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  - Bonjour de France
  - Monthly contest update!
  - Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success
  - Helpful Organization tips from Kathy Paauw
  - Alex Mandossian’s Virtual Book Tour System
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  - Interview Highlights
• Spotlight Article: "Unexpected Ways to Get What You’ve Asked For"

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Bonjour de France

“Hello from France!”

I am writing this newsletter while on the train from Rennes to Paris. If you have been listening to the i-saga guest interviews each week, then you know that I’ve been in France on and off for a few weeks and will continue here for much of this Summer. I have a client company that I’m helping to achieve its profitability goals with on-site support to the management team over a number of weeks.

This has been an interesting experience for me for a number of reasons. First, while I’ve travelled as an executive, consultant, and speaker to many cities and countries, this is the most I’ve ever been away from my home and family over an extended period of time. Additionally, while I’m learning French, I’m really still at the beginning of my learning process. I do have a number of interesting and funny stories I can share about things I’ve done because I didn’t understand the message on a sign or some of the menu descriptions – the good news is that these have accelerated my learning!

The people here are great and helpful, perhaps because I’m making a genuine effort to speak French. My pronunciation has improved to the point that the few phrases I do speak lead the other person to ask me additional questions very rapidly – to which I have to admit that I do not speak French well enough to understand them.
Once my boys get out of school in June, they will join me in Europe, at their cousins’ house in England, which I will then use as my weekend home (this is a much shorter commute for me!), and perhaps they will have a weekend in France, as well.

To gain insight on the importance of this France experience to me, be sure to read the Spotlight Article in this newsletter, "Unexpected Ways to Get What You’ve Asked For."

May's Monthly Contest Winner!

As a reminder, 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 newsletter page of i-saga.net, I have added a field for people who register to enter the name of the person who told them about 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 May contest winner is Kathy Paauw. She will receive a pre-loaded MP3 player. Congratulations!

This contest is continuing, so please direct people you know to www.i-saga.net/newsletter.php, and make sure they add your name when they sign up, so you’ll get credit. I wish you the best of luck!

Jack Canfield’s Breakthrough to Success

This topic is again in this month’s newsletter, because I want to make sure that you seize the opportunity to join this important, impactful training course. If possible, go with your significant other and business partners, as there will be deeply rooted positive changes for you that just cannot be described – they need to be experienced.

If you are serious about going to Jack’s BTS this August, register today. I just checked with Jack’s office, and it's 90% full, 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!

Personal Organization and Productivity Resources from Kathy Paauw

If you had the opportunity to join us for the interview that I conducted with Kathy Paauw, you know that she is an absolute wiz at helping her clients improve their lives by making some lasting improvements in how they are organized. Unless you are a wiz at this yourself, then I know you gained some helpful tips. (Check out the replay if you missed this live.) Kathy shared some wonderful resources during this interview that will help us all gain sanity as we become more efficient and organized in all paper, electronic, and other areas of our life that need organizing.

As promised during the interview, I want to share these resources here so you can reference them. Please take advantage of the resources Kathy has provided if you want to create more free time in your day and sanity in your life.

Kathy’s website, www.orgcoach.net, includes the resources below, as well as tons more that can help you. Click on the links to find out more:

• Paper Tiger – a reference tool that promises to help you find anything in 5 seconds or less.
  


• EasyReach – a tool that will help you find your electronic files and documents
  


• 43-tab Tickler file – this is hard to find, so Kathy provides one here for you
  

Alex Mandossian’s Virtual Book Tour System

• Are you a current or future author?
• Do you conduct interviews?
• Do you listen to interviews?

If you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, then you will get something out of Alex Mandossian’s Virtual Book Tour System. This is the very training that got me started on conducting teleseminars, taught me the basics of internet marketing, and formed the basis for i-saga.

And, as always, Alex has some great gifts and discounts for people who sign up for his class. Click here for more information or to register.

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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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Unexpected Ways to Get What You’ve Asked For!

