Wednesday, January 7th - 6:30pm-8:00pm
Forever Wealth Club Monthly Meeting
Amanda Devine will be speaking on
How to Make Your New Years Resolutions Work for You to Attract More Money and Happiness.
Amanda Devine is a Life Coach that achieves incredible results with her clients by using a unique approach to the idea of success.
Using the same techniques she teaches she cured with the power of her mind the incurable disease of her nervous system called fibromyalgia that she had for 6 years.
During that time she walked with the cane for 3 years. She also cured her severe allergies that she had for 24 years.
Her approach of using the power of our mind is so extraordinary and that is why it works! It seems that we know many things, but she very skillfully fills the gaps and makes the whole puzzle of success clear for everyone to see, understand and apply.
Amanda Devine has a Master Degree in Psychology and she is the CEO of Totally Unique Ideas.
The Event will be held at the La Quinta Inn at Daniels and I-75 in Ft Myers
9521 Marketplace Rd, Fort Myers

Saturday, January 3rd - 10am-Noon
Private Premium Membership Mastermind Meeting
Premium Members are Free to Attend
Non-Premium Members are $27 - Click Here to Pay (limited to 6 Non-Premium Members)
Those members that cannot make it or are outside
the state of Florida will be sent an audio recording of the
event. The event will cover helping you set your goals for
2009 and what challenges you are currently facing (if any) in
your business. If you are a member, please email
me at rayhigdon@rayhigdon.com to RSVP and I will let you
know the location. If you are not a member and this seems of
value to you, you can learn more at
http://www.TheForeverWealthClub.com/overview.php

When you subject or title of this writing, what did you think about immediately? Despite my instructions you immediately thought about the Statue of Liberty Right? This story is about how sometimes we miss the opportunity to be purposeful and impacting and instead choose to go with the flow.

I just came back from the hair salon around the corner from my house by Publix. Lately the shop talk in this hair salon has all been negative, how everything is down and how slow the day is going to be for them. Today was especially interesting. My stylist was talking about her husbands Christmas Party. Her husband works at the Hyatt on Coconut Point. She vividly recalled to me that for the Christmas Party the big wigs of the company flew in and addressed the workers, who, despite cutting their thanksgiving dinner prices by half, sold less than 1/3 of what they did last year. What happened next is as absurd as me thinking I could tell you not to think of the statue of liberty and believe in your compliance. He addressed the entire staff as admitting to how bad the economy was, how down they were down from last year and also stating that 2009 was looking pretty grim. He then went on to say that he didn’t want them to think about it and this is why he was opening the bar! He then proceeded to head straight to the private party, away from the staff members, never to return.

Perhaps the reason why he stated that 2009 was looking grim was to try to connect with the majority of the staff that believed that already. Maybe he made that statement because he didn’t want to create any false expectations. Or maybe he was just drunk. Either way, for whatever reason, he was successful in completing eliminating any hope of morale with the staff. Just as or even more impacting was by making his statements the way he did, he successfully alienated the small percentage of managers, division heads and supervisors that had been fighting in the trenches for his company to keep the morale up. More than likely those successful thinking employees will now move on to a company with a better culture.

Why do we miss opportunities to be great? Why do we sometimes choose the easy route such as the Hyatt big wig? Because some people have become afraid to truly taste what it is like to be alive.

“We always experience anxiety whenever we confront the potential of our own development.”
- Rex Kierkegaard

“Do what makes you anxious, not what makes you depressed.”
- James Lincoln Collier

If you are about to do something and you feel anxious over it (and it is legal and ethical), you are more than likely headed in the right direction. When you speak to a friend that is down on their luck and speak in an optimistic way that may not echo their own feelings, you may feel a little anxiety where the easier route would be to consul them and agree with everything they are saying. In these times we are given the opportunity to impact people wherever we go. Think about your impact and the language you are using and what language would serve them and you better.

