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A Path To Success
A Path to Success™, a success training institute, facilitates structured programs to provide the tools necessary to success for individuals, entrepreneurs, organizations, and professionals to succeed and fulfill their dreams.
Our programs can dramatically transform your life, career or business! With our Four Pillars of Success Program, you will also learn communication, leadership, team-building, goal setting, time management, and many other useful skills to propel your life forward and realize your potential.

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Learn the Seven Secret Steps to Setting and Achieving Goals Webinar

You can achieve anything you want; IF you put your mind to it and your heart behind it. The tricky part is choosing a goal that will allow you to accomplish your tasks within a reasonable time. The goal you seek to achieve should allow you to accomplish your tasks without disrupting or offsetting your life too dramatically. Please join us for 90 minutes on Thursday, January 20th, 2010 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (PT)

The 7 Steps to Setting and Achieving Goals Webinar discusses seven main steps to setting achieving goals in an effective and efficient manner. You will be given some insights on setting and achieving your goals. Allowing you to become more effective in achieving what you want in the time you want.

Onward,

Carlos Rafael Cruz, President and Founder

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“To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emereson

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Purpose: The purpose of this webinar is to provide you with an undestanding a deeper process behind setting and outlining goals and how to apply it in everyday life.
This webinar also include an intro the the Four Pillars to Success™ Program.

Designed for: Individuals and professionals who are looking to:

• set “high-yield goals”


• set realistically achievable goals


• develop goal-setting habits and attitudes


• attain higher and more productive results throughout life

Participants will leave this webinar with the ability to:

• Create a proper mindset


• Master defining goals


• Gain an active sense of value


• Create more balance in their life


• Become more organized and focused

Investment:

• Guide and Workbook included


• Copy of recording will be available for attendees

Duration:

• 90 minutes: Thursday, January 20th, 2010


• 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (PT) / 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (MT)
  
  1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (CT) / 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (ET)

Webinar Leader:
Carlos Rafael Cruz, president and founder of A Path to Success™, a success training institute, has been speaking, writing and conducting training programs on the topic of time management, organization, goal achievement and success for over 10 years. He is the author of The Big Book on Achieving Large Goals: Your personal workbook and companion devoted to helping you focus on planning and achieving your goals.

For more information on our programs, webinars and workshops, please go to http://www.apathtosuccess.com/workshops-and-webinars.htm

A Path To Success
A Path to Success™, a success training institute, facilitates structured programs to provide the tools necessary to success for individuals, entrepreneurs, organizations, and professionals to succeed and fulfill their dreams.
Our programs can dramatically transform your life, career or business! With our Four Pillars of Success Program, you will also learn communication, leadership, team-building, goal setting, time management, and many other useful skills to propel your life forward and realize your potential.

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Ask-the-Evening Coach Independence Session

Our conversation for this session of Ask-the-Evening Coach is related to Independence, Neva from Baltimore, Maryland writes One of my goals for this year is to become more independent from my estranged spouse. As well as become friends with him at the same time. This might sound contradictory – I hope not. What do you think Carlos?

Neva, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to become independent or are you trying to maintain a connection between you and your estranged spouse with the hopes of something eventually rekindling again? Are you aware that you became estranged because one if not both of you have grown apart from each other? The affection is lost and the magic is gone. Whatever events took place brought you to where you are now, alienated, unaffectionate, and emotionally torn. Torn between two emotions, The emotion of wanting to get away and to be free again, and the emotion of still wanting maintain that connection you built over the years.

It is not easy to walk away from someone you have connected with. It never is, and it never will be for either person. No matter how much you both loved and then hated each other, there will be a part of you both that will miss the connection developed and the life you shared. You need to learn to accept the fact that you are walking a newfound freedom that you have not felt in a very long time. You will have to start learning how to tear down and sever those emotional bonds you took so long to build up.

I would not recommend trying to do anything that would give you the false impression that there still may be a chance. You are only looking to create more problems for yourself down the road. If you end up meeting someone who is in sync with you, part of you will still be connected to your estranged spouse. And if you are not able to wholeheartedly give yourself to whomever you meet, then you are bound to repeat the cycle. That is not a healthy way to live.

In order for you to become more independent from you estranged spouse, you will need to keep yourself busy and interact with other people. Emotions are strong and they don’t dissipate easily. Your challenges will come when you are alone and relaxed and when you allow your mind to wander. Your mind will more than likely always reflect on the strongest emotional memories you have. And right now, it seems they will all lead to your estranged spouse.

