By Janelle on March 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Price of a Relationship
How much money would you be willing to walk away from to preserve a relationship?
$5 thousand? $50 thousand, $500 thousand? How about $1 million? Half a billion? To what lengths would you go to hold onto a relationship?
It may sound like an unrealistic question, but today I’m going to tell you about a person who did choose relationship over money.
Our “Winner” series has been fun this month. The term winner is used to describe people. We hear comments like, “She acts like a winner.” Or, “A winner takes it all.” There are a thousand ways to say it, but we all want to be that winner. Go back to the first of March and catch the entire series, There’s a Winner in All of Us.
Know When to Walk Away
Back to the mystery person who willfully walked away to preserve her relationship with her father. Her name is Tori Spelling, actress best known for her role on Beverly Hills, 90210. Her father was Aaron Spelling, recently deceased TV producer. He was listed in the Guinness Book of Records in 1999 as the world’s most prolific producer of television drama. At that point in time, according to the Guinness record, he had produced 3,842 hours of television–enough to fill about 3½ years of prime time seven nights a week without any reruns. In his lifetime, he amassed a wealth of at least ½ billion dollars. Some say perhaps a billion.
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By Janelle on March 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Wheels Up, Wheels Down, Wheels Off
Once again airport travel was an experience to remember. While walking through the Atlanta Airport, I was about to get over losing my neck pillow and the lens falling out of my new pair of glasses, when the airport delivered my ballistic nylon, indestructible roller bag with not only a missing wheel, but the entire wheel housing gone.
During March we have been talking about the qualities of a winner, but I confess that I was so self-focused with negative things happening to me, that I almost forgot I was a winner.
Looking Beyond Yourself
While I waited in line to go through security to catch the next flight, a fragile, silver-haired woman in front of me slowly shuffled bags back and forth across the conveyor belt. She didn’t notice she was holding up a long line of impatient travelers backed up behind me. She was trying to handle her bags while helping a blind man in his late 30’s in front of her. He must have been a close relative the way she hovered over him.
I stood there for a short time staring at her, watching her helpless motions, until I could stand it no longer.
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By Janelle on March 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Position Yourself As a Winner
As we are talking about the qualities of a winner, be sure to go back to Part 1 and Part 2 of my blogs, There’s a Winner in All of Us.
Part 1, What It Takes to Be a Winner, gives you an example of an ordinary person who made winning qualities work for her. Part 2, Having a Winning Attitude, gives a unique perspective of the power of persuasion. Today we are talking about how to position yourself as a winner.
Jerold Panas, an executive partner of one of America’s leading fundraising firms and author of several books, tells about an article he read in National Geographic
on barnacles. “The barnacle,” said the article, “is confronted early on with a decision about where it is going to live. Once it decides that, it spends the rest of its life with its head permanently cemented to a rock.”
Apparently that works for the barnacle. I tried to peel one off a rock, and it wouldn’t budge. It had amazing sticking power. The first step toward positioning yourself as a winner is to select your position.
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By Janelle on March 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
What Does it Take to be a Winner?
Winners do not accidently stumble into a successful life. When good things happen, winners are already there, waiting in anticipation for the prize of a well-thought out, well-planned, and well-lived life.
Attitude Sparks Imagination
Have you ever heard of a woman named Imaging Spence? She is an architectural designer who has an educated eye for creating a home out of nothing but imagination. She had no formal training as a designer, yet she has been featured in Architectural Digest.
Imaging grew up as the daughter of Mendel Peterson, head curator of history at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. She spent her summers wide-eyed and full of wonder as she roamed through history-filled museums, dreaming of living on the velvet grassy hillsides of paintings she studied and rebuilding architectural ruins with columns and fountains. Pallets of colors, textures, and historic artifacts drew her into a life of imagination.
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By Janelle on March 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
What it Takes to be a Winner
One of the most popular TV shows, Deal or No Deal, is not only a game of chance at winning $1,000,000, but also a study in human behavior. On February 13th, Katie Henslin, from Forest Lake, Minnesota, walked away with $449,000 and exemplified what it takes to be a winner.
During the month of March, we are going to explore the qualities of a winner. Let’s take a look at Katie and see why she has a winning spirit.
At the beginning of the Million Dollar Mission game on Deal or No Deal, host Howie Mandel asked her why she thought she was a winner. She momentarily looked surprised that he would ask, then answered, “Because I was bred from a long line of winners.”
From her answer, it was evident to me that she knew how to play the game of life. Here are the qualities of a winner that she exemplified during the time she played:
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