Make a Note

Or, What I Learned from Jack Canfield and Ted Nicholas

                            by Dr. Joe Vitale
                            www.MrFire.com

    I spoke at a seminar in San Antonio, Texas a
few months ago. Ted Nicholas was in the audience.
Ted is a legend; a direct marketing king and a
copywriter of the highest order. But he sat and did
something unusual at the event: He took notes.

    I found this fascinating. Why would one of the
wisest and eldest recognized fathers of modern
direct marketing sit and take notes at my talk?
And he didn't take notes only while I was speaking.
He took notes while every speaker gave his or
her presentation.

    Why was that?

    A few weeks ago I gave a talk at an event in
Las Vegas. Jack Canfield was in the crowd.
He's the legend behind the "Chicken Soup" line
of books. As far as I'm concerned, he's a mega
success and most of us should be sitting at his
feet. But what was Jack doing as I and the other
speakers gave our talks?

    Yep. Taking notes.

    When I was in Chicago recently, a well known
marketer came up to me and said he just bought
my program at www.HypnoticMarketingStrategy.com
I was impressed. I figured he already knew all there
was about marketing. In fact, I've bought his stuff
in the past to learn from him!

    What's going on here?

    Why are all these already successful people
still buying how-to information and takes notes at
seminars?

    I think this is a trait of success. If you want
to get ahead, to achieve your dreams, to lift
the bar on past and future successes, then you
need to be always learning, growing, thinking,
and expanding.

    When you're at an event, take notes.

    When you're reading books, take notes.

    Even though I have my own mentoring program at
http://www.joe-vitale-executive-mentoring.com/info.html
where others pay a lot of money to learn my
marketing methods, I still read, study, learn and
grow. I spend what some may consider a fortune
on books. I have this desire to know more, and this
realization that I'll never know it all. So I keep reading,
and I keep taking notes.

    One thing note taking does is reinforce
what you are learning. It also makes it more
permanent. It's easy to forget what you think
you'll always remember. Don't trust your memory.
Write it down. And later, review what you wrote.

    If it's good enough for Ted Nicholas and
Jack Canfield and others, it ought to be good
enough for you, too.

    Make a note.

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Dr. Joe Vitale is the author of way too many books
to list here. His latest title is "The Attractor Factor:
5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or anything else)
From the Inside Out." Get details at http://www.MrFire.com
His Executive Mentoring Program is described at
http://www.joe-vitale-executive-mentoring.com/info.html

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