a big trust

Your Salary is not Your Brain

2010-02-07T03:54:00.000-08:00

Seriousness career is the quality of one's consciousness to remain in the journey that has designs as the way to the brilliance of his career. The size of your results in whatever the field, determined by the quality of your consciousness up the planned steps that gradually strengthen and elevate you. Do not ignore 'welfare' because it became the basis of easy to get a sense of calm, easy not to worry. We should not worry about what will we eat tomorrow. Because after that will be easy for us to achieve 'happiness'. Be a prosperous person, because all the tests started from there. The laziest man the most useless for life is a lazy person to feed himself. After we prosperous and happy, then we build a new brilliance. For what we are born in this life, it was answered at this point. But the basis of all this is to become a person who could afford him.

The formula is very simple "Build capacity at least equal to our imperatives". The person who wants free will not be able to buy. Because of all his mental energy is used only to find that gratis2, forgot to build a merit pay. People who are not even worth going to in-free-kan. For that let us be a valuable person, that ability on the necessity-necessity, the peace of heart to make people grateful for life and find a task that God has set for us. No one who does not have a great task in life. That money is not everything, but money is important .. All the people who say that money is not important, it is always people who do not have the money .. Because people who have the money to school children know a good school, knew his wife must give a vehicle a good and safe, And he shall prepare a comfortable living room to glorify his companions. We must build a prosperous life .. Do not take the money because it is difficult to achieve and we have no right to achieve it. Because it is the right rich. For sahabat2 who still feel insecure because his salary was a child; patience because our salaries while. Every time we hear something that makes us say discouraged "is temporary". Say to yourself "I'm a big still in its formative stage". Take those arrogant because of the treasure, you will find people who are richer than he, and not arrogant. Consider the proud husband to his wife and son, who was always a small salary. So if there is an arrogant person, watch more carefully that there is no worthy of our pride. Because in essence we are only permitted; allowed high-ranking, highly paid are allowed, permitted a good name .. There have been many proven, people in high places, then do not trust, they are derived rather than rank, but rank; for any degree, allowed by God. What makes us proud of ourselves is not a state. There should be no one judge him based on circumstances. People who are dilebihkan assess the situation and he'll arrogant; and people who are subtracted assess the situation, then he'll minder. The person must assess its potential. If people assess their potential to the fore, he would never insecure. Others higher salary than us, but we know what we are doing now that would be worth, we will never insecure. Because we are not restricted by anything, except make the potential seriousness that fact. So if you want to have pride, honor your potential. Is best for a worker is to overstate the contribution. If you make it just a matter of time before you are recognized. So the reason why many people are unemployed, because they are not looking for a job, but they make money. The proof that a good job, while the money is not fit then he refused. So people who often fail to get a job, because he was looking for money. If you are looking for a job, there is always a job waiting for contributions from you. If the world from the position of judging people, it will be someone who has the highest possible position. If the world's respect for rank, be a man who ranks high as possible. Because you need to succeed dikedudukan and rank as high as possible, so that people know that the 'degree' is the highest level of a person. Now is the time to teach all of those that were most important degree, because many people are high status and high rank who now rank is down. The best career is a career degrees. If it is not certain, whatever it may be. Because I would not be general, so I may be a conglomerate. Why do we use the uncertainty to scare yourself, do not free us. Since each boundary has liberation. There is no guarantee that the changes will bring improvements. But is there any improvements that can be achieved without a change?. No one is as long, just right to be appreciated. Only people who are entitled to renew themselves for a new quality of life. For parents, the task of supporting parents in the career of a child is to help the child succeed in any choice. Parents should not chose her life, she lived in a choice sediri; then help them achieve maximum keberhaasilan in choice. Without you realize there are actually writing the price on our faces, because there is always an indication of how much it worth?. The man who spoke quietly with the person who spoke with a nod, will be higher paid people who speak quietly; because people who speak with a nod was the fear of rejection, and people judge him to be paid is not expensive. People who demand the best, will get the best. The person who wants to receive what it is, can what it is. So pantaskan themselves; dress is a good, decent berbahasalah. All the people who succeed are not good at ignoring the side with the success. So listen to good advice, learn to ignore comments that do not stand up for your success. Listen to good advice, because people who heard the good advice to build the mind and feelings, and actions affect the goodness .. People who match prilakunya with a small salary, to be worth a small salary. People who are paid little to work the hardest, because he most needed a ride. And all the people who paid big, it was the start of a small payroll. And the most successful of the people on the payroll are people who do not have to pay anymore because he has his business. Young people often make mistakes with the lack of respect for people because he thinks people are not rich. Because only the rich people do not look, not much money, then we underestimate. So learn to judge people not to wear .. And the most easily recognizable from the language. Language is actually a class difference. You should not be deceived by the language of people. People who looked simple, but the language well, he would save a large force. But people who seem large, high rank and position, but the language is inconsistent, there was a sign of hidden qualities. So be careful in judging people, you better respect too high, less than respect. If you want to know how valuable you are, look at what you do when people praise you. What do you do when some people say "Thank you"?. What do you do when people say "Thank God for you"?. So if someone up to say "thanks to you", you know that the quality that you have to respect yourself. Salary disiasati if not well it worrying. Since the rise is limited by the company. Because inflation is higher than pay rises, so many people actually weakened, if we talk salary. The question is, in fact God does not determine the restrictions on our livelihood?, Tetunya not. So what we give limits on the salaries. Why are you discouraged about the salary, but God does not limit the increase in salary. Means there is something that we do self-limiting. Salary and Reward is different. Rewards can come from anywhere, because whatever you do, the salary is already standard. Why do people pay the easy stress?, Because he knows the range of salary increase. Worked for many years had already discovered how much she earned. This is what makes him discouraged. Cita2nya that big can not be achieved menlalui salary .. That's why he's insecure, and he said "I am my salary". For that think, everything in life is temporary, including your status as a salaried person .. Although not all people are encouraged to be entrepreneurs, but Indonesia will be stronger when the majority of people because of entrepreneurial income, not because of wages. There will always be people who valued higher than us. Any standard means that the company is set to change, if you respect people who set the salary was changed to us. So I improve the best salaries are increasing respect for people who hire us. Because of good results that we've built through good relationships with customers, build a peaceful atmosphere of the organization, a model sikap2 loyal to the company. Means to build our appreciation to the affected people to respect us. So, respect yourself, increase your appreciation of our people to do, make people more appreciative of your presence, people grateful for your arrival. Then watch what happens.

