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April 2008
The Institute of Success and Goal Achievement, at www.i-saga.net, is an organization that I founded to help people like you define what success means to you, and gives you access to great resources to accelerate your goal achievement. I encourage you to visit often and make i-saga part of your toolbox to help you create your story.
 

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Special Thanks

I am so excited that I have finally delivered this newsletter to the i-saga community! Man, did I learn a few things along the way, as took longer to produce than I thought. I am truly grateful for the help and support of my team behind the scenes, especially Terry Green, Connie McVicker, and Julie Ensor. Without them, I’d still be scratching my head trying to figure out where to start.

Visit the blog, “Success Stories”

I want to introduce you to the Institute of Success and Goal Achievement’s blog called Success Stories. You can find it by visiting SuccessStoriesBlog.net, or going to the blog page on i-saga.net. I’ll post regularly to the blog, including short summaries of the guest interviews each week.

Additionally, there are places for you to post to tell your business or individual success stories. Here’s what I invite you to do: as you listen to the weekly guest interview, go to that particular blog posting and comment about the guests, their topics, and any insights you may have gained. And do read comments placed by others, as we want to build a community that shares their stories and learns from each other.

While you’re thinking of it, please visit the blog now and reply and comment about any posting there. It’s also a great way to share your thoughts about what i-saga is doing and how being part of the i-saga community has helped you.

Website updates and replay status

If you have not had the opportunity to surf the new i-saga site, please visit and take a look around. This is now a site that is designed to add value for the i-saga community with information and updates, great content that changes regularly, and useful resources that can have a positive impact on you immediately.

The calendar page and the Guest Interviews section of this newsletter will soon replace the multiple emails you currently get from info@i-saga.net each week. We’ll overlap for a short while to give you a chance to develop the habit of looking at the calendar weekly and enjoying this newsletter, but the volume of emails will decrease significantly.

As for the replays, we will continue to have these available on the unique links that we share for each week’s interview for a week after the live interview. So if you miss the live interview you can still catch these for free. After that time, we will have them archived on the replay page. We’re still working on the logistics for this, so for the time being we’re keeping all the links active.

Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success

Many of you know that Jack Canfield is one of my mentors, and that I am part of his Platinum Inner Circle group that meets with him four times a year. Last July, my wife, Marie, and I attended his Breakthrough to Success training. It is nothing short of life changing, game changing, business changing, etc. – you will completely transform who you are from the inside out to enable you to accomplish any goal you can dream up.

I strongly recommend that you attend this training. If possible, go with your significant other, as there will be deeply-rooted, positive changes for you that just cannot be described – they need to be experienced.

Many of you have told me you’d love to go. If you are serious about going to Jack’s BTS this August, it will be full soon. I know it was about 80% full before they started to market it a few weeks ago, so my expectation is that you will have only a few weeks before you’ll be stuck on the waiting list.

For more info about this incredible experience, please visit Breakthrough to Success Seminar 2008.

You can also find information on the i-saga.net Resources Page .

I will be there as part of the support staff and would love to meet you. Please come and say hello!

Support needed for Bike & Build riders

Two friends Alana Grainsky and Emily Smith are about to embark on an amazing adventure and need your help. Read on to see how you can support them and a very important issue in the US.

Through the organization Bike & Build, they will be joining 28 other young adults on a cross-country cycling trip from Virginia Beach, VA and end in Cannon Beach, OR to benefit affordable housing efforts. While on the road they will meet with members of the communities they pass though, tell them about the trip and the affordable housing crisis, and help them become involved in efforts to alleviate the problem. There will also be several days where they trade their bikes for hammers and help construct homes with affordable housing organizations such as Rebuilding Together and Habitat for Humanity.

In order to participate in Bike & Build each cyclist must raise in excess of $4,000. The proceeds from this trip will be used to fund young adult affordable housing projects. More than just providing the riders with an incredible opportunity, a large portion of each donation will directly impact the affordable housing issue. With Alana and Emily, I ask that you support them and Bike & Build by making a tax deductible contribution. Your donation will have an incredible impact on the affordable housing landscape throughout the country.

It is very easy to do – visit BikeAndBuild.org, click on the “donate” button, and in the drop down list that says “select a rider” (next to the Continue button), scroll down to select their names, Alana Grainsky and Emily Smith.

Additionally, I will have a special i-saga interview with Alana and Emily prior to them leaving on this trip. I will send details separately so you know when this will be, as it will not be a normal Friday interview. This will have some special surprises, so you won’t want to miss it. We’ll keep you posted!

