tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186795732024-03-08T10:37:32.721-08:00Create Your Own 2,000 Percent SolutionsCreate 20 times the results from the same time and effort . . . or obtain the same results from 1/20th the time and effort. You will find excerpts from The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook here to help you.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-33927586365769147722014-11-27T08:15:00.001-08:002014-11-27T08:15:51.665-08:00Two New Books to Help You Accomplish More than a 2,000 Percent Solution<div class="article-content entry-content" itemprop="articleBody">
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The 400 Year Project is pleased to announce the completion of drafting for the companion volume to <i>Excellent Solutions</i>, <i>Excellent Leadership</i>. Dr. Elijah Chingosho, Secretary General of the African Airlines Association, has kindly agreed to author the book's Foreword. <i>Excellent Leadership</i>
will help individuals identify their callings for working on excellent
solutions and prepare them to be highly fruitful in these activities. </span></span></span></b></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> Publication is expected to occur in March 2015. </span></span></span></b></span>The book will be available in paperback and electronic form. </span> </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: blue;">The paperback For-Profit Edition of <i>Excellent Solutions</i> is now available for purchase at Amazon.com, other online book sites, as well as book stores.</span> Here is the ISBN identifier to help you locate the correct edition of the book: </span></b></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;">1499378696. Here is the link for the Amazon.com page:</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;">http://www.amazon.com/Excellent-Solutions--Profit-Greater-Fruitfulness/dp/1499378696/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406598686&sr=1-1</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;">We are
working on a short book trailer for this edition that should be
available soon. I'll add that link to this post as soon as the trailer
is done. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: magenta;">The Nonprofit Edition in paperback and digital versions is also now available on Amazon.com </span>as follows:</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: black;">The ISBN identifier for the nonprofit edition is</span></b></span><b> 978-1493625444</b><b>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Unique, New Book Provides Directions for
Highly Fruitful Solutions to Meet and Upgrade All of Life's Spiritual
and Material Needs by Using Your Currently Available Resources</b></span></div>
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WESTON, Mass., June 10, 2014 /<a href="http://christiannewswire.com/">Christian Newswire</a>/ -- The 400 Year Project founder, Donald W. Mitchell, launches his latest book, <i>Excellent Solutions: How to Apply God's Wisdom for Greater Fruitfulness</i>.
Two versions are available – one for nonprofit organizations and the
other for for-profit companies. The 400 Year Project is a Christian
initiative to increase global fruitfulness by at least 20 times.<br />
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News reports reveal that many people
lack some of the basics for sustaining a healthy and productive life:
clean water, food, medicine, shelter, education, and a job. Some people
who are well supplied with the basics recall times when their own
circumstances were more favorable than now and are discouraged about the
future. Others are concerned that some people seem determined to harm
as many other people as possible and personally live in fear.<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> shows that
there is more than sufficient time, effort, physical resources, and
money available to greatly improve the spiritual, moral, health,
emotional, and physical circumstances of almost everyone on Earth. While
some make that argument based on redistributing what those with more
have to those who have less, <i>Excellent Solutions</i> encourages, instead, upgrading what we all do and how we conduct our lives to provide such benefits.<br />
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Mitchell described the writing
experience as follows: "God through the Holy Spirit provided the
revelations and inspirations that made this book possible. I happily
give Him thanks and gratefully acknowledge that He deserves all the
credit for the remarkable methods He revealed to me. Please join me in
praising Him!"</div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">First Review of <i>Excellent Solutions </i></span></b><br />
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Foreword Clarion Review<br />
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Five Stars (out of Five)<br />
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Mitchell avoids narrow ideas, encourages positive thinking, and sets
large goals to make the biggest possible spiritual and social impact.<br /><br />In
Excellent Solutions: Nonprofit Edition, Donald Mitchell proposes to
prove “that there is more than sufficient time, effort, physical
resources, and money available to greatly improve the spiritual, moral,
health, emotional, and physical circumstances of almost everyone on
Earth.” That is a significant challenge for an author to take on, but
Mitchell’s thorough and optimistic presentation provides a commendable
and thoughtful plan for nonprofit organizations to follow as they strive
to make important and lasting impacts on individuals and society.<br /><br />Mitchell
breaks his process into four stages, each with its own section: “Set
Goals for Excellent Solutions,” “Eliminate ‘Stalled’ Thinking,” “Create
and Implement an Excellent Solution,” and “Create and Implement an
Excellent Solution By Using a Second Method.”<br /><br />“Excellent
solutions” are those that reach beyond simplistic answers and blossom
exponentially into far-reaching, positive actions without significantly
increasing the initial effort. He begins with the<br />essential element
of goal-setting, but as is the case with all thirty-one of his lessons,
Mitchell stresses the need to think in terms of goals that are not
limited by negativity or narrow focus.<br /><br />Mitchell excels at turning
potentially complex ideas into easily understood steps that he
reinforces with biblical passages, personal examples, and engaging
explanations that communicate his points clearly without coming across
as condescendingly simplistic. Rather, his style conveys the feeling of a
favorite uncle teaching a child about important life lessons while
giving constant encouragement. For example, near the end of one teaching
segment, he writes, “When you have finished the five tasks, please
accept my congratulations for having done so much valuable thinking.”<br /><br />Biblical
references and scripture passages abound, and Mitchell craftily uses
them to support his concepts and to emphasize that his plan is
biblically sound. His passion for his Christian principles and his
belief in their ability to change the world, particularly through the
effectiveness and excellent solutions of nonprofits, resonates
throughout his writing. He does not simply want nonprofits to be
successful in secular terms, but also in spiritual matters.<br /><br />Excellent
Solutions is packed with useful and clearly explained information, but
Mitchell adds a creative twist that gives the 450-plus page book some
visually inspiring moments. Before each lesson, he inserts an incredibly
beautiful full-color nature photo by Derrick Z. Jackson. Whether
intentional or not, these brilliant pictures inspire reflection on
creation’s beauty around the world, subtly reinforcing Mitchell’s global
concepts.<br /><br />Mitchell practices what he teaches. He avoids narrow
ideas, encourages positive thinking, and sets large goals to make the
biggest possible spiritual and social impact—precisely what Excellent
Solutions is all about.<br /><br />Jeff Friend<br /><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>Advance Praise for Excellent Solutions</b></span><br />
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What’s
the world coming to? If you follow some form of media news outlet, you
will acknowledge that large portions of the world’s populace expect only
increased difficulty, strife, terror, chaos, and disaster. So many
either join the turmoil or sneak off into some private refuge, content
with their games, distractions, and preoccupations. So much for
positive, purposeful living.<br />
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What I love about Don Mitchell’s approach to life is that anything and
everything good that pertains to human flourishing is within the realm
of reasonable and reachable. But attaining such fruitfulness is not
dependent on Don’s intelligence or methodology or wisdom. Rather, it is
in the nature and character of God, whose love for any and all people is
real and powerful and available. As a result, Don helps us get a handle
on God’s wisdom and helps us translate it into fruitful living.<br />
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This book busts the traps and boxes into which we unwittingly fall prey.
Our thinking and our living are invited to fresh, rich levels of
expression. The “number of our days” may be limited, but the difference
we make and the contribution we offer to the world are unleashed.
Instead of being part of the problem, we can learn from<i> Excellent Solutions </i>how to become increasingly part of the solution, part of God’s good, global solution.<br />
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— Pastor Doug Whallon<br />
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This wonderful book is a comprehensive guide for finding excellent
solutions by applying God’s Wisdom for greater fruitfulness through
upgrading what we all do and how we conduct our lives and thus turn
well-justified hope into huge accomplishments.<br />
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— Dr. Elijah Chingosho, Secretary General, African Airlines Association<br />
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A formidable synthesis of management thought, personal psychology, and
organizational behavior, all informed by Christian beliefs. This
insightful work lays the foundation for truly excellent solutions. Don
Mitchell again points the way to a better personal and organizational
life.<br />
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— Wayne P. Jones, PhD, Executive in Residence, Professor of Marketing, College of Business,<br />
University of Louisville<br />
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The story of doubt and stalled faith told by John, a contemporary of
Jesus, enlightens our understanding of the loving care and creative
power of the TriUnity of God (John 6:1-15). John’s story is situated in a
time in Israel where many thousands of marginalized people sought a
better solution from a rabbi named Jesus. “When Jesus looked out and saw
that a large crowd had arrived, he said to Philip, ‘Where can we buy
bread to feed these people?’ He said this to stretch Philip’s faith. He
already knew what he was going to do.” (MSG). Even if there was enough
bread in the nearest town, there was not enough money to buy bread for
so many people. That would be our stalled thinking. But divine wisdom is
not shackled by limited vision. Five barley loaves and two dried fish
from a little boy would be more than enough. Jesus demonstrates this
creative power of faith in God. This seed of faith (a hopeless resource
for some) possesses an explosive power for regeneration. It generously
feeds the many who seek a better solution in Jesus and graciously leaves
more leftovers<br />
for others.<br />
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Don Mitchell taps the divine seed of power by exploring how heavenly
wisdom is radically different from our own worldly assumptions and then
discovers that hidden in this seed is the power for a new creation.<br />
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— Stephan Earnhart, follower of Jesus serving the needs of a broken humanity, hotelier, and educator<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> unlocks the secrets to living profoundly by
explaining how to tap into your passions and be in sync with what the
Lord wants you to do. By following the roadmap laid out by 2,000 percent
solution guru Don Mitchell, you, too, can experience the more
productive, happier existence that Jesus Christ wants you to enjoy.
Instead of just getting by, you’ll be wonderfully supercharged because
your actions will be aligned with the teachings of Christianity.<br />
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— Ira McCown, investment banker and entrepreneur<br />
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With his customary modesty, Donald Mitchell describes his special gift
from God: “He made me very curious about ways to find more and better
solutions to difficult and painful problems.”<br />
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Readers who have benefited from Mitchell’s previous books would add that
he writes with compelling clarity. Never one to leave a point
unexplained, he elaborates: “Here’s an example,” “Let me spell out what
this may look like,” “Let me give you an example,” and interjects many
other transitions that become road signs toward insight. He keeps
readers captivated and informed through simple illustrations that unlock
profound truths.<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> emerges as his masterpiece on the theme he considers his God-given mission. Definitely, the book’s subtitle — <i>How to Apply God’s Wisdom for Greater Fruitfulness</i> — does morethan challenge readers. The phrase encapsulates what the author has accomplished in this epochal book.<br />
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— Bill Lampton, PhD, President, Championship Communication<br />
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In <i>Excellent Solutions</i>, Donald Mitchell has combined the
knowledge and wisdom of the Bible with the stallbusting principles of
his 2,000 percent solution to arrive at a magnificent work that teaches
us how, through God’s guidance, we can arrive at a sequence of change
and action to produce excellent solutions that will multiply benefits in
our lives and businesses and thereby create greater fruitfulness for
all.<br />
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— Dr. Andreas Stark, professional geophysicist and author<br />
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I’ve known Don Mitchell for at least a decade, and have always personally known and admired the strength of his character.<i> Excellent Solutions </i>presents
a new and expansive vision of Don Mitchell. Those who know him
personally have not been surprised to watch him evolve into one of the
top Christian business minds in America.<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> allows Don to be recognized not only for his
experience as a business leader and forward-thinking problem solver, but
as an ongoing Christian learner who can integrate and implement plans
and actions based upon teachings of the scripture. Through development
of a plan, analysis of what has been done previously, and focus on
creating the best opportunities, Mitchell helps us to look at ourselves
and our approaches to problem solving in ways that allow us to
continually multiply and enhance solutions to challenges we face. I’m
proud to know Don and call him a Christian friend. May his work bless
your life, and the future work you do.<br />
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— Alan Guinn, CEO and Managing Director of The Guinn Consultancy Group, Inc.<br />
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Are we really happy with our life, our family, our business, and our
friends? No matter how successful we are, we are all performing way
below our achievable potential. More happiness and more success are
within reach of all of us but we do not see it, we do not know how; we
are blind and ignorant. Life is beautiful but we have to make it
beautiful.<br />
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If you believe in God, by applying God’s Wisdom you will find answers to
all your problems. God’s Wisdom will open your eyes and your mind and
will help you to achieve exponential success.<br />
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Don Mitchell in his new book, <i>Excellent Solutions</i>, combines with
talent God’s guidance and stallbusting principles. This outstanding
resourceful book will help you to free your life from stalls to find new
strengths to go beyond your expectations.<br />
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— Alain Pierre Mignon, PhD, CEO, PT Fratekindo Jaya Gemilang, and
Chairman of the French-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce & Industry<br />
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Don’s motto in life comes from Luke 12:48: “To whom much is given, much is expected.” His book, <i>Excellent Solutions</i>, is a must read for us all if we are to make a difference in our own lives and the lives of others.<br />
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— Patrick Crowley, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, OMERS<br />
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Don Mitchell is a gifted writer and a brilliant thinker. Therefore it is no surprise that <i>Excellent Solutions</i>
gives readers deep insights into behavior change. Regardless of your
religious beliefs, implementing just one idea from this book will have a
profound impact on your life and the lives of others.<br />
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— Stephen Shapiro, Author, <i>Best Practices Are Stupid</i><br />
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We all limit ourselves from achieving exceptional results. We take on what others desire and fear. Unnecessarily. <i>Excellent Solutions </i>frees you to think for yourself in highly productive ways.<br />
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— Ania Lichota, executive coach and author<br />
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<i>Excellent Solutions</i> takes the reader to a new level of
consciousness about improving their own lot as well as those around
them, and its “how to do it” approach provides the tools.<br />
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Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-50237799277191409602012-06-19T20:30:00.000-07:002012-06-19T20:30:28.604-07:00Track Improvements Daily in How to Create More 2,000 Percent Solutions in The 400 Year Project's New Blog<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="color: #009900;">Good Evening, 2,000 Percent Solution Creator!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Are you feeling motivated this evening?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">I know that I certainly am! </span> </b></div>
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<b>I've recently started a new blog that delivers daily
progress on The 400 Year Project, which supports research to show how to make
breakthroughs in every form of human endeavor, including making more breakthrough solutions. </b><br />
