The Dean of Easy Street

A lot of people today really don’t know how to use

Social Media to promote their message or sell their

goods and services, and its beginning to get under

my skin. They just carry over what they think they

know about marketing and pound relative strangers

with similar sounding offer after offer after offer.

If it’s not spam it’s awfully fricken close.

The only people I know who respond to blatant pitches

like that are people who are doing the same thing.

They must think that’s the only way. Maybe they

haven’t heard we’re in the information age.

I think we’re getting to the point now where there’s

way too much information.  We don’t need pitches.  We

need people.  People we can trust to cut through the

hype and the noise.

The key to using Social Media is in creating win/win

relationships that position you as the “go to” person

in your field or niche.  Period. 

That’s always been effective in business, but it was

a time-consuming, or expensive process before. Now it

doesn’t have to be. Once you know how to do it right

you can do it on a massive level with Social Media.

Lately I’ve been hanging around young entrepreneurs who

grew up on Social Media.  They don’t have to learn it. 

They’ve lived it and helped make it what it is.  They

understand the culture.  They understand the market. 

Tonight at 9 pm Eastern four of these success-minded

Young Guns are going to give you a taste of what is

possible via a free teleseminar. They’re all in their

20’s.

Maybe you’ve heard of Russell Yermal, Bradley Will,

Arthur Tubman or Gabe Strom, or maybe not.  You will.

But if you want to start de-bunking the myths about how

to build giant yet responsive Facebook and Twitter

followings and how to get people to listen to your message

without spending an arm and a leg or using silly spammer

tools. 

Sorry I got this out to you so late, but you’ll need

to jump on over and pre-register right away at:

http://bit.ly/8lO0eS

We’ll see you there.

Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street

P.S.  As a bonus incentive for signing up Russell & Gabe

have just released  a free new video called:

How To Rank On The First Page of You Tube

Get it now at:

http://bit.ly/8BbodC

And FYI, the Facebook Fan page for these guys at

Social Media Altitude is also at:

http://bit.ly/5FWNGI

You may have seen this already, but if not, it’s something you probably want to jump on with family, friends, followers & fans. Think of the impact it can have in these economic times.

I just I found out a wealthy friend of mine is on a mission to give away one million paperback copies of Napoleon Hill’s classic success primer “Think & Grow Rich”.

All for the cost of S&H, & he’ll pay you & I a couple of bucks per book to help him. (Actually $5 per book during the 10 day kickoff period till Oct 31st) And you get a free website to send people to.

There’s only one copy per person, but I’ve already got one reserved for you & all the details you’ll need at:

http://www.FreeTGRbook.com/gatordeano

Have fun giving.

Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street

I met an amazing 22 year old young man on Facebook a couple of months ago who I now consider a real friend.  More than just a “Facebook Friend” if you know what I mean.  And somebody I’d trust with my daughters J 

 Three weeks ago after having read several of Dr. Joe Vitale’s books over Christmas break Russell Yermal decided he’d like to go to the LA premier of ‘The Compass’.  So he set his intention according to The Attractor Factor ‘Nevillized’ it (put feelings into it), Let it go, and went back to his projects.  But why don’t I let him tell the story from here.  After coming back from visiting his family:

  “A girl I had not yet met took me out to lunch.  Of course it’s hard to find other 22 year olds who are on the same page as you in a college town famous for producing Cheech Marin, but, it turned out that  Laci was my age, already had her Master’s degree, was working toward her PhD, and already had quite a few victories under her belt.  I was impressed.

 Things only got better.  During our conversation, I learned that Laci is being mentored by Kelli Calabrese, one of the world’s top Personal Trainers.  I soon learned that Kelli would be a featured cast member in The Compass and that Laci would be going to the premier.Talk about amazing. 

 I never thought that I would find someone like me in the small town of Denton, TX, but to find someone going to the same movie premier in Los Angeles?  Thank you, Universe

 Tonight you can hear how Russell “The Success Man” went from 150 pounds Overweight and Homeless to Abundant and Happy in less than a Year.  For the first time ever, Russell will be telling his story LIVE and FREE in a Webinar. He will also be giving valuable Social Media advice and letting you in on some secrets regarding his latest project - and how it’s going to help change the world.

 The event is this Thursday, March 5th, from 9:30-10:30PM Eastern Standard Time.

 I know this is late notice, and I just found out about it myself, but if you register and you have other plans you can pick up the mp3 later.
 

 Go to http://neworldcoaching.com/newregister.php?place=3&type=6 to register.   