I would not recommend that you get involved with someone else. You would be substituting someone else to fill the part of your estranged spouse as you begin to transfer your feelings from your estranged spouse to your newfound love. This doesn’t benefit anyone in the long run. Find something you can become passionate about. Something you see results from and something that will give you the satisfaction to bring up your lowered self-esteem.

If you are wondering when you will know if you are completely over him, simply imagine him with someone else. If you find yourself become emotional about it, say for instance, sad, angry or depressed, then you still have deep emotional connections. I’m not saying grow cold toward him, but you do want to accept the fact that you two are no longer one spirit in mind and heart. Remember that time will heal all wounds.

Once you are able to convince yourself that removing the bonds that held you both together is best for you, then the option for friendship will arise. For the most part, you cannot become “just friends” after maintaining an intimate relationship for many years. You don’t need luck in this endeavor, you just need focus on what is best for your mental health and your future. You will overcome only if you are willing to do so. It is not the end of the world and you will eventually meet someone else who will fulfill your needs. So just keep your head up high, smile because you are happy, and be happy because you are in control of your life living for yourself and not for someone else’s benefit.

Ask-the-Evening-Coach w/Transformational Success Coach Carlos Rafael Cruz

Ask-the-Evening Coach is a program is dedicated to enriching, empowering, and forwarding the growth of your life, career, or business, by answering your questions to overcome your obstacles or challenges in life.

If you have a question you would like to ask your Evening-Coach, then visit our website at www dot A Path To Success dot com to submit your question. I always welcome your feedback, comments and any suggestion you may have. Be sure to attend our next session of Ask-the-Evening Coach.

Carlos Rafael Cruz is a Transformational Success Coach, Speaker and Author of the “The Big Book on Achieving LARGE GOALS”. Carlos, of A Path To Success, is a master of getting people focused, organized and passionate about succeeding in life and in work.

Carlos is able to engage people to help them make direct and meaningful changes in their lives.

For more information on keynotes and workshops or to book Carlos for a speaking engagement, contact us by visiting www.apathtosuccess.com.

Do you Need Advice or Direction?

Dear Growth Seeker:

I hope things are going well for you in these challenging economic times. With February already upon us, I would like to know how you are doing with working toward your goals? Is it coming easy for you? Are you discovering obstacles? Are you unsure about how to overcome them? Or are things going well? Are you looking for ways to do things more efficiently?

How would you like me to help you increase your chances for success and fulfillment for 2009? I would like to invite you to send me your most pressing question and join me for our Ask-the-Evening Coach tele-seminar. This seminar dedicated to your success and your future.

If you are not a regular attendee of these monthly tele-clinics, then you are missing out on invaluable information to help move you forward. Ask any question, you have nothing to lose and tons to gain.

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About this Seminar

Ask-the-Evening Coach is a member generated content-rich call. Let me use my experience and expertise to answer as many of your questions as I can. This is just one more tool for you to use so you can create a more success-driven and fulfilling future for yourself. If you have never participated, now is your chance to listen to this intensive monthly call and get ready to take in as many new ideas as possible on how to create success for yourself.

Even if you cannot attend the tele-seminar, consider registering to receive the information on how you can download a recording of the tele-seminar. You have nothing to lose and lots to gain concerning your future!

Information for attendees:

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WHAT: Ask Your Evening Coach 45-minute tele-training

DATE: Wednesday, February 11th (10 am PST / 1 pm EST)

COST: No-cost for the LIVE call (option to download a recording of the tele-seminar)

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I look forward to hearing you on the call.

Onward,
Carlos Rafael Cruz, CEO and Founder, A Path To Success

Rules for Managing Your Life

How do you feel about the world around you? Do you feel as if you are alone and isolated, lost in the vast expanse of space? Do you feel choked and constricted by the pressures and stresses that exist in your life? No matter what you feel, you are not where you are supposed to be. And that is at ease and in balance.

What do you think about after you wake up in the morning and before you go to bed in the evening? How many of those thoughts that you have carry a negative connotation? Carrying a negative thought has the ability to dominate your thought process. It also has the ability to control how you will live and plan your life.

If you find yourself having more negative thoughts than positive, you are probably letting the environment around you control and dictate how you live life. This doesn’t happen overnight. This process is incremental. Little by little, the small bothersome things that you disregard as unimportant have accumulated because you have not properly dealt with them. And when you allow yourself to get to this point, your behaviors and your attitude will change accordingly. How you carry your thoughts will determine what road you will take in life.

