetings so you don't have to go it
alone.
You can opt for 1 or 2 hours of
private consulting in addition to
our group calls to deep dive into
your 2012 priorities, put tangible
dates on the calendar and
reverse-engineer monthly
deliverables so you finish what you
set out to do and get your message,
mission, products and services out
in the world so they can make a
positive difference for others and a
prosperous living for you.
A bonus? The 2-day retreat, plus the
celebratory dinner at the National
Press Club, is INCLUDED in the price
of the 6 month Master Mind package.
We have four openings left. Call
Cheri at 805
528-4351 or email today.
Now - back to the dual concept of
giving AND receiving.
How about you?
What are your lessons-learned about
balancing the two?
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"Creativity is
based on the premise there's no
particular virtue in doing things
the way they've always been done." –
Rudolph Flesch
My friend Matt (pictured to the
right) helped me put my Christmas
tree up this year.
Over Cosmo's and the soundtrack of
my life playing on my new iPod, we
shared favorite Christmas moments
and best birthday memories while
hanging the ornaments.
Dave Brubeck's jazz classic Take
Five came on and Matt asked,
"What's that song?! My grandmother
used to play it and I was fascinated
by it."
I smiled and said, "That's the
greatest song ever written."
"Why?"
"Because, before Paul Desmond and
Dave Brubeck, everyone followed the
musical rules. Everyone believed,
'There's got to be four beats per
measure, right?'"
Desmond and Brubeck thought, "Who
says? Why not put 5 beats in a bar?
Why not play and try something new?"
The result?
A genius song that is not syncopated
in the normal, everyday, expected
way.
It's refreshingly different.
You can't quite wrap your mind
around it, but it's original and
incredibly engaging.
The point?
Are you creating something or
deciding something?
Are you following the rules?
Could you abandon the rules and
experiment?
Could you play and do it a new way,
your way, instead of the way it's
always been done?
Who knows? You could come up with a
ground-breaking Take Five
approach that's first of its kind.
You could break the mold - instead
of doing same old, same old.
(Addendum: Not five minutes after
this discussion, Matt went to hang
our just-bought evergreen wreath on
the outside front door.
After getting the hammer and nail,
he started to take the wreath off
the stair post in the entryway where
it'd been placed "temporarily."
Hmmm.
He stepped back and said, "I kinda
like it better on the stairs. In
here, we'll see it throughout the
day. Out there, we'll see it only a
couple times a day."
Guess where the wreath is?
Now that's a 5/4 decision.)
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"Things don't
change by chance; they change by
choice." – Jim Rohn
A lot of people contact our office
and say, "Sam's programs are usually
at association member-only
conventions or for private clients.
Any chance she's presenting a
program that's open to the public so
I can attend?"
The answer to that is YES. I'll be
presenting a program that's open to
the public on Saturday, Jan. 14 at
the Bethesda Marriott for our DMV
(DC, Maryland, VA) chapter of
National Speakers Association.
In fact, I'm introducing a brand-new
program I recently presented for the
first time in Toronto. So, if you've
heard any variation of my POP!
program, this will be fresh
material you haven't heard before.
Here's a description:
Turn Your Experience,
Insights and Expertise into a
Signature Message, Mission and
Movement That Scales your Influence,
Impact and Income
Are you an entrepreneur, executive,
non-profit leader, professor,
minister, inventor, adventurer or
author who would like to turn what
you know and what you've learned and
done into a rewarding career that
makes a positive difference for
others and a prosperous living for
you?
If so, sign up for this
one-of-a-kind program with Intrigue
Expert Sam Horn.
In this fascinating session, Sam
will share her proprietary approach
to turning your experience, insights
and expertise into an umbrella brand
and equity business that leverages
your knowledge into books,
presentations, consulting and
e-commerce products and services.
If you've heard Sam speak before,
you'll love these TOTALLY NEW
approaches that will take your work
to an even more rewarding,
value-adding, revenue-producing
level.
If you haven't heard Sam speak
before, you'll quickly understand
why she's often the top-rated
speaker at every convention at which
she's featured; why her client list
includes Cisco, Intel, HP, NASA and
Capital One; and why she's been
featured on NPR, MSNBC,
FastCompany.com and in the New
York Times.
Sam Horn, 17-Time Emcee of the Maui
Writers Conference, has helped
hundreds of people get published. As
the author of POP!
(endorsed by Seth Godin, Jeffrey
Gitomer and Ken Blanchard), she's
helped thousands come up with
one-of-a-kind pitches, titles and
marketing slogans.
More importantly, she's developed a
step-by-step process for finding &
fulfilling your SerenDestiny - an
intensely satisfying career where
the light's on in your eyes and
you're getting paid to do what you
love most and do best - and building
that into an enduring entity that
exists after you're gone.
