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Mar 3, 2010

Recently I have been on numerous national radio shows whereby the host asked me what advice I have to counter the current economic "crisis".

There are three steps I suggest everyone take immediately:

1) Define what the correct crisis (problem) is for you.
2) Come up with a solution to the problem.
3) Once problem and solution are identified spend all your time and resources on the solution.

Do you even know what the word crisis means as it is thrown around quite loosely today. Crisis, a time of intense difficulty, trouble or danger, also it means (and I like this better), a turning point in a disease when an important change takes place indicating either recovery or death.

The first step is to correctly identify the crisis or problem for you. If you incorrectly identify the problem you can never come up with the correct solution( cure). At this time the media is convincing America that the crisis is increasing fuel and food prices. I don't believe this to be the correct problem because it doesn't explain the financial situation you had when food and fuel were half of what they are today.

Unless you come up with the right problem you can not come up with the right solution. And the solution is where you should spend all of your time and energy. You only identify the problem long enough to come up with the solution, then you spend no more time on the problem and ALL your time on the solution.

The financial crisis in America is not that that Americans waste fuel and food or even spend too much money (even though we do). The real issue is Americans waste their time, energy, efforts and their creativity talking about the problem, watching tv, and reading newspapers rather than spending time and energy on the solution. The solution is ALWAYS PRODUCE MORE. That means work more, give more service and ultimately collect more money!

Now is the time for ACTION and SOLUTIONS that involve Expansion not Contraction. A little hint, all solutions come in acts of expansion never in acts of contraction.

Identify the real problem then spend all of your energy and resources on the solution. Do everything you can to produce more! Get your family involved in producing more. The kids can get involved in your business or get a job themselves and contribute to the increased cost of living in America.

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Mar 3, 2010

In the past week I have done two radio interviews on the gas situation, which the media refers to as the "Gas Crisis". I know this increase in prices is causing a lot of concern and pain for many Americans but crisis seems to be a bit exaggerated. A crisis to me would be earthquake, terminal disease, some major disaster, etc.

Here is the reality on this gas situation. America has paid below world prices for years and not just for gas but food and housing as well. Take a trip to Europe and see what they pay for gas, food and housing and you will know what I mean. Also, Americans have no discipline when it comes to how they use gas, electricity, or food. We drive when and where we want, waste energy like a drug addict uses drugs and we eat too much. We are a country of people that not only waste gas and food but more importantly waste time and effort. The waste of time and effort is the real crisis in America not the cost of fuel. Wasted efforts, wasted time, too little production, too much spending, not enough saving, too much attention on the problem and not enough action regarding a solution!

When individuals or a society won't discipline themselves then the market kicks in and will raise prices in order to discipline the individuals. As long as there is demand and use of a product the prices go up to the point where people finally say, "ok that hurts, no more" and start to limit the use of the product. At that point prices will stop rising.

Now I am not suggesting you quit using gas as a way to solve the problem but I am suggesting that you come up with a solution, quit wasting time, quit complaining and do something productive to counter the increase in prices. I could give you little tricks on how to best conserve gasoline like; fill up in the morning, pump on slow mode, fill up when you get to 1/2 of a tank, coast to the stop lights, and don't rabbit start but these things will only save you pennies and are ultimately not a solution to the problem.

These are the five steps I would suggest to handle the increase at the gas pump:

1) Clearly identify the real problem which is a lack of production. You have to produce more.

2) Change the focus of why you use your automobile. Use your automobile like a piece of equipment and its job is to transport you from one location to another in order for you to produce money. Most people use a car in order to spend money rather than increas production. A guy get in his car and drives to the grocery store to buy a box of cigarettes. He spent half a gallon in gas to make a 5 dollar purchase and then complains the next day about what it cost him to drive to work. Use the car like a piece of equipment and only use it to handle production activities!

3) Know your Exact Increase Cost in Gas. (this is critical to get understanding of the actual cost to you). If you drive 15000 miles a year and your car gets 18 mpg, you are going to need to purchase 833.3 gallons of gas x 4 Dollars equals 3333 a year. You probably spent 2083 last year so the difference is 1217 dollars. (Formula- Miles driven/MPG = Gallons Needed X Cost of Gallon- Cost last year= Increase. (If you consider 1217 dollars a crisis you have led a sheltered life.)

