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SUCCESS magazine - 1 Million Copies Sold!

FOR RELEASE: March 4, 2008   
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SUCCESS MAGAZINE RELAUNCHES
WITH 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD!
One of the largest rollouts in publishing history

DALLAS Texas— With its nationwide debut on March 4, 2008, the new SUCCESS magazine will launch as one of the largest magazine rollouts in publishing history with more than 1 million copies having been presold and more than 50,000 being distributed nationally on the newsstand.

The successful launch response is indication that the magazine is timed perfectly for a nationwide demographic seeking a reliable personal-development resource.

SUCCESS serves the growing entrepreneur and small-business markets. “In today’s fast paced and ever-changing global marketplace entrepreneurs and small-business owners have to be constantly learning, growing and improving to be successful,” said Darren Hardy, publisher/editorial director of SUCCESS. “SUCCESS magazine delivers the leading personal-development thought leaders and profiles of today’s extraordinary achievers with a window into their personal success philosophies and strategies. SUCCESS is where motivated business people can get the competitive advantage in life – both personally and professionally.”

The parent company of SUCCESS Media, which publishes SUCCESS, is VideoPlus, a marketing and communications company supporting the direct selling industry. In anticipation of the all-new SUCCESS release, many of VideoPlus’ clients enthusiastically promoted the magazine, which additionally helped create this extraordinary success.

“We’re very fortunate to have strong relationships in the direct selling industry that extend over 20 years,” said Stuart Johnson, President and CEO of VideoPlus. “Those same clients, who are now our corporate marketing partners, know that the principles of personal development help fuel success among their associates. SUCCESS magazine is an excellent tool to help organizations teach new skills, improve success habits and keep their teams motivated.”

This pre-eminent personal achievement magazine will be initially published bimonthly, then SUCCESS will increase its frequency to monthly in September 2008.

The first issue will carry advertising from Capital One, Neat Receipts, 1&1 Hosting, Hilton, QuickBooks and others.

SUCCESS will host an official launch event, the SUCCESS Symposium, to a sold-out audience of 1,200 people on February 23, 2008 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. The event will feature first issue cover profiles Robert and Kim Kiyosaki along with leading personal development experts Jim Rohn, John Maxwell, John Addison and Ron White.

SUCCESS Media also recently acquired the domain SUCCESS.com which will be the home of the SUCCESS magazine Web site.

About SUCCESS Magazine
SUCCESS is designed specifically to serve the growing entrepreneurial and small-business markets. SUCCESS features personal-development thought leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs and other achievers who offer practical advice, ideas, tips and training on leadership, goal attainment, time management, selling, motivation and more. Bound into every issue is also a free DualDisc™ (CD & DVD in one) featuring exclusive compilations of success training from leading personal-achievement experts. SUCCESS retails for $5.95 and is distributed nationally with sales of the first issue being in excess of 1 million copies. Visit www.SUCCESS.com for more information.

Launch of SUCCESS - Everything

At the launch of SUCCESS Symposium was the launch of...

SUCCESS magazine, SUCCESS Foundation, SUCCESS.com and SUCCESS Books

Featuring Robert & Kim Kiyosaki, John Maxwell, Denis Waitely, Ron White and John Addison... and a sold-out crowd of 1,400 enthusiastic success-minded achievers!

You won't want to miss the next one! www.yoursuccessstore.com/symposium

SUCCESS: Defining Moments

Have you seen the inspirational movie we produced for SUCCESS magazine?

Go here to watch: www.SUCCESS.com/definingmoments

All-new SUCCESS magazine launching soon too! www.SUCCESS.com 

Where Have I Been??

First of all, THANK YOU...

Thank you for the tremendous number of inquiries asking for updates to "The Pulse" and how much you have enjoyed past issues. I appreciate your comments very much.

Here is where I have been...

I am now the Publisher and Editorial Director to SUCCESS magazine - the iconic publication which has profiled the extraordinary achievers of our time for over a 100 years. Previous people who have sat in this chair as Publisher/Editor before me include Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone and Og Mandino so it is an honor for sure. 

We are completely redesigning and upgrading the quality, image and depth of the magazine - creative design, photography, editorial and end product look and feel. The objective is to return the publication to its roots as the preeminent and premier personal development magazine – “What Achievers Read”.

