Welcome to Surpass Your Dreams. The goal of this newsletter is to help you recognize your potential and surpass your dreams. This issue is dedicated to perserverance.

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1. Perserverance Is The Key To Living Your Dreams
2. Would You Like To Bounce Back From Adversity?
3. What Do You Think?
4. Last Month
5. Great Resources

I. PERSERVERANCE IS THE KEY TO LIVING YOUR DREAMS

"Never, never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill

This issue marks the two-year anniversary for Surpass Your Dreams. We began with 18 friends & coworkers. This month we surpassed 1,000 subscribers. This was because of you.

I never thought I'd come this far. Two years ago Surpass Your Dreams was one of millions of e-newsletters on the Internet. And me? I was a personal coach with no advertising budget trying to market personal coaching even though no one knew what it was. As a sales and marketing professional, I knew that promoting a business costs money. But the necessary amount was not in my bank account. Still I continued to maintain my web-site and distribute a monthly newsletter.

There were times when I wondered if anyone was reading the newsletter, or getting value from it. Putting together a newsletter every month is hard work. Shortly after one issue is published, I have to come up with an idea for the next. Sometimes I feel the pressure of knowing that people are judging my words. There are times when I said "Why should I keep it up?" Knowing that I had readers that loved the newsletter, looked forward to it, and counted on it, had me continue and press on.

From publishing the newsletter, I learned that I love to write. In the past 4 months, I have written and published 14 articles on topics like making commitment and sticking to them; coaching yourself to success; and the power of positive thinking. I've been interviewed for Entrepreneur Magazine and Ladies Home Journal. My articles can be found on more than 50 web sites throughout the Internet and my e-newsletter subscriber base and client base have increased quickly because of this. My next step is an e-book, and a book on surpassing your dreams. I've been talking about writing this book for a while and it seems like the time is now. (Thanks to all of you who said you would help me with this project. I have not forgotten you!)

I am so grateful that things are coming together. I keep wondering what I did to deserve it, and at time wonder when it will be taken away. I hear these thoughts, and I put them behind me. Living your dreams is possible when you do what you love, and I love to coach and empower others to win.

If it were not for perseverance, I would not be coaching today. I still have a long way to go, but I feel good about where I am right now. Perseverance will keep you going when you do not think that you can go anymore. If I can make it happen for me, then you can make it happen for you. Believe that you can, and keep going until you get there! .

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II. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BOUNCE BACK FROM ADVERSITY?

One of the critical skills for ongoing success is the ability to bounce back from adversity. Sooner or later in life everyone experiences failure, disappointment, setbacks, or the lack of desire to keep moving forward.

Success and failure are neutral concepts. What makes either of them positive or negative in your life is not the event, circumstance, or situation, but what you do with it. Resilience is your ability to keep coming back, again and again and again. No matter how many times life throws you a curve or brings you to your knees, you try again - you try something new, something different, or something old in a new way. You refuse to give in or up.

Here Are A Few Ideas To Consider When You Feel Like Quitting:

1. Adversity is temporary.
2. You need it so you could learn a valuable lesson.
3. You need it to be softened by life.
4. You need it to give your life more integrity or character.
5. You need it so you could be an example for others.
6. You need it to rid yourself of some arrogance or ignorance.
7. You need it to grow in some area of your life.
8. You need it so you could learn to laugh at yourself.
9. You need it so you can learn to live in the present.
10. You need it so you can learn to take life less seriously.

Hang on to your dreams, no matter how big or small. And, don't let others convince you that you can't do it, won't do it, or shouldn't do it. Be true to yourself and your destiny. You have everything you need, right now, inside of you to carry on. All you have to do is do it.

About this month's submitter: Tim Connor, CSP, is a sales & management speaker, trainer, consultant and best selling author. Contact Tim at speaker@bellsouth.net

III. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

The best thing about writing this newsletter is the e-mail's I get from you. I have dedicated this section to you so you can have a place to share your thoughts and have your words touch others in the same way that they touch me.

This month's topic is devoted to perseverance. Has perseverance helped you? How? Do you have tips that you would like to share?

Please send your stories and contributions to info@surpassyourdreams.com

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Dear Coach Deborah:

Last month you wrote about being successful. The measure of success means many things to many people, and I would like to share with you what the measurement of my life's success is.

I used to be focused on my career, how much money I made, how many nice things I could buy for myself, where I was going on the weekend and so on. As I got older my priorities changed and I look at life a lot differently now. I think with time comes wisdom and maturity. I would like to share some thoughts with you.

I feel very lucky to have a wonderful family; in particular my husband who would do anything for me and my child. I also feel lucky that we have been blessed with health, not only within my immediate family but also just outside our family. When my daughter shares time with her grandparents, I feel it is priceless because some other families may not have that luxury. In addition, my friends are a great measure of my life's success because I can share my feelings and life's critical moments with them, especially when you need a sounding board. Of course, being successful with your career is very important too, but I feel we must look at life as a whole and try to balance all aspects of it. Yes, it is hard sometimes to put things into perspective, but I always try to reflect on the good to get me through. I find that this philosophy is one that makes sense for me.

Barbi Schwartzberg bschwartzberg@netscape.net

WAY TO GO BARBI!

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IV. LAST MONTH

Last month's issue was dedicated to discovering if success is an illusion?

Do you consider yourself to be successful? If the answer is no, then I ask "why not?"

Success can mean many things to many people. For some it's getting the big house, the fancy car, or the high powered job. For others it's getting married and having a family. No matter what success means to you, it's up to you to reach it.

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