4) Figure out exactly what you have to do to make up the 1217 difference. This is the most important point! Figure out what you have to do to solve this 1217 situation. Production is the only solution to money problems! Produce and Create. Raise your prices, earn a promotion, take on another job, do some work for your rich neighbor- PRODUCE!

5) Economize- Reduce all use of your automobile to ONLY those things that are productive or absolutely necessary. Make a list of only those things that are absolutely necessary use of your vehicle. You can probably decrease your use of fuel by 25% by not wasting trips. Example- Shop on the way home from work and only shop twice a month.

Simply put, use the gas when you have a chance of producing money and discipline yourself not to use gas when you are just going to spend money. Also quit wasting your most valuable assets of time, energy, effort and action!

Grant Cardone, Author, CEO and Entrepreneur
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Mar 3, 2010

For thousands of years wealth has been amassed, successes created and riches accumulated by those that could successfully sell, convince and persuade others to support their ideas and products. These people that are able to make their projects, companies and ideas get sold did not approach selling as a job or a career or even an activity anymore than they would consider breathing something you do to stay alive. They approached every opportunity with a full understanding that to get what they wanted they had to sell and close others on supporting them in their dreams and they did so without reservation!

Those successes, riches and wealth still exist today but only for those that fully understand the importance the vital role of selling. Most people never get what they want in life only because they do not know how to sell others on their dreams.

The greatest shortage on this planet is not oil, water or ocean front property, the greatest shortage is of people that fully understand how to sell others on their ideas, their products and their dreams.

Most people think of selling as an activity and this is incorrect as selling is a requirement not an activity. This is good news for those who dare take a moment to conquer this area as the world waits with its fortunes and for most the world selling is a huge blind spot! Billions of people don't even know they need sales in order to achieve their dreams. There are hundreds of millions of people that call themselves salespeople of which only a few of those have even a clue of what they are doing. Then there are "the Greats" which know all the secrets of selling that make the game so easy and that is what this book is about.

The "greats" first, know that selling is not something you do, but something that is required in order to expand, grow and prosper. These people know that the only thing that limits their success is their imagination and the ability to convince others to say yes to their ideas! The "greats" think differently, act differently and work differently. The way rich people think different than poor people, "the Greats" have a different set of rules they live by. They have acquired a different attitude about life as they know all success is only limited to their ability to attain a yes!

They are paid immense fees compared to their peers and they are successful in all their endeavors because they know how to close a deal! Their companies out-produce their competitors, their projects sell out faster, and the charity events they support raise more money! Selling, for these people, is so thoroughly understood and mastered that it requires no effort and no longer looks like selling.

When the economy crashes, the ‘greats’ may experience small dips in production, but they still prosper, while others lose their jobs. The "greats" don’t have ceilings on their earnings and know that their income depends solely on their ability to get in front of customers. When I was twenty-five years of age, I made the commitment to KNOW everything there was to know about the game of selling. Everyday I read and listened to everything I could absorb regarding selling, persuasion, negotiating and closing.

He who knows what he’s doing and every nuance of his career doesn’t have to get enthusiastic, because he KNOWS. When you know something you no longer have to think about what to do you just do. When you KNOW something completely you can predict outcomes successfully. When you KNOW with certainty you will acquire true confidence. When you KNOW for sure others will agree with you because they see you KNOW.

The only shortage on this planet are people that fully understand how to sell others on their dreams. No dream can become reality without someone selling it to others! Inside lies the secrets that will insure your dreams come true:

"Selling The Secret to Success should be put in the hands of anyone who wants to run a successful company and should be the "Bible" for anyone in sales. This book is amazing YOU HAVE TO READ IT.“ Kerri Kasem, Radio Personality

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Mar 3, 2010

🚢 Big Ships Need Deep Water

"Big ships need deep water, and were not built to stay at port!"

I saw this one statement (above) at the age of 27 years old and it changed my life forever.

