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Video: Steven Tyler Says He Cried During Sex

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Cliff Michaels New Book “The 4 Essentials: A Path to Success & Happiness”

Lessons learned in classrooms or even through work experience are extremely important. That said, those learned outside the classroom or boardroom — the real-world essentials — are critical to success as well. In his new book, The 4 Essentials: A Path to Success and Happiness, successful entrepreneur Cliff Michaels brings to life what he calls a Real-World MBA, a Master’s in Basic Abilities.

In The 4 Essentials, Cliff Michaels takes readers on a journey of success, failure, and purpose with lessons to be gleaned from each. Michaels complements this journey with wisdom drawn from books, movies, childhood heroes, and virtual mentors from Leonardo daVinci and Thomas Edison to modern-day icons such as Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Blake Mycoskie. Passionately written and thought provoking, Michaels illustrates why success is not predicated solely on degrees, intelligence, or opportunity.

The 4 Essentials has already gained recognition by leaders in education and entrepreneurship:

"Cliff's 4 Essentials are a great framework for students to succeed in school and life."
Bill Milliken – Founder, Communities in Schools, Author, The Last Dropout

“Cliff Michaels delivers a powerful path to profits, passion, and purpose.”
Tony Hsieh – CEO, Zappos.com, NY Times #1 Bestseller, Delivering Happiness

“By applying ‘The 4 Essentials’— life skills, action strategies, core values, and purpose principles — anyone can fill gaps in education, intelligence, or socio-economics that may be holding them back,” says Michaels. “That’s not to say traditional education isn’t important. It certainly is. But teaching vocation skills without people skills or business excellence without purpose principles is fundamentally flawed.”

As a real estate broker, investor, high-tech CEO, and strategist, Michaels has successfully navigated the high flying 80's, recovering 90's, and 21st century booms and busts. His firm has produced more than $500 million in sales and he’s a former president and 10-year board member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization Los Angeles Chapter.

Before hitting his stride, Michaels’ journey began as an aspiring entrepreneur at the University of Southern California. While cutting his entrepreneurial teeth with street-wise real estate mentors, Michaels noticed a serious gap between traditional education and basic abilities of peak performance. This fueled philosophical debates with students and professors, leading Michaels to conduct research on “Real-World Essentials Critical to Success,” especially in competitive environments. His research and personal journey supported Michaels’ belief that basic life and business strategies must be taught in concert. This was the inspiration for The 4 Essentials.

“Based on my research, The 4 Essentials are keys to achievement – personally and professionally,” continues Michaels. “I’m convinced anyone willing to Master Basic Abilities can find their path to success and happiness.”

In addition to his book on The 4 Essentials, Michaels has developed online e-courses and tools on topics from self-discovery and team building, to communication, people skills, conflict resolution, sales, negotiations, and business planning; among others (coming this Fall). Additionally, Michaels launched The Giving Back Mission as a companion to The 4 Essentials. With each purchase at CliffMichaels.com, free books and courses are donated to students with 10% proceeds also going to charities. Initial targets include: Charity Water, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Communities in Schools, Doctors Without Borders, and Habitat for Humanity.

The 4 Essentials is now available for pre-order and will be released in paperback January 2012. FREE Chapters are available and anyone who pre-orders the book gains exclusive access to a full PDF Online version of The 4 Essentials at www.CliffMichaels.com. 50% Off Michaels’ E-course on Self Discovery & Team Mission is also available when pre-ordering the book (Courses come with result-oriented tools like goal and project-planning forms).Lessons learned in classrooms or even through work experience are extremely important.... more

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Oprah 'Happy' To Campaign For Obama In 2012

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Hollywood Studios Think Twice About Comic-Con

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Oprah Is A Baby Blesser!

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Oprah Winfrey Receives Honorary Doctorate Degree

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PCW Replay: Extreme Election Night 2008 « Political Championship Wrestling

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Oprah's Audience Moves On

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Oprah's First Day Off

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Super Frat: That's Working In Television

The bros watch the last Oprah show.

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The End Of Oprah Winfrey Show: The Final Speech VIDEO

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YouTube - GOODBYE TO OPRAH!!!! - LAUREN OR SCOTTY ON IDOL??? - BIEBER PERFUME REACTION!

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Oprah Winfrey Final Farewell Show to Air Wednesday | Snark Food

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What's New Shalom Oprah, Which Means Goodbye AND Hello

As Oprah rides off into the sunset, let's all remember her as skinny Oprah.

What’s with the teary goodbyes to Oprah? OK, so her afternoon chat show is going dark after 25 years, but surely Oprah is not about to pull a Greta Garbo and veer off into obscurity. Trust me, she does not want to be alone. On the contrary. Be prepared to see more of Oprah in the weeks, months and quarter centuries to come. Unless you have been living under a rock, you will know that Oprah has created her OWN Network, which is her own network, a.k.a. Oprah Winfrey Network. When you create a network like when Ted Turner started CNN, you become a full-throttle, in the public eye, media celebrity. Expect that and much more from our Oprah. The hub-bub leading to tomorrow’s final show is reminiscent of the PR around, “Who Shot JR?” and the final episode of “Mash”. Trust me, this will not have the same impact. Sure, I love Oprah, but when I would find myself watching the show at four o’clock in the afternoon, it was usually during a deep depression. This is not a slight intended for Oprah viewers, but if I am in bed on any given afternoon as opposed to working, that is not a good thing.