I love the basic principles of the Law of Attraction, Ask-Believe-Act-Receive. Once you decide what your goal is, you can use this formula to help ensure that you achieve your goal. About this time last year, I decided that it would be great to learn to speak French. I had a few years of French-class in Middle School, and my wife, Marie’s, dad speaks fluently (he grew up in Maine on the French-Canadian border). So, I set the goal to learn conversational French by the end of this year.

To strengthen my “Believe” state, I created some affirmations and added visuals about France. This included the calendar with photos of Paris that hangs in my office and a map of Paris on the wall in Marie’s office. I included some photos on my mind movie vision board and screen saver (click here to see how cool the mind movie is: Mind Movies - or visit the i-saga.net resources page and click on Visualization and Affirmations), including a couple enjoying each other’s company while sitting outside at a French Café, and, of course, some with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

A number of months ago, I had purchased the Rosetta Stone French training CD-ROMs to learn from my computer (a fantastic training method if you want to learn a foreign language), but I honestly wasn’t using them with any regularity. Developing this new skill needs some regular attention, like training for a marathon – you can’t just “cram for the exam.” You have to work up to it. I was definitely way off pace, because I wasn’t taking the necessary action to achieve this goal. In fact, I was about to renegotiate the goal with myself for perhaps the following year.

I then received a magical email from a business contact who needed my support for an extended period in France. At a different time, I might have decided that this was not a good idea, as I have a family, businesses to attend to, and commitments in the US which overlapped with the timing of this work period. In fact, had I not set the goal of learning to speak conversational French and created all the subconscious triggers (the visualizations and affirmations I mentioned above), then I might have passed this up.

Remember, what happens with the Law of Attraction is that opportunities and resources will show up. It’s up to you to decide if you’re going to act on the opportunities. I decided that it was possible to make this work if I got my family involved, my business partners involved, and could figure out how to manage the commitments. Marie and I spoke about it and decided to do it. And, when the kids get out of school later in June, we’ll have the whole family in Europe for a few weeks.

As for business, I trust my i-saga team to help with the logistical work to keep this newsletter and the weekly interviews going flawlessly – they’re doing a great job. I’ve learned to use Skype for calls that cost me 2 cents/minute (versus the $1.29 from my cell phone) to manage some of my other business responsibilities.

And for my personal and work commitments, I have my flight schedules planned from now through mid-August, which will get me where I need to be.

So back to the title of this article, “Be Careful What You Ask For – You Might Get It” …

Not only did I “ask” for this experience, it’s coming alive exactly as I subconsciously created it. I was walking around Paris and took the traditional tourist route from my hotel near Place Victor Hugo and was soon at Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysees. At Place de la Concorde, I turned North and ventured toward sections of Paris I had never had the opportunity to experience. Soon I had found le Moulin Rouge and decided in my wandering that I would walk up to Sacre Coeur. I zigged and zagged up streets and then discovered a series of shops and restaurants that continued up the hill even higher. This soon opened to a very interesting square of cafés on all sides called Place du Tertre. I was reading the menu for the covered seating on the right, then turned left, and there it was. The very table of the café that is on my mind movie (vision board) that I created when I decided I wanted to go to Paris. I was standing in the exact spot from which the photograph was taken. I went numb – could it be the same place? After all, there are hundreds if not thousands of cafés in Paris and I stumbled upon the exact one that I chose to represent the Paris café experience to me.

Well, I did compare the photo I took of this location with the one on my mind movie (vision board). There’s absolutely no question – this is the same place. What’s next is for me to return here with Marie, as that is ultimately what I want to experience – Marie and I playfully speaking French while enjoying a drink or meal at La Mere Catherine.

There have been so many little experiences like this that have led to me being here in the first place that I’m beginning to appreciate the true power of Ask-Believe-Act-Receive. There is no question in my mind that when you ask with clarity for what you want and set your goals, then follow the steps to strengthen your belief and take the inspired actions as you’re directed, then you, too, will develop the ability to achieve any goal you have and will achieve the levels of success you ask for.

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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