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Number: Volume V No. 7. Publisher: Kituku &
Associates
Date of Issue: July 2006. ©
2006—Overcoming Buffaloes in Our Lives.
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There are times when we feel our talents, gifts or experiences
don’t provide us with the life we want. We think if only we
had such-and-such, life would be better. People leave towns
for better ones. We leave jobs in search of better pay or more
reasonable bosses. Unfortunately, some people leave their
spouses and/or children in search of better relationships
elsewhere.
It is not unusual for people to even ignore the potential they
have, while searching and laboring for something that may not
materialize. This reminds me of a story I included in my
article, "What's in Your Hand."
It is about a man in Africa who had a large piece of land. He
heard people were getting rich by selling diamonds. He decided
to sell his "worthless" piece of land and go look elsewhere
for diamonds.
As the new owner walked around his land, he saw unfamiliar
stones. He picked one up and placed it in his hut. Years later
a friend of the new owner came to visit and saw this stone.
The visitor inquired where the stone had come from and this
landowner told him about the unfamiliar stones on his land.
The visitor knew that the unfamiliar stones were diamonds.
This land had the largest amount of diamond ever discovered.
The first landowner never found diamonds where he went and
regretted for not exploring what had been available to him for
years.
In my article I stated, "Our diamonds are not out there
somewhere. They are within us. We need to explore and excavate
them, then put them to use."
Before you leave your own backyard, here are some tips that
may help you find the "diamond" within.
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Come to terms with your past.
What has stopped you from living up to your
potential? What are the things you wish you could be
doing but you’re not doing right now because of your
past?
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Dig for the diamond within.
What skills, gifts and experiences do you have
that you can use right away in order to grow
professionally and personally? What do you do with
such a passion that you can do it for no monetary
returns? How do you spend your days? When the day is
over, is there something about which you can say, “I
am looking forward to tomorrow to do it over again?"
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Time out!
Get to a quiet place and ask yourself what
really matters in your life. What's worth devoting
your time, efforts and resources to?
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Develop a road map.
Set goals that are clear, attainable, measurable
within a certain time. Set goals that can get you to
dig and use the "diamond in your backyard"
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Recruit helpers.
Share your goals with those people who
believe in you and will encourage you to dig your
"diamond" even when they can't see your "tools." The
key is to look and listen to what they are saying
and ask lots of questions.
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Be honest.
There is unimaginable power in being honest with
oneself. It's that honesty that leads you to humble
yourself and be teachable.
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Be patient.
There is no drive-through to professional and
personal success. Dig and dig…it is the digging
process that makes the rewards enjoyable.
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Have faith.
Believing what eyes can't see maintains your
determination to dig deeper and wider until the
diamond is brought to the surface.
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A special presentation by Dr.
Vincent Muli Kituku CSP, internationally recognized
motivational speaker, author and adjunct professor at Boise
State University.
Register TODAY. Space is LIMITED.
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When:
July 6th 8:00 a.m.-12:00
(noon).
(Thursday-half day)
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Where:
The Waterfront Facility,
3200 Lakeharbor Lane
Boise, Idaho
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When:
July 11th 8:00 a.m.-12:00
(noon).
(Tuesday-half day)
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Where:
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What if you have the best
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Lack of marketing is the most effective way to go out of
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What you will gain and use to market your business
effectively:
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• 9
Compelling Reasons for Creating Dynamic Marketing
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• 10
Ways to Advertise Your Products/Services With Zero
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4 Proven Strategies to Build Your Business with
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Performance Activities that Increase Customer
Retention |
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11 Tips for Retaining Customers with Ordinary
Practices |
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• 10
Marketing Tips You Can Use in Any Season |
• Why Forget Christmas
Gifts—Turning Ordinary Events/Things into
Extraordinary Returns |
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BONUS |
• 12
Top tips on why and how to “run with horses even if
you are a donkey”
and which horses |
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• 99
Tips to Get and Keep Customers (including
easy-to-apply practices) |
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Rate information:
Includes workbook ($20 value), a 30 minute
consultation/coaching with Dr. Kituku ($85 value) and program
fees. Early bird discount: $10 off the below rates if you
register by June 25th.
