From the desk of Diana Nightingale 

Remember the story, “The Little Red Hen”?  Well, I often threaten to rename my company, “Little Red Hen Industries”, because it’s really a one-woman operation, and I do everything from research, to the publishing of Earl’s works.  The great reward, for me, is the personal contact I have with my readers. 
 

What television show had a segment that began, “We get letters, we get stacks and stacks of letters.”? Well, I get stacks and stacks of emails, and I have to admit that there are times when I wish I had some electronic partner who received all of the emails and responded with the usual, - - “Thank you for writing.  Someone will respond to your request within the next 48 hours”.  That way, I could sort out the complaints from the accolades; but instead they all show up on my screen for me to answer, but I am happy to do so. 
 

There’s nothing more rewarding than to open an email from someone whom, at some point in time, met Earl, in person, or heard his radio shows, or an audio program, and learn how Earl’s messages helped shape their life.   I receive emails from some of the most interesting people on the planet, and hear the greatest stories of success, accomplishment, and victory over adversity that you could imagine. 
 

In times past, my readers would often write and ask me to find and share a famous quote or maybe an old radio script, but the challenge has grown to requests for audio programs on download, and I find myself rummaging through my library at midnight, to see if I have what they are looking for.  It’s disheartening to tell someone that I don’t have what they’ve asked for, but I am delighted when I find that I do.  It’s also fun for me to publish something I had not scheduled to do - - a real treat to listen to an old program that I haven’t heard in years, and exciting to share it through the web site.  
 

Such is the case this week. At the request of Ron Rice, Albert E. N. Gray’s, Classic, “The Common Denominator of Success”, as told by Earl, is now available as an MP3 download.  It’s been years since I listened to “The Common Denominator of Success”, and now that I’ve listened to it again, it’s going out to my car so that I can listen to it while I’m driving. The program tells us how to choose a purpose in life, a goal to shoot for . . .and how to achieve that goal through building the kind of habits that guarantee success. Here’s just a short passage from the script: 
 

“.. .Of course, like most of us, I’d been brought up on the popular belief that the secret of success is hard work, but I’d seen so many men work hard without succeeding and so many men succeed without working hard that I had become convinced that hard work was not the real secret even though in most cases it might be one of the requirements. 
 

And so I set out on a voyage of discovery which carried me through biographies and autobiographies and all sorts of dissertations on success and the lives of successful men and women until I finally reached the point at which I realized that the secret I was trying to discover lay not only in what people did, but also in what made them do it!

I realized further that the secret for which I was searching must not only apply to every definition of success, but since it must apply to everyone to whom it was offered, it must also apply to everyone who had ever been successful.  In short, I was looking for the common denominator of success.  And because that’s exactly what I was looking for, that’s exactly what I found. 
 

But this common denominator of success is so big, so powerful, and so vitally important to your future and mine that I’m not going to make a speech about it.  I’m just going to  “lay it on the line” in words of one syllable, so simple that anybody can understand them. . .” 
 

This recording is “so big, so powerful, and so vitally important to your future” that I suspect I will be bombarded with even more letters of appreciation. Hmmmm. . . I think I’ll forward all of them to Ron. 
 

Until the next issue, may the road of your journey be blessed.

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