Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Father's Day Gift Idea

Dear Readers,

Father's day is just around the corner on June 18. Why not honor Dad as your Hero by giving him a copy of The Hero Soul?

The Hero Soul makes a great inspirational gift that will move, touch and inspire!
It is an inspirational book on awakening the hero within and rekindling people's passion for greatness.

Visit Amazon.com to read some of the informative reviews on The Hero Soul or to read a sample chapter to get a feel for the book and determine whether it's a good gift idea for your dad.

Yours truly,

Sharif Khan
Author, The Hero Soul

“Greatness is a choice. And choice is the democratic equalizer of all people. Everyone, regardless of their rank, social status or income level has the power to choose great over good.”
- Sharif Khan, author of Psychology of the Hero Soul

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Success Unwrapped Interview

Inside This Issue:

1. Success Unwrapped Interview and Quote of the Month
2. Extra special greeting from Sharif to brighten your day
3. X-files interview with Stephen Covey on Leadership
4. Your update on my brother’s progress with cancer


<1>----------Success Unwrapped Interview and Quote of the Month

“Greatness is a choice. And choice is the democratic equalizer of all people. Everyone, regardless of their rank, social status or income level has the power to choose great over good.”
- Sharif Khan, author of Psychology of the Hero Soul

Dear Friends and Subscribers,

I’d like to introduce you to the hot success show: Success Unwrapped with Heather Vale!

“Success Unwrapped with Heather Vale is the weekly online radio talk show that ‘unwraps’ and reveals the secrets successful people use, and you can too!”

In this interview with Heather Vale, I reveal my success strategies, leadership insights, and talk more at length about the concepts and principles in my book, “Psychology of the Hero Soul.”

Heather Vale has developed a reputation for being a tough journalist in the personal development industry with an uncanny penchant for asking penetrating questions. She has asked me some questions that I’ve never been asked before and has gotten me to talk about certain matters that I would normally consider ‘taboo.’

I found it to be a challenging and enriching interview and I hope you will too. Here’s the link to our interview: http://www.successunwrappedradio.com/ (just scroll down a bit and hit the green ‘play’ button to listen)


<2>------------- Extra Special Greeting to Brighten Your Day!

As a special treat, I’d like to offer you an inspirational greeting to brighten your day: http://www.sharifkhan.com/

If this doesn’t put a big SMILE on your face then reading the first letter of lines 1 to 3 (“Inside this Issue”) at the top of this blog post most definitely will! :)


<3>------------- X-files Interview with Stephen Covey on Leadership

Speaking of interviews, I had the good fortune to interview Stephen Covey on his latest leadership insights from his seminal, ground-breaking work, “8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness.” To read the complete interview click on the following link: http://tinyurl.com/ksu9v


<4>------------- Your Update on my Brother’s Progress with Cancer

You will recall in my last post that my younger brother, Junaid, was diagnosed with tongue cancer in the advanced T4 stage having spread to two lymph nodes in his throat. As you can imagine, it has been a difficult and stressful time for the whole family.

Last week, my brother finished his radiation and chemo treatments at Sunnybrook Hospital. He had two high-doses of Cisplatin chemo and endured 30 treatments of painful radiation. The complications that have occurred during that time would be too much to mention in this newsletter. But needless to say, my brother has been very strong and courageous during this hellish ordeal. He is my hero. The staff, doctors, and nurses who have been treating my brother are also heroes who can sometimes get jaded because of how much they are underappreciated and unrecognized for the skillful but often unpleasant work that they do. I commend their efforts despite some of the skepticism I’ve encountered along the way.

Right now, my brother has reached peak levels of pain as the full force of the radiation treatments takes effect. It will be another six to eight weeks before he gets a prognosis based on x-ray test results. But the good news is that my brother has reacted positively to the treatments and his tumor has reduced to half its original size.

I believe your prayers and thoughts of love have really helped a lot. Thank you so much for your outpouring of love and goodwill! I can’t begin to express how thankful and grateful I am for all your support. So please keep praying for a complete healing in my brother and keep sending those thoughts of love and positive energy!

P.S. If any of you know of any good homeopaths/naturalpaths in the Toronto area with a successful history of treating people with cancer, please shoot me an email with their contact info. Thanks in advance.

Love and light,

Sharif Khan
Author, The Hero Soul
http://www.herosoul.com/
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As a way to further enhance your reading experience and deepen the concepts learned in "Psychology of the Hero Soul," I have developed a complimentary Hero Soul Book Discussion Guide to go along with my book. To get your f.ree copy, simply email me at sharif@herosoul.com with "Hero Soul Book Discussion Guide" in the subject line and I will email you a copy.

You can use the Hero Soul Book Discussion Guide for your own personal study and reflection or with discussion groups in book clubs, classrooms, workplace meetings, conferences, lunch and learns, etc. to stimulate lively discussion on the hero's journey, characteristics of heroes, and leadership development and personal development concepts mentioned in the book.

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6. Intention: I want to manifest the opportunity of becoming a contributor of a
nationally syndicated column for a large circulation newspaper or magazine. I’m not sure how this will happen or what it will look like, but I’m open to the possibilities. If you have any contacts, ideas, or suggestions, please email me at: sharif@herosoul.com

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Free Hero Soul Book Discussion Guide

Dear Readers,

As a way to further enhance your reading experience and deepen the concepts learned in "Psychology of the Hero Soul," I have developed a complimentary Hero Soul Book Discussion Guide to go along with my book. To get your free copy, simply email me at sharif@herosoul.com with "Hero Soul Book Discussion Guide" in the subject line and I will email you a copy.

You can use the Hero Soul Book Discussion Guide for your own personal study and reflection or with discussion groups in book clubs, classrooms, workplace meetings, conferences, lunch and learns, etc. to stimulate lively discussion on the hero's journey, characteristics of heroes, and leadership development and personal development concepts mentioned in the book.

Also, as an additional resource and motivational/inspirational support system, you can subcribe to the free Hero Soul monthly e-newsletter by visiting the hero soul website for cutting edge advice on leadership and personal and professional development. Go to http://www.herosoul.com and click on the "Free Newsletter" link to subscribe now.

Cordially yours,


Sharif Khan
Freelance Writer, Inspirational Speaker
Author, Psychology of the Hero Soul

Quotes from the Author:

"Heroes are rebels with a cause. Rebels because they challenge the traditional ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd. They have a cause, a vision, that's larger than life." - Sharif Khan, author of Psychology of the Hero Soul

"Greatness is a choice. And choice is the democratic equalizer of all people. Everyone, regardless of their rank, social status or income level has the power to choose great over good." - Sharif Khan, author of Psychology of the Hero Soul