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January is almost here and we have some kick-butt events coming up! I was reading a Fortune magazine and found this awesome interview with Malcolm Gladwell; the genius behind the books, Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers. In this article Gladwell is quoted as saying:

“Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop. Proctor and Gamble is a great example of a company that does that and has prospered as a result. Look around Wall Street, or what’s left of it today, and you’ll see lots and lots and lots of people from Goldman Sachs. That’s not a coincidence. It’s because they took their mission to invest in people seriously.”

The interviewer then went on to ask:

Should people be expected to take the issue of developing talent seriously right now, in the middle of a crisis? Of which Gladwell answered:

“Paradoxically, this might be the perfect time. When it’s easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent. Now you’re forced to. At least that’s my optimistic hope.”

Sooo, what Gladwell is saying is that you should attend the Forever Wealth Club events! Or at least some type of learning events or seminars. Here are our upcoming ones:

Saturday, January 3rd - 10am-Noon
Private Premium Membership Mastermind Meeting
Premium Members are Free to Attend
Non-Premium Members are $27

Click Below to Buy a Ticket if you are not a premium member

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(limited to 6 Non-Premium Members)
Those members that cannot make it or are outside
the state of Florida will be sent an audio recording of the
event. The event will cover helping you set your goals for
2009 and what challenges you are currently facing (if any) in
your business. If you are a member, please email
me at rayhigdon@rayhigdon.com to RSVP and I will let you
know the location. If you are not a member and this seems of
value to you, you can learn more at
http://www.TheForeverWealthClub.com/overview.php

Wednesday, January 7th - 6:30pm-8:00pm
Forever Wealth Club Monthly Meeting
Amanda Devine will be speaking on
How to Make Your New Years Resolutions Work for You to Attract More Money and Happiness.
Amanda Devine is a Life Coach that achieves incredible results with her clients by using a unique approach to the idea of success.
Using the same techniques she teaches she cured with the power of her mind the incurable disease of her nervous system called fibromyalgia that she had for 6 years.
During that time she walked with the cane for 3 years. She also cured her severe allergies that she had for 24 years.
Her approach of using the power of our mind is so extraordinary and that is why it works! It seems that we know many things, but she very skillfully fills the gaps and makes the whole puzzle of success clear for everyone to see, understand and apply.
Amanda Devine has a Master Degree in Psychology and she is the CEO of Totally Unique Ideas.
The Event will be held at the La Quinta Inn at Daniels and I-75 in Ft Myers
9521 Marketplace Rd, Fort Myers

Tuesday, January 20th - The Official Launch of The Forever Wealth Club in West Virginia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pvrsbogTuk

Friday, January 30th - 6:00pm-8:00pm
Charity Networking Event for the Boys and Girls Club of Lee County
with Guest of Honor, Best-Selling Author Robert Shemin
Location:TBD

Saturday, January 31st - 10am - 4pm
Best-Selling Author and Wealth Strategist
Robert Shemin to speak on Making Money in a Down Economy
Location: TBD

Looking forward to help shape your 2009!

Ray Higdon
Founder – http://www.TheForeverWealthClub.com

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I hope this email finds you spending time with family and loved ones or at least smiling (perhaps for some of you this occurs when you are NOT spending time with family!). I felt the urge to write again and in this writing I hope to accomplish 3 simple things:
1. I want to give credit to the year 2008 where all others are just badmouthing it!
2. I want to have you walk away from this writing with the knowledge that you can accomplish anything you want to accomplish
3. I want you to share with you what I think will make the biggest impact in your business right now and for free!

First a riddle: What is almost Dead but will probably continue to take a beating for 20 years? Answer: The year 2008 of course! Almost every blog I read, every year-end update I see is a verbal beat-down on the year 2008! Why has 2008 become the red-headed ugly stepchild of the 21st century? Well, instead of answer that pretty easy to answer question, why not think and discuss the good things we got out of this year?

