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Dear Success Enthusiast,

I'm not sure how you got here, but I'm sure that once you really check out this site you'll realize you've arrived at THE site dedicated to getting the best out of life... in a moment I'm going to give you a whole mess of FREE stuff for you to download with which to gain new self-empowering insights and make lots of money from...my little hello to you!

...why?

Because, I am often asked what my passions are..."what really makes you happy?"

...and after we pass through the initial casual responses of writing, speaking, the outdoors, nice homes, good food, pleasant company, nice places to live and travel...

The questions go much deeper, especially if they've learned how to ask truly worthwhile questions...and they ask, "what's your deepest passion?"

Making a lot of money... enjoying life... and helping others do the same!

See like most people on this planet, I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth...

I wasn't a member of THE CLUB...

I wasn't even on the waiting list!

I was just confronted early with a perplexing problem that confronts just about everyone, unless you're a member of that club, or had that silver spoon, and even that guarantees nothing:

Perhaps you, too, got out of school, and you’re entering the ‘work force’…

Or, you’ve already been slaving way, supporting someone else’s dream…

Maybe you just have an independent streak that makes you a poor candidate for employee of the year, ‘cause you know can do it better’ as CEO of the year!

Maybe you’ve just got back from doing your duty for your country, and had one of those epiphanies over there that hit you in the head faster than a bullet, like,

“There’s Got to BE SOMETHING BETTER!”

Let me tell you, I can relate...My name is Cork Graham, and…

...Nineteen-eighty-four was an unbelievable year!

I was 19-years-old and had just been released from 11 months captivity, on trumped up charges of espionage. For a good part of that time I was receiving strong coverage in just about every international media outlet, and was even greeted back in the United States as a “hero”, but you know what?

…it was a TOTAL TRAGEDY!

For all that fame, all those offers for movie and book deals, you’d think, hey, he was on easy street! What would you have thought had you been told then that I had not a cent to my name?

Front Page Article on Corks' May 17, 1984 release from Vietnam

Ten-thousand dollars had already been paid for the ransom held on me by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam—can you believe they even demanded another $1,800 for ROOM AND BOARD in political prisons recognized by Amnesty International as their worst?

If my parents weren’t kind enough to let me stay with them after my release, right after my interview by Joan Lunden on Good Morning America, I would have had to find the nearest alley to KGO, the San Francisco ABC affiliate, and build a home out of scrounged cardboard boxes, or whatever I could find to stay warm.

It was that bad!

—I HAD NOTHING!

And then there was the teaser of a book deal and a movie deal and I thought,

…Hey, I’m saved!

But, if you’ve never written a book or tried to sell a movie idea, even with good guns in your corner negotiating with New York publishers and Hollywood producers, what was a sure deal today is suddenly sad news tomorrow…

If hadn’t gained a solid understanding of marketing and sales during my months prior to my capture, keeping myself fed and my rent paid on a $45 month room in a Bangkok slum bungalow off Soi 22 by selling my photographs to anyone who would buy them, I would have immediately been on the dole.

I, as many in my past professions like to say, had put in my time. But if I had realized back then that I wasn’t just a photographer and combat veteran with his own business, that I was actually an entrepreneur, that I was the CEO, product and service of my company, I would have made leaps and bounds that much quicker.

No, no, no, I considered myself an ‘ARTISTE’!

...Direct marketing

...Business development strategy

...Technical writing

...Business negotiation

...Consulting

—Yeah, right!

No way was I going to get into that ‘boring stuff’!

…people who wanted to make money like that spent years going to schools like Harvard getting the MBAs and Ph.D.s and I left university during my first year to get away from all that!

Little did I know that the very skills I was learning ‘in the field’ were these very skills and business understanding that years down the road those very same people who went to Harvard would be paying a ton of money to learn from me!...

Now I share that with you not as brag, but to let you know you just be surprised of all the skills and knowledge that you have that people will pay $50 to $500 or more per hour to learn!

Do you know that one of the biggest dilemmas a military veteran has once getting back is NOT getting paid well, it's translating what he or she did in the militiary into a form that those without military knowledge can understand, appreciate with proper financial compensation--and the sad fact is not that the potential client isn't interested: if the military man or woman could only translate from military into civilian talk about their "MOS", military occupational specialty, then there'd be that many more prospective clients calling and knocking on your door!