$79/person ($69 if paid by June
25th)
$69/person in groups of 3 or 4
($59/person if paid by June 25th)
$59/person in groups of 5 or more
($49/person if paid by June 25th)
Guarantee: 100%
refund (less $30 for administrative costs) if you are not
satisfied with Dr. Kituku’s presentation.
To
register you may:
Click here to register online for the Boise seminar.
Click here to register online for the Moscow seminar.
Or call toll free
1-888-685-1621, or email
kasiva@kituku.com
(Cancellation
terms: You can transfer your registration to future workshops.
You are guaranteed a 100% refund if you cancel your
registration 45 days before the day of the seminar. A $30
administrative fee will be subtracted from your registration
amount if cancellation occurs between 44 days and two weeks
before the seminar. There is no refund if cancellation occurs
within 14 days before the seminar.)
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This seminar is for participants who want to get paid as
professional speakers/trainers or consultants. Not every
applicant qualifies.
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How to Speak and
Get Paid Seminar |
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When:
July 13th 5:30- 8:30pm (Thurs)
July 14th 5:30-8:30pm (Fri)
July 15th 9:00am-3:00pm (Sat) |
Where: The Waterfront Facility,
3200 Lakeharbor Lane
Boise, Idaho |
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9 must have skills that will get you invited to speak/train
and get paid
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Why
and how to turn your fear of public speaking into a
rewarding
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How
to gather information and tailor it to relate with your
audience
expectations |
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• Organizing
your information for maximum audience learning
experience |
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How to
use your uniqueness and deliver presentations skillfully |
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What,
why and when to use visual aids and when not to |
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How to
create a platform image that captivates audiences all
the time |
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Top
must know steps on how to make each of your
presentations
memorable |
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Proven
ways to motivate your audience to want to listen, learn
and act |
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Must
know tips that will help you avoid presentation pitfalls
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How to start and keep your
speaking/training and consulting business growing
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Getting
from unknown to a celebrated and well paid
speaker/trainer
or consultant |
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9
proven ways to market your business with minimum budget
for
maximum returns |
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How
to create a dominance presence and derive rewards in a
competitive market |
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The
Be-MISH strategy that gets you paid for your expertise
and
speaking skills |
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The 7
streams of income that keep dollars flowing into your
business |
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Strategies
for leveraging your services to add value for clients
and
increase your fees |
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How to
skyrocket your profits and minimize your costs
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Read more and register online at:
www.kituku.com |
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Discounted Rate information:
$179/person ($159 if paid by July 2nd)
$169/person in groups of 3 or 4 ($149/person if paid by
July 2nd)
$159/person in groups of 5 or more ($139/person if paid
by July 2nd)
Compare these rates with the standard
tuition of $495 for the two parts seminar!
Guarantee: 100%
refund (less $30 for administrative costs) if you are not
satisfied with Dr. Kituku’s presentation.
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registration 45 days before the day of the seminar. A
$30 administrative fee will be subtracted from your
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two weeks before the seminar. There is no refund if
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How to start and keep your speaking/training and consulting
business growing—What you will learn in 8 hours:
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Getting
from unknown to a celebrated and well paid
speaker/trainer
or consultant |
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9
proven ways to market your business with minimum budget
for
maximum returns |
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How
to create a dominance presence and derive rewards in a
competitive market |
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The
Be-MISH strategy that gets you paid for your expertise
and
speaking skills |
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The 7
streams of income that keep dollars flowing into your
business |
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Strategies
for leveraging your services to add value for clients
and
increase your fees |
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How to
skyrocket your profits and minimize your costs
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* Note: You could have
these done within 6 weeks
Your investment
$995/participant |
Fast track
participants: Based on evaluation, a participant
may be placed in the fast track program—we work with him/her
and to get the participant booked and paid for a minimum of 5
engagements within a year (terms of payment are discussed
after evaluating speaker’s expertise).