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<b>Be sure to check it out to gain even more information concerning how to create more 2,000 percent solutions at:</b></div>
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<b>Please let me know how I can
help.<span style="color: #009900;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do
in the name of Jesus! </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">With best regards, much appreciation, and all
good wishes,</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Donald W. Mitchell</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Founder, The 400 Year Project and Author of <i>2,000 Percent Living</i><br />
</span></b></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-25619236886650210492012-05-02T08:58:00.000-07:002012-05-02T09:45:03.559-07:00A Universal Method for Quickly Increasing Benefits by Ten Trillion Times<br />
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<span class="down"><b><span style="color: #009900;">Are you feeling motivated today!</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #009900;"> </span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Holy Spirit gave
me an astonishing revelation last evening, a universal method for quickly
increasing benefits by ten trillion times while engaging no more time, money,
assets, effort, and resources from existing sources. Wow! Do we serve a great
God of what? I've been directed to teach this method to those who want to
immediately put it into effect for Godly purposes. Send me a message to
save_more_souls [at] yahoo [dot] com if you are so called. Praise God for His
unlimited knowledge, power, and grace!</b></div>
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let me know how I can help. </b> </div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the
name of Jesus!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good
wishes,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #009900;">Donald W. Mitchell<br />
Founder, The 400 Year Project</span></b></div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-53766260675835908862012-04-11T09:00:00.000-07:002012-04-11T09:01:28.488-07:00Become a Breakthrough Business Consultant on June 2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="down"><b><span style="color:#009900">Dear 2,000 Percent Solution Creator,</span></b></span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#009900"> <span class="down">Are you feeling motivated tonight!</span><br /><br /><span class="down">I pray that you are.</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>I pray that you and your family enjoyed a wonderful Easter!</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Our family's joy was increased by the arrival of a new granddaughter on April 4. What a blessing she is.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>For some time, the Holy Spirit has been nudging me to begin holding classes in the Boston, Massachusetts area. With the imminent publication of <i>Business Basics</i>, it's become clear that this is the right time to be obedient to that direction.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><i>Business Basics</i> addresses how entrepreneurs need to prepare themselves, how to select the right kind of business to start, ways to increase market size by twenty times and to gain market share, reduce costs by 96 percent, and eliminate 96 percent of investments. The result is a business that quickly becomes immensely valuable.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>While many people will be able to use these 52lessons and fast-start guide to create their own successful enterprises, I'm sure that many people will need some help along the way. It will be great to have some breakthrough business consultants available to help them.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Those who attend the course will receive a copy of <i>Business Basics</i>, continental breakfast and lunch, plus a full day of training in how to apply the book's lessons to assist someone who wants to use it as a template for creating a new business.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>The training will be held on Saturday, June 2, 2012, in the Boston, Massachusetts area. The fee for the day is $600 (US). Enrollment is limited on a first-come, first-served basis to those who enroll in advance.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Please contact me for details of the day and how to enroll (askdonitchell [at] yahoo [dot] com). If you have questions, please let meknow. I look forward to meeting you then.</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Please let me know how I can help.</b> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900">With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#009900">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Founder, The 400 Year Project</span></b></p>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-90000067850696261362011-06-25T18:30:00.000-07:002011-06-25T18:36:34.413-07:00Read Faster and Remember Much More<span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span class=" down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dear </span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2,000 Percent Solution Creator,<br /><br />Are you feeling motivated tonight!<br /><br />I pray that you are.<br /></span></span></span></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The Boston Center for Adult Education has asked me to teaching reading this summer (read faster and remember more).<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There's no better way to accelerate making 2,000 percent solutions than by becoming and better and faster reader.</span></span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> If you know of anyone who would like to spend two and a half hours improving his or her reading, feel free to send them along.</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Here's the link:</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><a href="http://bostoncae.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=5918&int_category_id=0&int_sub_category_id=0&int_catalog_id=0&bit_url=1" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1309050503_0">http://bostoncae.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=5918&int_category_id=0&int_sub_category_id=0&int_catalog_id=0&bit_url=1</span></span></a></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Here's the course description:</span> </p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><table class="MsoNormalTable" style="font-weight: bold;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes"> <td style="padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt"> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">If you're like most people, you think it's impossible to read faster and still remember what you've read. But the truth is, you <em>can</em>! And we'll show you how. We'll start by teaching you how to stop "speaking" in your head as you read, and how to move faster from one word to the next. You'll then learn to "scan" two words at a time, doubling your current <span style="cursor:pointer" id="lw_1309050503_1"><span class="yshortcuts">reading speed</span></span>. With tips from us, and practice, you'll learn to scan three, four, and even five words in a glance. Over time, you can eventually learn to scan a full line at a time. A paragraph. Or even a full page! </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:130%;">Along the way, we'll provide suggestions for improving your comprehension as well, such as having a purpose in mind as you read; guessing a word's meanings from context rather than interrupting your reading time to look it up; and more. Please bring a book that you haven't read before. Class will include lecturing, some exercises, and <span style="cursor:pointer; background-attachment:scroll;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y: 0%" id="lw_1309050503_2"><span class="yshortcuts">practice time</span></span>.</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:1"> <td style="padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:2"> <td style="padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="cursor:pointer; background-attachment:scroll;background-position-x:0%;background-position-y: 0%" id="lw_1309050503_3"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="yshortcuts">Thursday, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm</span></p></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">; 1 session starting <span class="yshortcuts"><span style="cursor:pointer" id="lw_1309050503_4">July 28, 2011</span></span>, ending July 28, 2011</span> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:3;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes"> <td style="padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="listtextbold">Tuition:</span><span class="listtext"> $42.00</span> <span class="listtextbold">Member Cost:</span><span class="listtext"> $36.00</span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Please let me know how I can help.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" >May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /><br />With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br />Don</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.S. This course could be a great blessing for a student.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.P.S. If you can't make it to Boston for the course, be sure to read Lesson Five of <span style="font-style: italic;">2,000 Percent Living.</span><br /></span></span></p>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-45819557240059487932011-03-08T07:54:00.000-08:002011-03-08T07:58:12.021-08:00A Fruitfulness Call to Pray About During Lent<div class="IEhack"> <div class="release_title"><br /></div> <div class="release_content"> <img src="http://www.christiannewswire.com/images/1299271623.jpg" alt="" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 5px 5px;" width="250" /> WESTON, Mass., March 8, 2011 /<a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/">Christian Newswire</a>/ -- A new Bible-based, Christian nonfiction book, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://helpwantedtutors.blogspot.com/">Help Wanted -- One Million Breakthrough Tutors, Arise!</a> written by Donald Mitchell, describes twelve ways that Christians can become more fruitful for the Lord, Jesus Christ, by helping others learn how to make Godly breakthroughs in obedience to and for Him. The book has been released for Lenten reading as Christians prepare to celebrate Jesus' victory over sin and death on Easter.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Help Wanted</span> assists Christians to provide fruitfulness tutoring concerning Godly breakthroughs for those engaged in witnessing, congregational ministries, Christian nonprofit organizations, universities, secular teaching, youth organizations, foundations, social enterprises, governments, for-profit companies, independent professionals who advise organizations, and those involved in other activities. For those who are called to turn such Godly work into a part- or full-time profession, there's plenty of practical advice.<br /><br />Donald Mitchell, author of <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://2000percentliving.blogspot.com/">2,000 Percent Living</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span> and coauthor of <span style="font-style: italic;">Witnessing Made Easy </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">Ways You Can Witness</span> observed, "Such tutoring allows Christians to become more visible to those who aren't yet saved by shining the Lord's precious light upon His world, and blesses those who are called to tutor as well as those who are served. In sharing this call from the One who I believe to be the Holy Spirit, I'm reminded of and encouraged by what this call could mean for Christians today when I read Moses' proclamation just before the Israelites crossed the Jordan, 'May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!'" (Deuteronomy 1:11 -- NKJV)<br /><br />The book can be purchased in paperback from many online sites, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Help-Wanted-Million-Breakthrough-Tutors/dp/1453822437/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1299180502&sr=1-1">Amazon.com</a>.<br /><br /> Mitchell sponsored a global contest in 2006 and 2007 to locate more fruitful ways to witness that are the basis for the books that he has coauthored about witnessing. He also heads the <a href="http://www.fastforward400.com/">400 Year Project</a> to accelerate improvements in all human endeavors, from spiritual to material, as described in his book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Adventures of an Optimist</span>. He repented his sins and accepted Jesus' free gift of Salvation in 1959, and attends Calvary Chapel in the City, Boston, Massachusetts, where he serves as a deacon.</div> </div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-82390802560499777722010-09-10T13:53:00.000-07:002010-09-10T14:03:30.878-07:00Excerpts from 2,000 Percent Living--2,000 Percent Living Blueprints: Follow These Directions to Achieve More Breathtaking Breakthroughs.For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us,<br />for we were not disorderly among you;<br />nor did we eat anyone’s bread free of charge,<br />but worked with labor and toil night and day,<br />that we might not be a burden to any of you,<br />not because we do not have authority,<br />but to make ourselves an example<br />of how you should follow us.<br /><br />— 2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 (NKJV)<br /><br />After I started writing this book, I visited an exhibition of<br />Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings at MASS MoCA in North<br />Adams, Massachusetts. In case you are unfamiliar with<br />this aspect of the artist’s work, let me explain a little bit<br />about it. Mr. LeWitt found the process of conceptualizing<br />art to be interesting and worthy apart from producing<br />the art, and he liked to draw. As a result, he worked on<br />helping people recreate his drawings on a grand scale<br />without him being present. If you would like to see some<br />of these recreated wall drawings, you can find examples<br />at the MASS MoCA Web site, www.massmoca.org. I also<br />encourage you to visit the exhibition, which will continue<br />until 2033.<br /><br />As I toured the extensive display of wall drawings, I was<br />impressed by examples of the complex plans that Mr.<br />LeWitt (who is now deceased) provided for those who<br />want to render his wall drawings. The details are so<br />thoroughly developed and easy to understand that<br />virtually anyone who can read English can expect to<br />create an excellent wall drawing that will appear as<br />Mr. LeWitt intended. If you are musically inclined,<br />think of these instructions as being similar to the score<br />of a symphony. By playing what the composer wrote on<br />period instruments, you can recreate the music that<br />existed during the composer’s lifetime.<br /><br />A new question occurred to me while I was touring the<br />exhibit: How well would people understand the nuances<br />of how to create 2,000 percent living breakthroughs after<br /> the best current practitioners are no longer available?<br />I imagined that many well-meaning people might<br />misinterpret what has been written on the subject and<br />that, consequently, much effort could go into relatively<br />ineffective activities.<br /><br />Having become aware of the humbling question of how<br />to best serve unborn generations, I immediately began<br />to appreciate that Mr. LeWitt’s instructions could be<br />likened to blueprints. With a good blueprint to make<br />something, any reasonably competent person who<br />knows how to use blueprints can create the desired<br />result.<br /><br />I immediately determined that I would include<br />blueprints for a few of the most important aspects of<br /> 2,000 percent living in an appendix to this book. Those<br />who just want to graze through the concepts of 2,000<br />percent living will get what they want from the fourteen<br />lessons. Those who would like to create many<br />breathtaking breakthroughs can use the blueprints to<br />make progress more quickly.<br /><br />Since providing blueprints is such an obvious idea, you<br />might wonder why I haven’t done previous work of this<br />sort to advance the 400 Year Project (see <span style="font-style: italic;">Adventures of </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">an Optimist</span>). I have certainly toyed with the thought,<br />but I have avoided doing much about it beyond<br />coauthoring <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook</span>. In<br />choosing to be mostly silent about detailed instructions,<br />I was primarily concerned that I not stifle anyone’s<br />creativity. I believed that what I’ve learned and been<br />writing about can be reconceptualized into a simpler and<br />better form. I also hoped that many 2,000 percent<br />solution tutors would soon emerge and that they would<br />develop better blueprints than I could by drawing on<br />their experiences with the process.<br /><br />Over the first fourteen years of the project, I learned<br />something that surprised me: With God’s help I can<br />develop improved breakthrough methods much faster<br />than most people become interested in learning how to<br />use them. That circumstance suggests that I need to<br />focus on making it easier to grasp the importance of<br />using these breakthrough methods and to appreciate how<br />little time and effort can be needed to apply the processes<br />to create remarkable solutions. As a result of my concern<br />about the relatively slow growth in the number of people<br />applying the process, I have decided to become a<br />blueprint maker for you.<br /><br />In thinking about these blueprints, I realize that my task<br />is a little more complicated than Mr. LeWitt’s. What he<br />wanted to enable will still be literally relevant centuries<br />from now. What I am describing should be improved over<br />time as new resources, knowledge, and skills emerge.<br />Therefore, I need to write the blueprints to allow for<br />those advances to be incorporated into future solutions.<br />I’ll do my best to project potential advances in methods<br />by imagining some possibilities so that your application<br />of the blueprints will be more likely to benefit from any<br />fundamental improvements. I’ll also make this<br />information more relevant for the future by grounding<br />my writing as much as possible in circumstances that<br />are likely to remain similar to today.<br /><br />Let’s get started by looking at the first blueprint: the<br />principles behind identifying ideal practices.<br /><br />You will also find blueprints for being a breakthrough<br />leader and a breakthrough follower on my other blogs:<br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire and Create a<br />Billion Dollar Business.<br /><br />Copyright 2010, Donald W. Mitchell. All Rights Reserved.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-64984432531306312822010-09-10T13:49:00.000-07:002010-09-10T13:52:55.908-07:00Ideal Practice Identification Blueprint from 2,000 Percent Living“Therefore you shall be perfect,<br />just as your Father in heaven is perfect.”