| Dear John, Are you ready to make 2018 the best year of your life? Do you have a plan? I’d like to share with you the three secrets that will transform you and enable you to make 2018 the best year of your life. Recently I had a 3-hour meeting with Dr. Ken Blanchard, author of One Minute Manager and over 50 other books. He and Dad were friends and admired each other greatly. Spending three hours with Dr. Blanchard was like spending three hours with my dad. The wisdom and love came pouring out of him as he poured into me, and this brought back memories of Dad that came flooding back to me in all of the right ways. Dr. Blanchard shared with me that in order to be an effective leader, you have to first transform yourself into the right kind of person. If you can’t lead yourself, you really can’t lead anyone. In order to make 2018 your best year ever, you have to transform yourself into the person that can make that happen. So how do you do that? Here are the 3 Secrets to Transformation: The degree of hope you manifest by preserving through obstacles becomes a measure of your passion. — Zig Ziglar Secret #1 - Passion What are you called to do? What are you passionate about? Have you clearly defined this? When you have clarity of passion, it ignites a fire that fuels hope. Secret #2 - Hope John Maxwell says that when you have hope in the future you have power in the present. What are you hoping for in 2018? What does your ideal life look like? How are you going to transform yourself so that you can have more of things that money can buy and all of the things money can’t buy? Secret #3 - Grit Grit is that dogged determination and discipline that keeps you on track and focused on learning and doing the things necessary to develop your gifts, talents, skills, and character qualities you need to achieve your goals and dreams. I call this the Trinity of Transformation. Passion fuels hope. Hope fuels Passion. Hope and Passion fuel the perseverance necessary for Grit to win the game. Grit allows you to get up every time you are knocked down and to keep going even when the world says to stop. In order to make 2018 your best year ever, you need the Trinity of Transformation! I have good news for you... I am presenting a free live webinar: The 3 Secrets To Transformation - How to make 2018 the best year of your life! Because I believe this free webinar is so important, I will be presenting it live two different times, once in the morning and once in the evening. I don’t want you to miss it! There is something magical about hearing information live and being able to ask questions at the end. | 