We will also make quite a stir in the publication world as we will be marrying what some call “old media” with a very progressive “new media” web platform which will allow users to engage WITH the magazine AND with each other. Lots more to share here... but for a later time - VERY exciting stuff instore!! :-) :-)

You can learn more here:
Temporary home page  (Be sure to watch the trailer!)
Press Release and Media Kit
Media Coverage on the new SUCCESS 
Reserve a subscription to SUCCESS HERE

Oh, I also recommend registering for our FREE Seeds of SUCCESS weekly ezine - practical and applicable tips, ideas, tactics and strategies on being more successful in business, with your money, in your relationships, your well-being and helping you find and follow your passion. Go here

More information to follow (and a new blog design too!).

Successfully Yours,

Darren Hardy

Hey, Hey It’s TAX Day!!

Paying taxes SUCKS!

OK, now that out of my system, I can go back to how Mr. Rohn has taught me to be a “happy tax payer”.

"You have to feed the goose that lays the golden eggs. Sure, sometimes the goose eats too much. But better a fat goose than no goose at all." ~Jim Rohn

I have to remember that my high tax bill is a reflection of my high achieving year. Taxes are always a percentage (a HIGHER percentage than I prefer although!) of what you made. America (the free world, no matter where you live) gives us this great opportunity to become all that we want and earn all that can and these taxes are our tithing for that great privilege.

Does it sound like I am trying to convince myself as I write this? Yes, I am… and I’m not convinced.

Paying taxes SUCKS!

;-)

I am sure the scorn will wear off in a few days, for now the ink on the check is still wet and my pain still poignant.

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Life - Too Short, Too Long or Long Enough?

“Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Click Here to See Dr. King’s Life and Death Recalled in Images

From 1929 to 1968 is only 39 short years.

Too short to gather the fruits of your labor
Too short to comfort your parents when your brother drowns
Too short to comfort your father when mother dies
Too short to see your children finish school
Too short to ever enjoy grandchildren
Too short to know retirement
Thirty-nine years is just too short.

From 1929 to 1968 is only 39 short years, yet it's

Too long to be crippled by the manacles of segregation and
the chains of discrimination, it's
Too long to stand in the quicksand of racial injustices,
it's
Too long to receive threatening phone calls, often at the
rate of forty per day, it's
Too long to live under the sweltering heat of continuous
pressure, it's
Too long, 39 years is just too long.
From 1929 to 1968 is only 39 short years, yet it's

From 1929 to 1968 is only 39 short years, yet it's

It's long enough to journey all the way to

India

to learn
under a great teacher how to walk through angry crowds and
keep cool.
It's long enough to be chased by police dogs and lashed by
the rushing waters from the fireman's hoses because you are
dramatizing the fact that justice has a way of eluding me
and my brother.
It's long enough to spend many days in jail while
protesting the plight of others.
It's long enough to have a bomb thrown into your home.
It's long enough to teach angry violent men to be still
while you pray for the bombers.

It's long enough.
It's long enough to know it's better to go to war for
justice than to live in peace with injustices.
It's long enough to know that more appalling than bigotry
and hatred are those who sit still and watch injustices each
day in silence.
It's long enough to realize that injustices are
undiscriminating and people of all races and creeds
experience its cruel captivity sooner or later.

It's long enough.
It's long enough to know that when one uses civil
disobedience for his civil rights, he does not break the
laws of the Constitution of the United States of America -
rather he seeks to uphold the principles all men are created
equal; he seeks to break down local ordinances that have
already broken the laws of the Constitution of the United
States.

It's long enough.
It's long enough to accept invitations to speak to the
nation's leaders.
It's long enough to address thousands of people on
hundreds of different occasions.
It's long enough to lead 200,000 people to the nation's
capital to dramatize that all of

America

's people are heirs
to the property of rights to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.

It's long enough to enter college at 15.
It's long enough to finish and earn several degrees.
It's long enough to earn hundreds of awards.
It's long enough to marry and father four children.
It's long enough to become a drum major for peace.
It's long enough to earn a Nobel Peace Prize.
It's long enough to give the $54,000 prize money to the
cause of justice.

It's long enough to visit the mountain top. It's certainly
long enough to have a dream.