<br /><br />— Matthew 5:48 (NKJV)<br /><br />This verse from Matthew isn’t familiar to many<br />Christians. Even those who know the verse are often<br />reluctant to take the words at face value. Based on<br />thinking about what I have observed, I realized that<br />many things individuals and groups do are conducted<br />almost perfectly on a routine basis. Most people fail to<br />realize that important point: God has provided each of us<br />with living examples of how to perfect what we do<br />individually and through cooperating with others. When<br />you understand more of the reasons why these successes<br />occur and apply them in Godly ways to your situation,<br />there will be few limits to what you can accomplish with<br />His direction and support.<br /><br />The purpose of this blueprint is to help you to identify<br />many examples of near perfection in individual and group<br />performance, to extract principles that explain the high<br />performance, and to apply those principles to improve an<br />individual or group activity by performing steps five, six,<br />and seven of the 2,000 percent solution process. (See<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Solution Workbook</span>.)<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-66076247262494810042010-09-10T13:39:00.000-07:002010-09-10T13:49:37.724-07:00Step One: Identify at Least Fifty Examples of Perfect or Near-Perfect Individual Performance by AdultsNow all these things happened to them as examples,<br />and they were written for our admonition, ….<br /><br />— 1 Corinthians 10:11 (NKJV)<br /><br />You will learn more about creating 2,000 percent<br />solutions by developing your own examples, but I list<br />fifty instances here of adults taking near-perfect action<br />in many different aspects of life to provide a starting<br />point. In addition, these examples are intended to open<br />your mind to what you have already observed: that<br />instances of individual perfection and near perfection in<br />adult performance are common.<br /><br />Consider the following:<br /><br />• Breathing (Few healthy people who can find enough<br /> fresh air stop breathing on their own.)<br />• Cashing or depositing a paycheck (Few people who<br />aren’t in a coma fail to learn how or forget to do so.)<br />• Refueling a working vehicle (Few people permanently<br /> abandon a vehicle after it runs out of fuel.)<br />• Sending an invoice for work done (Few people forget<br />to seek payment for tasks performed to earn money.)<br />• Opening birthday presents (Many people even open<br />them secretly in advance.)<br /><br />• Drinking enough liquids to avoid death from<br />dehydration (If potable fluids are available, those who<br />can reach and swallow them will drink what they need.)<br />• Asking for raises in pay (Few employed people will not<br />ask for an increase if one hasn’t occurred in the prior<br />three years and no contract prohibits it.)<br />• Changing a flat tire or finding someone to do so (Few<br />people permanently abandon an otherwise working<br />vehicle after it has a flat tire, even if they cannot change<br />the tire themselves.)<br />• Filing a tax return to obtain the refund of a significant<br />overpayment (People who don’t know what to do will<br />find someone who can help them.)<br />• Replacing clothing that is falling apart rather than go<br />naked (Very few poor people don’t have access to<br />replacement clothing that they can afford or obtain for<br />free.)<br /><br />• Getting into a home after accidentally locking oneself<br />out (Few people become homeless following such a<br />mishap.)<br />• Learning to walk (Few people who are not disabled<br />from a young age fail to learn to walk.)<br />• Eating (Few healthy people without mental problems<br />fail to master how to take in food.)<br />• Smiling (Few people who aren’t paralyzed or do not<br />have autism fail to learn to smile.)<br />• Singing (Almost everyone who is not mute can make<br />musical sounds with their voices, although the<br />attractiveness of their singing varies a lot.)<br /><br />• Drawing (Most people who can hold a pencil, crayon,<br />or stick will be able to sketch something that is<br />recognizable either on paper or in the dirt.)<br />• Communicating to others (Most people primarily<br />rely on their voices; others use sign language or<br />writing.)<br />• Sleeping (Hardly anyone fails to get some sleep<br />each week.)<br />• Learning (Almost everyone can learn something.)<br />• Telling the difference between day and night (Blind<br />people can use senses other than sight to notice shifts<br /> in temperature and sounds associated with the sun’s<br />presence or absence.)<br /><br />• Spending money (Almost everyone, even those with<br />modest mental capacities, can usually appreciate that<br />money can be exchanged for something they want.)<br />• Resting when tired (Few people deliberately keep busy<br />until so exhausted that they have to be hospitalized.)<br />• Hugging people (Only the armless find this to be<br />challenging.)<br />• Blowing out birthday candles (Few people who aren’t<br />on respirators lack enough coordination and lung capacity<br />to do this.)<br />• Opening an unlocked door (Almost everyone without<br />major physical limitations can operate a door’s<br />mechanism.)<br /><br />• Recognizing family members (Until dementia occurs,<br /> people are very likely to recognize family members by<br />sight, touch, sound, and smell.)<br />• Telling the difference between an onion and an apple<br />(Although the shapes and sizes are somewhat similar,<br />other characteristics make accurate identification hard<br />to avoid.)<br />• Getting someone’s attention (Even those who don’t<br />know how to do this pleasantly will eventually make<br />enough of a fuss to attract someone who wants to quiet<br />them.)<br />• Dreaming while sleeping (Hardly anyone reports<br />never having had dreams.)<br />• Sitting (Few remain standing or lying down if they are<br />physically capable of sitting and want to do so.)<br /><br />• Recognizing their names (People who cannot read will<br /> usually master what their names looks like, how they<br />appear by touch in Braille for the blind, or what they<br />sound like.)<br />• Petting small friendly animals (Almost everyone enjoys<br />the experience and with practice learns to touch animals<br />in a gentle, pleasant way that animals respond positively<br />to.)<br />• Drawing away from something that’s burning them<br />(Most of those with a reduced sense of feel will<br />eventually smell that their flesh is being charred.)<br />• Moving away from something that smells bad (It<br />doesn’t take much of a foul odor to cause us to shift<br />locations.)<br />• Kissing others (Some do this better than others.)<br /><br />• Seeking out others (Most people are interested in<br />talking to and doing things with other people, and almost<br />everyone will look for help on occasion.)<br />• Moving away from danger (If you watch videos of<br />people in a dangerous situation, you see almost all those<br />who aren’t trained to save others heading toward a<br />safer location.)<br />• Remembering who has been kind to them (People<br />hope to bump into them again so the experience can<br /> recur.)<br />• Telling the difference between a rock and an animal<br />(A few animals appear to be a little like rocks, but closer<br />inspection usually reveals the answer when movement<br />occurs or does not occur.)<br />• Remembering that chocolate tastes good (Nothing more<br />need be said on this subject.)<br /><br />• Requesting help when in danger (It may only be<br />frantic waving, but the signal will be unmistakable.)<br />• Avoiding what a person has good reason to be<br />physically afraid of (Few people other than highly<br />trained scientists and their assistants seek to be near<br />alligators, coral snakes, and black mambas because of<br />their reputations for harming people.)<br />• Remembering happy occasions with pleasure (Just<br />thinking about such events makes people feel better.)<br />• Helping people who have helped them (The sense of<br />obligation makes people feel uncomfortable until they<br />reciprocate.)<br />• Laughing while looking at monkeys (These little<br />creatures can tickle our fancies more than many of the<br />best comedians.)<br /><br />• Putting on more clothes when it gets cold (Only those<br />who cannot find more clothes won’t do this.)<br />• Screaming when startled (Jump out from where you<br />cannot be seen, shout “boo” from behind someone<br />standing in a dark place, and listen to the evidence.)<br />• Picking up untended hundred dollar bills lying in front<br /> of them (This can be an expensive experiment to<br />conduct, but some robbers have provided evidence by<br />tossing money into the air in hopes of slowing down the<br />police by attracting money grabbers.)<br />• Remembering where they live (Except for those with<br />amnesia, people get back home eventually.)<br />• Looking up while fireworks are exploding in the air<br />(Sighted people will be drawn by the bright colors, but<br />even blind people will be drawn by the sound.)<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-83480629810996297862010-09-10T13:30:00.000-07:002010-09-10T13:38:13.124-07:00Step Two: Identify Reasons for Perfect or Near-Perfect Individual Adult Performance“Here is what I have found,” says the Preacher,<br />“Adding one thing to the other to find out the reason, ….”<br /><br />— Ecclesiastes 7:27 (NKJV)<br /><br />Many people feel incapable of answering questions about<br />the reasons for certain behaviors. They quite accurately<br />perceive that they are not scientists, nor are they<br />particularly familiar with scientific research.<br /><br />When called on to explain observed behavior, even those<br />with some ideas don’t want to be embarrassed by<br />someone who knows more than they do. As a result,<br />many people will just sit quietly hoping the questioner<br />will change the subject rather than reply as best they<br />can.<br /><br />Relax. Scientific explanations are not what you need to<br />appreciate the sources of perfection and near perfection.<br />You simply need to identify the predictable patterns that<br />underlie examples of individual perfect and near-perfect<br />behavior. If you can apply common sense to<br />understanding why you do what you do that’s perfect or<br /> near perfect, you will supply helpful answers that you<br />can apply to improving performance in other<br />circumstances.<br /><br />Let me help you get started by providing some reasons<br />for individual adult perfect and near-perfect behaviors,<br />while I leave you the fun of identifying even more<br />sophisticated and original explanations:<br /><br />• Natural instincts (Before they are born, babies can been<br />seen sucking their thumbs in sonograms; and few babies<br />fail to learn to suck … the most efficient way for<br />newborns to obtain milk from their mothers or a bottle;<br />as a result, we shouldn’t be surprised to see that adults<br />can suck liquids through straws.)<br />• Reflex reactions (Few can resist either kicking out a<br />foot after being tapped on the knee with a rubber<br />hammer by a physician or giggling after being tickled.)<br />• Conscious awareness that is focused by some physical<br />needs until you act (Urgent needs to excrete and urinate<br />will concentrate your attention on finding a bathroom or<br />a private place to perform these bodily functions.)<br />• Dislike (Most people avoid what’s unpleasant, such as<br />the odor from a skunk’s scent gland.)<br />• Comfort (You can stand in the driving rain unprotected<br />while holding your closed umbrella, or you can open and<br />stand under it and not get so wet.)<br /><br />• Emotional gratification gained through your action<br />(Throwing out your arms while greeting someone will<br />almost always lead to a heart-warming hug.)<br />• Avoiding embarrassment (A man whose pants aren’t<br />zipped will almost always take care of the oversight as<br />soon as he realizes his circumstance.)<br />• Being guided by the crowd (If you see people looking<br />up, you’ll feel an irresistible urge to look up, too.)<br />• Desire (Few men will look away from and ignore an<br />attractive woman who is determinedly trying to get<br />their attention while not wearing very many clothes.)<br />• Enjoyment (Most people are drawn to performing a<br />favorite activity that’s fun such as moving in rhythm<br />to favorite music.)<br /><br />• Economic self-interest very obviously favors taking<br />action (You will be much worse off if you don’t take the<br />action, such as when you have an unredeemed winning<br />lottery ticket … you won’t get paid unless you turn it in.)<br />• Seeking social connections (Behaving well when first<br />meeting people will help to make a better first<br />impression.)<br />• Wanting safety (Learning to perform certain activities<br />can make you more secure, such as those living in a home<br />surrounded by nearby water learning to swim.)<br />• Avoiding inconvenience (If there are two checkout<br />lines in a store, people will either go into the shorter one<br />or the one that is moving much faster.)<br />• Perceiving that overwhelming advantages of many<br />kinds favor the action (An example of such a choice is<br />deciding to live in a building rather than in a cave.)<br /><br />I encourage you to add to the list. Doing so will deepen<br />your understanding of what the most powerful human<br />motivators are. I particularly encourage you to think<br />about the last category that I listed: overwhelming<br />advantages of many kinds favor the action. That<br />behavioral motivation is the key concept for structuring<br />situations so that individual adults will perform<br />something perfectly or almost perfectly.<br /><br />Some people may react negatively to thinking about<br />human motivation, imagining that applying such<br />information is always manipulative and unethical.<br />Before dismissing the appropriateness of applying this<br />knowledge, realize you can increase motivation ethically<br />by providing people with more of what they want that’s<br />good for them while being totally open about how you<br />are doing it. For instance, most people would like to<br />spend more time having good, clean fun with their loved<br />ones. If you add to their own motivations to help them<br />in a transparent way to spend more time with loved<br />ones, what’s the harm?<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-6707509937678615212010-09-10T13:12:00.000-07:002010-09-10T13:30:05.037-07:00Step Three: Identify at Least Fifty Examples of Perfect or Near- Perfect Group PerformanceSo we built the wall,<br />and the entire wall was joined together<br />up to half its height,<br />for the people had a mind to work.<br /><br />— Nehemiah 4:6 (NKJV)<br /><br />This verse from Nehemiah brings to mind the part of<br />Mark Twain’s classic coming-of-age novel, <span style="font-style: italic;"><br />The</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Adventures of Tom Sawyer</span>, where Tom’s Aunt<br />Polly sends him out to whitewash the fence. Tom,<br />wanting to take it easy on a hot day, decides to persuade<br />the other children to do his work for him. Pretending that<br />the work is very enjoyable and that he wouldn’t want to<br />share it for any reason, Tom gains a free work crew and<br />a good laugh. While this is a fictional story, it rings true:<br />People can be persuaded to do unpleasant (and even<br />improper) tasks if they believe that the tasks are<br />enjoyable. That’s one reason why so many youngsters<br />get into trouble.<br /><br />I want you to beware of Tom Sawyer’s approach and<br />instead act like a responsible adult: Build on peoples’<br />self-interest in positive ways to help them gain what<br />really is good for them and that they already want.<br /><br />Let’s look at some examples of where groups of children<br />or adults perform perfectly or near perfectly with little<br />effort to gain something that’s good for all concerned:<br /><br />• Soldiers follow the order to stand “at ease.” (It’s a simple<br />stance to master and feels much more comfortable than<br />the “attention” position that precedes it … ironically, it’s<br />much easier to pay attention to what is being said while<br />“at ease” than while at “attention.”)<br />• People who see fire and smoke nearby and hear a fire<br /> alarm will head for the exits with little delay. (In my<br />experience, even those who are paralyzed by fear will be<br /> assisted out by those who aren’t so fearful.)<br />• Elementary schoolchildren leave after the final bell rings<br />in their classrooms. (After being cooped up for most of the<br />school day, children are ready for a change of pace and<br />place; in most cases, they are headed for sports activities,<br />visits with friends, or their rooms at home.)<br />• Football players leave the playing field at half time for<br />either the sideline or the locker room. (They know the<br />coach wants to speak to them, they are ready for a break,<br /> and there is limited time before the second half starts.)<br />• Drivers go forward after a red light turns green.<br />(Inattentive drivers will be reminded to proceed either<br />by their passengers or by honking horns from the drivers<br />behind them, serving to safely move traffic forward.)<br /><br />• People drive on the correct side of the road. (Doing the<br />opposite is usually much more hazardous.)<br />• Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk rather than down the<br />middle of a busy road. (There is usually less chance of<br />being hit by a vehicle while on the sidewalk.)<br />• Readers look at English words from left to right and<br />Hebrew words from right to left. (The letters make<br />more sense when viewed in those directions.)<br />• Writers spell words in the most common way used by<br />their readers. (It’s easier to be understood that way.)<br />• People greet others in the most common friendly way<br />for that community. (Otherwise, people may be<br />offended or confused.)<br /><br />• Employees don’t go to work on major religious<br />holidays that they observe. (Christians who are not<br />emergency personnel choose to be with their families<br />and friends on Christmas.)<br />• Runners wait for the starter’s pistol before crossing<br />the starting line. (Otherwise they will be disqualified<br />after two “false” starts and there will not be a fair<br />contest of skill for all concerned.)<br />• Neighbors don’t steal each others’ birdbaths.<br />(Neighbors would probably notice; it’s illegal; they aren’t<br />very expensive so most people can afford their own; and<br />they are usually bulky, heavy, and messy to haul away.)<br />• Visitors rarely try to take valuable art from museums<br />during visiting hours. (It’s illegal, there are guards, and<br />there are antitheft measures in place.)<br />• People drive cars in forward gears rather than in<br />reverse on roadways. (It’s much safer and easier to do it<br />this way.)