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?Derek Mills has found out how to create lasting success. He walks
his talk – it’s powerful and inspiring and a gift that he’s sharing
with us all? – John Gray, Author of ?Men Are from Mars, Women Are
from Venus? Only three per cent of Americans achieve their goals* -
what about the other 97 per cent? Debut US author Derek Mills (The
Standards Guy?) who featured alongside Jack Canfield in this year?s
Las Vegas Film Festival?s Award-winning ?Keeper of the Keys?,
launches The 10-Second Philosophy ? A Practical Guide to Releasing
Your Inner Genius (published by Hay House USA) focusing on life
Standards over Goals and TrueSelf.

This Fall 2012, Hay House USA is launching Derek Mills? (AKA The Standards Guy?) first book, one that will literally shake The USA and Canada to their very core.Simply entitled, The 10-Second Philosophy?, this insightful work reveals how Derek?s doldrums lifestyle literally changed within 10-Seconds, after being asked a simple question by a security guard at his office.This 10-Second epiphany prompted Derek to change his life path forever, focusing on living a life as one?s TrueSelf and setting Standards NOT Goals as the definitive sound life blueprint.

According to Derek:-

?These US statistics are frightening, particularly when both Education and much of the corporate world is goals-driven.From a personal perspective, my true story is both profound and simple.Standards are a way of life.Goals always need to be ?reached? or ?achieved?.I wasted 18 years of my life focusing on Goals that were not realistic and constantly felt inadequate because I wasn?t reaching the goals that I and others around me were setting on my behalf.

?As a sportsman in my own right, I, along with millions of others around the world, have witnessed what is possible in 10-Seconds at the recent Olympics 2012 in London.Goals can hold people back in any aspect of their lives.In The USA, your culture has always been driven by customer service so in some ways the three per cent figure we are banding around contradicts the nature of the American beast.There is much work to be done and I will be coming to The US in January 2013 to speak to audiences and answer questions once they have read in the book,? he added.

In essence, Derek Mills? new book, The 10-Second Philosophy, can help you better understand:-
?Why setting life goals doesn?t work and how setting Standards instead can and will dramatically change the quality of your life
?How the words, thoughts, questions and phrases you encounter and use on a daily basis can be used to access your inner genius and make lasting change in seconds
?How and why Derek?s powerful personal story from failure and despair to success and happiness beyond his wildest dreams can be your reality, starting within just 10 seconds

Derek Mills shares his 10-Second Philosophy? and PERFECT Life Standards System? with audiences all over the world, helping them to re-evaluate the concept of goal-setting, in order to create and live a happier life.In addition to being a lauded international motivational speaker and coach, Derek is now an author, film producer, senior partner in one of the UK?s leading wealth management organisations and also featured in an Award-winning film as announced at the recent Las Vegas Film Festival.

The 10-Second Philosophy, published by Hay House USA, is available to buy at Barnes & Noble/http://www.bn.com and Amazon.com.

Available to buy throughout The USA and Canada at RRP $15.95. ?The 10-Second Philosophy? is also available to buy as an e-book.Follow Derek on Twitter @derekmills1 and ?Like? his Facebook page ?DerekMills.The10SecondPhilosophy?.

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For media information regarding Derek Mills and the launch of his new book in The USA and Canada, as well as photography, book copies/extracts and interviews, please contact:-

Miranda Leslau – miranda leslau prCell: (from The US) +44 7912 644993
miranda@mirandaleslau.comSkype: miranda23026Twitter: @mirandaprguru

Editor?s Notes:-

About Derek Mills

Father of four, Derek Mills, was born in Birmingham in The UK and has learnt from personal experience that change can happen in seconds.Back in 2003, Derek was at rock bottom, working long hours, struggling financially, neglecting his health and hardly spending any time with his family.

Late one night, the office security guard asked him a seemingly insignificant question: ?What time did you get in this morning??.The guard walked away before Derek had answered, but in the following 10 seconds Derek felt a surge of feelings rise up inside him.He looked honestly and deeply within himself and had a breakthrough moment.

In that moment of clarity Derek realised that his current life was intolerable.Having always thought the answers were outside of him, in that moment he tapped into something much more powerful, his inner voice, or his TrueSelf.He knew exactly what he had to do ? to stop setting goals and instead set new high daily standards for his life, which were congruent with who he really was on the inside.The very next day he started living his life based on the Standards he set for himself and his life began to improve.By 2007 Derek was a millionaire, working a four day week, spending time with his wife and children and living the life he had dreamed of. Today, Derek is sharing his vision and learnings on both sides of The Atlantic through the publication of his first book, The 10-Second Philosophy and to audiences world-wise as a motivational speaker.http://www.derek-mills.com

About Hay House

Hay House is the international leader in self-help and motivational publishing, featuring books, audios, and sidelines by more than 250 authors.Smiley Books, Visions, and Insights are imprints of Hay House, Inc, which is also the exclusive distributor for Amber Allen Press and Agape Media, Inc.Hay House has a self?publishing division, Balboa Press, as well as radio, film and television divisions.Corporate offices are in California and New York with international divisions in Australia, the United Kingdom, India, and South Africa.Please visit us as http://www.hayhouse.com.

Source: http://newsguide.us/arts-entertainment/books/three-percent-of-americans-are-achieving-life-goals-author-derek.html

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) ? As the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on Sunday, friends and family of the first and last American fighters killed in combat cherished their memories rather than dwelling on whether the war and their sacrifice was worth it.