The Decision

Are you willing to make the decisions necessary to make things happen in your life? More than likely you are in this negative state because you failed to make a decision to do anything in the first place. The first thing you should understand is that when you don’t do anything, there is no change. Change happens when you cause it or because you allow it.

You need to be willing to confront, and deal with whatever you have been ignoring for this long. You begin the process by making the decision to start thinking positive. Find a way to turn your thoughts into a positive thought. If you are worried about finances, stop yourself from worrying about finances. Instead, concern yourself with options that can overcome your financial misfortunes. Any thought that is negative can be made positive. You will have to decide to make that first change. Otherwise, any further guidance will not matter.

Many find my observations as a catalyst for change in their life, but it is up to you to keep your flame of passion for self-improvement burning.

Foolishness is Expensive

Being foolish doesn’t necessarily mean you are dumb. It simply means that the decisions you made lacked good sense. For whatever reason, when you had the chance to make a sound decision, you chose not to. It happens to all of us, it is not worth beating yourself up for. You may have the tendency to start beating yourself up once you discover how you didn’t make the best decisions you could have. All you have to do is acknowledge the mistake and move on. Pondering the past will only add to the negativity you are trying to rid yourself of.

The sooner you convince yourself of the benefit to start making wise decisions, you will start to save ________. This can be emotionally, physically or financially. Foolish decisions will always cost you. Some of these decisions may not cost you too much, some will cost a lot and you may feel it for years to come.

Sound Investments

If you want to start making sound investment decisions in your life, you will need to become as focused as possible consistent with what you want to achieve. Making sound investment decisions requires only that you complete three objectives. These objectives are Recognition, Intention and Mission.

When you begin, you will need to recognize two points. The first point and most importantly, is that you NEED to make a modification in your life. You are not recognizing that you necessarily have a problem. Simply, that you need to modify the way you are currently living your life. The second point is identifying what needs modification in your life. For you to properly recognize what needs to be modified, you will need to identify where you believe the problems are. Grab a pen and pad and write down the top five things you are not satisfied with in your life. By doing this you are recognizing that you need to modify the way you do things in your life. Some may want to modify things immediately. Others, may want to stop being dormant and complacent with decisions which require action.

When you write down your top five, make sure the points you are listing are points that you have control over. I’ll write it again, make sure you have control over what you need to modify in your life. This is very important, because many will write down things related to change at a community, city, state, federal, or global level. I would highly recommend that you NOT do this. Concern yourself with YOU. If you are not sure how you should prioritize your life, let me provide some assistance. I believe that in order to properly get and keep yourself on your path, your focus should be kept on: (1) Yourself, (2) Your Family, (3) Your Obligations, (5) Your Friends & Neighbors, (6) Your Community and so forth. If you are not at an optimal level in your life then you cannot be an asset to anyone else. Adequate balance in your life will allow you the ability to properly care for others.

Once you have written down your top five. Briefly describe why and/or how you believe you have ended up here. You need to be able to write this in a paragraph. The explanation needs to be short and focused. If you continue to write without limitation, it is likely that you will write pages and probably lose your objective.

Intention & Mission Investments

With your first objective completed, you will have to decide what it is that you need to do. Do you need to modify a habit? Learn to take action? Or increase ability by further educating yourself in a particular area in your life? Your answer is in front you. It will usually be the inversion of what you just wrote down. This is where we go from negative influences to positive reinforcement. On a separate page, for each negative point you wrote down, write down what you want to achieve. It shouldn’t be anymore than a sentence or a few words. You should write it in an action form. It should begin with “I will. . .” There is no need to begin your sentences with anything else. I believe “I will,” says it all. This identifies which person is responsible for the action and that person is YOU. It shows that an action will be taken. Not an action that you wish to take or will eventually take, or will hopefully want to take. “I will” is a definitive statement.

Your mission statement will be the most difficult of all your objectives. Here you will have to force yourself to find your solution. You will have to compare what you have done in the past and how you will need to change it in order to make the necessary change. Don’t think you have to do this alone. Feel free to talk with other members of your family, your friends, or your neighbors. You already know what you want to achieve and you have a very good idea of how you got there. Seek others to help you overcome challenges in your life.

Once you know what you want to do, you will need to reorganize your points into bullet points. Each point representing a step or a milestone you have to achieve in order to accomplish your goal.