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Neils Bohr

Those of us who were playing in the real estate amusement park in 2004-2005 probably didn’t learn nearly as much as we did in 2008. As in investor in those years you could close your eyes, point out the window, paint it and carpet it and make $30,000.00…well, that isn’t really a learning environment is it? Yes, fast cash was the norm and we all got used to that lifestyle very quickly but anytime something is that easy, anytime someone can make big money while barely having any knowledge of the business category, it just cannot last can it?

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
- Buddha

It really doesn’t matter how bad the year 2008 was for you, it also doesn’t matter how much your childhood stunk either! Those things are in the past. Don’t waste time lamenting over yesterday’s losses or failures; spend time rejoicing over what you learned and what you have to be thankful for. No matter where you are at in your life, it could be worse. Be thankful that you have eyes to read this message. Be thankful that you have a voice to talk to others around you. Be thankful that there is air to breathe. Be thankful in the knowledge that you CAN get to where you want to go in life, regardless of where you are. The best way to know this is to see proof. This is a video that I found that really punches you in the face if you are a woe is me kind of person - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsCmLki40Uc (it is only 5 minutes long and I strongly encourage you to watch it and send it to anyone you know that is down and depressed)

How do you feel after watching that video? Don’t you understand that you can do, be, or have anything that you desire? If there was ever a person that could have cursed God and gave up on his life, it’s that guy. And you know what? The world would have totally accepted it. Know that the world will accept you giving up. Know that your friends will accept you giving up. Know that your family will accept you giving up. But for all the love in the world…why the hell should YOU accept YOU giving up?

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604
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Now, as promised, here is the thing that I truly believe will make the biggest impact in your business life; Understanding and embracing the online social networking phenomenon. The world is getting faster and faster and if you are trying to grow a business, you need to keep up! Now is NOT the time to strip away the things you see as frivolous like blogging and spending time on social networking sites, these are things you really need to do and luckily we now have tools to make it easier!

Here are the three most powerful free resources I have found in regards to social networking. They are http://www.FaceBoook.com, http://www.Twitter.com and http://www.ping.fm. Most of you have probably heard of the first two but the last one is pretty darn sweet. http://www.ping.fm gives you the ability to update all of your social networking sites at the same time from your phone! Pretty darn cool. Now, perhaps you wonder why that makes a difference? Well, when you update your different pages it floats your update around that social network and especially something like http://www.Twitter.com, it puts you at the top of all your followers and friends websites. Two bits of advice when it comes to social networking: Don’t always be selling or simply talking about a website that you hope someone buys something from and also, NEVER BE BORING! If you are doing something interesting, tell people about it! Remember that these days people want to know people that have a personality, not some corporate stiff. One pretty cool thing about http://www.Twitter.com is you can update your status via text message.

There you go! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and may your holidays be absolutely awesome!
Ray Higdon

PS: Wanna follow my adventures? Find me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/rayhigdon

Happy Friday Everyone and it’s almost time for Christmas!

What an incredible week! Learned how to climb a coconut
tree, brought on some cool new marketing clients, did lots
of meditating and even some Yoga and ready to start shopping
for Christmas! Well, I have some done but definitely need to
do some more. I have a couple things to cover first and then
we will get into the message.
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A few of my non-members have been asking about the DVD I made
on making money online and I have that page completed now, if
interested you can read about it at
http://theforeverwealthclub.com/makemoneyonlinedvd.htm
Right now I have it for $29.99 as I am waiting for the CD Covers
to be done but if you have an interest you can get it now for
that price
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On Saturday, July 3rd I am having a Premium Member Mastermind
Meeting, it will be from 10am to Noon and will be for Premium
members only. Those members that cannot make it or are outside
the state of Florida will be sent an audio recording of the
event. The event will cover helping you set your goals for
2009 and what challenges you are currently facing (if any) in
your business. I will also want feedback on how often the
members want to have these. If you are a member, please email
me at rayhigdon@rayhigdon.com to RSVP and I will let you
know the location. If you are not a member and this seems of
value to you, you can learn more at
http://www.TheForeverWealthClub.com/overview.php
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Upcoming Events:
January 7th - La Quinta Inn, Ft Myers, Amanda Devine is
speaking on How To Use The Law of Attraction to Attract Money!
January 10th - Half-day with Amanda on Law of Attraction
January 20th - The Official Launch of the Forever Wealth
Club in Morgantown, West Virginia with Ray Higdon Speaking
Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pvrsbogTuk
January 30th - Charity Networking Event, Location TBA
January 31st - Best-Selling Author Robert Shemin in SWFL!
Feb. 13th and 14th - Best-Selling Author and from “The Secret” Reverend Michael Beckwith comes to SWFL!
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Let me ask you a question. Have they convinced you that you
cannot succeed? Have they convinced you that this market is
impossible? Have they convinced you that the market turning
around is the only thing that can help you?

