Do things in your business and your life ever get so crazy that you  feel totally stressed out, overwhelmed, and  ready to run & hide until it's all over? Me neither. But if that did ever happen, here's what I would do…

In this week's episode, you'll find…

• Two lessons I learned from pilot training that help me keep my life on course (and right side up!)
• The new word I made up, what  it means, and why it's important to you.
• How to get out of stress, and into peace & energy… by using “4-D Productivity .”
• And there's more!

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Spiritual Foundations

Control Your Attitude & Your Altitude For a Smoother Flight Through Life

Altitude Is Life

Attitude Determines Outcome

“Orientation of the aircraft relative to Earth's horizon. It indicates pitch (fore and aft tilt) and bank (side to side tilt) and is a primary instrument for flight in instrument meteorological conditions.  Attitude indicators are also used on manned spacecraft, where they indicate the craft's yaw angle (nose left or right) as well as pitch and roll, relative to a fixed-space inertial reference frame.”

“I believe the single most important decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my attitude choice. It’s more important than my past. It’s more important than my education or my bankroll or my success or my failures. My attitude choice is more important than my fame or my pain or what others think or say about me or my position or my circumstances. Attitudes keep me going or cripple my progress. Attitude alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope.” — Strengthening Your Grip, Pastor Charles Swindoll

There are 3 Keys to Remember About Attitude and Altitude

1. First, the attitude reveals the true person. “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.” Matthew 15:18
2. Second, the attitude predicts the future. “For as a person thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7, NKJV).
3. Third, our attitude CONTROLS our altitude. And altitude is life. “Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.” Philippians 4:8New King James Version (NKJV)

Tip of the Week

Feature Segment: Four Dimensional Productivity

Anyone can achieve a state of maximum productivity and maximum peace & energy  by embodying the 4 D’s.

For any project, task, or decision, there are only 4 options:

1. Delete
2. Delegate
3. Defer
4. Do

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In this week's episode, Sean turns the tables on Ray. The interviewer is now the one being interviewed.

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Feature Segment: Sean Edwards Interviews Ray Edwards

Sean gets to ask Ray the questions this week. Some of the questions Sean asks…

• What is copywriting, and why is it so important to entrepreneurs and small-business owners?
• In your book, How to Write Copy That Sells, you refer to the “magic building blocks” of sales copy. What are those blocks, and how do we use them?
• Recently, you introduced the term called “Distributed Sales Messaging”. What is that all about, and why is it important?
• Are there any types of businesses that this “copy-centric” approach will NOT work for?
• Do Internet “product launches” still work, or has that gravy train already passed us by?

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What if you could go from struggle to stratosphere? Fumbling to flying? What if you could multiply the sales and profits of any business? That's what this episode is all about.

In this episode…

• How to multiply sales and profits of any business.
• Ray's # 1 productivity “secret” (even if you know this, chances are you are not using it!)
• God says you are something special!

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Spiritual Foundations

Yes, you are something special!

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9

Tip of the Week

My number one productivity “secret” (even if you know this, chances are you are not using it!)

Feature Segment: How to Multiply Sales and Profits of Any Business

Today, I'll share some thoughts on the one low-cost or no-cost change you can make to your marketing that can multiply sales and profits.

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Many of us have one or more goals we just can't seem to crack. Maybe it's those stubborn “last 10 pounds” (or last 50 pounds) you just can't seem to lose. Perhaps it's the debt you never seem to pay off. Whatever the goal may be, if you'd like a system guaranteed to get those goals crossed off your list, this episode is for you.

In this episode…

• How you can know for sure if God is “on your side”.
• The one conference you must attend this year, and your invitation to join us.
• And our featured segment, How to Always Hit Your Goals.

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Spiritual Foundations

Rest Assured, God Is On Your Side

“If God is for us, who can be against us?” – Romans 8:31

If God is for you, what opposition can stand in your way? We can all experience more of God's ever-present favor on our lives through these 4 practices.

4 Practices That Help You Receive God’s Help

1. Memorize Romans 8:31, and personalize it: “Ray, if God is for you, who can be against you?”
2. Ask: What is the hidden opportunity in this?
3. Ask: How can I use this?
4. Pray: God, what’s the next right thing for me to do?

Tip of the Week

Social Media Marketing World 2016.

• 3,000 pros in San Diego
• Top Pros: Guy Kawasaki, Jay Baer, Mike Stelzner, Amy Porterfield, Pat Flynn, Michael Hyatt, Dan Miller, Michael Port, Cliff Ravenscraft, Chris Brogan… and yours truly.
• Networking party onboard the USS Midway
• Lots of learning sessions, including a copywriting for social media workshop!

Feature Segment: How to Write Copy That Sells

Is it possible to always hit your goals? Yes it is, if you use my BAM! Goal-setting Framework.

There is no failure, other than failing to learn something. Sometimes the most important thing we learn is we still have a lot to learn.

BAM! Goal Targets

• B – aseline. Your “Baseline” goal target is what you can reasonably be expected to do, based on your past performance. You know you will always hit your baseline.
• A – mazing. Your “Amazing” goal target is one you are reasonably sure you can hit this level, but you're not sure you will. The Amazing Target requires hustle, commitment, and discipline. But it's possible, and you know it.
• M – iracle. The “Miracle” Target is just what the name implies. It's only possible through a miracle. It's amazing how many miracles happen in the wake of hustle.

How to “BAMify” Your Traditional Goals

1. Re-evaluate
2. Re-calibrate
3. Re-set with BAM!

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The Ray Edwards Show will continue to publish without fail every week. We have never missed a week. But…

The “Faith Friday” and weekly “Deep Dive” episodes are coming to an end. It was an experiment, and all the date tells me we're making the right move by going back to one episode per week. Listen to this short episode to hear the whole story of why I've made this decision, and where we go from here…

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Success is not an accident. That's what Paul B Evans says. And he says if you want to be successful, you have to make it happen on purpose.

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Links Mentioned In the Show

The Paul B Evans Website.

The 1010 Life.

Pat's blog and podcast, Smart Passive Income.

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Do you know what the most important skill in business is? Persuasive communication. And persuasive communication is at the heart of great Copywriting.

Today, a reading from my forthcoming book, How to Write Copy That Sells.

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Spiritual Foundations

How to lead like Jesus.

 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him,  Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.  Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”

Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”

So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.  If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.  Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

John 13:1-17

Tip of the Week

Social Media Marketing World 2016.

• 3,000 pros in San Diego
• Top Pros: Guy Kawasaki, Jay Baer, Mike Stelzner, Amy Porterfield,Pat Flynn, Michael Hyatt, Dan Miller, Michael Port, Cliff Ravenscraft, Chris Brogan… and yours truly.
• Networking party onboard the USS Midway
• Lots of learning sessions, including a copywriting for social media workshop!

Feature Segment: How to Write Copy That Sells

A reading from my forthcoming book, How to Write Copy That Sells..

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