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Wealth |
How Much
of Your Portfolio Should Be Invested in Stocks? How Much
in Bonds?
To determine the percentage of your portfolio
that should be invested in stocks, simply subtract your
age from 100. If your tolerance for risk is higher, add
10 or 15 to that number. The remaining percentage of your
portfolio should be in bonds. Alex Green, Investment Director
of the Oxford
Club, cautions novice investors to select mutual funds.
"Buying individual stocks is for speculators. New investors
especially should be in mutual funds until they've learned
enough to choose their own portfolios."
[Ed. Note: Alex Green was one of more than
a dozen featured speakers at last week's Wealth-Building
Bootcamp. If you were unable to attend, you'll be happy
to know that all of the sessions were professionally recorded
and are now available on CD or DVD. If you're interested
in learning how you can get the complete ETR Wealth Building
Bootcamp Home Study Package delivered to your door -- including
the handbook, the handouts, and the PowerPoint presentations
that the in-person attendees received -- click
here]
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Health |
A Very
Simple Way to Build Strength
Doing old-fashioned calisthenics (see "Word
to the Wise," below) -- light exercise using your
body, not weights or other equipment -- is still the safest
and most beneficial way to build strength and develop
muscle tone, according to Dr. Al Sears, editor of the
newsletter "Health
Confidential for Men". And talk about convenience!
You can do basic calisthenics (sit-ups, for example) at
home, in the office, or on the road.
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Wisdom |
When You Have to Make
an Important Decision, Don't Leave It (Entirely) to
Chance
The Situation: You've done all the analysis
and narrowed your options to two courses of action.
Both have strengths and weaknesses, risks and rewards.
You can't make up your mind.
The Solution: Flip a coin or put each option on one
side of an index card and flip it.
The Secret: Pay attention to how you feel about the
winner. Are you relieved? Disappointed? That feeling
represents your intuition -- which has been overwhelmed
by all the heavy analysis you've been doing.
Action to Take: Follow your intuition, not chance.
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Today's Message |
Do All Your Employees
Like You All the Time? That's Bad!
by Michael Masterson
I like it when my employees seem to like me,
but I don't allow myself to seek their approval. And you
shouldn't either.
What's the purpose of your business? To service your customer,
right?
The fundamental relationship in business is
not between employer and employee, but between the business
and the customer. It is that relationship that creates the
revenues that everyone -- employers and employees -- enjoys.
Seen from this perspective, it's clear that
employers and their employees are on the same side. Their
job is the same: to create products and services that are
useful and pleasing to the customers.
What is the best way to do that?
By constantly improving those products and
services. And how do you do that? By setting high standards
which, once attained, are raised again.
Some employees don't like high standards,
because they create a lot of work -- especially the kind
of work that nobody likes: the do-it-over-again kind.
Let's say you are the publisher of a sports magazine. You
have to put together 70 pages of editorial every month by
a very definite date. To get that accomplished, you create
a schedule of a dozen deadlines -- giving every writer of
every essay ample time to submit his drafts, have them edited,
revise them, and then make final submissions.
What do you do if -- 24 hours before the deadline -- half
of the articles are good but not great? Do you accept what
you have as "good enough for now" and send out
a memo suggesting ways to make things go better next time?
Or do you call everybody in at 4:30 p.m. and tell them that
if they want to keep their jobs they have to work till midnight?
And if you are tough enough to take that "unreasonable"
stance, what do you say to your top editor who tells you
he has an anniversary date with his wife and children?
Setting high standards will make you a somewhat disliked
boss/leader. Enforcing high standards will make you positively
despised.
Don't tell me that it is possible to create a system in
which products and services can be constantly improved without
some stress and strain on your employees. If you believe
that kind of thing, you are either a teacher, a consultant,
or unemployed.
In the real world, getting from good to great requires extraordinary
effort. It demands more time than you want, more energy
than you have, and more cooperation than any normal person
can be expected to contribute.
That's if you want high standards. If you are willing to
settle for the merely good -- for what you have achieved
already -- then you can indeed provide a relatively stress-free
environment for everyone. But your business will eventually
stagnate if you do. Because while your products and services
may be extraordinary now, your competitors will eventually
catch up and exceed you. The only way to counter that, and
stay ahead, is to demand better and better quality.
I've just returned from a really sensational
group conference for AWAI (our sister company) and ETR readers.
Everyone on the staff pitched in and did a terrific job.
Conference attendees were very, very pleased. Although I'm
sure we'll get the best ratings we've ever gotten, I'm equally
sure that we need to make next year's conference even better.
Because what was great this year will be nearly
very good next. And what's very good next year will be merely
good the year after. Giving our customers a great conference
pleases them . . . and that's good. But it also raises their
expectations for next year.
That's inevitable and it's good. Because next
year, the conference will be even better.
So I'm going to thank everybody for all their
good ideas and hard work. And then I'm going to ask them
to do better next time. I hope I can say it in some way
that doesn't make them despise me. But I can't be afraid
to raise that bar.
As I say, our customers will raise the bar
even if we don't. The leader's job is to raise the bar before
the customers do.
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Today's Action Plan |
| It's no fun
to ask for more when someone who's been working very hard
is already doing a great job. But that's your job as a leader.
Think about the best thing your company does. Then figure
out at least one way you can do that better. Figure it out
and make it a team goal. If you don't raise the standard
today, it will be raised for you tomorrow.
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It's Good To Know |
Take a Deep
Breath and Increase Your Learning Power
The human brain makes up only 2% of our body
weight -- yet it consumes 20% of the oxygen we take in.
You can actually increase your learning power by first taking
a few minutes to relax and breathe deeply. (It's not a coincidence
that the word "inspired" comes from a Latin word
that means "to breathe in.")
(Source: "Accelerated Learning Techniques,"
a program by Brian Tracy and Colin Rose http://www.briantracy.com/r.asp?LID=1907)
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Word to the Wise |
| "Calisthenics"
(kal-is-THEN-iks) is light exercise designed to promote
general fitness.
Example (as used in today's Health article,
above): " Doing old-fashioned calisthenics -- light
exercise using your body, not weights or other equipment
-- is still the safest and most beneficial way to build
strength and develop muscle tone, according to to Dr. Al
Sears, editor of the newsletter "Health
Confidential for Men".
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Masterson
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