Well, I got good news and bad news. The bad news is shame
on you for letting an outside force or entity to control
your outcomes but the good news is…

IT IS VERY EASY TO STOP LISTENING TO THEM!

First of all, who are THEY? They can be the media, your
friends, your family members, your parents…it may even be
those from your childhood. Perhaps you saw your parents go
through tough times and recall how tough that was and you
are simply reliving those memories in your current life.
There are two quick things you can do RIGHT NOW to change,
it will take some time and dedication but, they are FREE
and what the heck is your alternative?

First things first, if the person giving you advice is
struggling, not a millionaire, or does not live the type of
life you wished that you lived, STOP LISTENING TO THEM. Take
this one step further and learn how to only accept that
advice that HELPS you toward your goals. Want some
examples?

The statement that I hear over and over is “It is tough
to make money in this market”. Well, if you read my past
blog at http://theforeverwealthclub.com/blog/date/2008/11
you know that 2008 marked the year that more billionaires
were created than ever before, so, just take that statement
and throw it out the window or continue believing it and
like James Ray says: Your wish is my command! You see, if
you simply make statements like that or believe them, you
force them to become true. And yes, I am talking about the
law of attraction but it really goes deeper than that. In
the bible when Moses and his people were in the desert, the
people came to Moses and told them they didn’t have water.
So what did he tell them to do? He told them to pray for
rain. When he visited them and they cried about praying and
praying but no rain showing up, he asked them where the
ditches were. They looked puzzled and asked what he meant.
He said, and this is so important to understand, where did
you expect the rain to go if you didn’t dig ditches?

ARE YOU DIGGING THE DITCHES TO ACCEPT YOUR RAIN?

You need to have an invisible force field around you that
protects you from all malignant statements. Negative
statements about your future are cancerous and need to be
quickly thrown away. Negative events also need to be used
for what they are meant to be used for. Let me give you an
example.

I got a massage the other day and I came out to my car and
the car would not start. The battery was so dead that my
door locks would not even work and I had an important
meeting to get to. Did I sit there and moan and groan? Did
I say how much it  sucked and say woe is me? No, my very
first thought, the one that came to me instantly was, I
wonder who I am supposed to meet for this to happen. You
see, everything happens for a reason. Every bad event in
your life happens for a reason. They may happen because you
do not currently hold the mental state to accomplish a goal
you are focusing on. They may happen because had your life
gone on as planned, you would have missed out on something
wonderful. Heck, they may happen to save you from something
even worse! So, back to my car not working…
After I called AAA, I grabbed some food and sat on a bench
outside of an animal hospital. A lady came out about 2
minutes later, obviously distraught, and asked if she could
sit down beside me. I said sure (and kind of laughed inside
on how fast this one happened). She got on the phone and
called someone, I assume her husband, and expressed her
dismay at the health conditions of her dog. When she got
off the phone I told her that I hoped her dog would get
better soon. She spent the next 40 minutes telling me all
about her dogs, how she rescues animals and how much she
loves her pets. I sat there quietly and listened,
contributing where I could but let her go on and on about
her pets. After all this time, she got up, looked at me,
told me I was a great guy, thanked me for listening and
went about her day. She looked infinitely better than she
did when she came out of that hospital. I don’t say this
to impress you but to impress upon you that you can make a
huge difference in someone’s life by just listening to
them. Now, another interesting thing that happened is when
the AAA driver arrived, I didn’t have cash to tip him so
I looked in my trunk, found an unopened set of Audio CD’s
for the secret, which, he had never heard of, and gave them
to him. Hopefully he will get something out of them and
change his life as I did when I first listened to them.

