“Success is not accidental. You have to have a plan. Without goals and a plan… you won’t end up in the right place.” –Joel Osteen

I hope you enjoyed the interview I did with Joel and Victoria Osteen presented on the CD inside this month’s issue of SUCCESS. They had some very enlightening ideas and information to share. Feedback from those who have heard it has been incredible–as well as the interview with SUCCESS Legend Harvey Mackay.

Even though only 20 minutes of my interview with the Osteens made it onto the CD our stimulating discussion was over an hour long. The whole interview was so rich with great insights I wanted to share the rest with you here. This week and next week I will make those extra excerpts available to you.   read more »

Harvey Mackay famously teaches that “People buy from other people because of likeability.”

I like Harvey, millions of people worldwide like Harvey, and I think you will too after you listen to my interview with him on the CD in this month’s issue of SUCCESS and the additional excerpts below.

Likability as well as many other savvy networking skills is what helped propel his first business from a failing enterprise to a 100+ million dollar corporation employing over 600 people. You can read more about the life and the legend of Harvey Mackay in our coveted SUCCESS Legend feature in this month’s issue of SUCCESS.

My one-on-one interview with Harvey was enlightening as well as exhilarating. Although this is content usually reserved for our subscribers, I wanted to share it with my valued blog readers and our SUCCESS.com audience. I’ve also included the link to download the Mackay 66 Customer Profile that Harvey personally calls his trade secret for not just winning clients—but keeping them.

So take about fifteen minutes to listen to the clips below and let me know what you think:

Clip 1: Harvey has been a syndicated columnist for the last 16 years for over 52 papers across the United States. Here he discusses some of his best tips on:

• How to motivate and inspire others
• Strategies for a successful marriage (Harvey has been married 49 years!)
• Overcoming failure and how to pick yourself back up
• Building a personal Board of Advisors.

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Clip 2: In this next clip Harvey shares some keen insights on these topics and more:

• Where people go wrong in networking – mistakes made
• How he has used golf to build a big Rolodex
• How technology has impacted networking – good and bad
• How to make a BIG impression (great strategy to remember!)
• How to captivate an audience in a presentation…he reveals his trademark secret!

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Download the Mackay 66 Customer Profile here >>>

What did you think? What idea did you like best? Tell me in the comment section below.

This is a continuation (listen to segment #1 and #2 here) to the additional audio experts we are releasing from our Dr. Rao audio interview, originally recorded for our October issue of SUCCESS.

Dr. Rao was featured in our September issue and is the former professor who taught a personal-development course at both the Columbia University School of Business and the London School of Business, and is the author of Are You Ready to Succeed?

SEGMENT #3 – This segment is on mental models and the power of perspective.

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Additionally, did you hear the great interview I did with Mark Sanborn on this month’s issue of the SUCCESS CD (October issue, on newsstands now!)? read more »

If you read SUCCESS (I hope you do!) you saw Dr. Rao featured in the pages of our September issue. The response was so great that we were compelled to bring him back and interview him live for everyone to hear on the CD inside of the October issue of SUCCESS.

Dr. Rao is the former professor who taught a personal-development course at both the Columbia University School of Business and the London School of Business, and the author of Are You Ready to Succeed?

Our interview lasted over an hour, but we were only able to fit 20 minutes of it on the CD. Even though this content is reserved only for SUCCESS subscribers (hey, it’s only two bucks and change a month!), I decided to release the additional excerpts here. Enjoy! read more »

These days, 24/7 news channels and the political rhetoric are constantly bombarding us with news about the troubling and difficult times we live in.

That’s why you’ll find exclusive interviews with Dr. Mehmet Oz, David Bach and Zig Ziglar on the CD side of the DualDisc™ bound into the October 2008 issue of SUCCESS (on newsstands now). In these interviews I ask how they specifically handle difficult times, failure and personal set-backs. Their responses are very enlightening and inspiring for us all.

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