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Failing Forward
Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones For Success
From the inside cover of the book:
"It seems that some people are born to achieve anything they want. Some would say they are lucky, are blessed, or have the Midas touch. But what truly is the reason for their success? Family background, wealth, greater opportunities, high morals, and easy childhood? New York Times best-selling author John C Maxwell has the answer:
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
Maxwell says that if you are like him, you were never prepared to deal with failure. Coming out of school, he feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. But he's learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same.
With Maxwell's trademark warmth and humor, he teaches straightforward principles for overcoming failure and gives fifteen solid steps to help you become the kind of achiever you've always wanted to be.
'I want to help you learn how to confidently look the prospect of failure in the eye and mvoe forward anyway,' says Maxwell. 'Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start Failing Forward.
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I read this book when it first came out in 2000 and just reread it again last week. What a powerful book this is and I just had to put this one in the Knoledge Cafe this issue.
It is full of powerful stories of examples of failures that became so successful that they are flat inspiring! It really helps you take a whole new appreciation of the act of failing! It doesn't sound like the word failing should be in that sentence, but this book will really help you feel that way.
Sometimes we look too closely at things and label them incorrectly as a result. Failure doesn't mean broken, destroyed, catastrophic, it is a result. It is our labeling that calls it failure.
I always remember that Edison failed 10,000 times to make the electric light bulb, but he didn't think it was failing, but experimenting and small steps toward success.
John C Maxwell has a great way of describing a better way of looking at life in general and failure in particular.
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There's no time like the present. Here is a link to get it right away. You will be so glad you did:
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Here is a list of books and audio's that have been recommended in the Knowledge Cafe.
Failing Forward
by John C Maxwell
Leadership Is An Art and Leadership Jazz by Max DePree
The Spirituality of Success by Vincent M Roazzi
Power In Praise by Merlin Carothers
The Go-Giver by Bob Burg & Hohn David Mann
The Gratitude Effect by John DeMartini
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, MD
The Power To Have It All Audio Package by Bob Proctor
The Secret - Book and Audiobook by Rhonda Byrne
Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell
Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
As A Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Power of Focus by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt
How To Talk To Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere by Larry King
Lead the Field Audio by Earl Nightingale
Your Invisible Power by Genevieve Behrend
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The Spirit of Opulence by Thomas Troward
You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, MD
You2 by Price Pritchett
The Magic of Believing by Claude M Bristol
Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
Success Magazine
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How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Irving Tressler
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How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy
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How To Sell Anything To Anybody by Joe Girard
How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling by Frank Bettger
The Success Principle by Jack Canfield
Jeffrey Gitomer Little Books Collectors Edition: 5-pack of books plus CD
Enterprise One To One
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The One To One Fieldbook by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers
Sales Bible by Jeffrey Gitomer
Customers For Life by Carl Sewell |
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Tony Anderson of Harbor Truck Bodies shows off one of the new Masterack packages. Harbor is a Masterack distributor and can take care of your van interior needs.
Call Tony at 800-433-9452 and visit their website at www.htbi.net.
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Stratec Locks! |
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Recently, Strattec sent me 3 locks to try, one for GM, Ford and Dodge. I have to tell you that this is one sweet lock. The lock "codes" itself. You just take your ignition key, put it into the lock, turn it and unlock the lock. Now the lock is "coded" to that key only. Try another key and it doesn't work. It is just that easy.
Whether you use padlocks on your vehicle or storage facility or around your home, now you can have all the lock keyed to the ignition key of your GM, Ford or Dodge. You have got to try one of these locks to believe it. They aren't cheap, but they are heavy duty and they are an excellent value in my opinion. Try one and I know you will want more.
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The Royal Touch |
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This design using removable plastic trays instead of metal dividers is such a simple idea and such a great idea. Customers love it. Bravo!
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Welcome to the Commercial Truck Success Idealetter!
Published every other week, the Idealetter is an informative thought starter and news source for busy commercial sales professionals and managers with numerous links to great products, the Commercial Truck Success website, Daily Blog and many other links to useful information, tools and inspiration!
Please feel free to offer comments and suggestions for future topics that are of interest to you. Also, please forward this to others you wish to share it with. There is a forward email link at the bottom of this page. I wish you success! Keep up the good work! And, never stop learning! - Terry Minion, Editor |
Danger Will Robinson! Danger!
Could Cause Seriousness! |
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Danger! Danger! Could Cause Serious Injury or Death! Read these instructions prior to assembly.
Please check the box, "I have read and understand the implications of my ignoring of the hazardous situation that I am involved in when I operate machinery, especially machinery that I have not had any experience with and that in the event of probably misfortune of serious injury or death, no one who made this equipment or the signs or the distributor or the installer or the lot boy or anyone else that was not you. Heretofore I accept all responsibility for my own actions and inaction's and thought of actions or inaction's of any attempts to operate this machinery that nameless parties manufactured without my knowledge or expertise. I agree to hold the parties who are purported to be the manufacturers and all their associated parties such as distributors and dealers and upfitters and mechanics and all other personnel that may have been involved in this production blameless and faultless of anything and everything that ever was or ever will be as a result of my use of this thing."