I knew I wasn't playing a big enough game and I was no longer challenging myself enough.

I knew I had more potential and I wasn't using it. It also came apparent to me in this life changing moment that in order for me to create the life I wanted everything needed to change!

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I had lived in the same town for 27 years, had the same job, same friends, surrounded by the small thinkers and the same challenges day after day, month after month.

I was no longer growing!

I had reached the top of my game and I WAS NOT SATISFIED!

Life was good compared to most people but I knew there was more for me.

I knew there were bigger fish to catch and that it required me to go out to the deep water where I could be surrounded by bigger think and people that were really challenging themselves- in the deep water with the "big game".

A big ship at dock is typically only at dock to get supplies or be repaired.

Big ships weren't built to sit at the dock or just anchor forever in the same harbor.

Big ships were made to sail just like big people are meant to live big dreams and make big things happen!

You can't make that happen in a harbor tied to a dock.

The people that attend my seminars and purchase my training products are like these big ships.

They are seeking out new information and new ideas in order to reach new levels of production and happiness!

People with big ambitions have to go out where the water is deep to really find big fish and make their big dreams a reality.

You can never do that with the anchor down in the same port with the same buddies, the same customers, the same kind of think and the same actions.

It requires a different action and a different think, it requires that you leave the dock in search of deep waters and big fish!

This idea of deep water can have many meanings for different people.

It could be anything:
• Seeking out new customers
• Going to workshops
• Joining a new community action
• Becoming a member at a country club
• Moving to a more expensive neighborhood that you think you can't afford

Anything else that you have wanted to do and are a bit scared to do!

If it doesn't scare you then you are already comfortable which means safe harbors.

Go where you FEAR! Pull up anchor, toss the limited thinking overboard, open up the engines and go to full throttle in the directions of your dreams, your goals, and your ambitions.

Go find deep water and really challenge yourself.

When you do this you will be forced to "up" your game, learn more and do more in order to survive!

I would bet that more people drown in bath tubs each year than drown in the ocean.

Personally, if I am going to drown,  I want it to be in deep water~ at least I have a chance of catching big fish and living a full life!

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Mar 3, 2010

Neither the next President of the US or the price of gasoline will have anything to do with whether you create success for yourself. If you are waiting for the right president or the oil companies to insure your future you will be disappointed.
While I have my preferences as to who becomes President and would like to see gasoline prices lower, I refuse to let either threaten my survival and have a plan to make sure it does not!
That plan includes the following steps( taken from The Rules of Success):
1) Stay positive.
2) Take only those actions that forward my goals.
3) Stay focused on my goals and disregard the distractions.
4) Stay with those actions regardless of the outcomes until I get what I win!
These four steps when adhered to exactly will insure that a person is successful regardless of who is President of the US or the cost of gasoline.  Each of these steps are critical but the first one is senior to the others.  Each step requires that you financially invest in them not just decide on them!  

The first most important thing is to load your mind up with positive information (daily) no differently than you feed yourself or put fuel in your car.  Write the answer to these questions down- how much did you spend last month on:  
a) food for your body? 
b) fuel for your car?
c) on having a positive attitude and your mental conditioning? 

Your answer by itself will demonstrate why you may have trouble staying focused on what you want, where you are going and then staying with it (2,3,& 4 above)! 

People waste time and money on coffee, cigarettes,  concert tickets, ball games, movies, and fixing their car but when it comes to investing in their minds and their attitudes they don't make the necessary investments.  If the brakes on your car went out you would take your car to the shop? Of course you would.  Trust me, you need your mind more than you need a brakes on your car! Your mind can take you anywhere you want to go when its it great condition! And when it is perfectly tuned you won't get the brakes fixed you will be able to trade the car in for a new one!  Your mind and attitude are the engine, transmission and the drive shaft! Get it right first thing everyday and the rest becomes possible! 

Successful people KNOW that they have to invest in their mental conditioning in order to make their dreams and goals a reality.  Get the first point in today so that you can do the other three steps and create the success you want!   