<br /><br />• Drivers close windows to vehicles before entering a car<br />wash. (There are signs to remind people, the attendants<br />usually mention it, and being hit by water will usually<br />get someone’s attention if all else fails.)<br />• Skaters put on skates before stepping onto the ice in a<br />rink. (Otherwise they will probably slip and fall rather<br />than have a good time skating.)<br />• Football players don helmets before taking the field in<br /> a game. (It’s pretty dangerous not to do so and someone<br />will remind those who forget.)<br />• Hockey players carry hockey sticks during games.<br />(It’s pretty hard to handle the puck without one.)<br />• Carpenters use a hammer rather than their fists to<br />drive in nails. (It works much better and is less painful.)<br /><br />• Passengers almost always arrive safely after<br />commercial plane flights. (Serious injuries from<br />commercial aviation are practically nonexistent as a<br />percentage of all people who fly … the flight deck crew<br />members have their lives and safety at stake, too.)<br />• People receive bills sent by mail. (Companies wouldn’t<br />use mail services and postal employees would lose their<br />jobs unless the rate of lost envelopes was very low.)<br />• People drink treated water without becoming sick.<br />(It’s well known how to kill bacteria, it’s inexpensive to<br />accomplish, and laws require it for most municipalities.)<br />• Bank customers’ deposits are correctly credited to their<br />checking accounts. (Banks make their money by lending<br />a multiple of the deposits that they have on hand, and<br />customers soon leave a bank that shortchanges their<br />deposits.)<br />• Aides to politicians promptly return telephone calls a<br />month before an election. (They don’t want to run the<br />risk of annoying a voter who might tell lots of others.)<br /><br />• Firemen respond promptly to an alarm. (Some people<br />enjoy this work so much and consider it so valuable<br />that they volunteer their services for no pay.)<br />• Sunday school teachers and their substitutes are on<br />time for their classes. (These volunteers want to do<br />God’s work and are so concerned about the children<br />they teach that they will seek out a reliable replacement<br />when necessary.)<br />• Adults arrive on time for their baptisms. (This is an<br />important spiritual event that they are probably looking<br />forward to doing as a sign of their obedience to God, and<br />baptisms aren’t conducted every day.)<br />• Prisoners are ready to go outside when it’s time for<br />their yard exercise. (Many prisoners find these brief<br />times when they aren’t cooped up indoors to be the<br />high points of their days.)<br />• Teenagers remember to go to their drivers’ license<br />test appointments. (They are anxious to obtain licenses<br />and know that missing the appointment will delay<br />receipt.)<br /><br />• Newly elected officials take their oaths of office. (They<br />cannot serve until this swearing in occurs, and they get a<br />lot of publicity when they do.)<br />• Mortgage lenders cash the certified pay-off checks<br />they receive at property closings. (They will have no<br />money to lend from the transaction and earn no new<br />interest until they do.)<br />• Ringmasters open the formal part of circus<br />performances. (The show doesn’t shift into high gear<br />until the ringmasters begin their spiels, ringmasters love<br />the attention, and many children cannot understand<br />what’s going on without an explanation.)<br />• Magicians make items seem to disappear. (It’s one of<br />the main ways they “amaze” the audience.)<br />• Trainers feed fish to sea lions during performances at<br />sea life parks. (The food encourages the sea lions to<br />perform.)<br /><br />• Children show up to watch holiday parades that pass<br />their homes. (They love the excitement.)<br />• Christian families remember to decorate their<br />Christmas trees. (Joining with one another to decorate<br /> the tree is one of many Christmas activities that families<br />enjoy.)<br />• Children willingly leave their family cars and the<br />parking lot to enter Disneyland. (Wouldn’t you, if you<br />were still a child?)<br />• Politicians vote for themselves. (They can use an<br />absentee ballot if they will be away from their registered<br />polling places.)<br />• Advertisers provide materials to be presented during<br />the time they have purchased on television and radio.<br />(Otherwise, the advertiser will owe the contracted<br />amount but receive no benefit from the expense.)<br /><br />• Heads of state accept invitations to speak at the United<br />Nations. (They and their countries will receive much<br />publicity as a result.)<br />• Business travelers put enough postage on the envelopes<br />that they use to send in their passport applications.<br />(Otherwise, the mail will just be returned to them,<br />delaying receipt of their passports.)<br />• Prison wardens feed the inmates. (Who wants to<br />maintain control in a prison full of hungry, angry<br />people?)<br />• Jail guards check visitors for weapons. (It’s<br />dangerous not to.)<br />• Judges sentence people found guilty of crimes. (They<br />are required by law to do so, and judges can lose their<br />jobs if they don’t sentence guilty defendants.)<br /><br />• Gas stations sell fuel except during rationing. (It’s a<br />major source of their income and may also help attract<br />repair customers.)<br />• Supermarkets have food for sale. (It’s hard to imagine<br />they would call themselves supermarkets otherwise.)<br />• White-tablecloth restaurants offer menus to diners.<br />(I’ve only been to one that didn’t. The waiter told me<br />the chef would make anything I wanted so I should just<br />order what I liked to eat.)<br />• Shoe stores display shoes you can buy. (Otherwise,<br />why bother to display them?)<br />• Airlines have seats on sale for future flights. (Airlines<br />usually lose money and need the cash that advance<br />payments for future flights bring.)<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-22668566037225985322010-09-10T12:55:00.000-07:002010-09-10T13:10:51.913-07:00Step Four: Identify Reasons for Perfect or Near-Perfect Group Performance… then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently.<br /><br />— Deuteronomy 13:14 (NKJV)<br /><br />I suspect that the preceding list of group performances<br />has inspired many ideas for why certain actions are done<br />in a perfect or near-perfect manner. One reason for<br />having such ideas may be because I often grouped<br />together examples of similar motivations. Whenever<br />searching for explanations of perfect and near-perfect<br />individual or group performance, you will probably find<br />it helpful to start by combining examples that seem<br />similar to you in motivation. In this subsection, I<br />describe some of the common motivators that I had in<br />mind while preparing the list.<br /><br />Let’s begin by looking for reasons that might explain<br />the first group of five examples. Here are some of the<br />common factors that I noticed about them:<br /><br />• All of these situations have either been previously<br />experienced (such as leaving a classroom) or practiced<br />(such as through fire drills).<br />• There is some obvious, immediate benefit for those<br />who take the action. (Soldiers are more comfortable,<br />people feel more relaxed away from the apparent threat<br />of a nearby fire, schoolchildren do something they prefer,<br />football players improve their chances of playing well in<br />the second half, and drivers arrive sooner at where they<br />are headed.)<br />• The actions are consistent with the preferences of the<br />people involved. (No one is expecting them to do<br />something that is counter to what they like to do.)<br />• Those taking action are reminded of the right action by<br />seeing what others do.<br />• Authority favors the action.<br />• Someone has previously emphasized to each person<br />the right action to take.<br />• The information that leads to the action is<br />unambiguous.<br />• There are potentially unpleasant consequences for not<br />acting in that way.<br /><br />After appreciating how many influences are involved in<br />those five examples of where groups of children or adults<br />perform perfectly or near perfectly with little effort to<br />gain something that’s good for all concerned, you can see<br />why I like to use them. Even people who cannot<br />articulate why perfect or near-perfect performance<br />occurs in those circumstances will immediately<br />appreciate that some powerful human motivations are<br />at work.<br /><br />You should have an easier time picking out the common<br />element in the second set of five examples (that begin<br />with driving down the correct side of the road): Here we<br />are simply looking at social conventions that make it<br />more convenient to accomplish either travel or<br />communication. Notice that such conventions can be<br />either legally required (such as on what side of the road<br />to drive) or informally enforced (such as how to greet<br />others in a friendly way).<br /><br />The common element in the third set of five examples<br />(that includes drivers using forward gears rather than<br />reverse on roadways) may be a little harder to<br />appreciate: These examples describe ways of behaving<br />that allow ourselves and others to gain benefits. By not<br />stealing art while it’s on display, we don’t end up in jail<br />and the art is still available for us and others to enjoy on<br />another occasion. A combination of self-interest and<br />providing benefits for others can motivate high<br />performance. Notice that self-interest can be either<br />achieving something positive (obtaining something, such<br />as time with family) or avoiding something negative<br />(such as arrest or an accident).<br /><br />Identifying the common element in the fourth set of<br />five examples (that contains the example of carpenters<br />driving nails with hammers rather than their fists)<br />should present few problems: The individual<br />advantages of behaving in a certain way are so strong<br />that almost everyone in a group will independently<br />choose to do the same thing. There’s an important lesson<br />here: Individual incentives, when strong enough, can<br />create group behavior without any group incentives.<br /><br />I find the common element in the fifth set of examples<br />(the one that contains the example of bills being received<br />through the mail) to be particularly interesting: The<br />individual advantages to someone else of serving you<br />cause perfect and near-perfect performance that you<br />can rely on. In an organizational setting, the lesson is<br />that it’s very valuable to look for ways to align strong<br />personal motivations with the needs of those who are<br />served by the organization. In most cases, this<br />elementary lesson is ignored when designing work.<br />When such shortsightedness occurs, many faults and<br />flaws follow, almost all of which are avoidable.<br /><br />The sixth set of examples (which includes firemen<br />responding to alarms) is actually a subset of the fifth<br />set, circumstances where self-motivation by the<br />individuals is so high that the organization doesn’t<br />need to provide any motivation to encourage the<br />performance that’s desired, even when most of the<br />benefit accrues to those who are served. Many<br />organizational leaders act on this insight by carefully<br />recruiting people to work who need no additional<br />encouragement or direction to perform in ways that<br />will be beneficial to all those who are supposed to be<br />served.<br /><br />The seventh set of examples (the one that has trainers <br />feeding sea lions after they perform tricks) describes how<br />necessities that are understood shape our responses. If<br />people know that nothing that they desire will happen<br />until a certain action occurs, they will perform the action<br />in order to gain future benefits. Such actions may include<br />things that no one is particularly eager to do. Placing the<br />unpleasant or unimportant tasks in a process so that they<br />precede something that everyone wants to occur will lead<br />most people to promptly do the tasks. Here is where we<br />have to be careful not to be unethical in using motivation<br />to engage people to do something that isn’t in their best<br />interests, as Tom Sawyer did with his friends.<br /><br />The eighth set of examples (containing politicians voting<br />for themselves) provides straightforward<br />demonstrations of individuals being expected to act in<br />their own best interest. In many social situations, people<br />are encouraged to defer to others in exchange for gaining<br />some social esteem. Many sales-oriented businesses<br />operate by providing lots of incentives to make more<br />money. This approach is a problem when some people<br />may be harmed in the process (such as when<br />unscrupulous salespeople unload their merchandise on<br />people who cannot afford it and don’t know any better).<br /><br />The ninth set of examples (the one about putting<br />enough postage on an envelope containing a passport<br />application) explores places where reasonable fear of<br />negative consequences may cause us to be careful to do<br />things that aren’t inherently pleasant or desirable.<br />(Searching visitors to a jail isn’t pleasant for anyone, but<br />finding yourself on the receiving end of a loaded gun<br />during an attempted jail break is even less desirable.)<br /><br />The last set of examples simply looks at how<br />commercial enterprises operate: They exist to gain<br />customers and want to have something to provide<br />unless an unusual circumstance intervenes to make<br />that impossible (such as when gasoline rationing during<br />the 1970s led to some stations being unable to sell<br />gasoline because they couldn’t acquire any). These<br />situations show high motivation because owners want<br />to prosper, employees want to get and keep jobs, and<br />customers need some of what is offered. The natural<br />alignment of those interests can be easily disturbed so<br />that different parties act at cross-purposes, such as<br />when a gas station tries to sell the lowest quality gas at<br />the highest possible price, employees want to do the<br />least amount of work, and customers have few<br />alternatives to choose from.<br /><br />For your convenience, here is a summary of the<br />motivational influences that were important for each<br />of these ten sets of examples:<br /><br />1. Previous experience or practice; an obvious,<br />immediate benefit;<br />preferred actions; other people model ideal behavior;<br />authority favors the action; prior encouragement;<br />unambiguous information; and potentially unpleasant<br />consequences for not acting<br />2. Social conventions that make it more convenient to<br />accomplish either travel or communication<br />3. Behaving in ways that allow those taking actions and<br />others to gain benefits<br />4. Overwhelming advantages for each person acting<br />5. Strong individual advantages for each person acting in<br />ways that serve others’ interests<br />6. High self-motivation<br />7. Meaningful rewards greater than any unpleasantness<br />and annoying requirements<br />8. Simple self-interest<br />9. Fear of potential negative consequences<br />10. Commercial self-interest<br /><br />As I revealed these motivations, you may have been<br />reminded of the kind of writing that philosophers did in<br />the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Those writers<br />often attempted to examine possible solutions through<br />considering “normal” human behavior in different<br />circumstances. There is much wisdom in letting people<br />behave as they naturally seek to do; however, there is<br />even greater wisdom in encouraging people to draw on<br />their best qualities of wanting to serve others as well as<br />themselves so that even more perfect results occur.<br />Let’s look next at how to draw on the kind of lessons I<br />have just shared with you to develop an ideal practice.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-50481813125749434802010-09-10T12:45:00.000-07:002010-09-10T12:55:29.426-07:00Step Five: Identify the Most Helpful Motivations to Draw on for Encouraging Perfect or Near-Perfect Group PerformanceBut command Joshua,<br />and encourage him and strengthen him;<br />for he shall go over before this people,<br />and he shall cause them to inherit<br /> the land which you will see.<br /><br />— Deuteronomy 3:28 (NKJV)<br /><br />Some people will use any excuse to avoid assembling a<br />large number of helpful motivations to encourage<br />perfect or near-perfect group performance in a given<br />situation. To me, that reluctance means that the<br />person seeking to create a solution isn’t sufficiently<br />motivated by the opportunity to improve.<br /><br />When you find yourself acting this way, it’s good to<br />ask yourself why you aren’t more motivated. If you<br />can find the reason, you may be able to reshape your<br />thinking by looking for more reasons to do the best<br />possible job. For instance, some people may<br />concentrate initially on the personal benefits, such as<br />earning more money, and feel conflicted. Without<br />looking at the situation more closely, these people<br />may be assuming that they can only have more if<br />someone else loses or keeps less, such as when people<br />are gambling against one another or competing in an<br />athletic contest for a prize. There are also many<br />situations where creating more for one person or group<br />also provides more for all, such as when a company sells<br />more of a product that produces value for customers<br />way above its price, which might be the case for laptop<br />computers that are used by adult professionals and for<br />services such as access to medical libraries when they<br />are used by physicians.<br /><br />Even after such an investigation into potential benefits<br />reveals many more reasons why improving motivation<br />and performance is good for all, work may still lag on<br />encouraging perfect or near-perfect group performance.<br />I find that some people just aren’t very interested in<br />creating breakthroughs or thinking about improving<br />motivation. Others are easily distracted from any<br />complex task. Still other people may have higher<br />priorities elsewhere, such as caring for a loved one’s<br />serious illness.<br /><br />Whenever you cannot motivate yourself sufficiently to<br />work on this step’s task to the utmost of your ability, you<br />should turn the assignment over to someone who finds<br />the work to be endlessly interesting, valuable, and<br />rewarding: That’s one of the lessons of step seven of<br />the 2,000 percent solution process (Identify the Right<br />People and Provide the Right Motivation to implement<br /> the 2,000 percent solution). Since you probably won’t<br />provide much added motivation for the person who<br />gains the assignment, be sure to select someone who is<br />strongly self-motivated to do a great job and share all<br />that you know about why it’s a wonderful idea to<br />encourage groups to perform perfectly or nearly<br />perfectly in the situation.