Now, ready to change your life? Ready to wipe those excuses
out of existence? Then let’s do it RIGHT NOW! I told my
good friend Tim Hart this step and he calls me every couple
days to tell me that something else just happened from doing
it.

Every single day, write down what you want to accomplish in
the present tense.

If your immediate response is that you don’t have time,
then I am here to tell you that you are full of crap and
get over it. I write a page and a half every single day no
matter what and it takes about 15 minutes to do. Here are
some of my more generic ones that you can instantly use as
examples:

I feel wonderful now that I only have fantastic things
happen to me.
I am so happy that I have such wonderful personal and
business relationships.
I feel so happy that I have so much money coming in from
all kinds of avenues.

If you notice the pattern, I am stating them in the present
tense, only using positive terms and saying them with
emotion. Do not worry if you have a hard time believing
your statements at first, with repetition and not listening
to negative forces around you, they will start to stick. To
start this process, pick one statement and focus on
something you can measure shortly. The more you see
results, the more you believe, the more they will start to
work. If someone owes you money, then write a statement
saying how grateful you are that you were paid from that
person.

STILL CONVINCED YOU CANNOT SUCCEED?

The great Tony Robbins was in New York City and told his
team that he wanted to go around and give bags of food to
the homeless. He told them to rent a van so they could
transport the food. Hours later he asked where the van was
and they said there were no vans available as they had
called all the rental places. Determined to get his way he
went into traffic and started knocking on the windows of
vans, stating what he wanted to accomplish and if they
would let him use their van. After 30 minutes he knocked on
the window of the head of the salvation army and
accomplished his goal.

WOULD YOU KNOCK ON THE WINDOWS OF NEW YORK CARS TO
ACCOMPLISH YOUR GOALS?

Ray Higdon

PS: If you want more of these types of tips, videos on
marketing, audio files and to be on our monthly DVD premium
membership list, head over to
http://www.TheForeverWealthClub.com/overview.php . It is
$19.95 a month to be a member and if you think you cannot
afford it…well,  You Are Right!
Make it an Awesome Day!

Tonight is the Holiday Charity Party in Cape Coral. I am
always excited to party but more than that I am excited to
help
as many local boys and girls this holiday season.

There has never been a better time to give.

As we all know, the market has affected a lot of people.
Restaurants, title companies, real estate offices, almost
every type of industry in Lee County has been affected by
this
market. One unfortunate category of people that are
affected
by this market, are the kids. When the parents are making
less
and less money, there may be no money left for presents for
the
kids. Each year the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lee County
provide over 1,700 children within our community a positive
place to go and learn essential life skills after school.
87% of the children from these clubs have single parents
working everyday to provide for their family, thus the
children would be out on the streets without parental
guidance if not for the Boys & Girls Clubs.

You Find Out What People Are Made of During Tough Times.

Here’s the history of this holiday party. I was asked to MC
a charity event a few months back to help raise money for
a child that had been in a terrible 4 wheeler accident and was
on life support. The parents of that child were surprised to
find out that their little girl was not going to be covered by
their insurance, so you can imagine what that could do to a
family financially. We had a charity auction there where I bid
on and won a certificate to some restaurant I had never heard
of for 100 people to enjoy unlimited drinks and food for 90
minutes. As of about a month ago, I had pretty much forgotten
about that certificate.

