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Courage In Spite Of The Economic Crisis

Yes, there's no doubt that the economy is doing bad. Many will lose money, homes, and other things they treasure. But it is a good reason for people to start committing suicide?

Whatever happens to courage? Obviously this situation is not going to last forever. We've been there before in years past. Things did change. We should expect things to change in the future as well.

I'm calling on all the people that have been following my career to hold on and weather the storm with courage. Please do not give up. And certainly don't let fear paralyze you. At the end of the day, you will be alright.

Motivational Speaker | Inspirational Business Keynote

Motivational Speaker Inspirational Business Keynote: "Rene Godefroy has risen to national prominence by providing powerful and life-changing professional motivational keynotes and seminar presentations to businesses nationwide. Rene always engages, entertains, challenges and creates a memorable experience that inspire crowds.
Rene is not just a keynote speaker. He's also known as the business motivational speaker that inspires greatness in the corporate arena. Sales professionals, managers, supervisors as well as front line employees in the workplace have all become better at what they do by applying Rene's ideas and strategies. Employers have seen improved employee motivation as well. "

Get Ready To Kick Your Excuses Goodbye

Yes, I am so thrilled to let you know that I am about to launch my new book Kick Your excuses Goodbye. Actually, it’s the book that has already impacted people from all around the globe. The book was named No Condition is Permanent. But after much thinking, I have decided to change the title and the cover.

The new look and title is definitely going to catapult sales. The designer just finished the cover. It is absolutely stunning! The printer is setting up the pages. Talking about hot from the press! In my view, this a brand new book.

Thousands have already benefited from this book. Now it’s your turn. Words are not enough to describe my excitement when I receive letters, emails, and phone calls from people telling how No Condition is Permanent changed their lives. I am even more excited when I go to amazon.com and read so many nice testimonials from people about the book.

But I am even more excited about the content of the book and the great endorsements I picked from people like Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Nido Qubein, Mark Victor Hansen, and Charlie Tremendous Jones.

Jeffrey Gitomer wrote an outstanding foreword that is sure to help boost sales. I will keep posting more information as we get close the launch date.

Take a look at the new design at http://www.kickyourexcuses.com/

Small Businesses Need to Quit Chasing Business.

Small business owners need to get it in their head that chasing clients in order to get more business is the wrong way to go about it. When we chase people to buy, they run way. Instead we have to work on becoming a magnet that attracts people unto us.

This strategy is among many well kept secrets I will be sharing with the audience in Montreal. The seminar is a full-day-no-none-sense session. It will be very experiential where the participants will have to create their business model before they leave.

And they will be held accountable for their results. A series of tele seminars will be followed. What I will be sharing with them is not rhetoric or clichés. I have used and apply those strategies successfully.

That's how I went from extreme poverty and diseases in a tiny village in Haiti to living my dream in America. I went from making $5.45 as doorman in Atlanta to making $5,ooo for a one-hour keynote presentation. And I work a lot less than I used to. Heck, I am not even sure that what I do is work at all.

I truly enjoy what I do.

Rene Godefroy    

HES NOT A VILLAGE HERO. HES AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW.

Jeffrey Gitomer's Foreword For The Book No Condition is Permanent

Welcome to the Renaissance Waverly Hotel. Can I help you with your bags? Those are the first words spoken to me by Rene Godefroy. As he put my bags onto the luggage cart he noticed my book, The Sales Bible.

Did you write that book? Yes I did. I smiled puffing out my chest a bit. How can I get a copy? he asked without hesitating. Ill tell you what, you can get one tonight. Would you rather have a book or a tip? Ill take the book! he responded with a big smile.

Are you a member of the National Speakers Association? Rene asked. Yes, I am. How do you know about that organization? I was a bit taken aback by his question. How does a bellman know about the NSA? Im a member of the Georgia Speakers Association myself, and I plan to join the National this year. Cool. Are you a speaker? Yes, I am, he said with the self-assurance o a twenty-year veteran.

We then played the name-game for a few minutes. Do you know this guy, do you know that guy. Turns out he knew all the people that mattered, at least all the ones I knew.

What are you doing working as a bellman? I wanted to know. Im not making a full-time living as a speaker, so I do this for extra money, he said as he smiled. This guy sure smiles a lot, I thought.

I wondered how many other speakers in the vaunted National Speakers Association began their careers as bellmen. I think the answer is somewhere between not many and none. Anyway, this guy was kind of cool He had a sort of a foreign accent.