<br /><br />Whoever is going to design the process should then<br />focus on identifying the most powerful forms of<br />motivation that will encourage perfect or near-perfect<br />group performance. A good starting place is to<br />describe what is intended to be accomplished, to list<br />the tasks required to make those accomplishments<br />more likely, and to create an inventory of all the<br />reasons that might motivate someone to want to do<br />an especially good job with the tasks. In developing<br />such an inventory, it’s very helpful to involve other<br />people, especially those whose backgrounds and<br />interests are different from the person who created<br />the description, list of tasks, and inventory. Ideally,<br />ask people to help with the inventory who represent<br />many different points within the spectrum of the<br />backgrounds and experiences of those who will<br />probably be performing the tasks.<br /><br />Next, rewrite the description, tasks, and inventory of<br />motivations list to make the motivational reasons<br />clearer and to more accurately express the opportunity<br />to perform well. Then show the rewriting to some other<br />people and ask for their reactions to what you have<br />described and listed to see if they correctly perceive<br />what you are trying to express. Revise the description,<br />tasks, and inventory list to correct any problems that<br />are uncovered.<br /><br />At this point, show the description, tasks, and inventory <br />list either to all the people you want to influence because<br />they will be doing the tasks or, if there are too many<br />people involved to contact everyone, to a large-enough<br />random sample of those people to be statistically<br />accurate. Ask each person you contact to describe how<br />important each of the purposes is on a scale from one to<br />ten for them, with ten being the most motivating<br />anything could be and one being not motivating at all.<br /><br />Analyze the reactions to see which sources of motivation<br />are most powerful (have a point score near ten) and are<br />effective with a lot of different people who will be doing<br />the tasks. In making these comparisons, you want to<br />identify the set of motivating factors that will provide<br />the strongest reasons to act for the most people.<br />Ideally, you would like each person to have at least five<br />motivating factors that they rate at nine or higher. That<br />won’t happen in many cases so, if necessary, you’ll be<br />looking instead for combinations of motivating factors<br />that will provide each person who will be doing the<br />tasks with at least three reasons that they rate at<br />seven or higher. If you can do better than reaching<br />that minimum, you should.<br /><br />The obvious question at this point is “what do I do if<br />there aren’t three reasons ranked at least seven points<br />or higher for each person?” Should that occur, you have<br />four choices:<br /><br />1. Consider if selective assignments can be used to<br />determine who works on the tasks so that you can<br />employ only the most motivated people.<br />2. Redesign what needs to be done to include more<br />strong motivating influences.<br />3. Shift what is to be accomplished to include more<br />results that are highly motivating.<br />4. Employ some combination of the first three choices.<br /><br />Once you have found which forms of motivation to<br />emphasize, you are ready to design the training and<br />tasks that will include them. That’s the subject of<br />Step Six.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell All Rights Reserved.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-26013183579760752492010-09-10T12:29:00.000-07:002010-09-10T12:45:52.864-07:00Step Six: Design the Training and Tasks to Employ the Helpful Motivations You Want to Use to Encourage Near-Perfect PerformanceThese things command and teach.<br /><br />— 1 Timothy 4:11 (NKJV)<br /><br />While designing the training and tasks to achieve<br />various purposes will be different from instance to<br />instance, let me focus on some of the issues and<br />opportunities that are most likely to arise. To start<br />with, I have observed that many training and task<br />designers take shortcuts that cause them to miss<br />touching some of the important bases for achieving<br />success. Much like the rules of baseball dictate that<br />a player who hits the ball over the stadium fence<br />won’t score if he or she skips a base before arriving<br /> at home plate, the designers of training and tasks<br />will not accomplish all that is possible when they<br />haven’t touched important motivational bases.<br /><br />Let me be sure I haven’t misled you by focusing in<br />Step Five of this blueprint on identifying the<br />motivations that work for almost everyone:<br />Motivations that aren’t on that list are still going to<br />be important. Don’t miss the chance to employ the<br />power of those other motivations as well, just so long<br />as these motivating factors don’t discourage anyone.<br />You can avoid reducing motivation by simply asking<br />those who will be doing the tasks if any of the factors<br />discourage them.<br /><br />Let me talk about what some of these common, but not<br />nearly universal, supporting motivations are. As we saw<br />in many of the group examples of perfect and near-<br />perfect performance, many people will perform the right<br />way because they want to fit in or seek approval from<br />others. Those motivations are most likely to occur when<br />the people doing the tasks know and like those they do<br />the activities with or for. As a result, there’s an<br />important opportunity to build long-term motivation by<br />designing training and tasks so that those who are doing<br />them get to know and like one another. While that<br />suggestion of encouraging camaraderie may seem like<br />an obvious point, many workers will tell you that they<br /> don’t know very much about some of the people they<br />work with … and don’t like many of the people they<br />come into contact with every day at work. In fact, some<br />bosses encourage hostility among coworkers to make<br />them easier to control.<br /><br />Another strong influence is for people to model their<br />behavior on what everyone else does. Here again, the<br />influence works best if people have a lot of respect and<br />appreciation for those they are modeling. As a result,<br />training and recognition activities can help identify those<br />who are the models who should be followed. Otherwise,<br />people will often emulate those who are most physically<br />attractive and pleasantly spoken, even if they don’t<br />perform properly.<br /><br />Most people lack some amount of healthy self-esteem<br />and will enjoy gaining better self-appreciation when they<br />develop skill and effectiveness in the needed tasks. An<br />excellent way to increase the pleasure from building<br />self-esteem is by letting others know about a person’s<br />progress. To do so might mean holding an awards<br />ceremony where friends and family are encouraged to<br />attend for a fun time or by providing a gift certificate<br />to take friends and family out to dinner.<br /><br />Boredom and indifference can be enemies of perfect<br />and near-perfect performance. I remember taking tap<br />dancing lessons as a youngster with a partner who was<br />much younger than me and who had trouble<br />remembering the steps. Since we did each step<br />together, a mistake by either of us required that we<br />repeat what we had just done. If my partner made the<br />same mistakes time after time, I would become so<br />bored that after awhile I couldn’t do my part either,<br />even if I knew it quite well. To help people stay fresh in<br />appreciating the situation and to be happily focused on<br />what they are doing, it’s valuable to include frequent<br />novelty into what’s being done. However, in providing<br />these novelties, it’s important not to let them become<br />distractions. Novelties should just be a sideshow and not<br />be confused with the main event.<br /><br />People also like to feel connected to something<br />important. Disney and Ritz-Carlton have worked hard<br />to supply this motivation by providing their employees<br />with a deep understanding of what the companies stand<br />for. Disney, for example, requires new employees to<br />spend two weeks learning about the company’s<br />entertainment heritage in supporting families before<br />they begin any job-specific training.<br /><br />During those two weeks, many new employees realize<br />that they don’t feel comfortable representing that<br />heritage and resign. That’s a much better time to<br />identify people with motivational mismatches than after<br />someone has started on the job or volunteer activity. If<br />your organization has a rich heritage that will motivate<br />some to want to do a better job and to stay more alert,<br />be sure that heritage is explained and appreciated by<br />those who will be doing the tasks.<br /><br />Disney and Ritz-Carlton do something else that you<br />should consider: The companies encourage people doing<br />any task to feel they are essential to the organization’s<br />success. Disney employees are told that they are “cast<br />members,” people who are performing in ways that will<br />influence the experiences and enjoyment of the<br />potentially engaged and enthusiastic audience, the<br />customers. Ritz-Carlton employees are told that they<br /> are “Ladies and Gentlemen serving Ladies and<br />Gentlemen.” Who wouldn’t enjoy doing that? By<br />creating such a special role for each person, those<br />with tasks to do are more likely to be looking for<br />opportunities to solve problems, to make life better<br />for customers, and to serve others rather than<br />trying to make the situation better only for<br />themselves.<br /><br />People are also interested in understanding the<br />impact of what they do. Take time to measure their<br /> performance and its effects on others, and let them<br />regularly see the results. By showing where<br />improvements are possible, more attention will be<br />placed on those areas: This is an important lesson that<br />we can learn from applying the second step in the<br />2,000 percent solution process (Decide What to<br />Measure).<br /><br />Take task doers to observe the impact of their activities<br />on customers and other stakeholders whom they don’t<br />normally see, and you can have an even bigger<br />motivational impact. Being given this opportunity makes<br />people feel that they are being invested in, seeing<br />themselves more as someone the organization cares<br />about. Observing the consequences of mistakes and<br />perfect performance can also provide strong ongoing<br />motivation to avoid errors, particularly when the cost of<br />errors is high to those who are affected.<br /><br />Almost everyone who starts a new job is excited about<br />the opportunity, looking forward to doing a good job<br />and to making career progress with the organization. If<br />you come back a few months later, most new employees<br />will tell you that they don’t have the tools they need to<br />do a good job, the organization doesn’t properly support<br />their efforts, and their boss doesn’t care about them.<br />What a waste of motivation! A better approach is to<br />design tasks so that those who do the work have better<br />tools than what they expect, more support than<br />they had hoped for, and more caring interactions with<br />their bosses than they have experienced before. To<br />accomplish these things simply requires finding out<br />what the beliefs and expectations are of those who<br />will be asked to do the tasks and then to design the<br />training, tasks, and organizational support to provide<br />high levels of these kinds of encouragement. In<br />particular, a lot can be accomplished by having<br />supervisors and colleagues show appreciation for<br />learning, for good results, and for going beyond what is<br />normally expected. On a regular basis, someone should<br />sit down with each person to help plan future career<br />steps, so that the people doing the tasks understand how<br />this work ultimately fits into what the organization hopes<br />they will accomplish. Connecting tasks to career progress<br />engages more of a person’s motivations that are based on<br />self-interest.<br /><br />Testing is essential to finding mistakes before making<br />permanent any training or task method. Most<br />organizations plan either no testing or far too little. A<br />better approach is to plan to continually experiment<br />with ways to improve motivation and performance<br />while making it clear to those involved that there are<br />bound to be flaws that need to be identified and to be<br />removed. In this way, those who do the work can be<br />helped to understand that they should provide and<br />encourage improvements. If the organization also helps<br />people learn how to analyze and develop solutions, the<br />results will be even better.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights ReservedDonald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-53436256785761901432010-09-10T12:10:00.000-07:002010-09-10T12:28:39.445-07:00Step Seven: Continually Improve Training and Tasks Using the Helpful Motivations You Want to Draw on for Encouraging Near-Perfect PerformanceTherefore we do not lose heart.<br />Even though our outward man is perishing,<br />yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.<br /><br />— 2 Corinthians 4:16 (NKJV)<br /><br />Times change. Opinions shift. People mature. New<br />influences arise. All such variations make it important<br />to continually improve training and tasks to make them<br />more relevant to and rewarding for those who do the<br />tasks and those who benefit from their actions. Three<br />sources of inquiry can direct us closer to near-perfect<br />group performance:<br /><br />1. Examine those who aren’t being considered for doing<br />the tasks.<br />2. Consider the latest thinking and attitudes of those<br />who are doing the tasks.<br />3. Learn how the beneficiaries feel about what they are<br />receiving.<br /><br />Let me briefly examine each performance perspective<br />to describe how more can be learned and accomplished,<br />beginning with those who aren’t being hired or asked to<br />do the tasks. Over time, employers usually recruit and<br />hire people who are much like themselves. You’ll often<br />see workplaces and volunteer activities where each<br />person looks almost like a clone of the next person.<br />What’s even more likely to be true is that their thinking<br />is in lockstep. That’s a good trait if you have a perfect<br />idea of what needs to be done. Otherwise, it’s very<br />harmful … acting more like blinders that focus<br />attention in the wrong direction.<br /><br />In many organizations, such homogenous staffs are<br />often seen as the result of prejudice, requiring changes<br />due to either a legal or a moral responsibility. Those<br />ethical perspectives may be true in a given instance,<br />but I think they miss a more important point: If an<br />organizational unit fails to draw on a large cross-<br />section of people, it is impoverished in terms of being<br />an interesting place to work where people can learn to<br />perform better. Customers miss opportunities to<br />benefit. Everyone is worse off.<br /><br />Contrary to the view that narrow hiring practices are<br />primarily excuses for discrimination, my experience<br />has been that the practices more often reflect a form of<br />narcissism. The people doing the hiring are looking for<br />people who will admire and model them. When that<br />result is achieved, it isn’t good for anyone and certainly<br />doesn’t encourage near-perfect group performance.<br /><br />It’s very helpful to grasp why different kinds of people<br />either aren’t being hired or retained by an organization.<br />Do they not apply? If so, there may be problems with<br />making potential applicants aware of the jobs or with the<br />motivations that are being provided. Do they apply<br />but not rate well in interviews? If that’s the case, the<br />interviews may be crafted too narrowly to grasp all the<br />elements of what someone can provide. Do they get the<br />jobs or the assignments but find the tasks or<br />motivations to be unsatisfying and quit? In that<br />circumstance, it may well be that the organization is<br />long overdue to reconsider what motivations are<br />offered and how the training and tasks are done.<br /><br />Leaders also need to be up-to-date on what those doing<br />the tasks are thinking and feeling. Otherwise, what were<br />once highly motivating tasks will become boring and<br />unrewarding, and performance will decline. A<br />potentially motivating offset can be to shift who does<br />the tasks so that everyone becomes trained in how to do<br />a broad range of what needs to be done. When that<br />cross-training occurs and experience grows, fewer<br />problems occur when someone is out sick or leaves for<br />another position. A more substantial benefit is that<br />those who do the tasks develop a better sense of how<br />everything fits together. As a result, helpful<br />improvement suggestions will increase. Some workers<br />may instead be more motivated by focusing on what<br />they are doing. It would be discouraging and<br />distracting to cross-train these employees. Keep<br />asking. Views may change and leaders’ responses<br />should, too.<br /><br />Leaders can also gain a lot of perspective by spending<br />full days working at these tasks alongside those who<br />normally do them. During such hands-on experiences,<br />perspectives shift to provide better understanding of<br />what the problems are that create mistakes and how<br />motivating or discouraging the circumstances are.<br />Spend enough time with the regular workers, and they<br />will begin to tell you things that you need to know but<br />that have been bottled up for one reason or another.<br /><br />In addition, organizations gain when those who have<br />been doing the task for a long time are encouraged to<br />rethink what the purposes of the organization should<br />be and how to achieve those purposes. As part of such<br />a fundamental review, it is very valuable to visit and<br />consider methods employed in noncompeting<br />organizations that reflect totally different approaches.<br /><br />For instance, assembly lines lead to a lot of mistakes<br />and higher costs as people scramble to deal with<br />problems without stopping the assembly line. Someone<br />who has worked on an assembly line for many years<br />would well know that near perfection isn’t going to<br />happen on a traditional assembly line. Let those<br />assemblers visit organizations that use team and group<br />assembly, and they will be very open to the advantages<br />of greater cooperation in a friendly context where<br />people can more easily assist one another. By contrast,<br />if you send managers and supervisors to investigate<br />the same methods and they report negatively about the<br />opportunity, realize that self-interest may be at work<br />because their jobs wouldn’t be as important in such an<br />environment.