 Love in Abundance,  

 Dean Delker – The Dean of Easy Street               

The trouble with imagination is we’ve grown up.  We didn’t used to have any problems with it.  Imagination came easy.  Just like all the other play we did.   

But then we left it behind.  Our teachers told us we needed to stay in the reality we can touch and see all the time if we wanted to amount to anything.  And we believed them.  Didn’t think to look at just how happy and successful they were. 

And also some of our imaginary world turned out to be a lie and that was traumatic.  Stuff like Santa Claus eroded our confidence in the unseen world.  Some of us felt defrauded.   And we got away from imagination and dreaming. 

But the most successful among us have learned how to get back that childlike wonderment, turn our work into play, and succeed beyond our dreams. 

Wouldn’t you rather have that? 

Go Forth and Play to Win, 

Richard Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street 

P.S. You can’t totally live in your imagination, but that’s where many good things start.  That’s how you open yourself up to the power of the Holy Spirit, for instance. And how you can preprogram yourself for success 

BTW, If you enjoy these little messages please visit www.deandelker.com/products.html and see if there aren’t any tools for abundant living you can make good use of. 

P.P.S. And if these messages benefit you please tell a couple of friends about them, and send them to www.deandelker.com where they can get on our mailing list too.   

Thanks and God Bless.

One of the best kept secrets on the planet is the power of deliberately using your imagination to preview and pre-create your future.  Maybe that’s because too many people equate that with daydreaming.   

Daydreaming is more like visual doodling though.  It’s just your mind wandering.  It’s used as an escape from reality. 

But purposeful imagination is used to affect reality.  It’s a way to make the reality you desire more likely to happen, and it’s been proven time after time, especially in sports.  

If you’re not practicing intentional imagination techniques on a daily basis you’re missing out on some incredible benefits.  It’s a big part of how we co-create our experience in this current universe.  We are made in the image and likeness of God, and this amazing power of  is one of the key ways we express that.  We help create things from nothing.  Well, from nothing but our thoughts which act as the blueprints anyway. 

We are like the soldier on the ground who has to paint an enemy target with a laser beam so a guided missile can zero in on it from above within a matter of inches.   

Our job is to paint our patterns with our thoughts, imaginations and feelings, and God makes it happen through the energetic laws of the universe.  We also have actions to take along the way, but without the right patterns in place our actions will be wasted.   Even working solely in the physical realm this holds true.  The thought and idea and vision for something always comes first.   

When I was in grade school my dad started building my mother a dream house on a plot of land he owned.  He used sub-contractors over time, as he could afford them.  It took 7 years to finish, but he saved a ton of money and got exactly what he wanted.  This didn’t just happen through random action though.  It was his vision, imagination, and action that brought that home into reality. 

And that principle is even more potent in the unseen realm.  Imagination used rightly boosts performance in anything we do.  All too often though we are using fear-based or limited imaginations.  And we end up creating what we don’t want, but we don’t realize the part we played in making that happen.    We’ve got a lot of power, and not knowing how to use it gets us in big trouble, and it makes us feel like victims.  But if we know how to use it we can make miracles and have a pile of fun in the process. 

Go Forth and Play to Win, Richard Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street 

P.S. Next time I’ll turn you on to another reason we have trouble with imagination. 

Remember though, All things are possible to him (and her) who believes. 

I call my new business Delker Brother’s Publishing, but neither of my brothers are involved, except in spirit. 

It’s a family tradition. 

My grandfather Frank Huebner Delker was a plucky entrepreneur who came to work every day till he was in his mid-90’s and lived to be 103.  With 2 of his brothers he started making buggies in the 1890’s and switched to manufacturing furniture after Henry Ford ran him out of the buggy business. 

He eventually bought his brothers out and was president of Delker Brothers Manufacturing Company in Henderson, Kentucky up through the mid-1970’s.  If you like Early American hardwood maple furniture it was hard to beat. 

When I was growing up he ran the business with 3 of his 7 sons.  My dad, an artist, was the creative designer.  One of my uncles was plant engineer, another was the business manager. 

Granddad was legendary for his stubbornness and in his latter years for having very ’selective hearing’.   Whenever anybody disagreed with him on a business decision he believed in, he’d act like he couldn’t hear them. But they knew it was pointless to try to speak louder or enunciate.  It was a signal his mind was made up.   

When it comes to success we all have to have a similar ’selective memory’.    When we’re off course we need to take in the corrective feedback so we can better zero in on our target the next time, but we don’t want to hold on to the memory too long and let ourselves feel like failures.  