Why do I feel obligated to apologize for not fawning over the finale of this female-driven chat show? Surely this is not toodles, rather a big, fat hello. Oprah will provide the Oprah-viewing audience with 24-7, Oprah-like programming of chat shows and lovable reruns and all things fluffy. Surely there will be many searing documentary-style informative hullabaloos, but to fill a network is not easy. Look at the O Network. Outside of Janice Dickinson and reruns of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, what else is there besides the occasional bootylicious nonsense? When Oprah was on the recent Oscars telecast, I knew then that powerhouse Hollywood agents at CAA were planning to take the Oprah brand to the nth power. The goal was to dangle her before the global movie going audience, away from the context of daytime chit-chat queen.

Though I was annoyed with Oprah when she re-sealed Hillary Clinton’s glass ceiling, I have always respected Oprah and likened her to our Princess Di, since we have no real royalty in the United States and she has minions, like a Princess. But what made Oprah so successful was her Gary Cooper-like Mr. Deeds Goes To Town every person quality. She made it OK to have foibles like weight and family issues. She gave us a free pass to be imperfect, and begin to work on ourselves. Her commitment to books was beyond admirable. One can only hope that she produces a one-hour show on books alone on her new OWN. Oprah’s coverage of self-help philosophies sometimes was met with controversy. According to psychotherapist, Jonathan Alpert, “I think ‘The Secret,’ and all those other things, are absolute garbage and grossly irresponsible — telling people to hang a picture and wish for something,” Alpert says. “Without a strategic plan, they just give people a false sense of hope.” I guess you can’t tune in for an hour and think that you can heal or change without a long term personal investment, but I think we all have watched some Oprah and walked away feeling really good about ourselves. And that will always be Oprah’s greatest teaching moment.

Read more at "I Mean... What?!?" http://imeanwhat.com/#ixzz1NHBr4ir6As Oprah rides off into the sunset, let's all remember her as skinny Oprah.... more

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Oprah Winfrey, You're Still Here? CHRIST!!

I could have sworn that a couple of years ago I heard commercial after commercial that Oprah's final season was happening, but even today when I click the little black rectangle, there she is, still. She hasn't gone anywhere! That damn show is still on and her "final farewell for realsies show" is three freakin' days long this week, labeled: The Oprah Winfrey Farewell Spectacular.

It seems so strange that she would name it after herself being the shy and humble person she tells us she is. I mean she didn't name her magazine after herself ... it's just "O The Oprah Magazine". See? There's no "Winfrey" in there so it's not about her, not at all, except maybe that she is on every cover of the magazine, but that's normal right? Nor is her "Harpo Productions". Sure, they share the same five letters but it's not her, unless you have a "The Shining" moment and notice that REDRUM is actually MURDER spelled backwards. And lets not forget her latest television network OWN. That's just a regular word ... own. It has nothing to do with her initials and network at the end of it. So why in the world would she start branding herself now?

But what does that have to do with her leaving the show after 25 years? Nothing! I just can't stand people who are so self-righteous and braggart-like and claim the opposite. Now I don't mind somebody telling their story of struggle and suffering, but when it comes from someone who has to produce it and shove it in everybody's faces at every opportunity on all the major networks on all the biggest shows, holy F woman WE GET IT OK??? Now granted she does a lot for charities and gives away all kinds of prizes and what not, but let's be honest, those "prizes" aren't coming out of her pocket-book, those are corporations whoring their goods out on the most popular show on the planet and other planets that haven't been found yet. Don't get me wrong, if I had a coffee mug or a t-shirt with our logo on it, I'd have her pimp the living shit out of it on that show and put one under each and every chair. Sure, all the monetary contributions help out well deserved charities, but the more you give, the more you can write off your taxes, and the more your face and name can be plastered all over said charities walls. And let's face it, she's not going anywhere. We're gonna see her all over the TV Scape talking about herself to no end. You're not fooling us Miss Winfrey you silly gal.

So yes, FAREWELL Oprah, fare thee freakin' well. I'm sure you might scrape by with your billions of dollars and your famous friends and your 50 acre estate and your book-club and your television network. We are so happy to be celebrating with you from our 900 sq.ft 1 bedroom apartments, celebrating with you while we scramble to fill our gas tanks, celebrate with you while the economy is taking a dump on all of us, losing our houses, going bankrupt, struggling on unemployment, and barely surviving the Goddamned Rapture last Saturday. Thank you so much for letting all of us get to share in your moment of tear filled happiness/sadness with Tom Cruise and Madonna, we're so lucky. I am now convinced that since the Goodbye-Forever-This-Time-For-Reals-Spectacular was scheduled for this week, the Second Coming of Christ had to be postponed and everybody should get off Harold Camping's case and blame HARPO.I could have sworn that a couple of years ago I heard commercial after commercial that... more

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Photos From 'Oprah' Finale Taping, David Letterman 'Crushed' by the Snub

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Lady Gaga Tops Forbes Most Powerful Celebrity 100 List

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