<br /><br />Even when the training or the task itself doesn’t need<br />to be redesigned, the forms of motivation may still need<br />to be. Employees and volunteers can easily become<br />cynical about new motivational programs that feature<br />slogans, signs, and hoopla but don’t connect with their<br />own sense of what’s important and right to do. Let those<br />same people help design and explain new motivational<br />programs and opportunities, and their sincerity will<br />move hearts and minds toward making many<br />improvements.<br /><br />Beneficiaries of near-perfect work change their minds,<br />develop new needs, shift their attention, and look for<br />variety. Keep providing them with what was once their<br />ideal, and you will eventually dissatisfy them. For<br />instance, there was a time when providing bigger and<br />gaudier tail fins was a factor in what vehicle would be<br />purchased.<br /><br />More recently, almost everyone wanted as large and<br />high a vehicle as possible, regardless of gas mileage.<br />After gasoline prices rose above $4.00 a gallon, sales<br />of gas-sipping, smaller vehicles began to take off<br />instead.<br /><br />Even in what seems like a straightforward area such as<br />improving quality, the same issue exists. When quality<br />is poor in offerings, customers will be most concerned<br />about the primary functionality of the offering. For a<br />vehicle, a functionality issue might be how often it<br />breaks down and has to be repaired. After functionality<br />is acceptable, many customers will start to be concerned<br />about quality issues related to appearance. In a vehicle,<br />this might relate to how good the paint job looks. Once<br />those problems are solved, customer preferences may<br />well emphasize making life more convenient for them<br />such as how well the vehicle’s cup holders accommodate<br />a variety of beverage container sizes and shapes.<br /><br />In addition, customer needs with regard to what they<br />already use change over time. Companies tend to focus<br />on what customers care about near the time of a<br />purchase decision and not so much the rest of the<br />time. For instance, vehicle manufacturers don’t want<br />you to drive their product until it falls apart. They<br />would prefer that you buy a new one every year. To<br />encourage more sales, they steadily increase the<br />prices of parts on older models so that at some point<br />it becomes cheaper to buy a new vehicle rather than<br />to retain the older one, even if you prefer the older<br />one. Someone who feels victimized by the parts<br />pricing of the current vehicle’s manufacturer may seek<br />out a different manufacturer for the next vehicle who<br />doesn’t gouge customers so much with high prices for<br />replacement parts.<br /><br />New business environments may raise totally new<br />issues. For instance, during the recession that started<br />in 2008, unemployment in the United States grew by<br />more than at any other time since the 1930s. When<br />some automotive companies went bankrupt, many<br />people who made auto parts lost good-paying jobs<br />with few prospects for obtaining equally attractive<br />new ones. Someone who was concerned about the<br />pain to individuals and families that was created by<br />this economic environment might want to know how<br />the purchase of a vehicle would affect people who were<br />or might become unemployed. Without paying<br />attention to what motivates customers, a vehicle<br />manufacturer with a good story for helping<br />employment might fail to tell that story.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell All Rights ReservedDonald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-57435887618398832052010-09-10T12:08:00.000-07:002010-09-10T12:10:51.434-07:00Step Eight: Repeat the First Seven StepsWill You not revive us again,<br />That Your people may rejoice in You?<br /><br />— Psalm 85:6 (NKJV)<br /><br />As with the 2,000 percent solution process, repetition<br />of the first seven steps of this blueprint yields<br />exponential increases in performance. When you<br />repeat those steps, you will be astonished by how<br />many more ways you can describe and supply<br />motivations that encourage perfect and near-perfect<br />performance. Repeat these seven steps as often as<br />possible to strengthen your knowledge of and skills in<br />improving performance.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved.Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-36021313477818101712010-08-09T18:15:00.000-07:002010-08-10T12:57:14.560-07:00New Course Available for Those Who Want to Start a Succcessful New Business, Either Part Time or Full Time<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Good Evening, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!<br /><br />Are you feeling motivated this evening?<br /><br />I know that I certainly am!</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:78%;">I pray that you are having a blessed day and that this will be your best year ever.<br /><br />After having worked with thousands of entrepreneurs who have started businesses in the last 35 years, I recently felt called to write a book about how to do so in a more effective and satisfying way. What most people try to do is all wrong, and it's a shame to have so many people struggle so unnecessarily.<br /><br />I especially want to encourage those who are Christians and want to devote themselves to serving the Lord through their new business to take this course.<br /><br />Every hour that you spend on this course will save you 50 hours of work later on and over $1,000. So it's your choice whether to spend the time and money on the course or to spend the time and money on making avoidable mistakes later.<br /><br />Here are some of the subjects you will cover with me:<br /><br />1. Free up lots of time to work on your new business while you keep your day job.<br />2. Attract customers 20 times faster and more easily that your competitors do.<br />3. Use 96 percent less investment money to permit faster growth and higher profitability.<br />4. Which technical details about starting a new business are important for you to handle and which ones you should ask someone else to do for you.<br />5. Avoid making costly mistakes because of what you don't know that you don't know.<br />6. How to test your ideas inexpensively without putting yourself at risk.<br />7. The best sources of free information that can make you more successful.<br />8. The habits you need to develop to be most successful.<br />9. How to attract top talent at little cost.<br />10. How to keep your new business from consuming all your time and attention<br /><br />I will begin writing the book in October and and hope to complete it before the end of Spring 2011.<br /><br />It occurred to me that some people might appreciate having an opportunity to access these lessons early, to ask questions about how to use the information, and to get a head start on anyone else who intends to the the knowledge in the same ways.<br /><br />The book's readers will benefit by my listening carefully to questions and addressing those key concerns more clearly in the book.<br /><br />So it's an opportunity for everyone to benefit.<br /><br />After thinking and praying about this calling over the last few weeks, I decided to offer a 52-week online course that will feature a weekly teaching and telephone conversation. I can conveniently accommodate up to 100 people on a telephone call and still offer an opportunity to ask questions and to get answers. So I decided to limit the group to that number.<br /><br />We will begin on October 1 with the teleconferences but those who join the course before then will begin receiving lessons right away so they will have more time to work on these tasks.<br /><br />As the book passes through editing, people who are taking the course will receive advanced copies.<br /><br />I'm assuming that most people can obtain Skype or some other Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol telephone service so it won't be too expensive to call into the United States to join the conference calls. All lessons will be on the calls, so if you don't want to call in this won't be a good opportunity for you.<br /><br />The fee for this course is $500 (United States Dollars) payable in advance. Normally I charge $20 a session for such courses, but I wanted to provide a good value so I reduced the price by more than half for you.<br /><br />To join the group, simply send me your name, your e-mail address, your telephone number, and your payment to:<br /><br />Donald W. Mitchell<br />P.O. Box 302<br />Weston, MA 02493<br />United States of America<br /><br />If you would prefer to pay by check debit or credit card online, send me an e-mail to askdonmitchell@yahoo.com and I will tell you how you can pay through those methods by using PayPal.com/.<br /><br />If you would prefer to receive only written materials, I can instead offer individual subscriptions and online access for questions and answers to the advanced work of The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind that address how to create large enterprises quickly and with few resources. If this opportunity interests you, please let me know and I will provide the details. People who want this option may start the course as soon as they register.<br /><br />Please let me know how I can help you.<br /><br />I will be glad to answer any questions you have.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:78%;" ><br />May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /><br />With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /><br />Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The Billionaire Entrepreneurs' Master Mind<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell, All Rights Reserved</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-42576997652632760112010-08-02T11:38:00.000-07:002010-08-09T05:25:25.500-07:0010 Reaons to Become a Highly Paid 2,000 Percent Solution Tutor--August 9 Registration Deadline<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Good Afternoon, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!<br /><br />Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?<br /><br />I know that I am!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">I pray that August will be your best month so far. I believe it will if you decide to join my new course on becoming a 2,000 percent solution tutor. Let me explain why in 10 reasons:<br /><br />1. Learning how to make 2,000 percent solutions will allow you to accomplish as much in 2 hours a week as you do now in 40 hours.<br /><br />2. Teaching others to do the same will increase the benefits you will achieve by hundreds of times.<br /><br />3. Teaching your family members this skill will provide more practical advantages than if you sent them all for advanced degrees at Harvard.<br /><br />4. Applying these skills to establish a new business for yourself will make you a big success.<br /><br />5. Teaching these skills to help nonprofit organizations will be more valuable than a billion dollar donation.<br /><br />6. Applying what you learn to help others gain Salvation and grow in sanctification to become more like Jesus will provide you with eternal rewards.<br /><br />7. You will have more free time than you ever thought possible.<br /><br />8. You will meet students who will enrich your life way beyond what you can imagine.<br /><br />9. You will have the joy of watching your students succeed and live their dreams.<br /><br />10. You will achieve more than most people do in 20 life times.<br /><br />In honor of my new book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Help Wanted</span>, I have decided to offer a course in providing 2,000 percent solution tutoring. Such tutoring can be done on a part-time or full-time basis from any Internet-connected computer.<br /><br />People who successfully complete the course will be certified by me as 2,000 percent solution tutors and I will publicize their names to help them find students to teach.<br /><br />Completion of the course requires creating one successful 2,000 percent solution (accomplishing 20 times more while using no more time, money, and effort in total than what is done now) and tutoring one other person to do the same. Evidence of the work must be submitted to me electronically in writing for review within one year of starting the course.<br /><br />Registration is limited to 50 people. There is a modest fee of $100 (US Dollars) that is payable in advance. Please send your name, e-mail address, telephone number, and payment to:<br /><br />Donald W. Mitchell<br />P.O. Box 302<br />Weston, MA 02493<br />United States of America<br /><br />Certified tutors will pay a royalty of five percent of their fees to me, which will enable them to receive ongoing information about how to be more successful as a tutor and to receive inquiries from potential students.<br /><br />Please let me know if you have questions or if I can be of any assistance. You may contact me by e-mail at askdonmitchell@yahoo.com<br /><br />If you would like to send your payment using PayPal.com, simply direct the payment to save_more_souls@yahoo.com<br /><br />If you cannot get payment to me today, register anyway by sending me an e-mail to askdonmitchell@yahoo.com and tell me what payment arrangements you would like to make.<br /><br />If you would like to read about some of the work of one such tutor, go to:<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://hstrial-rburra.homestead.com/about.html</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />I look forward to working with you.</span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /><br />With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:180%;">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The 400 Year Project<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell</span><br /></span></span></span><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-47904927751184227112010-02-08T13:10:00.000-08:002010-02-08T13:19:12.689-08:00Become a Sponsor of The 400 Year Project<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Good Afternoon, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!<br /><br />Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?<br /><br />I know that I am!</span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have exciting news for you about The 400 Year Project </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">(the program designed to accelerate the rate of world-</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">wide improvements by 20 times).<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">As I described in <span style="font-style: italic;">Adventures of an Optimist</span> (BookSurge,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">2007), one of the important aspects of implementing the</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">project will be to prepare one million tutors who can </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">assist organizations and individuals around the world </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">to make the exponential breakthroughs that I have been</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">writing about since 1995. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />To facilitate that implementation step, I have begun</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">writing a new book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Help Wanted</span>, that describes the</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">kinds of tutors needed and what they should be working</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">on. My plan is to publish that book and make it widely</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">available before the end of 2010.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Tutors are needed to work on the following opportunities:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />-witnessing</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-congregational ministries</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-Christian non-profit organizations</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-universities and colleges</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-teachers and their unions</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-voluntary associations for children</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-foundations</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-social-benefit-focused enterprises</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-nations</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-for-profit enterprises</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-productivity-enhancement professionals</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />-lifting entrepreneurial effectiveness</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />While some individuals may wish to engage in this work</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> on their own, I anticipate that many organizations</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> will wish to sponsor an aspect of The 400 Year Project</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">to show their commitment to enhancing spiritual and</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">social improvement while gaining competitive advantages</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> over those who prefer to stick with traditional methods.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Beginning now, I am willing to accept sponsors and to</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> help them apply the project's most advanced knowledge</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to their opportunities. Part of such sponsorships will</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> be to prepare tutors skilled in particular applications</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> of creating 2,000 percent (and higher order) solutions</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> with the same time, effort, and resources.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I welcome all inquiries and will be glad to answer any</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> questions you have. Please feel free to share this</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> message with anyone you wish.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-size: 100%;">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /><br />With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The 400 Year Project<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-70847002245717367602009-12-25T12:45:00.000-08:002009-12-25T14:00:23.502-08:00Two Christmas Gifts for You from The 400 Year Project<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Good Afternoon, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!<br /><br />Are you feeling motivated this afternoon?<br /><br />I know that I am!</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Merry Christmas! May the Lord's peace and blessings be upon you.