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• i-saga Updates
  - A note of gratitude
  - Announcing – a monthly contest!
  - Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success
  - Bike and Build riders – Special guest interview
  - Alex Mandossian’s Virtural Book Tour System
• i-saga Guest Interviews
  - Calendar
  - Interview Highlights
• Spotlight Article: High Intention, Low Attachment – an exercise in “Letting Go”

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A note of gratitude

Many of you know that gratitude helps you to stay in the right vibrational state that is consistent with abundance thinking. This helps you attract (from a Law of Attraction standpoint) and manifest the things in your life that you’re looking to create. With that in mind, I want to follow the practice of sharing a note of gratitude with two groups of people.

First, I appreciate you, the members of the i-saga community. The Institute of Success and Goal Achievement is only able to achieve its goals of helping individuals, businesses, and entrepreneurs to define what they want to achieve (and help them to achieve exactly that), if there is an active community of people who are benefiting from the services.

Second, I’d like to acknowledge the guests that I interview each week, especially those from the early days of i-saga, when on occasion I was 2 days away from the scheduled weekly interview and I didn’t know who I was interviewing on Friday. You helped in those moments of my “mad scramble.” I now have quite a backlog of speakers, authors, business people, etc. who have incredible success stories to share with us to help accelerate the achievement our own successes as we create our own stories. For all of my past and future guests, I am sincerely grateful to have the opportunity to interview you.

I encourage each of you to follow the practice of gratitude and think of at least one thing each day that you are grateful for. Watch how this daily practice will help you redefine your perspective toward abundance in all areas of your life, no matter what your starting point may be.

Announcing - a monthly contest!

I am thrilled to let you know that I am beginning a contest each month. As you know, I am striving to reach thousands of people with the Institute of Success and Goal Achievement. I have created a way for you to help get the word out, and I will reward you for helping.

On the i-saga.net newsletter page, I have added a field for people who register to add the name of the person who referred them to i-saga. As you tell your family, friends, and co-workers about i-saga, be sure to ask them to put your name in this field. Each month, the person who has the most referrals will win that month’s contest.

The winner of the contest for this coming month will receive a pre-loaded MP3 player. I will put some of my favorite i-saga interviews on it for you to listen to at your leisure.
Direct people you know to www.i-saga.net/newsletter.php, and make sure they add your name here, too, so you’ll get credit. Good luck!

Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success

Although I included this section in the last newsletter, as well, I think it’s important, as many of the i-saga community have expressed interest in this event, and I don’t want you to miss it.

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.
As you know, I strongly recommend 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. So, if you are serious about going to Jack’s BTS this August, it will be full soon. I just checked with Jack’s office, and there are only 45 seats left, so move quickly if you want to go! Click this link now:

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!

Bike and Build riders – Special guest interview

In last month’s newsletter, I shared with you about the two friends who are riding their bikes from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Cannon Beach, Oregon, this Summer. I want to give you an update about their trip.

On May 6th, we had a special edition of i-saga to interview Alana Grainsky, Emily Smith, and special guest – i-saga alum Jamar Cobb-Denard.

This interview was fun because we heard first-hand about Alana and Emily’s ambitious goal for the Summer – to bike across the US and contribute their time and talent to help with the affordable housing crisis as part of the Bike and Build organization. Then, we bantered with Jamar about his experiences from the cross-US bike ride he did. I know you’ll enjoy hearing this again.

If you missed this interview, you can catch the replay. There are some bonus giveaways that you can learn about and have access to when you listen to this replay. Enjoy!

Also, during their ride, we will have periodic updates from them to hear how things are going. Stay tuned to the weekly i-saga interviews to hear more.

Alex Mandossian’s Virtual Book Tour System

If you’ve been part of any of Alex Mandossian’s trainings before, then you know they are full of great content and rich with practical information. I have been through his Virtual Book Tour System training and this is what actually helped me begin conducting my teleseminars and guest interviews. In fact, my first author interview was with Jess Kennedy Williams over a year ago for her new book.