It's a sad fact: but what's worse is that this inability to translate that understanding of who you are and what you do is, is not restricted to personnel exiting the military, non-military also have to deal with same issue--it's what keeps many potential entrepreneurs, business owners, and self-made millionaires from ever becoming realized....or of ever getting paid their proper due

...it's like in ancient history when tribal members looked to the 'shaman' because he or she had the name for everything--if you can name it you control it...look at ex-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States Alan Greenspan and the power he had over the 'tribe'!

“Incredible things happen independently of those you personally create. I call these serendipitous blessings. When you’re pushing hard on Door A, someone or something opens Door B. Often, when you look through Door B, what’s behind it is much better than what you were going after in the first place. However, you wouldn’t have seen Door B open if you hadn’t been in the hall pushing on Door A.”--Jack M. Zufelt, Author of The DNA of Success, www.dnasuccess.com

But, I’m getting ahead of myself…It was later in Central America that my epiphany hit me... the time I woke upside down in a bomb crater, vomiting from a concussion that I said,

“ Life is just too short…THERE’S GOT TO A BE BETTER WAY!”

Within a few months of my epiphany, I fulfilled my contract and returned home thinking that everything was going to be taken care of....

Click on the thumbnail of Cork...'The Recruit'...learning that there has got to be something MUCH better...

Well, I’ve learned a few things since then, like…you’re on your own…bad spending habits can kill you...and that morality and spirituality are irrespective of the difference between being rich and poor and that it’s

...Better to be rich than poor--once you've got the wealth and support you can do whatever your mind, heart and soul dictate!

Imagine the FREEDOM!

Accessing my skills, and looking at them not from the viewpoint of an ex-guerrilla fighter, corpsman, platoon leader, or even a photojournalist, but as a business person and entrepreneur, I created a plan, a real plan: a business plan!

More importantly, I knew you have put that business plan into action!

Can you imagine the surprise when I made my first $100, 000+ taking a year the first time? Then soon getting the same amount in under six months, until finally I’m able to know how to do it in under a month!

How DO you make a $100,000 in under a month?

... Well, you develop a plan that takes these philosophies to heart:

Money is not hard to make, but it’s much easier to attract it!
You’re only one idea away from the golden key…
Knowledge is NOT power—Knowledge and THE IMPLEMENTATION of KNOWLEDGE is POWER!

If you’re like me, you’re acquainted with or know more than one person who had a lot of information on a number of subjects and could be considered a ‘specialist’ in a few, and yet didn’t have enough cash to be able to rub two nickels together!

Shoot, since you’ve read this far, you at least know one person who that could have been said about… Yeah, ME!

There I was a person since the age of 18, in the business of finding information on anything and everything…and yet, I couldn’t see the forest for the tree…

I was truly the epitomy of “Water, WATER EVERYWHERE and NONE TO DRINK!

But, you know the saddest part is is that I wasn’t unique: most journalists and reporters are long out of college and they still can’t rub two nickels together after they pay their rent and utilities…and it’s not because of what they know (and they know a lot) but what they don’t know or often really don’t want to know!

You’d think that 11 months in a political prison I’d have an idea of how much my success had been taken hostage by my inability to use what was innately available within all of you, too!

What you learn on the road to financial success, or, TOTAL life success for that matter…is that if given a chance to get a whole lot of book learning or a whole lot of life learning, take life learning everytime: the book, the audio course, or seminar, is all there, but you can’t get the kick in the butt that Life Learning gives you!

(Remember: though this site will definitely get you headed down the right road to making millions of dollars, that’s only half the battle)

It’s a tricky horse to ride, Life, ride it well and it’ll take you everywhere you want to go, ride it poorly and it’ll take you everywhere you want to go…did you get that?

Until you and I we’re programmed to arrive at where we are by our childhood experiences and until we actually take the reins of life and you learn how to program yourselves for exactly where you want to go, not where your parents, your friends, wish they had gone, or worse yet, we’re all effected by outside events that instill a subconscious programming that is so deeply rooted,

...that until you actually understand and use proven systems to take complete controll of your destiny, then you're simply at the mercy of others: financially, emotionally, psychologically, and physically...

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