If you enroll for the three Parts, you pay $1,345 only. A
combination of Part I and II is $495. A combination of either
Part I or II with Part III is $1195
Call (208) 376-8724, or email
Vincent directly at
Vincent@kituku.com
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It’s seems odd to think of essential element
for planning our future goals in middle of the year. However,
for professional and personal growth, we must constantly
remind ourselves of the essential elements that move people
ahead and start working on them or strengthen them if we are
already busy building our dreams.
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Know yourself and determine your mission. If you
know yourself, others wouldn’t have the chance of
tailoring you according to expectations that might
stifle your potential. To live and work with
fulfillment one must know what he/she would rather
accomplish than anything else in the world.
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Use the otherwise ignored or underused great source
of power and inspiration—faith in God. It provides
inspiration, will power, and determination to do
what is good in pursuance of one’s mission.
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Know and develop positive traits, both of character
and personality. What is that in you that makes
people want to talk with you, work with you, play
with you and pass on what you say or do to their
loved ones? Hone and let those traits work for you,
all the time.
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Love and serve people. "What we do for ourselves can
get us by. What we do for others is what gets us
ahead; whether in our profession, spiritual pursuits
or relationship." Learn to ask, “Is what I am doing
helping someone?” instead of asking, “What’s there
for me?”
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Work. Work hard. Work to succeed. Work for fun,
growth and to leave a legacy. Put your life’s
mission plan into action by using all you have got
to accomplish all you must.
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No one should
ever attend a live livestock auction without knowing the
rules.
In early spring 1989, our daughter was born in Laramie,
Wyoming. My Kamba (Kenya) traditional inclination was to
welcome her to this world the best way I knew how—prepare a
goat that is shared with family and close friends. A friend,
who offered to accompany me, let me know that my best option
was to visit a livestock auction in Fort Collins, Colorado. It
was a 60 miles drive.
We arrived at about 10:00am, albeit with a huge obstacle. None
of us had ever attended an auction of any kind in Africa or
America, thus we lacked the basic body language gestures
expected in auction functions. Suffice it to say that, while
we could understand and speak English, we didn’t know or
prepare for the English version used by professional
auctioneers.
When you say or do nothing at an auction, no one bothers you
or knows the depth of your knowledge of what’s going on. I had
left home with a purpose and doing nothing or being silent was
not in my list of options. After several groups of goats were
paraded and then taken offstage without my friend or I
understanding what had happened to them, I couldn’t hold my
peace any longer.
At about 2:00pm, I noticed another group of goats. It was time
to act in the way I knew—lift my hand and ask when I have a
question. What happened next revealed how the lack of a
particular trade’s knowledge can be costly to both sellers and
buyers. My lifted hand was noticed at a wrong time and was
misinterpreted. It was the final call for a $2,500 horse, and
my hand was the last body gesture noticed by the auctioneer.
My monthly allowance that supported two adults, a 5 year old
daughter and the new baby was $750.
Let your imagination go as you figure my reaction when a young
lady came with forms for me to fill out before I paid the
horse. My hand was still up since the auctioneer had not given
me the opportunity to ask my question…what is the price of a
castrated goat? I explained to the lady why my hand was up and
that horse had to be brought back.
We left for Laramie at 5:00pm without a goat even after the
facility designated someone to help us with what was being
said whenever a goat was being auctioned. But by the time we
had processed what the helper was saying, the goat was already
taken offstage.
The following week, I shared my experience during animal
physiology class. Professor James Waggoner took solving my
predicament as his personal mission. He was already running a
small cow-calve operation that occasionally needed goats to
provide milk for calves.
That cowboy professor not only went to the auction to get a
goat for the special tradition but also would become the
provider of goats to my family until we left Wyoming. Mind you
those were provided to us at cost. I introduced other African
students to this professor who incorporated educational course
work with a caring spirit that catered to our cultural
practices on foreign soil.
Life, in many situations, is beautified by those mundane
considerations we pay attention to in the lives of those
around us. Most of us will go to our graves eternally grateful
for Prof. Waggoner’s positive consideration and contribution
to our lives as we struggled to adjust in a new cultural
environment.
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