Alex has conducted a lot of Virtual Book Tours, and he’s making some of his favorite recordings available to you. Also, he is planning to offer this course again soon, so if you’re an author, like to interview authors, or love to listen to these interviews, then keep a look out…

Learn more here.

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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.

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High Intention, Low Attachment – an exercise in “Letting Go”

This is an easy concept to grasp – until you’re in a situation where nothing seems to be working. Then, it’s not so easy at all – until you actually have a couple of successes using this principle. Let me show you what I mean.

The basic idea is to set your goals and go after them with “high intention”. This means that you have clarity about what you want, you visualize the goals as already complete, and you program your subconscious mind to work toward finding creative ways to achieve the goals using what’s called affirmations and positive self-talk. When you do all this, you put out the intent to the universe that you will successfully achieve this goal.

So far, so good, right?

"Low attachment" means to relax and let resources line up to help you. If you’re open and relaxed, then it’s easy to recognize opportunities, even the most subtle signals, as they present themselves to you. This is also known as the idea of “letting go”.

To see how this works, let’s review the opposite. Imagine a situation when you’re intense about your goals to the point that they are beginning to stress you out. You obsess, staying up late thinking about that which you want. Because you’re tired and stressed out, things seem to spiral in the wrong direction and get worse, not better. (Raise your hand if this has ever happened to you.)

One example of this might be the girl (or guy) in her late 20s who is single and sees all her friends getting married. She desperately decides she needs to meet Mr. Right, but she can’t land a lasting relationship. Contrast this with the time when she’s completely at peace with her independence and confident in being who she is, and then happens to meet the man of her dreams. Perhaps you’ve heard the story of someone who found their spouse when they were not looking for a relationship?

To illustrate further, here’s my recent situation. In my business, I have service lines where I have revenue in exchange for my actual time (consulting, coaching), and I have other service lines that are products and services that will yield sizable future revenue. In the recent past, I had focused on these future business lines and allowed my working capital to drop below comfortable levels. I was okay with this because I had a multi-month consulting project lined up that was starting shortly and would replenish my bank account.

Well, that project was delayed, followed by reduction in scope, and finally indefinite postponement due to the client's internal issues. I suddenly found that the income I had expected was no longer going to arrive on time to keep me comfortable. My immediate reaction? PANIC! Honestly, it only lasted for about 24 hours, but during that time I was thrown into the pit of despair (I think that was in a movie) and suddenly I wasn’t sure how I would pay the next set of bills.

The next morning I decided that the “how” didn’t matter (a key principle of high intention and low attachment), only that I had the clear intent to replace the income with a new client. I was genuinely relaxed about this and simply “let go”. As I completed a workout and my daily meditation (which cleared my mind and relaxed me), I visualized the perfect client situation and then thought of a few people in my network to send emails to and let them know that I had space on my calendar free up.

The next morning, I had an email requesting my help on a multiple month assignment that would begin immediately. Now that’s more like it!

What happened? By letting go and not being so attached to “how” I would achieve this, I had changed my vibrational state to align with that which I was trying to create, which then allowed it to show up. In the panic state I was previously in, there was no way that I would have attracted anything other than more reason to panic.

Now this takes practice, patience, and coaching (I have had all three). It also helps to trust that it works, and to journal about these stories when they occur. I share my personal story because I want to demonstrate that even though we all go through these unexpected changes, there is a way out, even if the way is not clear to us at the time.

Practice high intention, then let go of needing to know exactly how your intent will be realized, and take the actions that seem right to you. And as you have wins, please write to tell me about them.

To your highest success,

Pete Winiarski

Note: This article is published concurrent to the newsletter as a blog posting on the i-saga.net blog, SuccessStoriesBlog.net. Please visit the blog and post a comment to let us know your thoughts about this article.

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