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A Heartfelt Welcome
ARISE and be FREE
Your ARISE Article
Can I Get ARISE Outa You?
Poignant Ponderings
Giving  Back
Will You ARISE & Help Me?



Dear Valued Subscriber,

What a blast! The spectacle of watching 50 and 60 year-olds kickin' butt and making great music on stage was one of the highlights of the Summer of '03, at least for me. Aerosmith, Kiss and Ted Nugent never sounded better in what had to be the concert event of the year. Steve Tyler was his slinky, spazzy self belting out "Walk This Way" and many of their long line of hard rock hits while Kiss, in full costume and war paint, thrilled the 65,000 in attendance with their theatrics, pyrotechnics and two decades plus of anthemy chart toppers. Nugent, was well, Nugent, sporting army fatigue shorts and hat performing his anti-social tunes with just a bass player and drummer. Good to see that middle age can rock!

This has never been done before. Actually, my great friend and publisher, Linda Caroll, and I can hardly believe we were able to pull this off. The gist was simply this - there are now SO many inferior and scammy marketing products and SO many supposed "gurus" that claim to be able to teach the average person how to make money online, it's just TOO confusing for those sincerely seeking solutions - so we decided to do something about it. We contacted the real experts in all areas of Internet marketing, the people we both know and trust, and asked each to contribute one or more of their best products to what we now call The Big Bang CD. To a person, and this is what surprised us so much, they agreed. So, if you are earning income (or want to) from the Internet you should really check this out.

I am repeating this from last issue as it is a great FREE ebook and cause: My good friend, and notable business development strategist, Paul Lemberg, has developed a program that is, in my humble, biased opinion:-), just what the world needs. As you may know, I support a children's charity that saves lives in 3rd world nations around the globe. But Paul's program, a registered non-profit, empowers entrepreneurs or those who would become so, in underdeveloped countries, with small micro-loans, to build small businesses in order to support their families and create employment that otherwise, would never exist.

Paul has authored a great eBook entitled "Earn Twice As Much With Half The Stress" which could be selling for big, big bucks, but, he told me in our phone conversations that he wants to give this powerful tutorial away for free and ask readers for donations that will be completely invested in the micro-loan program. What a great idea! If you don't like the book, you can delete it. If you feel as I do about it, donate to this worthwhile program - whatever you can - a little, or a lot. What could be simpler?  For a complete overview of the Cras Tibi Foundation, click here, and to get your free copy of Paul's most excellent eBook, you can download that here.

One of my favorite writers contributes this issue's article. I am betting that you will have "a cow" when you read Stephanie West Allen's "Loosen Up Your Mind With Gratitude"! Thank you again for another great article Stephanie!

Now, please kick back (and if you can't right now, just click on the Print This Page icon at the top, scoop the pages from your printer and take it to bed with you:-) and enjoy this issue of ARISE!

As always, my greatest wishes for your complete success,

Rick Beneteau

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ARISE and be FREE

I'd love for you to take advantage of the following free gifts I've provided just to show my deep appreciation for your choosing to receive my publication:

Pearls of Success - My Free Inspirational eBook

Free PDF Chapter of my business eBook, Branding YOU and Breaking the Bank

The Articles - My Free Collection of Business Building Articles

My Inspirational Screensavers

Special Inspirational PDF Files

My 9/11 Tribute Song

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YOUR ARISE ARTICLE

Boston Bovines Hold The Answer For You

Did you know that our brains are full of cow paths? Robert Fritz begins his book _The Path of Least Resistance_ by explaining how the streets of Boston were laid out; they do not seem to be the result of any planning.

Long, long ago in Boston, grazing and wandering cows walked the easiest paths they could find and, with each passing cow, these paths became more clearly defined and easier to follow. These cow paths became the “plan” for Boston’s streets. 

Fritz says, “As a result, city planning in Boston gravitates around the mentality of the seventeenth century cow.”

The thoughts that we have over and over form cow paths in our brains. Each repeated thought makes the path more defined and easier. We think about not enough money frequently and the not enough-money path becomes the easiest one to follow -- our thoughts just follow the same old cow path. Same with thoughts of sickness and irritability and judgment and all breeds and brands of scarcity.

Perhaps your thought planning gravitates around the mentality of the old twentieth century you.

Once those cow paths get formed, they call to our thoughts, and lead them to places where our dreams can’t be seen. Our brains are riddled with deep furrows meandering through hard, caked, crusted dirt. How do we loosen up the dirt into pliable, rich, fertile mud? We need to rain on our brain.

Mud, Marvelous Mud

Gratitude is the rain that smoothes the way for new paths. When the storms of gratitude fall upon our brains, the dry, stuck paths dissolve leaving the mighty, moldable mud of potential. We can form new paths where our thoughts can dance on down the new grooves of health, wealth, love, and creativity. 