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">On behalf of The 400 Year Project to demonstrate how improvements can be made at 20 times the usual rate, I want to share with you two remarkable new resources to help you.<br /><br />Dr. Burra Ramulu has just completed a new Web site as a resource to explain how to teach others to make 2,000 percent solutions. He kindly asked me to alert you to this information as a Christmas gift. You can read the Web site by going to:<br /><br />http://hstrial-rburra.homestead.com/about.html<br /><br />He recounts on this Web site how he was able to lead a team of volunteers to assist 60 people in his home village of Kasimpet in India to gain four powerful 2,000 percent solutions in just a short period of time (20 times more income, 20 times more net worth, 96 percent less debt, and 96 percent less interest costs).<br /><br />This approach could be repeated with ease in almost any low-income community throughout the world. I hope you will have a chance to apply it.<br /><br />If you contact him by e-mail, he will be pleased to answer any questions you have.<br /><br />The second resource is a new book that I've just coauthored with Bishop Dale P. Combs, Lisa Combs, Jim Barbarossa, and Carla Barbarossa to describe an application of how to accomplish 400 times as much (a 2,000 percent squared solution) by increasing the Christian witnessing activities through a church's congregation.<br /><br />Whether or not you are a Christian, you will find much valuable information in this book for expanding important knowledge.<br /><br />You can read a free copy of the book online by going to either:<br /><br />http://www.jubileeworshipcenter.com/feature_detail.asp?id=106<br /><br />or<br /><br />http://www.step-by-step.org/witness.html</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" >May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!<br /><br />With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman<br />The 400 Year Project<br /><br />Copyright 2009 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-91716371772587999732009-09-13T07:46:00.000-07:002009-09-13T07:47:57.092-07:00Advance Peek at an Excerpt from 2,000 Percent Solution Living<div class="post-body"> <p> </p><div class="post-body"> <div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-size: 130%;"><b><span style=""></span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-size: 130%;"><b><span style=""></span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="">Good morning, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning?</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I hope so. I know that I am!</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I felt called by the Holy Spirit to accelerate<br />writing of my new book, <span style="font-style: italic;">2,000 Percent</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Solution Living</span>. Writing is going well, and<br />I thought you might enjoy an advance peek<br />at this blockbuster book, a way to live way<br />beyond your wildest dreams.<br /><br />This excerpt comes from part of the book's<br />introduction:<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><b style=""><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">Wisdom </i>is <i style="">the principal thing;<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Therefore <i style="">get wisdom.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">And in all your getting,<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">get understanding.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><o:p> </o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">Take firm hold of instruction,<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">do not let go;<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style="">Keep her, for she </i>is <i style="">your life.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><o:p> </o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">— Proverbs 4:7, 13 (NKJV)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Would you like to enjoy your life more, accomplish so much that you amaze yourself, have lots of free time, be with loved ones as much as you want, and earn a much higher income while spending less time and effort working? Those are some of the potential benefits that 2,000 percent solution living offers you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">To gain those benefits, you’ll have to make some changes: Stop doing some harmful things and start doing some more beneficial things. In the process, you can use God’s help to turn your life into a masterpiece that both brings glory to Him and joy to you and those you love.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">How do I know what’s possible and what’s involved? I’ve been helping people make such improvements for many years as demonstrations of the opportunity for everyone on Earth to make improvements at 20 times the usual rate. In addition, I’ve gained benefits from 2,000 percent solution living for myself.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">Are you ready to start now? Read on to learn what to do.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fulfill Your Potential by Gaining the Right Knowledge and <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Performing Breakthrough Service</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“… he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and he who governs as he who serves.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">— Luke 22:26 (NKJV)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Most people have no idea how little of their talent and knowledge they are employing. I see that lack of awareness all the time among my students. I believe that you are underestimating your potential as well.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">Here’s an example of what I mean. Dr. Burra Ramulu worked as a shift supervisor at a fertilizer factory in the <st1:place st="on">Middle East</st1:place> for many years. However, his most important responsibility was to train young Arabs to hold the organization’s senior roles. He was effective in such preparation, and all of those with positions above him in the organization were younger men whom he had originally trained.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">After deciding to earn a doctorate, Dr. Ramulu became interested in 2,000 percent solutions (ways of accomplishing 20 times the results with the same or less time, money, and effort). His first 2,000 percent solution project was to study how his factory’s profits could be increased by more than 20 times while spending very little money for new investment. He found a way to greatly increase capacity, improve quality, expand productivity, and lower costs that only required an investment equal to about 10 percent of the plant’s existing capital base. As a result, cash flow expanded by more than 20 times.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">Realizing that his opportunities to advance his career were constrained in the Middle East, Dr. Ramulu moved back to his native <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> and took a position with a global producer of basic commodities. As his dissertation subject, Dr. Ramulu investigated how to create a new business model for his employer, the first major business-model improvement for that industry in more than 50 years. As a result, he located a way to lower costs by over 40 percent, to reduce capital needs by even more, and to expand his company’s business volume by several hundred percent. The new business model was approved by his employer and is now being implemented. When in operation, profits for that business in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> are expected to expand by much more than 20 times while competitors will be eliminated for many years to come.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">Not satisfied with what he had learned and accomplished during the process of attaining his first doctorate, Dr. Ramulu decided to study for a second one. This time his dissertation work was based on an even more fundamental problem: How to lift poor, uneducated people out of despair and to make their lives hopeful and economically successful. Choosing to serve Kasimpet, the village where he grew up, Dr. Ramulu faithfully trekked hundreds of kilometers across India on weekends to teach the people there about 2,000 percent solutions.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">Also supported by other volunteers who had once lived in Kasimpet, an initial 50 people soon reformed the bad thinking habits that had held them back, began using better thinking processes, formed a cooperative, and began designing and implementing profitable 2,000 percent solutions. In just a few months, most of those 50 people increased their incomes by more than 20 times, reduced their debts by more than 96 percent, slashed the interest rates they were paying on the remaining debt by 96 percent, and increased their net worths by more 20 times. They also gained new, positive outlooks on life, and sought to cooperate with one another rather than be divided by the accidents of birth from which castes are defined.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">As this book was going to press, these 50 people had pledged to teach what they had learned to at least another 20 other people each who will be asked to do the same for 20 more people. Should everyone be faithful, most poverty and despair can be eliminated from that part of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> in just a few years.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">Naturally, Dr. Ramulu enjoys a wonderful sense of accomplishment from encouraging so many positive improvements. Can you imagine the sense of satisfaction that he enjoys each morning as he thinks about the villagers?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">What else might Dr. Ramulu accomplish? It’s up to what God calls him to do. There is no practical limit to his potential to succeed in serving others.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">There are millions of people with as much potential as Dr. Ramulu has who could have done what he did to serve others. But few of them choose to serve by learning and teaching breakthrough skills. Dr. Ramulu made that important choice, and that decision liberated him and those he has taught into 2,000 percent solution living.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">I pray that this book will do the same for you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Foundations of 2,000 Percent Solution Living</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Become complete.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and the God of love and peace will be with you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">— 2 Corinthians 13:11 (NKJV)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Since I was young, people have often asked for my advice. I have always been happy to share my ideas, and many people have benefited. I have always been grateful to God for granting me this ability to serve and for providing His guidance for what to say and write.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">I was deeply humbled in 1995 when the Holy Spirit directed me to lead an effort to help everyone on the Earth accomplish at least 20 times more. (You can read about the origins, methods, and conclusions of what I call the 400 Year Project, ways to make 400 years worth of normal improvements during the years from 2015 through 2035, in <i style="">Adventures of an Optimist</i>, BookSurge 2007, and at www.fastforward400.com.) I was so overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task that I had no idea what to do first. Fortunately, He directed my steps and learning so that the necessary solutions have been identified and described in my books about the 400 Year Project.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">Despite my willingness to help in every possible way, it recently struck me that I may not have been sharing what I have learned in the right ways: When I asked people who have been reading about my work for years what questions they would like me to answer about accomplishing 20 times more, I found nothing new in what they asked. In fact, I had previously written answers to each of the questions I received.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">From those responses I realized that people who want to make breakthroughs in all aspects of their lives need a brief compendium of the most important ways to accomplish 20 times more. This book, <i style="">2,000 Percent Solution Living</i>,<i style=""> </i>is intended to facilitate those accomplishments.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">After thinking about the possible contents for the book over several weeks, I was surprised to be awakened at 1:30 a.m. on May 19, 2009, by a voice that dictated to me in great detail what should be in this book. This dictation continued for many hours and finally paused for me to begin asking clarifying questions, which were then answered. The instruction lasted over six hours.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">From that experience, I concluded that by writing this book I am merely serving as a fleshly vehicle for a message from the Holy Spirit that is intended for all people on Earth. I pray that I have been faithful and accurate in sharing with you what I was directed to write.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Lessons for You<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">But who can teach a <span style="">lesson</span> to God,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;">since he judges even the most powerful?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">— Job 21:22 (NLT)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Most people rarely read nonfiction books, dipping perhaps into one or two in a decade. If that’s your reading pattern, this section is for you. I summarize the book’s key lessons here.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">If this information is enough for your purposes, stop after reading this section. If you want to learn more about why these solutions are important or how to implement them, go to the chapters that describe the lessons you want to learn more about.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">If you would rather read a fuller treatment of the book’s contents, you can skip this section and just begin reading Chapter 1.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;"><i style="">Lesson 1:</i> <b style="">Accept Salvation by repenting of your sins; believe Jesus is God’s Son and in His resurrection from the dead; and give your life to Jesus Christ to do His will, not yours (or rededicate your life to Him if you have accepted Salvation but have not been walking with Him). Start every day by praising and thanking the Lord, praying for what is righteous that you want done in the name of Jesus, and studying the Bible. Attend church whenever possible; make a weekly written commitment of added ways to follow His direction; and witness to others about your faith until at least 20 people to whom you have been speaking choose to accept Salvation.<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt;">Doing these things will help you to hear and understand the Holy Spirit who will guide your steps toward the most productive directions on Earth, will provide you with supernatural support for making performance breakthroughs, and will help you earn eternal rewards to be enjoyed in heaven. As a result, you will have all the wisdom and power you need to do any righteous thing you want. Isn’t that awesome?</p><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!</span><br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2009 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p class="blogger-labels"><br /></p> </div> </div><p class="blogger-labels"><br /><a rel="tag" href="http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/search/label/salvation"></a></p> </div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-14390093887906964382009-05-27T11:55:00.000-07:002009-05-27T11:58:57.919-07:00What 2,000 Percent Solutions Do You Want Me to Write About?<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="">Good morning, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I hope so. I know that I am!</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Can you take a minute to help me, please?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I'm planning my next book now, which will be a </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> non-fiction description of some 2,000 percent </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> solutions (ways to accomplish 20 times as much </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> with the same time, money, and effort) that </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> everyone should use.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> For what problems would you like to see solutions </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> in the book?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> If I use your suggestion and you are the first </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to contact me, your name will be included in the </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> book's acknowledgments.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Please send your suggested problems to solve to</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> askdonmitchell@yahoo.com and put this in the </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> subject line: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I SUGGEST YOU SOLVE THIS PROBLEM</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you want to learn more about the 400 Year Project, register for free to read about this work at http://www.fastforward400.com/<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">May God bless you.</span><br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2009 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-5098984396583227872008-11-07T09:38:00.000-08:002008-11-07T09:39:39.188-08:00Help Reduce Poverty with Your Ideas for a Global Contest<h3 class="post-title"><br /> </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="">Good morning, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this morning?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Because of the current global economic issues, I wanted</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">to do something to help poor people. While recently</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">reading a book called <span style="font-style: italic;">Crowdsourcing</span>, I was struck by the</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">opportunity to launch a new kind of contest to create</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">better solutions for reducing poverty.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Traditionally, online contests have provided a period</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">of a few months to propose solutions. The best solutions</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">then gained prizes and recognition . . . and were</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">publicized for all to use.