1. Five Optimal Questions

1. What do I most want to accomplish in this lifetime?
2. Am I focusing on my highest priorities?
3. When I'm off track, do I bounce back with minimal time loss?
4. What is/are my greatest accomplishment(s) to date?
5. How can I best leverage my strengths to achieve my most important goals?

When you ask the best questions, you invite the best solutions. You can submit up to one page of text about your business or personal challenges. We will provide you with five customized Optimal questions to invite your best solutions within two business days. We are offering a 50 percent discount exclusively for subscribers to this newsletter until midnight, October 1, 2007. Simply enter your code: OptimizeOct-1-07

2. Optimal Affirmation

My thoughts and actions are aligned with my ultimate goals.

Optimal affirmations prepare you to reach your most desired goals. You adjust yourself toward having what you most want by incorporating it physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Note: Optimal affirmations are verbal "act as if" creative statements. Be sure to jot down and resolve your unsupportive responses. Optimal Thinking is optimal realism. It is NOT wishful thinking!

The 70-minute Optimal Affirmations audio-CD and mp3 download contain Optimal Affirmations in 11 categories - Optimal Thinking, Core Beliefs, Self Esteem, The Body, The Mind, Social Affirmations, Purpose, Planning, Feelings, Communications and Work. Put your best self in charge!

3. Optimal Quotations

"The noblest motive is the public good."
Virgil, Greek poet 70-19 BC

"The question is, 'How do you best impact a child's life?'"
Andre Agassi

You can view our collection of Optimal quotations from Optimal Thinkers and contribute your own Optimal quote at:
http://www.optimalthinking.com/FamousOptimalThinkers.html
http://www.optimalthinking.com/Quotations.html
http://www.optimalthinking.com/quotes-presidents.html
http://www.optimalthinking.com/african-american-quotes.html

4. Optimal Action Step For This Week

Write a sentence for each of the following:

1. Your optimal private life epitaph (for your eyes only)
2. Your optimal life epitaph (for all eyes)
3. Your optimal career epitaph
4. Your optimal relationships epitaph

5. Ask Dr. Glickman

I am a partner in a prestigious financial consulting firm with an MBA from Harvard. I service my clients exceptionally well but I'm not enthusiastic about looking for new ones. I went through a difficult divorce a few years ago and lost a stack of money in some financial ventures. I had to sell my home and then missed out on the real estate boom. I have lost confidence in my judgment and feel terrible about my situation. My partners, employees and clients expect me to have my financial house in order, but at 53, I am far from where I need to be. I feel like a phony and I'm tired of having to put on a show. There are days when I don't even feel like coming to work. I've read most of the self-help books and have come to believe that I have a self-sabotage mechanism that is bringing me down. How can you help me?

Phony, Arlington, VA

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Dear friend:

Thank you for sharing your anguish with our community. I am sure everyone can relate to your embarrassment and distress. First and foremost, I must caution you against misrepresenting yourself. Covering up negative thoughts and feelings with pretence is a lonely endeavor. You may win in the short run, but you will lose your credibility and your soul. Applying paint over rust doesn't remove the rust.

Clearly, you are obviously able to do for your clients what you are not doing for yourself. You may have a thinking pattern similar to the one in the following diagram:

I am wondering about the specific thoughts, actions and events that contributed to your financial situation. Were you overly optimistic? Did you overlook or underestimate the downside risk? Did you neglect to consider or implement an optimal contingency plan? Did you focus on making the most of what was within your control? What can you learn from this experience, and how can these losses best serve you now? What has stopped you from accepting your situation, putting your best foot forward, and giving your all to your current goals?

Keep in mind, it's not how low you fall, but how quickly you optimize that counts. What is, is. Accepting your situation, even if you don't like it, is the first step you must take to get back on your optimal track.

If you are ready to resolve the source of your self-sabotage, you will find Optimal Thinking roadmaps to understand and resolve core beliefs in the Optimal Thinking book, 100-day Audio-CD Program and software. However, because most people are thwarted by their own defense mechanisms, I believe your best course of action is through one-on-one consultation with a top-notch facilitator. Deadly core beliefs are often dismantled in one or two sessions.

In the meanwhile, make the commitment to do your best, regardless of the circumstances, consciously choosing Optimal Thinking as your vehicle. When people inquire about you, instead of putting on a show, you can simply tell them that you are doing your best. Ask yourself:

What am I thinking or doing to create my current situation?
What am I thinking or doing to compromise my best interests?
Am I willing to focus on making the most of what is within my control?
What is my best strategy to overcome my self-limiting core beliefs?
What is supremely important to me now?
What are my most important goals?
What are the most constructive actions I can take to achieve them?
What's the wisest/most productive use of my time right now?

Where there's a will, there's an Optimal way.

7. NEW Optimal Offers Each Day During October

During the month of October, OptimalThinking.com will be offering a new Optimal offer every day. Here are samples of upcoming offers:

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Your Optimal daily offers will be posted each day at http://www.optimalthinking.com/special-offers.html

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9. Register for NEW Certified Assessment Associate Program

TWO teleconferences to certify coaches, trainers, counselors and consultants to conduct the Optimal Thinking 360° Assessment:
Two half-day training teleclasses, November 19 and 20, 2007: 10 am - 1 pm, PT ($735)

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