Sam doesn't waste your valuable time
on platitudes. In this fun,
fascinating and interactive
workshop, you'll connect with
others, work on YOUR priorities and
learn exactly how to:
*Make a legacy, not
just make a living
*Become a topic
advocate, not just a topic expert
*Think scale, not
think small
*Create an organic,
original body of work (vs. reading
others' books and being derivative)
*Turn one-way
communications (talks, books and
blogs) into interactive experiences
*Leverage
traditional and social media by
commenting on that day's headlines
so your content is current
*Build an advisory
team who has your front and your
back so you're not going it alone
*Use Sam's
70-10-10-10 Rule to replace
boring information with brilliant,
real-life examples
To ensure maximum value, I'll be
facilitating a lunch afterwards
onsite where we'll continue to
brainstorm and strategize each
others' projects.
This 90-minute lunch (similar to the
networking dinners and salons I host
at the National Press Club -
pictured in the fun photo above)
will give you added opportunities to
connect with other people who also
want to take their speaking, writing
and consulting businesses to the
next level.
You can claim one of the 15
available Jan. 14 after-NSA-DC-program-lunch
spots (pay for your own meal) by
emailing Cheri at
Cheri@SamHorn.com
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"There must be
more to life than having
everything." – Maurice Sendak
Sendak is right. There's a LOT more
to life than having everything.
One of the things that makes life
even more meaningful is having the
opportunity to spend time with
thought-leaders who love what they
do and are adding value to the
world.
That's a primary goal for our
That's Intriguing Tele-seminar
Series.
Past tele-seminars have featured
Michael Gelb, (International Brain
of the Year and author of How To
Think Like Leonardo da Vinci)
and Betsy Myers (head of Clinton's
White House Office for Women and
author of Take the Lead.)
We've got a couple special guest
experts coming up - hope you'll join
us.
On Dec. 14 at 8pm ET, Larry
Robertson, author of A
Deliberate Pause, will be
talking us through some provocative
questions to help us look back on
this year and celebrate our
highlights and lessons-learned.
He'll then ask us to look ahead to
2012 and strategize what's REALLY
important to us and plan how we're
going to carve out time for that so
it doesn't get frittered away in the
busyness of life.
On Jan. 17, Mike Domitrz will be
sharing his one-of-a-kind approach
to building a fully-booked (3 years
in advance!) speaking career.
After watching Mike deliver his
ground-breaking keynote at CAPS
(Canadian Association of
Professional Speakers) in Toronto, I
knew I wanted him to share his
brilliance with you.
Mike modeled that presentations are
supposed to be INTERACTIVE - that
we're supposed to showcase our
participants, not show-off our
knowledge.
He modeled how to instantly leverage
social media so it serves attendees
AND meeting planners who get to see
real-world benefits of your insights
in real-time.
Mike modeled how to so thoroughly
engage and impact an audience, they
ALL walk out enthusiastically,
voluntarily repeating your tagline
and sharing specific ways they plan
to put what they've learned into
practice.
Mike modeled how being in your
wheelhouse creates a fun and
fascinating experience that forever
changes the way attendees see a
certain topic - for the better.
He modeled the importance of being
clear about what you stand for - and
what you won't stand for. His
preliminary mailings spell out how
to frame the descriptions of his
session. He's proof that how a
program is communicated plays a big
role in how it's perceived.
Mike modeled it's possible to share
a "Here's how I do it" program
without it being about ego.
He is the opposite of many speakers
today who are still using the same
old, top down, "sit down and put a
sock in it while I tell you
everything I know" approach.
In our interview, Mike will be
sharing his "back story" - how he
arrived at this model - his
epiphanies, trial and error learning
and rewards.
We rock and roll with our
interviews. Short answers. Lots of
real-life examples. A focus on
surprising insights that get
people's eyebrows up. Fun and
tangible take-aways.
Hope you'll join us on Dec. 14
(Larry Robertson) and Jan. 17 (Mike
Domitrz) so you can benefit from
these quality entrepreneurs who are
making a positive difference in the
world.
Email Joyce at
Joyce@SamHorn.com to
register for our tele-seminars
(they're free) and to get call-in
instructions.
And if you have colleagues who would
benefit from these sessions, thanks
for spreading the word by
FaceBooking or tweeting this to your
friends and colleagues.
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"A book is a gift
that can be opened again and again."
- Garrison Keillor
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A gift that benefits them time and
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Quotes: Intriguing Insights From
Today's Top Icons, Influencers and
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Plus, there's a bonus section in
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their attention.
A few favorites include:
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"I intend to live forever. So
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"Be nice to nerds. Chances are,
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- Bill Gates
"The world needs dreamers and
doers. But above all, the world
needs dreamers who do." - Sarah
Ban Breathnach
You are welcome to purchase your
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And, if you've already read the book
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I appreciate anything you can do to
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Actually, Glenna Salsbury, Past
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Truly a transformational treasure!"
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