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The new idea is to start a contest by publishing some</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">outstanding solutions and inviting people to propose</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">improvements on those solutions. The list of published</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">solutions would be continually updated to reflect the</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">best solutions received to date. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Entrants would have the opportunity to use parts of</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">already proposed solutions for their entries. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In this way, someone might make a small change that</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">would provide a large improvement in a fine idea and</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">turn the result into something much better. And then</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">the process repeats itself as someone else adds</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">another valuable small change.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the contests that were reported, the eventual</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">winning solutions were approximately 1,000 times</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">more effective than the first leading solutions that</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">were received. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I am interested in doing something like this by</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">beginning with the best solutions for eliminating</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">poverty that any of my students have generated. I</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">would publicize these on all of my blogs and put</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">out a press release about the contest.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What are your thoughts about this kind of contest?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How could it be made better? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How could it be made more interesting to you?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What prizes and recognition do you think should</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">be offered? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How should the winning entries be publicized?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thank for your consideration of this request</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">for help.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I look forward to hearing from you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You can send me e-mails at<br />save_more_souls@yahoo.com<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you want to learn more about the 400 Year Project, register for free to read about this work at http://www.fastforward400.com/<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">May God bless you.</span><br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2008 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div> </div>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-25309098846099210252008-01-01T17:17:00.000-08:002008-01-01T17:19:34.984-08:00Adventures of an Optimist Is Now Available<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><b><span style="">Good evening, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!</span></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Are you feeling motivated this evening?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br />I also hope that 2008 will be your best year so far.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I thought you might enjoy learning about what I've been slaving over for the last six months to help you make better 2,000 percent solutions.<br /><br />As you know, I've been working on the 400 Year Project (demonstrating ways to make global improvements at 20 times the usual rate) since 1995. Along the way, I've helped write six books that details progress on the project (<span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, The Portable 2,000 Percent Solution, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Ultimate Competitive Advantage</span>).<br /><br />The thinking behind the project has, however, moved much faster than publishing of books has permitted. As a result, I realized early in 2007 that I could see the end of the project.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">I decided to share that vision of a world improving on all of its performance areas (big and small, individual and collective). I've put that vision in my new book, </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Adventures of an Optimist: A Progress Report on the 400 Year Project to Help You Improve 20 Times Faster. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span>Last year, I held a contest to find a foreword for the book. Ms. Teresa Bolen was the winner of the contest. Here is what she had to say about the book:</span></span></span></span></span><span class="plogBodyText"><br /><p style="text-align: left;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"What would you do if God gave you knowledge for making the world a much better place? Not your everyday, ordinary, run of the mill knowledge, but knowledge that would allow you and your team to create solutions that would otherwise not be available to the people of Earth for another 400 years. </p> <p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"Though he’s far too humble a servant of God to say so himself, I believe that is exactly what happened to my mentor and friend Don when he was gifted with the inspiration to create the 400 Year Project – a project to create 400 hundred years worth of improvements in merely 20 years. You read that right: four centuries worth of improvements in only two short decades.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"The kinds of global improvement methods he writes about have the potential to provide nutritious food, clean water, excellent healthcare and safety to everyone on the planet. These improvement methods have the potential to bring peace to every region of the globe. On a more personal level, these methods have the potential to dramatically increase longevity, perhaps even to more than double one’s lifespan. Don’s methods offer the potential to improve the quality of life, personal relationships, finances, and education, and to present a myriad of new opportunities for you and everyone around you. If you’re not already familiar with Don’s other works such as <i>The 2,000 Percent Solution</i>, <i>The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution</i>, <i>The Irresistible Growth Enterprise</i>, and <i>The Ultimate Competitive Advantage</i>, then this may sound like a fairytale. However if you are already a follower of Don’s work, then you’ll immediately recognize the potential of his 400 Year Project to bring that Divine inspiration into physical reality, ushering in improvements on a global scale, limited only by the imaginations of those who are putting these teachings into practice. In a world where many find themselves lost in the doom and gloom of contemplating a future dominated by disease, disaster, crime, war, and suffering, Don’s optimistic vision is not merely a shining path of hope, but a template for how to recreate our world into something so blessed and wonderful that everyone experiencing it would become optimists.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"In <i>Adventures of an Optimist</i>, Don takes you on a personal journey of how he came to be such a practical optimist and why he has so much faith in all of us. He gives a crash course on his world-renowned 2,000 percent solutions, i.e. <span>any way that you can accomplish 20 times as much with the same time and resources, </span>and gives convincing evidence on how that kind of incredible progress — though seemingly enormous at first blush — is merely a baby step for each of us. Don shows us again and again that we can gain infinitely more by learning how to make breakthroughs in areas with the most potential to benefit ourselves and everyone else.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"One of the great things about Don’s writing is how he demonstrates the ways he and his students have repeatedly succeeded with these improvement methods. He also shares the flops, lest we begin to feel that we are reading the optimistic musings of an intellectual superman!</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"Don’s masterful use of metaphors and riveting storytelling ability draw you in to experiencing those moments with Don almost as if you were there in person while it was happening. One of my favorite examples is when he describes becoming one of Amazon.com’s top ten reviewers. Like so many people, I had wondered how in the world he accomplished it, especially in addition to his busy life as CEO of Mitchell and Company, helping world-class business professionals create better and better business solutions; professor at Rushmore University, guiding students to create their own 2,000 percent solutions; and writing numerous finely crafted books. You get to imagine what it was like in Amazon’s earlier days when most people were using dial-up modems, see how Don’s thinking interacted with the growth of the internet and of Amazon, and find out how he realized he could reach more people through Amazon reviews than even the most famous authors of business books do.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"Once the reader is comfortably grounded into imagining the possibilities of 2,000 percent solutions, Don eases you into multiplying those exponential improvements. He expands the vision more and more, and you’ll either come out on the other side with your mind wide open for the very real possibilities that the 400 Year Project offers, or you’ll already be taking action to start making those breakthroughs in those areas with the most potential to benefit yourself and others.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">"As you read the book and begin to fully grasp the promise of the 400 Year Project, creating 400 hundred years worth of improvements in only 20 years, you’ll ask yourself, “What role do I want to play?” If you’ve ever wanted to make the world an infinitely better place, if you’ve been looking for an opportunity to make a difference so profound that you joyfully leap out of bed each day to create that difference, then this book may just be the introduction to the means you’ve been seeking. Get ready to open your heart, open your mind, and let the possibility of a future brighter than all your wildest dreams be revealed to you."</p> <p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">Teresa Bolen</p> <p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">Author, <i>Master Plan to Master Exams: How to Discover Your Hidden Abilities to Create the Success You Desire</i></p> <p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left">Kyoto, September 15, 2007</p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:times new roman;" align="left"><span style="font-size:180%;">Here is the table of contents so you can get a sense of what the book covers:</span></p><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" align="left"> </p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span></span></i></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Foreword </span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Acknowledgments </span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Background Briefing: What Can Four Centuries Worth of Improvements in a Generation Mean for Your Life? </span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Preface: A Singular Sensation </span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Introduction: Seeds of an Optimistic Idea, the 400 Year Project</span></i><span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Part One:<span> </span>ORIGINS</span><span> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 1:<span> </span>How I Became a Practical, Unlimited Optimist</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 2: <span> </span>A Surprise Announcement </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Part Two:<span> </span>LESSONS</span><span> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 3:<span> </span>Crawling and Toddling Ahead</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 4:<span> </span>Introducing 2,000 Percent Solutions</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 5:<span> </span>Irresistible Growth Beckons</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 6:<span> </span>Reaching Millions of Readers</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 7:<span> </span>Competitive Advantages</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 8:<span> </span>Tutoring Lessons</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 9:<span> </span>A Complementary Dimension: Getting More Out of Life</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 10:<span> </span>Multiplying Exponential Improvements</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 11:<span> </span>Making 400 Years Worth of Progress Quickly by Further Multiplying Exponential Improvements</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 12: Saving More Souls</span><span> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Part Three:<span> </span>PRESCRIPTIONS</span><span> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 13:<span> </span>A Learning Foundation for Rapid Progress</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Chapter 14:<span> </span>Entrepreneurial Models for Rapid Progress </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Epilogue: Your Role in the 400 Year Project</span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Appendix A: Become a Helpful Book Reviewer</span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Appendix B: Why Are 2,000 Percent Solutions Available for Almost Any Activity?</span></i></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><i><span>Appendix C: How to Have Your Own Optimistic Adventures</span></i></p></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> If you would like to get a brief look, Amazon.com has an excerpt that you can download for 49 cents at </span></span></span></span></span><span class="plogBodyText"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-of-an-Optimist/dp/B000RO9UWI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199235182&sr=1-1<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> If you would like to purchase a paperback copy, Amazon.com has new copies available for $18.99 at<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Optimist-Progress-Project-Improve/dp/1419684981/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199235182&sr=1-2<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span class="plogBodyText"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> If you want to learn more about the 400 Year Project, register for free to read about this work at http://www.fastforward400.com/.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">May God bless you.</span><br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright 2008 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18679573.post-25491290724056938682007-07-05T13:12:00.000-07:002007-07-05T13:27:04.010-07:00Join A Global Contest to Find the Best Way to Help Others Learn How to Create 2,000 Percent Solutions<span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Good morning, 2,000 Percent Solution Creators!<br /><br /><strong>Are you feeling motivated this morning?<br /><br /></strong>I certainly hope so. I know that I am!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Are you ready to help the whole world make improvements at 20 times the usual rate?<br /><br />Here's how you can help:<br /><br />Join my global contest to find the best way to help others learn how to create 2,000 percent solutions.<br /><br />The rules follow:<br /><br />1. You must register by August 31, 2007 by sending an e-mail to ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com with this heading in the subject box: I Want to Register for the Global Contest to Help Others Learn How to Create 2,000 Percent Solutions.<br /><br />2. All registrants will receive free electronic copies of <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook</span> to help in preparing their entries.<br /><br />3. All entries will become the property of Donald W. Mitchell to be used for advancing the 400 Year Project to accelerate global improvements by 20 times during 2015 through 2035.<br /><br />4. Entries must spell out the eight steps in the 2,000 percent solution process for helping others learn how to create 2,000 percent solutions as described in </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook </span>and be less than 5,000 words.<br /><br />5. Entries must be received by September 30, 2007.<br /><br />6. Winners will be announced by press release and in this blog.<br /><br />7. Winners will be invited to become coauthors with me in future books about creating 2,000 percent solutions and will receive a share of the royalties from such books for which they are coauthors.<br /><br />I look forward to reading your good ideas!</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><br /></span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Remember to also visit<br /><br />Live Spiritually Better than a Billionaire at http://livespirituallybetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Enjoy Mansions Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoymansionsbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/,<br /><br />Enjoy Football Better than a Billionaire at http://enjoyfootballbetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/ and<br /><br />Be a World Hero Better than a Billionaire at http://beaworldherobetterthanabillionaire.blogspot.com/.<br /><br /></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">I offer<b> individual on-line tutorials and in-person seminars</b> on creating 2,000 percent solutions (20 times the results with the same effort), developing more profitable business models and designing strategies that work regardless of the business environment. <b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><b>For information, contact me at<br />ultimatecompetitiveadvantage@yahoo.com .</b><br /><br />I am available to you as a speaker on these subjects. You can find my background at http://livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars.blogspot.com/2005_08_30_livebetterthanabillionaireon5dollars_archive.html/.<br /></span><br />May God bless you.<br /><br /><b>Donald W. Mitchell<br />Chairman, Mitchell and Company<br /></b><br />Copyright 2007 Donald W. Mitchell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>Donald Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431572269596756244noreply@blogger.com0