You’re not going to be perfect, but if you learn to use your misses to learn something, you will always be improving.  Go Out and Play to Win, 

Richard Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street   

P.S. The idea of feedback and zeroing in on your target is one of the mainstay’s of Dr.Maxwell Maltz’ Psycho-Cybernetics Success System first published in 1964.  

Dr. Maltz is no longer with us, but his ideas still produce amazing results today and his work is being carried on by the Psycho- Cybernetics Foundation. 

See what they’re up to today at:  

http://www.psycho-cybernetics.com/ 

God Bless

What’s in a name?

You’ve got every reason to ask. 

I could be a con man, or somebody trying to get-rich-quick for all you know.   

And what’s with all this ‘Easy Street’ stuff? 

Am I promoting laziness?   Am I opposed to hard work?  Well in a sense I am, but I’m hugely in favor of inspired, visionary, productive, playful, purposeful effort that gets superior results. 

I AM opposed to boring, struggling, stressful, grinding, tedious work that doesn’t produce. 

I realize that’s the nature of the curse on mankind in Genesis -  men would have to earn their way by the sweat of their brow, and women too, especially in childbirth which we even call labor.  But we weren’t left cursed according to the Bible. 

Jesus said His ‘yoke was easy and his burden light’.  And in His ultimate act of love on the cross, scripture says He was made the curse for us. Which means we don’t have to carry it anymore.  But often through ignorance or stubbornness we do anyway. 

My intention is to swing the balance the other direction.What I’m all about is exploring ways of operating out of higher power.  Learning how to use inner resources we all have access to.  And it’s much more than the brute force you can exert with willpower on the material plane. 

Thanks for joining me on this exciting journey. 

Go out and Play to Win. 

Richard Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street - www.deandelker.com  P.S. One of the best ways to supercharge your work is to to get the most out of your breathing.   If you’re looking for a firm foundation in that make your way right now over to: 

http://www.deandelker.com/complete_breath.html 

God Bless

On his blog a couple of months ago prolific author and success teacher Dr. Joe Vitale (www.mrfire.com) reminded us how you can move from where you are in life (Point A) to where you want to be (Point B).

The key (which happens to be the name of Joe’s newest book) is to be happy where you are and let that happiness produce inspired actions which get you where you intend to go next.

But how do you make yourself happy? 

What if things aren’t going your way?

It’s no coincidence Happy and Thanksgiving go together like turkey and dressing, because the key to happiness is nothing more than being grateful, i.e. giving thanks.

I challenge you the next time you’re not happy to check whether you’re being grateful for what you do have or whether you are taking things for granted, feeling entitled, and playing the victim. I don’t think you can maintain a truly grateful heart and not be happy most of the time.

And you can always find things to be grateful for when you train your mind to look.  If you’re bummed because you’re $50,000.00 in debt you can be grateful it’s not double that.  You can be grateful lenders trusted you that much.  You can be grateful you have your health. 

So don’t just give thanks one day a year.  Start doing it all the time, and you’ll be much, much, much more happy. 

Go Out and Play to Win,

Richard Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street

P.S. And when you can make yourself happy that vibration will attract more to be grateful for and which will then keep you even more happy. But you’ll never feel the absolute power of that rising vortex till you stop complaining and start being thankful every chance you get.

I saw a t-shirt Saturday at the Florida/Florida State football game which said: 

“Every time you stay out too late

Every time you sleep in

Every time you skip your workout . . . 

Makes it that much easier for your opponent to beat you the next time you meet.”

And one of the things you hear all the time in sports describing why one team won and another lost is:“They wanted it more.”

So what do you think your competition is doing right now?

Napolean Hill in “Think And Grow Rich” says burning desire is the starting point of all achievement.  And I say the degree of your desire determines the degree of your success. 

That’s because you have competitors, and you’re going to encounter obstacles. You’re going to hit adversity.  That’s part of the human condition in an imperfect world.

Next time I’ll show you what it takes to routinely overcome adversity.  For now. 

Go and Play to Win,

Richard Dean Delker - The Dean of Easy Street

P.S. Another way to get in touch with your innermost desires is to pray or meditate.  What you are looking for then is inspiration, because inspiration is what gives you creative ideas, shortcuts, motivation, etc.

Inspiration allows you to have more gains with less labor and hard work.  And did you know you can also literally breathe your way into enhanced performance?  Breathing is the physical equivalent of inspiration, and  “Take a few deep breaths” is not just empty advice. 

It works like a charm, but it works best if you know how to breath right and what to be picturing in your mind. Don’t worry.  You are in luck because you can find out how to become a breathing Superman this very day at:

http://www.deandelker.com/complete_breath.html 

Check it out and see if it fits. 

Thanks and God Bless