Nearly 4,500 American fighters died before the last U.S. troops crossed the border into Kuwait. David Hickman, 23, of Greensboro was the last of those war casualties, killed in November by the kind of improvised bomb that was a signature weapon of this war.

“David Emanuel Hickman. Doesn’t that name just bring out a smile to your face?” said Logan Trainum, one of Hickman’s closest friends, at the funeral where the soldier was laid to rest after a ceremony in a Greensboro church packed with friends and family.

Trainum says he’s not spending time asking why Hickman died: “There aren’t enough facts available for me to have a defined opinion about things. I’m just sad, and pray that my best friend didn’t lay down his life for nothing.”

He’d rather remember who Hickman was: A cutup who liked to joke around with friends. A physical fitness fanatic who half-kiddingly called himself “Zeus” because he had a body that would make the gods jealous. A ferocious outside linebacker at Northeast Guilford High School who was the linchpin of a defense so complicated they had to scrap it after he graduated because no other teenager could figure it out.

Hickman was these things and more, a whole life scarcely glimpsed in the terse language of a Defense Department news release last month. Three paragraphs said Hickman died in Baghdad on Nov. 14, “of injuries suffered after encountering an improvised explosive device.”

He was more, too, than the man who bears the symbolic freight of being the last member of the U.S. military to die in a war launched in the political shadow of 9/11, which brought thousands of his fellow citizens out into the streets to oppose and support it. Eventually, the war largely faded from the public’s thoughts.

“There’s a lot of people, in my family included, they don’t know what’s going on in this world,” said Wes Needham, who coached linebackers at Northeast when David was a student. “They’re oblivious to it. I just sit and think about it, the courage that it takes to do what they do, especially when they’re all David’s age.”

And they were mostly young. According to an Associated Press analysis of casualty data, the average age of Americans who died in Iraq was 26. Nearly 1,300 were 22 or younger, but middle-aged people fought and died as well: some 511 were older than 35.

“I’ve trained a lot of kids. They go to college and you kind of lose track of them and forget them,” said Mike King of Greensboro Black Belt Academy, where Hickman trained in taekwondo for about eight years. “He was never like that. That smile and that laugh immediately come to mind.”

The pain is fresh for people who knew Hickman. But the years have not eased the anguish of those who lost loved ones in the war’s earliest days, when funerals were broadcast live on local television, before the country became numb to the casualty count.

Vicky Langley’s son, Marine Pvt. Jonathan Lee Gifford, was killed just two days into the war. More than eight years later she sits in her Decatur, Ill. home, surrounded by photographs of him and even a couple of paintings of him in his dress uniform that total strangers created and sent her.

She said she doesn’t concern herself with thoughts about the cost of the war and whether it was worth the life of her son and all the others who died.

“Only the Iraqi people can answer that,” she said.

She thinks of her son constantly. She recalls the first day of kindergarten and how she came home and “turned on every appliance I could (because) it was just so quiet without him.” She remembers how as a young man he would call her, without fail, when the first snow of the year started to fall. She still hears the knock at her door at 11 at night, and the chaplain telling her that her 30-year-old son had been killed in Iraq.

And she sees him in the 4-year-old daughter he left behind, who is now 12. Lexie Gifford’s thin frame and face are miniature versions of her father’s, her smile a replica of his. She has the same slow, I’ll-get-there-when-I-get-there walk. For a reason nobody understands, a while back started popping frozen French fries in her mouth just like her dad used to do.

As the last troops prepared to leave Iraq, Langley was getting ready.

“I’ll probably sit and cry,” said Langley, 58. “I’ll be happy for the ones you can be happy for and sad for the ones you are sad for.”

Langley’s life has been one catastrophe after another since her son died. The next year her husband died. Then months later, doctors told her the reason she was feeling poorly was that her kidneys had shut down. That was followed by a fall and a broken back. Today, as she waits for her name to come up on a list for a kidney transplant, she gets around the house she shares with her mother in a motorized scooter.

The one thing she doesn’t have, she said, is guilt. Though she talked her son out of enlisting in the military a couple times over the years, the reasons began and ended with concerns about the safety for her only child.

But after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, she knew there would be no talking him out of enlisting. Besides, she said, “If I was young enough I would have gone in, too.”

Even though the country’s mood was much different in 2009 when Hickman joined the Army, he had no doubts about his decision, Trainum said.

“When I talked with him on the phone a week before, he wasn’t unhappy about where he was or regretting being there at all,” Trainum said. “It was just going to work for him, and he was looking forward to getting his work done and getting home.”

Hickman, Gifford and the others left behind parents and spouses and children like Lexie, whose memories of her Marine father are what one might expect of a girl who was four when she last saw him.

“He popped out of a Christmas box,” she said, of the Christmas just before Gifford was deployed, when he hid inside a large box to surprise his daughter. “He was tall. He had brown hair. He was nice.”

The losses linger for people who saw the flag-draped coffins come home.

“I used to watch all the war stories on TV, you know,” said Needham, Hickman’s old coach. “But since this happened to David, I can’t watch that stuff anymore. I just think: That’s how he died.”

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Associated Press news researcher Monika Mathur contributed to this report. Babwin reported from Decatur, Ill.

Associated Press

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