 

Calendar

 
   
Apr 25

Rich Hopkins –
Rich Hopkins Speaks

Are you making Exceptional Choices – or are you living with the status quo – accepting your current circumstances as ‘good enough’? Have you ever had an employee that does just enough to keep their job? A department that does just enough to be overlooked by annual reviews? A relationship, ailment, or annoyance that you choose to live with because you can’t imagine living without?

Could an Exceptional Choice…

  • transform the way you do business?
  • help you discover what you’ve been settling for?
  • create a better life than you ever thought possible?

Then join us on April 25 when Rich Hopkins will provide you with the tools, instructions, and inspiration to examine your circumstances and make your own Leap from Acceptable to Exceptional, tools he has gathered and mastered over a lifetime of experience.

TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, go to this unique i-saga Webcast Page

   
May 2

Tiffany Wright –
Toca Family Publishing

Join us as Tiffany Wright shares with us how she provides small business owners with the knowledge and tools to help them tap the bevy of financial resources available and effectively manage their business and finances.

Tiffany’s spirited talks remove the mystery from financing and make the topic compelling and fun. Tiffany, the author of Solving the Capital Equation: Financing Solutions for Small Businesses, reaches audiences via speaking engagements, online consulting, workshops, articles, and a monthly column in a construction newspaper.

TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, go to this unique i-saga Webcast Page

   
May 9

Fred Johnson –
Fred Johnson Productions

Those who have seen Fred Johnson before know that few words can describe what he does with music to inspire listeners. Just know that he’s amazing! I have had the pleasure of meeting Fred through some of Jack Canfield’s events, and he really knows how to tap into our internal energy. Fred helps people all over the world with his “singing affirmations” and workshops with his unique way to help us release blocks and enable our success through vibrating energy.

You won’t experience anything like this anywhere else – I promise! Join us May 9th.

TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, go to this unique i-saga Webcast Page

   




These Interviews are every Friday at 11AM Eastern Time. The dial in info is
_________

Remember, there is phone
capacity for only 200 people,
so you may wish to webcast-
You’ll need the unique link
in the calendar section.


Want to Ask the Guest a
Question?

You can submit a question
ahead of the interview when you visit the Webcast Page for that event.

Interview Highlights

Please visit the Success Stories Blog for highlights of recent interviews. You can hear the replay on the unique links that were shared with you in the email announcements, or you can find the unique links from the i-saga.net Calendar Page.

 

Progress, Not Perfection

While still young, i-saga is moving from its early phases to become more mature. Much like a young adult, this organization has a lot of energy and excitement, but also tons of room to grow to reach its full potential.

As I’ve learned (and am still learning) in all areas of my life, it’s important to follow a philosophy of “Progress, not Perfection”. The Institute of Success and Goal Achievement has followed this well, and as a result has been building a great resource for the rapidly growing community. I love the quote from Winston Churchill, “Waiting for perfection breeds paralysis”. Thank goodness I managed to “just start”, despite knowing that i-saga was far from perfect in its early days.

When I did start the Institute of Success and Goal Achievement, it had what I would consider a sub-par website and insufficient content. I had a vision of where I was going but didn’t have everything lined up perfectly how I wanted. I could have delayed … and delayed … and delayed until everything was perfect before scheduling that first guest interview, but I knew in my gut and in my heart that it was time to stop making excuses and get i-saga launched even if all the support wasn’t where I wanted it.

I did exactly that – I just started, knowing that things would begin to fall into place. I modified the guest interview format into one that I now know (from tons of helpful feedback) adds value for the audience. I changed the look of the website from bare bones to a little more than bare bones, to finally doing a complete site redesign that is much closer to my original vision. Progress, not perfection, and keep building as you get new ideas, new feedback, or new inspiration.

So, it was recently out with the old i-saga site, and in with the new. The improved site is one that allows you (the i-saga community) a place to visit frequently, as there is new content and updates here regularly. You can get information about the guest interviews and special links on the calendar page, you can get access to the replays (coming soon!), there are some terrific proven success resources to help accelerate your progress toward your goals, and of course the blog page that is meant to give you a way to interact regularly with me and with the community.

I hope you’re as excited as I am about all these new features, and encourage you to save i-saga.net as a favorite and add it as one of your home pages (easy to do with the newer versions of explorer) – you’ll want to come back for a glance at the calendar, blog, and other sections at least weekly.

Thank you for being part of the Institute of Success and Goal Achievement, and for helping make i-saga.net the premier success resource on the web.

To your highest success,

Pete Winiarski

Note: I want to give special recognition to i-saga guest Edith Sieg for a great discussion we recently had about “Progress, not Perfection”, and for pointing out that I have made great strides with i-saga in such a short period of time because I was willing to let go of perfection. Thank you!


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