Quality of Life

You deserve to live a life a happiness, joy, prosperity, love and understanding. But you can only live this life if you maintain a positive mindset and a well-balanced life. Don’t be fooled by thinking that just because you ignore a malady that it will go away on its own. It won’t. It will find a way back to you and more than likely it will bring company when you least expect it. We live in a nation where we do not have to concern ourselves with the basic worries or fears citizens of other non-industrious nations face. And in doing so, we become complacent, lazy and dormant. I believe that is dangerous. I have been guilty of this, and I do my best to ensure I do not follow this path. We all have much to offer, but will not achieve this if we continue to sleep when we should be taking action. I believe you are in a position of imbalance because you have not properly focused on what matters to you. You have not properly discovered who you really are and what your beliefs are. And I do not mean beliefs that someone else has recited to you.

There are really only two basic choices in your life. One choice is that you will manage, direct, and accept responsibility for your actions. The other is you will allow someone else to manage and direct your life while still holding you responsible for your actions. See the world for what is really is, a place of opportunity. And see yourself as the key to your future achievement. Wake up and realize that no one will ever do this for you. It is up to you to make positive changes in your life.

New Book Aims to Offer Strategies to Help Readers Plan and Achieve Goals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

In The Big Book on Achieving Large Goals, Carlos Rafael Cruz strives to help readers identify the areas of their lives which contribute to success or failure

SANTA CLARA, Calif.– The Big Book on Achieving Large Goals by Carlos Rafael Cruz is a guide and workbook intended to give readers the tools they need to improve their life at home and at work.

Setting goals is the cornerstone to success, says Cruz. But sometimes there are obstacles to getting what one wants most. Cruz uses a step-by-step system intended to help readers discover their personal roadblocks and learn how to overcome them. He then suggests ways to build on strengths, passions and values, in order to attain successes in life. By prioritizing steps and setting realistic timetables, Cruz insists that any goal can be reached, as long as it can be supported by an individual’s lifestyle, desires and circumstances.

The Big Book on Achieving Large Goals is part of Cruz’s Big Little series of books, each designed to be portable, practical and opened at any page. Filled with worksheets, quizzes and other resources, The Big Book on Achieving Large Goals is intended to help readers triumph in jumpstarting the life of their dreams.

For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at carlos.cruz@apathtosuccess.com. The Big Book on Achieving Large Goals is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
Carlos Cruz is a global coach, speaker and trainer working with clients worldwide. The founder of A Path to Success, a motivational coaching business, he is a former small business owner and member of the United States Navy. The author has also worked for various Washington D.C. agencies as a contractor, while running his businesses and a production company. Currently, he lives in Santa Clara, Calif.

You can find the book on Amazon.com by clicking here.

I’ve finished writing my book – check it out :)

I would like to let you know I’ve just finished writing my book and it should be published in December. The book is called The Big Book on Achieving LARGE GOALS. This book was written to assist you to develop the wisdom & learn the strategies to achieve anything you have ever wanted!

You have nothing to lose by checking it out. You can find more information by visiting:http://www.apathtosuccess.com/media/ecomms/08_311_1529/

I’m always looking for ways to help you achieve more in your life. Your feedback is always important to me. If you have a question or comment, please feel free to contact me athttp://www.apathtosuccess.com/forms/contact/contact.cfm or you can connect with us on our other sites at http://www.apathtosuccess.com/visit_online_networks.htm.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Until then, always make your day a great day.

Do you have trouble with achieving your goals?

Do you wonder why you cannot get things done? Do you feel powerless at times? Would you like to learn how to organize your life so you can set goals and achieve them as well?

If so, then read The Big Book on Achieving Large Goals. Carlos takes you through a complete systematic process to identify the various areas of your life that contribute to success or failure.

Whether it is your career, your family, your spouse, or even your life you want to improve, then this book will help you achieve your goals. Carlos believes you have the potential within you to achieve great success in your life.

The Big Book on Achieving Large Goals is the first real guide on how to properly prepare and identify goal setting for maximum and long lasting achievement. Find the passion, the excitement and the inspiration that lies within you. Gain the freedom to achieve what you want to achieve. Learn a system that you can use throughout your life. Stop wishing and start making life what you want it to be.

There is nothing stopping you from achieving your dreams, except you.

Pre-order now and get 25% off the list price using the following URL: http://www.apathtosuccess.com/the_big_book_on_achieving_large_goals.cfm