When we note how much Martin Luther King packed into 39
short years, we know it's long enough for any man who loves
his country and his fellow man so much that life itself has
no value - unless all men can sit at the table of
brotherhood as brothers. Thirty-nine years is long enough -
for any man to knowingly flirt with death each day of his
life - because to spare himself heartaches and sorrow meant
two steps backward for his brother tomorrow.

Martin lived for several centuries, all rolled into 39
short years. His memory will live forever. How wonderful it
would be if we could all live as well.

Martin, like all others, would have welcomed longevity -
yet when he weighed the facts, he said, "It's not how long a
man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him."

And so we salute and honor the memory of a man who lived
in the confusion of injustice for all his too short, too
long, long enough 39 years- "For He's Free At Last."

Happy New Year!!

2007
THIS is it!
The first day... of your Best Year EVER!

Welcome.

Merry Christmas

Beware of the Grinch

(an adaptation by Denis Waitley of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas)

Now's the time you should hear this! For very good reason!
Now, please don't ask why. It's not simply the season.
Sooner or later the Grinch will invite you
To give up your life's goal as something you can't do.

It could be his head isn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his pants are too tight.
But I think the most likely reason of all
Is that his heart is too cold and his vision too small.

The Grinch is a dream stealer of many disguises.
A friend or relation with depressing surprises.
Just when you feel that your business is booming
He fills you with thoughts that are glooming and dooming.
He whispers about the forthcoming disaster
And about the new plan where you'll get rich much faster

When you say you look forward to earning a million.
He'll scoff and retort: "Not one chance in a billion!"
With a stock market rising and confidence strong
You'd think he'd get real and start going along.
But he howls and he growls with his terrible frown
"Whatever goes up, has got to come down!"

Sometimes the Grinch is quick to appear.
Sometimes he shows up year after year.
But whatever your "Why" and no matter "Who"
The dream stealer, Grinch, will start hitting on You.
He's the fear deep inside that insists you can't sell.
He's the voice that says, "Stop! Things are going too well!"

He especially hates Christmas and the spirit of giving
For he selfishly thinks that by "getting" you're living.
He thinks passionate service is too big a "Why"
And that money's the only incentive to try.
But he's missing the point, and hasn't a clue
That every Who out in Who-ville has a Dream to come true.

Sooner or later all dream stealers find
That they're out in the cold and left far behind.
What they could have or might have or should have possessed
Has now passed them by and left them depressed.

As you sit by the fire and plan the new year
Surrounded by family and friends of good cheer.
Remember the Grinch, with his feet in the snow.”
Standing puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so?"
"It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes or bags!"

"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store."
"Maybe Christmas... Perhaps... means a little bit more!"
It's a spirit to treasure each day and each night
It's the reason the American dream is still burning bright
It's a mission of hope you can trust and believe
"The more that you give, the more you'll receive!"

This week during the Holidays, look for ways to give more!
Denis Waitley

TIME's Person of the Year

Me!

Well… You Too! -- Yes, You -- Are TIME's Person of the Year

In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.

The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.

… look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.

Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

Read the rest of the article: HERE

My personal favorite few Web 2.0 sites and services:

DropShots.com – Family-focused, simple and safe photo and video sharing. Helping people share the joys of life and stay better connected emotionally. (I am an investor and board member of this company)

Wikipedia - A multilingual, Web-based free-content encyclopedia project. The name is a portmanteau of the words wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the Web site.

Digg – The important Web 2.0 capability digg provides is that it successfully harnesses collective intelligence.  All news items listed in digg are supplied by its users which then exert editorial control by clicking on the digg button for each story they like.  The home page lists the most popular current stories, all selected by its registered users.   

Google Maps – My map service of choice. Love the cursor drag function of navigation. Google’s open API has also made it a favorite for many web application mash-ups.

Pandora - Users begin by entering a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that it thinks are musically similar. Users are then able to provide feedback on the individual song choices — approval or disapproval, which the system takes into account for future selections. Over 400 different musical aspects are considered when selecting the next song. Examples of these are rhythm syncopation, key tonality, vocal harmonies and displayed instrumental proficiency.


Google Personal Page – You can personalize Google’s home page and have all your favorite blogs, website updates and news sources all served up on one page.

What are your favorite? Leave your comments: HERE