by : Mario Teguh

Learning to Learn - Seven Habits For Effective Learning

2010-02-06T02:41:00.000-08:00

Learning is defined as the "process by which experience or practice results in a relatively permanent change in behaviour or potential behaviour".

In practical terms we can suggest that learning happens when the learner:-

Makes New Connections

In a very literal way, when you learn something, the wiring in your brain changes - new connections are made or old ones reinforced. It is all to do with the neurons (your brain cells) and how your incredible brain works. What is even more interesting, and important in terms of learning, is the role of "emotion" and "repetition" in helping us learn.

Finds Associations

The brain is the ultimate "pattern matching" device so it wants to find links between what it is currently experiencing and what it has experienced in the past. Maybe we are taking liberties with the term 'experience' here and the words 'processing' and 'processed' would be more accurate - but I think you get the idea.

This remarkable ability of the brain allows us to take short cuts when it comes to perceiving situations and so allows us to function in the world in which we live. It can also lead to problems of 'misidentifying' or 'misreading' some sensory cues however which is why we can get caught out by optical illusions.

Resolves Dissonance

Simply put the difference between what you 'know' and what you 'don't know' creates a kind of internal emotional tension. Imagine a rubber band being pulled between your hands. On the one-hand is what you need to learn, the 'new' information, and on the other is what you already know. The greater the difference between 'what is new' and 'what is known' the more tension there is - just like the tension in the rubber band as you pull your hands apart. That 'resistance' is what we call 'dissonance'. If the dissonance is too great the mind may simply reject the new learning or experience. When we learn something we reduce the tension between the 'new' and the 'known' and so increase our understanding.

