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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Carlton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, 5:39pm Reno, NV &#8220;Alex, I&#8217;ll take Entrepreneur Secrets for $500.&#8221; (Apologies to Jeopardy) Howdy&#8230; Are you a successful entrepreneur? Are you struggling, but in the game? Or&#8230; are you thinking about getting into the game? Then the question I&#8217;m about to ask you may be of particular interest. Here&#8217;s the quiz: &#8220;What do you]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thursday, 5:39pm<br />
Reno, NV<br />
&#8220;<em>Alex, I&#8217;ll take Entrepreneur Secrets for $500</em>.&#8221;  (Apologies to Jeopardy)</p>
<p>Howdy&#8230;</p>
<p>Are you a successful entrepreneur?</p>
<p>Are you struggling, but in the game?</p>
<p>Or&#8230; are you thinking about getting <em>into </em>the game?</p>
<p>Then the question I&#8217;m about to ask you may be of particular interest.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the quiz:</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;What do you think is the single most powerful motivation driving entrepreneurs to outrageous success?&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>In other words&#8230; what fuels the mind of the typical rich, famous, and happy, happy, happy entrepreneur during his rise to wealth and satisfaction?</p>
<p>I want to hear <em>your </em>guess in the comments section below.</p>
<p>Most folks guess wrong.</p>
<p>However, if you&#8217;ve been reading my slop for awhile, you may already have your finger on the right answer.  Cuz I&#8217;ve talked about this very subject often.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one of the most shocking discoveries I made, early in my career&#8230; and it <em>catapulted </em>me over every other freelancer in Los Angeles, and drove me deep into the heart of the roiling entrepreneurial world (where I met and bonded with dudes like Gary Halbert and Jay Abraham).</p>
<p>This is not a trick question.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;ll bet you get it wrong.</p>
<p>Here are few hints:  It&#8217;s not the desire for more money.</p>
<p>Nor is it a lust for &#8220;freedom&#8221;, or even independence.</p>
<p>Look &#8212; I am on close, intimate terms with probably a hundred of the top marketers (both offline and online).</p>
<p>When we get together, we gossip like schoolgirls, take great delight in the art of creative insults&#8230; and (most important) share the often <em>overlooked truths of success </em>with each other.</p>
<p>I say &#8220;overlooked&#8221; not because we hold back from telling people the stark realities of how we earned our mojo.</p>
<p>Naw.</p>
<p>These truths are overlooked because people refuse to believe they&#8217;re real.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like a groupie once said of Mick Jagger:  &#8220;Yeah, he was okay in the sack and all that&#8230; but he wasn&#8217;t <em>Mick Jagger</em>, if you know what I mean.&#8221;</p>
<p>Until you actually experience real success, the reality of it is not easily fathomed.</p>
<p>So&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; here&#8217;s some honest insight, from me, on what power-drove the wealth and happiness of many of the most notoriously-successful entrepreneurs I know.</p>
<p>Leave either your answer&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; or your own experience, looking back on your rise to the Big Bucks&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; in the comments section.</p>
<p>C&#8217;mon, don&#8217;t be shy.</p>
<p>It&#8217;ll take you five freaking minutes.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;ll be fun, seeing what people believe to be the single biggest motivations driving people toward their goals.</p>
<p>There really aren&#8217;t any &#8220;wrong&#8221; answers&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; however, I will give you the <em>real </em>answer on Monday.  (Meaning, the truth behind some of the most spectacular success stories of recent times.)</p>
<p>It may confirm what you&#8217;ve already suspected, or learned through personal experience.</p>
<p>Or, it may shock the hell out of you.</p>
<p>But if it does shock you&#8230; at least you&#8217;ll know the truth.</p>
<p>Leave your comment.  Check back on Monday.</p>
<p>And enjoy your weekend&#8230;</p>
<p>Stay frosty,</p>
<p><strong>John Carlton</strong></p>
<p><strong>P.S.</strong> Capitalist note:  Though the guided at-home Simple Writing System mentoring course is closed and sold-out (sorry, not even folks on the waiting list could get in)&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; we ARE still offering the basic DVDs and workbook.  Just without the hand-holding.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.simplewritingsystem.com">http://www.simplewritingsystem.com</a></p>
<p>Sample comment from an entrepreneur who just opened her Simple Writing System:  &#8220;I am flabbergasted with all of the information in the package.&#8221;</p>
<p>I know.  We did it on purpose.</p>
<p>So this course would be the <em>main </em>&#8220;go to&#8221; resource for writing in your toolkit.</p>
<p>Why haven&#8217;t you gotten yours yet?</p>
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