Really. This is an entirely too serious world. Like someone would actually read all these signs. Like it makes a difference. Very funny stuff. |
Great Sortimo Package For
Ford Transit Connect |
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Here's a great bin package that maximizes space for the Ford Transit Connect. This package is called the electrician package from Sortimo. They have an awesome selection of different packages for all sizes of cargo vans and trailers--even many things you can use around the garage.
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Bodies On The Ground Can Be A Problem |
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Taking bodies and other pieces like the tuckaway liftgate shown above off of trucks to sell the chassis can be a huge problem or a solution. It just depends on how it is done and why and when it gets back on a truck. I've seen a lot of this kind of thing and what happens some of the time is that the body cost is credited to the chassis at full price when there will be future labor costs to remount it and even more important, in refurbishing it to make it ready for a new truck. The body cost should be reduced accordingly so that the a false gross profit is not recorded and an increased inventory value given. How long it sits on the ground is another factor. The longer it sits, the more reconditioning will be needed, and the easier it is to forget about it.
It can also be a solution. One of the best things about commercial trucks I think is that the bodies are removable. Now, I would rather not move them around, but if it makes sense and the need is there, I will do it without any further hesitation. I prefer to swap one with another so it doesn't land on the ground, but if it must be on the ground for a time, so be it. Just keep track, make sure the value is proper and plan to get it off the ground as soon as possible. |
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Great Gift For Truck Purchasers |
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These two items are a great gift to give every commercial truck buyer when they buy a truck from you. The Road Triangle reflectors are required in many states anyway, so this makes it an even better thing to insure is in the vehicle and the customer doesn't have to deal with it. |
Nice SuperStructure From
United Truck Bodies |
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Here is a swift workhorse from United Truck Bodies in Phoenix, Arizona. This beauty is loaded! This is an 11' Superstructure service body with closed top lids and a master locking system. It has some unique cabinets above the service body at the front of the body on both sides. The streetside also has a long box mounted to the top of the service body for long items and a small box mounted to the bumper. There is also a conduit box on top of the body and a drop down ladder rack of the other side. Also on the streetside, the front compartment has a complete set of HD drawers. They look like American Eagle drawers. Then there is a vise bracket, exterior lighting, and much, much more. Contact United Truck Bodies at 800-367-8821 or 602-258-4223. You can visit their website at www.unitedtruckbodies.com. |
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What Do People Carry In Their Vans? |
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What do people carry in their cargo vans? Here is a sample of an electrician's van in the middle of a job. Says he loves the van and it does a great job for him. |
Aluminum Drawer Sets
From Pro-Tech Industries |
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Here is a custom drawer module available from Pro-Tech Industries of Vancouver, WA and LaVergne, TN. This unit can be installed in your tool box, service body or anywhwer else you would like and has heavy duty aluminum construction for years of trouble free use. Some of the features of these great drawers:
- 300 lb lock in/out slides
- Tray dividers on 3" centers
- Full width drawer release bar
- Open from anyplace on drawer
- One hand easy operation: Just lift up.
- Aluminum construction = no rust
- Lighter than steel
- Customer built to fit your needs
- Easy six bolt installation
- 1-year limited warranty
All this an with the quality of Pro-Tech Industries. Contact Pro-Tech at 866-454-5800 and visit their website at www.protech.net |
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F550 Propane Body By Scelzi Enterprises |
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This is a Propane Body built for Suburban Propane by Scelzi Enterprises of Fresno, CA. It is equipped with an HIAB 055 D3 CLX Loader Crane (knuckle boom style behind the cab) with a capacity of approximately 10,500 lbs. (36,180 ft lbs) The body is mounted on a Ford F550 with 19,000 GVWR. This is a perfect combination for lifting and transporting large propane tanks. For more information on this body and the wide range of products Scelzi supplies, contact Scelzi at 800-858-2883 and visit their new website at www.seinc.com |
Guest Article:
The Expandable Length Snowplow |
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The Expandable Length Snowplow!
Here is a very unique product: The XLS from Fisher Engineering. The XLS offers a wide variety of blade configurations and positions not offered by either a straight blade or a V-blade.
The blade can be operated as an 8 foot straight blade or extended up to 10 feet as required for the job at hand. It can also operate with both wings scooped, or positioned for windrowing with one wing scooped. All of these positions are shown in the diagram below:
The scoop position is a big advantage as it will carry more snow forward, as a bucket loader would. When windrowing, the leading edge blade wing can be directed ahead and the trailing wing can be retracted to minimize snow trailings.
As with all Fisher trip edge design, only the edge trips when encountering an obstacle, the blade remains upright, keeping the snow ahead of the blade, not under the truck!
Fisher Engineering has been building great snowplows since 1948 and they offer a complete line of snowplows and ice control products for your needs. Check out their website at www.fisherplows.com.
Guest article by Steve Taylor.
Steve is a consultant in the Truck Equipment business with over 30 years in the snowplow and truck body manufacturing business. Visit his website at www.truckarchitect.com. He specializes in the design and quality/reliability field and may be reached by email at steve@truckarchitect.com | |