Call 800-368-5771 and we can tell you the best way to get your attitude right and for those who really want to go on an adventure ask about how to go all the way and permanently eliminate all negativity forever! It is possible!

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Mar 3, 2010

The television, the radio and the economist continue to report how much is wrong with the American Economy and then viewers and listeners go into agreement with the reports and make the bad news reported become reality for themselves. I have been through about nine of these so called pullbacks over my life-time and have survived every one of them! Here is some data you need:

Recession is defined as a temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in production over two successive quarters.

If you don't personally have a temporary decline or fall in production it means you would not have a recession. RECESSIONS ARE FOR ECONOMIES NOT FOR INDIVIDUALS.

A recession does not mean every individual need participate or that YOU personally have to be impacted. I personally have no intention of being involved in this reported bad news and I refuse to participate with any and all economic declines, pullbacks or shrinkage of any sort. You don't have to participate either if you don't choose to! But in order not to participate you must act differently from the masses of people and do whatever is necessary not to have a decline or fall in your production.

Just remember, what happens to "all people" or even "most people" does not mean it has to happen to you. Just because John and Bob get in a fight at the local bar on Friday night does not mean you have to wake up with a black eye on Saturday morning.

Here is a trick I use to insure I don't participate with pull backs! Look around at what most people are doing and don't do what they do. Those that are affected by recessions actually make it happen to themselves because their actions support that which they hear reported by the media. Disagree with the bad news and know that only your actions not the media can affect you! Then do everything each DAY to make sure you don't participate in the BS news. This is what I do:
1) Focus on exact actions I take daily to expand.
2) Do everything possible to keep my attitude positive daily.
3) Push as hard as possible to get results day to prove the media wrong!
4) Increase my personal training daily.

Don't shrink now, expand! Don't spend less money now, spend more! Don't start putting in budgets now, invest money and expand! Don't agree with bad news, disagree by your actions!

Now is a great opportunity for the strong to get stronger while the weak and undisciplined disappear.

Remember Recessions are for Economies not for Individuals.

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Mar 3, 2010

Selling the Secret to Success has been covered by MSNBC, REUTERS, FORBES, MONEY, CNN, MORNINGSTAR, EURO INVESTOR, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER AND MANY MORE.

Some are saying that Selling the Secret to Success, is the first book in 50 years to offer fresh new ideas and approaches for handling the art of sales!

One CEO read three chapters and ordered 100 copies of the book for his clients to read. Another entrepreneur read half the book and ordered 1000 books for troops
returning from Iraq.   700 people including celebrities, ceo's, artist, bankers, lawyers, automobile conglomerates, and others turned out for Grant Cardone's Book Launch party.

The Hollywood Sentinel Book Review said, "I have read many self help books, and a number of them on selling. But none have given me, in under 200 pages, what this one has. Mr. Cardone gives us in a no frills, high speed manner, his brilliant method to reach total success." Bruce Edwin, Publisher Hollywood Sentinel

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"I just finished reading, Selling the Secret to Success and it is the single best book on Selling I have ever read and I have read them all." MH

"After reading just three chapters I ordered 100 books for my clients." HJ

"This book is easy to read and amazing, full of exact actions I can take to expand my business." RB

"The first new ideas on selling in fifty years. Cardone is the next Tony Robbins, Dale Carnegie and Zig Ziglar all in one." CW

"I didn't think this book applied to me and was I wrong. Amazing what it revealed to me and already it has increased my production." JB

"Grant Cardone will become the next Zig Ziglar with this one book." EF

"I am making sure everyone of my department heads read this book and then all one thousand of my employees." HT

"After reading just one chapter I booked a job I have been trying to get for months." KK

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Why is Grant Cardone's new book on Selling- Selling Out?
What is causing all the interest in this book?
What is in it that is causing people to compare the author to Zig Ziglar and Dale Carnegie.
Why are company executives buying as many as 100 books at a time to train their entire company.
One Florida CEO ordered one hundred books after only reading three chapters and then continued reading
and later ordered 1000 more.
Why are some saying that this book is the first new thing written on sales in forty or fifty years?
The author was asked at a book release party where over seven hundred people has RSVP for the launch why a book
on Selling was important at this time. Cardone says, "No Dream can ever be realized without someone selling someone else
on making that dream come true! Without a complete understanding of SELLING a person will never truly create success for them self or their company."

