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In This Issue:
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Issue 341 - January 23, 2007
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Welcome! And what's new...
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3. Entrepreneur with a Cause
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1. But I'm making good time......
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4. Quotes - - Abundance
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5. Humor -- Doctor in the House
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After many months of work and prodding, the 48 Days Career Kit has appeared in Costco stores across the nation this week. 48 Days to the Work You Love was released in January of 2005 – two full years ago. But the momentum has continued to build. Also released this month were the Spanish version, the full audio, the paperback version and a 120 second informercial. Here I am standing beside stacks of this new product created just for Costco.
Just last week I saw a client who asked, “Dan, what is the best idea you know of for making a lot of money quickly?” I always cringe when I hear this perspective. It’s likely to lead to frustration and disappointment.
Dave Anderson is the founder of Famous Dave’s – the great barbeque restaurants. Dave told me once that as long as he chased money it stayed just out of reach. He finally gave up on being rich and just started doing what he loves doing – making great barbeque. At that point the money tracked him down and dumped truckloads on him. He is now able to fund children’s education and other worthy causes with the money that doing something he loves has brought him.
If I would have been looking just for ideas to make a lot of money I would never have chosen to be an author. Look at these depressing statistics from Publishers Weekly for 2004:
• 950,000 titles out of 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies
• Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies
• Only 25,000 sold more than 5,000 copies
• The average book in America sells about 500 copies
• Only 10 books sold more than a million copies
• Fewer than 500 sold more than 100,000
• Nearly 200,000 new titles are published each year
I should have chosen a whole lot of other things. But doing what I love and doing it with a clear strategy and tactics has brought me not only deep personal fulfillment, but also a level of financial success that few people ever experience.
Theologian Fredrick Buechner said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.”
I encourage you to do the same. Find your deep gladness, create a plan and success will find you.
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I like to be included in the growing number of “social entrepreneurs.” Here’s a definition:
“A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas business entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit and return, social entrepreneurs assess their success in terms of the impact they have on society and often work through nonprofits and citizen groups.”
Next week my wife, Joanne, and daughter, Ashley, will begin leading a six-week 48 Days workshop for 40 ladies at the Tennessee Prison for Women. And we are making it possible for anyone leaving a Tennessee prison to receive the 48 Days materials.
Here’s another cool example. One Laptop per Child is an organization that has shipped a laptop computer that will sell for less than $100. These laptops were created for poor children in developing countries and are designed to withstand cold, heat, mud, dust and daily abuse. And companies are lining up to provide free software.
Let us know what you are doing as a “social entrepreneur.”
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