Fast forward a couple months…Here it was coming around to the
holiday season and I had not had time to plan a holiday event.
If you recall, last year we had a huge turnout at the Cape Coral
Yacht Club for our Vegas themed Holiday Party, had over 250
people there to benefit Guardian Ad Litem, Kiwanis Kids and
Voices for Kids, We Had a BLAST! But, last year I had a lot
of help from my now former fiancee as she was really good at
that sort of thing, of which was missed this year.

But then I remembered! What about that certificate? So,
Tonight, we are heading to the restaurant that in such a
trying time in our economy (especially for a restaurant in
Cape Coral) decided to donate such an incredible gift to such
an incredible cause. I am using a certificate I purchased at
a charity event, to hold a charity event, because that is the
way it was intended to be used.

Here is what I know. IF YOU ARE A GIVER YOU WILL BE REWARDED.
Some say that if you can picture your finances as a bucket, some
people will look to hold onto that bucket of money as tightly as
possible. I believe God looks at those people and thinks, OK,
this person has plenty of money, they do not need any more.
Other people choose to donate their time and money and give as
much money away as possible. I believe these people’s buckets
are looked at as in need of more money and God works quickly
to ensure those people have more money.

Success Without Giving Is Not Success.

Let me ask you this. For those of us with kids…do you feel
and think better when your kids are happy? I know I sure do.
What do you think will happen to the parents of the kids we
help tonight? They will see their kids Happier and will feel
better. This is not JUST about needy kids, but also about needy
parents. This market is the opportunity to see what you are
really made of.

If you can make it tonight, that is wonderful. We are only asking
for a mere $10 donation but you can donate as much as you would
like. I do not believe that donating is losing money, I
believe donating is sending a wave of money back to you…
tenfold. If you cannot make it (heck, maybe you don’t even
live in Lee County), but are blessed enough that you
can afford to give a mere $10 donation, please do so and we
thank you so much. You can donate at this page
http://www.TheForeverWealthClub.com/events.php

If You Are Blessed, Become a Blessing For Others.

Now, for those that have never been to the moorings. It is not
a super fancy place. Tonight is not a black tie event. The
Moorings is locally owned and operated and has been around for
over 20 years! They are known for having excellent service and
food but in these trying times, even places like the Moorings
are experiencing difficulty. This is another reason why it is
so darn cool that Mr Whalen of the Moorings chose to give that
certificate to the charity those months back. Every single penny
that comes in (not just profits) is going straight to the
Boys and Girls Club.

Now, are you blessed? Do you still have a roof over your head?
And while some of you may not eat as fancy as you used to, you
do get to eat right? Are you drinking clean water everyday?
Then You Are Blessed! Did you know across the world that
27,000 people per day die of dysentery due to not having clean
water? Trust me, whatever place you are in, whatever degree of
blessed you are, Know that it could be worse. Show your
support for Southwest Florida Tonight. Show your support for
the parents of Southwest Florida Tonight. Show your support for
the needy kids of Southwest Florida Tonight. And Finally, Show
your support for the local businesses of Southwest Florida Tonight.
Please donate if you can, please come if you can. Let’s all
make a difference this holiday season.

Thank You So Much and I am so grateful to have you listen to
me and help me make a difference. Make it an Awesome Holiday Season!

Date: Wednesday, December 10th

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

Cause: Raise money for Needy Children for the Holidays

Location: The Moorings

Address: 1326 SE 16th Pl., Cape Coral, FL

For More Info: http://www.theforeverwealthclub.com/events.php

Ray Higdon

Founder - http://www.TheForeverWealthClub.com

Florida Banks, Credit Unions Halt Foreclosures

Florida banks and credit unions have agreed to voluntarily
halt foreclosures actions statewide on primary residences
for the next 45 days…
For The Full Article, Click Below
http://theforeverwealthclub.com/floridaforeclosureshalted.htm