Ed Ellis Ramblins'

Serial Entrepreneur Newsletter
Apology For my Technical Mistake
May 23, 2010
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I am truly excited with the technology of today, but as it has been said, garbage in equals garbage out. Well, yesterday I sent some more Ramblins' and messed up and not one of the hundreds I send were properly addressed or had the pictures I laid out. Human error always over powers technology... So never being one to miss an opportunity I wrote some more.

Living an Extraordinary Life
Reach success

Edward V Ellis, Sr. -2010

Do you want to live an extraordinary life? Do you want to live successfully? Do you want to have financial freedom and live a superb lifestyle that you always dream about?

If your answer is a yes, this will be the perfect article for you. I'm going to share with you the5 keys to living an extraordinary life.

Most people never even thought about living an extraordinary life. That is why most people are living an ordinary life. If you want to be successful, you must first have the heart and the desire to be successful.

If you don't have the desire, you will never achieve it.

So the first key to living an extraordinary life is...

Key 1 - Have a Burning Desire

It is just like what I mentioned above, you need to have the desire that you want to be successful in order to achieve it. Think about it, if you don't have the desire, will you achieve it?

The answer is very obvious. Why do you buy a lottery ticket? It is because you want to win the prize. You have a desire to win the prize and that is why you buy it.

And if your desire is not strong enough, you will never buy it. It is only when you have a strong desire about something; you will do it with your full force and make it happen.

This is the most important key that you must possess if you want to create amazing results in your life.

Key 2 - Have a Clear Vision

You cannot hit a target that you cannot see. Thus, what you need is a target, a vision, and a goal. As long as you know what you want to accomplish in your life, you can then move toward that direction and take yourself there when time come.

If you don't know what you want, how are you going to achieve it? If you study the biography of every successful person in this world, you will notice that they all possess this trait. They know exactly what they want. They can see in their mind the kind of result they want to attain in the future.

So know what you want to accomplish in your life. Create plans and write down all the goals that you are going to achieve in the future.

Key 3 - Be an Avid Learner

An extraordinary person is an avid learner. No matter which field you are in, if you want to be extraordinary in that field, you must be an avid learner and constantly improve yourself there.

For example, someone who is very successful in real estate is willing to learn, talk, and get latest news about the real estate industry. An extraordinary teacher always thinks about his or her students, willing to learn more and improve the quality of their students. They are willing to talk about the issue that their students face and work out solutions together with others.

Learning is one of the most important keys to your long-term success. Learning may seem like a tedious and mundane job, but over the long-term, the powerful impact that you are going to get from it is huge.

Key 4 - Have Passion

Do you have the passion to be extraordinary in your field and in your life? Some people don't have the passion to be extraordinary in their industry and life. They will just work according to their task. They work because they had to or because their boss asks them to. They will never work because of their passion.

Think about it, if you work in the office and you don't have the passion in your work, you will never improve. Passion is life. If you want to have more life in your life, you will have to pump in passion into it.

Most people will work during day time and when night fall, they will just go back home and watch television and then go to bed. They make it a routine that they think they HAVE to do it.

Let me tell you, you don't have to do it. In fact, you don't have to go to work. It is your choice and your decision that will lead you to the kind of life that you are going to live. You can decide to quit your job tomorrow if you want to; the choice is in your hand.

And if you tell yourself that you don't have a choice and you need to work, why don't you just pump in some passion into it since you have made the choice that you are going to work?

Key 5 - Determination and Commitment

Do you have the determination to keep on doing it even if you hit a setback? Do you have the commitment to follow through and make what you have promised yourself come true?

Successful and extraordinary people have both the determination to never give up and the commitment to do it until they achieve the results they desire. Do you have this kind of determination and commitment as well?

If you do, congratulations, you are about to live your dream life and achieve all the goals that you have set.

These are the 5 keys to living an extraordinary life, how many keys do you have at hand right now?

Never stop reaching...

Ramblins' From Ed 5-22-2010

Some People Think Success is Based on Luck, What do you Think?

Edward V Ellis, Sr. - 2010

Friend, do you think success require luck?

You can always voice your opinion through the comment section, what do you think about this question?

For me, success is 95% perspiration and 5% luck.

For me it is more like opportunity meets preparation. If you never put in effort, how is it possible that success will come to you?

Even if you win a lottery, it is because you take the action to buy the lottery ticket in the first place. If you did not do it, you will never win the lottery; someone else may have won it, but not you.

I don’t know what you think about it, do you think that successful people such as Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs and so on and so forth are lucky?

Well, maybe they are.

However, if they don’t have the determination and commitment to take massive action in their lives, they will not be the successful people that you know right now.

Take Michael Jordan for example; do you think he is gifted with the talent to play excellent basketball?

Not at all! He became gifted in basketball because he poured in tons and tons of effort to train himself to be the greatest in it.

In other words, he made himself gifted. He made himself excellent. He made himself successful!

And of course, with a little bit of luck, he grabbed the opportunity and became the best basketball player. If he is not ready and not prepared, do you think the opportunity will find him?

You know the answer very well. Even if he has the opportunity to at international level, but if he does not have the skill and preparation, he will never make it.

The same goes for every other successful person in this world.

You cannot win a lottery without owning a lottery ticket with you. It is impossible that money will fall from the sky. Success will not come to you overnight.

It is not like one day you wake up and you have a million dollar in the bank and find yourself sleeping in a bungalow with 2 Benz in the garage. This is not fairy tale.

So the lesson is this, you need to do something to achieve what you want in your life.

Seriously, success will never come to you if you are not doing anything about it.

Even if you are super lucky, you buy a lottery ticket and you win a million dollar, do you think you know how to handle this huge amount of money?

And because you are not prepared for this, very soon, you will lose all the money that you have won.

If you read the book, The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley, you will understand what I mean. Inheritance wealth will not stay long with those who do not have the skill to manage it.

If your goal is to be a star tennis player so that you can compete in the international level, but if you don’t have the skill, you will never stay long in the course.

The solution is…

Make Yourself the Person That You Dream About

Yes, you need to prepare yourself to be the person that you dream about if you want to be who you want to be in your life.

It is just like if you want to be a great golfer, you need to make yourself, train yourself, learn and improve, act, think, and breathe like a pro golfer before you can finally become one.

Without the quality, the confidence, the habit, behavior, skill, ability, mindset, belief and thinking about the person you want to be, you will never be the person you want to be.

This is why almost every successful person encourages you to read more books and learn from guru in your field. When you read more, you will think and act just like the person you want to be.

And sooner or later, you will end up become the person that you desire to be.

To make it short, you have to model the person you want to be.

If you want to be rich, find a mentor that you like and read and model everything he or she does.

If you want to be a great teacher, find out every bit of information regarding how to teach and how to be a good teacher. After that, model the techniques and take action to be one.

It is the same in every field.

If you want to be a great student, learn and model the best study technique, and you will find your grades improve in no time.

That’s the way it works. This is how you can achieve your goals, make your dreams come true and be successful in your life.

Back to the question, do you still think that success require luck?