Gratitude and rigidity cannot coexist. Gratitude makes new freeways of thinking gently possible. Have you ever found yourself thinking over and over about something you do not want in your life? That’s a sure way to get more and more of that something. You probably know that, but all of a sudden you catch yourself having those thoughts - again - of what you most definitely do not want.

Why? Your thoughts are following those old, well-worn, rigid cow paths in your brain. They follow those cow trails while you are not looking. And it does not work to put roadblocks in the paths, to resist those thoughts. You have to build new roads, create new paths. 

Feeling gratitude will smooth out the landscape so you can create the new paths. Replace the thoughts of sickness with thoughts of health, poverty thoughts with wealth thoughts, dread thoughts with dream thoughts. You can then build with your thoughts the health highways and wealth byways and love lanes and self-express-ways.

Singing In The Rain

And we know that once your thoughts are following the new paths, the health and wealth and love and self-expression will manifest openly and freely in your life.

Let the feeling of gratitude rain and reign in your life. It will shower you with pleasures and treasures. It will let you see how you are a mighty, shining raindrop in the great rainfall of the good universe. Let “thank you” be your prayer that you sing in the rain.

Gratitude Push-up

Before you go to bed, think of an incident that happened to you during the day. Any incident. It can be as simple as eating breakfast or walking the dog or talking to a coworker. Write the incident as if you were putting it in your memoirs or journal or autobiography. And do it this way . . .

When you write about the incident, revise it so it includes your having a LARGE amount of gratitude during the incident. How? As you think about the incident before you write, feel the gratitude flowing into the memory. Feel yourself full of thanks. See a smile. Maybe feel a bounce in your step, peace in your shoulders, joy in your posture. Then write the incident in this revised version. Don’t worry about good style or grammar or punctuation. 
Simply write it.

Do this exercise for a week with a new incident from each day. I think you will be surprised at what happens to your level of gratitude during those seven days.

© 2002 Stephanie West Allen

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Can I Get ARISE Outa You?

Police Department's Office Answering Machine
with thanks to jl scott


Hello, you have reached the Police Department's Voice Mail. Pay close attention as we have to update the choices often as new and usual circumstances arrive. Please select one of the following options:

* To whine about us not doing anything to solve a problem that you created yourself, 
press 1.

* To inquire as to whether someone has to die before we'll do something about a problem, press 2.

* To report an officer for bad manners, when in reality the officer is trying to keep your neighborhood safe, press 3.

* If you would like us to raise your children, press 4.

* If you would like us to take control of your life due to your chemical dependency or alcohol, press 5.

* If you would like us to instantly restore order to a situation that took years to deteriorate, press 6.

* To provide a list of officers you personally know so we will not take enforcement action against you, press 7.

* To sue us, or tell us you pay our salary and you'll have our badge, or to proclaim our career is over, press 8.

* To whine about a ticket and/or complain about the many other uses for police rather than keeping your dumb a** in line, press 9.

Please note your call may be monitored to assure proper customer support and remember ... we're here to save your butt, NOT kiss it!

Thanks for calling your local police department and have a nice day.

Poignant Ponderings

Famous Rejections

"I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't understand how to use the English language."
Publisher's rejection letter to Rudyard Kipling, rejecting his Jungle Book, (1889)

"A sheer dead pull from start to finish."
Book review of Charles Dickens' book, A Tale of Two Cities, (1897, Century Magazine)

"...so this is a book of the season only."
New York Herald Tribune review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, (1925)

"It is impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A."
Publisher's rejection letter of George Orwell's Animal Farm, (1945)

"The girl doesn't, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the curiosity level."
Publisher's rejection letter of Anne Frank's Diary, (1952) 

GIVING BACK

You might already support these or similar organizations, but it's the sad truth that we can never really do enough to help people, especially children. Here is what I support and encourage you to review:

The Internet Toy Drive  
Founded by Anne Marie Baugh and myself, and sponsored by Drew Bledsoe (#11, 2001 Super Bowl Champion quarterback), we are official corporate sponsors of the U.S. Marine's Toys for Tots program.

My WorldVision Children
This is the special group of children from around the world that I sponsor. WorldVision is a Christian organization that has been around for decades and almost every penny donated goes directly to these needy children and their families. Nothing beats receiving a handwritten letter, or even an email now, from "your child":-) You can even buy chickens or cows that get right to these families in dire need!

St. Jude Children's Hospital
My father was a lifelong musician and played piano in bands with Danny Thomas (founder of St. Jude and father of Marlo Thomas) among others during the depression, thirties and early World War II years. Understandably, this world famous research hospital is close to my heart:-)

Parenting with Dignity P
If you are a parent, expecting to be one in the future, or even believe you've done your parenting job, do yourself a great favor and check out this fabulous resource! Drew Bledsoe, his father and family members, my great friend Tom Heatherington and many more have established an absolutely wonderful foundation devoted to the betterment of children and families (Mac Bledsoe was interviewed on ABC's 20/20 this year).

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Will You ARISE & Help Me?

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Thank You!!

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