Selling the Secret to Success is getting international press- CLICK ON LINKS FOR ARTICLES: MARKETWIRE, MSNBC and REUTERS.

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"In just the last three weeks I have received calls and or visits by wealthy real estate investors from Australia, Switzerland, Portugal, London and the Middle East stating to me and I quote, 'AMERICA IS ON SALE!' These individuals are aggressively seeking to buy up as much of America as they can in the current pull-back, with one group wanting to purchase 200 million dollars in the USA", says Cardone in a recent interview.

Over the last eighteen years, real estate developer and motivational speaker Grant Cardone has been able to accurately predict real estate markets. While others are trying to sell their properties he has just recently acquired almost eighty million dollars worth of assets in California alone. This included shopping centers, apartments and an oceanfront La Jolla Development.

Mr. Cardone has a proven record of great timing starting in the early 1990's when he bought 500 apartments in southern California at which time no one was buying and the banks were so gun shy after the savings and loan bailout that it was difficult to get a loan. "When the banks are reluctant is when you should be buying, and when they are giving money away, you should be reluctant", says Cardone. His good timing doesn't appear to be a fluke as he avoided the recent severe pullback in California by selling 90% of his portfolio in 2004 and purchased almost 2000 apts in Tucson, Az in a short three-day period after only one visit! "I am a contrarian investor and we move very fast! The masses go to slaughter so we avoid the actions that become wildly popular and then insure that we and our investors avoid the slaughters."

As of April 2007, Cardone sold his Tucson portfolio and against mass agreement circled back to purchase Southern California while others were avoiding it.

"America is a bargain today and the Americans can not see it. American builders, investors and lenders are all looking in the rear view mirror rather than toward the future and the values of tomorrow. They were either hurt by the recent pull back and are now gun-shy or their cash is tied up in deals they can't get out of or lastly, they have lost their banking relationships and are not able to make new acquisitions. Investors from outside the country see this as their opportunity to purchase American real estate. I had one investor state to me, "American Real Estate is a bargain for us!"

Cardone says, "Those with the courage to purchase now will take advantage of three things that will insure their investments work: 1) the devaluation of the dollar alone will make for as much as a 25% return once the dollar shows any comeback. 2) the significant downward pressure on the real estate values is making for excellent buying opportunities and guys outside the States are able to see it better than Americans. 3) The biggest reason, and the one that is being disregarded by even the most sophisticated real estate people is; due to the amount of negativity and the lack of liquidity in the market there will be restrictions of the creation of new product (inventory) built in the coming years. This will create an under-supply of product that will reveal itself in 2011-2012 in markets where there are barriers to entry. Real estate investors will rewarded with phenomenal upward pricing on existing commercial products like apartments and shopping centers."

Cardone stays focused on a handful of property types and criteria, buying only incredible locations with time horizons of 3-5 years and properties that have some value-ad component. A perfect example was his recent purchase of the world renown Wind and Sea Beach Location in La Jolla, Ca. "I bought this in April and was shocked why local San Diego investors hadn't scooped up this incredible one of a kind location."

Mr. Cardone's positive, forward-looking attitude can't be hurt by that fact that he is an international motivational speaker and Sales Guru long before ever getting involved in real estate. For twenty years he has traveled the globe teaching others how to make the most of their careers. He is also the author of "Selling the Secret to Success", which is being released on April 12th at a book release party at his home in Los Angeles where over four hundred very connected and well to do people, including CEO's, Real Estate Developers, Celebrities, and even Royalty will be in attendance.

Cardone says in his book, "windshields are six feet wide and rear view mirrors are six inches wide and there is a reason why. Opportunities come from the future not from the past."

See Cardone' article on "ITS AMERICA" If what he is saying is true, will America be bought by the Middle East oil money or the Aussies? Either way it appears that Mr. Cardone plans on owning as much of America as he can before that happens!





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