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Employee Motivation Begins When Employees Learn To Ethically Exploit The Company They Work For

By Rene Godefroy

Employee motivation is a hot topic. We all know that employee motivation drives productivity. But how do you keep employees motivated? Well, in my opinion, companies can do very little to motivate you. Why? Because true motivation begins when we are internally driven.

For years, I have heard people say they feel that the company is exploiting them. They may be right. And some form of exploitation will always exist. But I have always had a different point of view. And it is this: We have the power to exploit any company instead of them exploiting us. Let me explain…

If you have heard my speech or read my book No Condition is Permanent, you already know how I came to America unable to speak English and with only $5. Apparently, I would be a prime target for exploitation.

But instead, I was motivated to seize every opportunity that would increase my value in the workforce. I didn’t wait for the company to motivate me. Their idea of employee motivation was to fit their agenda. But I had an agenda of my own.

Would you like to know how to do the same? Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could do the exploitation instead? Good. Here’s how to do it:

Click here for the rest of this article by Rene Godefroy: Employee Motivation

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Where You Are and Your Background Have Nothing to do With How Far You Can Go in Life

Excerps From Rene Godefroy Best-selling
book No Condition is Permanent

"Years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

Many people believe one of the myths of success: that in order to achieve anything significant in life one must come from a background full of resources. There are those who look at where they are in life and conclude that it’s impossible to make it to the top. Have you met people like this, those who blame their failure on their past?

Somewhere in their subconscious they believe their past (where they started in life) is the reason they are barely surviving today. This is far from the truth. When I look at how far I have come to be where I am today, I can’t help thinking that you and I have more inside us than we could ever imagine.

Against All Odds
I was born in extreme poverty in a tiny village in Haiti. Haiti is located south of Florida, with the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south. While not all people on the island are poor, the people in my village certainly were. The village is about two miles long and one mile wide. It is located on the extreme southside in the backwoods of Haiti.

We had no running water, no plumbing, and no electricity. We didn’t have access to medical care. I still remember the first time I saw lights. They were the headlights of an old and battered truck they called Voici Phane (vwah-see fahn), which means here is Phane…the truck owner’s name.

Things were difficult in my village. By the time I was five or six years old, I was walking long distances on narrow and dangerous pathways to collect drinking water from a wellspring, and to fetch wood for cooking. I started climbing coconut and mango trees for survival. As a little boy, I remember using my hands to eat because we had no silverware.

For plates, we used half calabashes, which are like big watermelons grown out of a tree (except they are not edible). The folks would cut them in half, clean out the inside, and let them dry in the sun so that they would become the consistency of wood.

Every child in my village was poor; but I was worse off—most of them had at least one parent present. When I became aware of my surroundings, I realized I didn’t have my father or mother around me. My father, who was no help to me, had children all over Haiti.

He traveled from very far to take advantage of young, innocent women; and he abandoned Maman while she was still pregnant with me. I learned that my mother left me when I was only nine months old. The neighbors told me Maman suffered very much because she was so poor.

One morning she decided to venture to the city, Port-au-Prince, to discover what life had in store for her—and to end a lifetime of poverty. She left me behind with a lady named Betila. They told me Maman had planned to send for me as soon as she could, but life in the city was tough and things didn’t turn out the way she expected. It would be a long time before she could send for me.

As soon as Maman took off, I became ill. Many deadly diseases vowed to end my existence so much so that I often lost all my strength. My unhealthy diet, which mostly consisted of breadfruit, added to my misery. Do you know what breadfruit is? It looks like pineapples on the outside but tastes like extra tough potatoes.

My already weak digestive system could not process this much starch; but since I survived by eating breadfruit night and day, my stomach was always bloated. I had constant indigestion, and parasites were eating me alive.

I wanted to give up many times because my body was so weak, but my spirit refused to do so. It wanted me to stay in the ring and fight one more battle. I spent most of my time during the day sitting on a dirt floor fanning flies off my face; and at night, I shooed away the mosquitoes. I was so alone. There were times when I wondered whether I had been brought to this earth by a spirit who had then abandoned me.

Every day I cried for my mother’s help. I heard that I had a sister and a brother in the City with Maman. I wanted to be close to my family. Perhaps then I could be touched, even held. Psychologists tell us that children who are not cuddled, held, and touched have a tendency to shrink and die early. I desperately needed some type of affection.
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This is an excerpt from Rene Godefroy's Book No Condition is Permanent . Top movers and shakers like Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Charlie Tremendous Jones, Jeffrey Gitomer, W Mitchel and Nido Qubein highly endorse this book. Click on this link to learn more about this book motivational book or click on this link motivational speaker & keynote speaker