Finds Relevance

New information is less likely to be rejected if it has direct, personal relevance or value. Hence interest, desire, curiosity and utility (usefulness) are all important factors in learning.

Develops Competence

The degree to which new information is used or new skills practiced is directly proportional to stick-ability in terms of learning and memory. That is why practice, rehearsal and some aspects of 'rote learning' are important factors. The application of new learning (knowledge) and techniques (skills) is therefore extremely important.

So, having said all of that, what practical steps can be taken to improve personal learning?

1) KNOW what you want to learn. To put it another way recall what you already know about a particular topic and decide on relevant and meaningful questions that will take you from what you know to what you want to know. Questions motivate learning!

2) VALUE what you want to learn. Make sure you have a clearly defined reason or personal value in wanting to learn something. That could come from the fact that you are simply interested or curious or because you need to learn something as a stepping stone to a desired goal.

3) ORGANISE your learning. I am a big fan of thinking tools like mind-maps to help record what I am learning when I am learning it. For most people simply reading new information does not really enhance learning. Reading then turning that information into something different (keywords, bullet points, mind maps, affinity diagrams) is the most effective way of understanding new ideas and concepts.

4) ENGAGE your emotions and your senses in the learning. Be focused and interested enough to become immersed in the learning experience. We learn by seeing, hearing, doing and thinking. Make sure you create space to see, hear (talk), use and reflect upon what you have learned.

5) ASSOCIATE new ideas with what you already know. Make links between your current knowledge and the new material. Tony Buzan's Mind Maps are excellent for this purpose, but any form of concept map or flow chart will help.

6) SHARE what you have learned or want to learn. The best way to learn something is to teach someone else. Teaching means you have to explain and explanation relies upon (or tests) understanding. If you are trying to learn about a very technical subject try writing a jargon free, plain English description of it or tell someone who is a not technical about it.

7) REVIEW what you have learned regularly. Up to 80% of what you have learned will be forgotten in 24 hours if it is not reviewed (revisited). For this reason cramming is not the best way to enhance learning or long term memory. Before starting a 'learning session' reflect upon what you know. At the end of each learning session re-read your notes or mind maps; at the end of the day review what you have learned. More importantly revisit your learning on a weekly basis until you feel you really understand what you have learned.

At the end of the day its worth remembering that learning is not always fun but it is about emotional engagement.

The importance of the emotions, as expressed through attitudes, values, personal beliefs and behaviour, cannot be understated. If learning is not relevant, cannot be placed within a meaningful context and lacks emotional connection then it will be difficult to engage the mind.

Having said all of this it must be remembered that learning is something the brain does naturally. It is really good at it. As individuals we often put barriers in the way of our own learning. Sometimes the barriers come from the expectations and agendas of others (as in school curricula for example) or from our own self limiting beliefs - but that is for another article.

By Alan B Jones

Transforming Your Commitments Into Reality

2010-02-06T02:40:00.000-08:00

In a tough economy, it is quite easy for sales and business development persons to blame the economy for their lack of prospecting and follow through. It is equally as easy for business owners and leaders to hunker down into sluggishness and immobility. Put more bluntly; just blame your shortcomings on the economy, everyone else does.

The Question
What keeps you from doing what you say? That was the survey question I recently put out to a wide range of business leaders and solo practitioners. I was quite amazed at one of the responses that kept repeating, "I always do what I say." First, that was not the question, however quite a number of respondents seemed to feel it necessary to tell me that they were not guilty of my query. Second, I did not believe a one of them. Be it to customers and colleagues or family and friends-even to one's self; not a one of us ALWAYS does what we say!

Why We Do-Not
Below, I have listed for you my survey results. The first two on the list are one in the same to me; however I listed them separately because they are subsets of the issue.

16% - Poor prioritizing
10% - Lack of time
11% - Fear of failure/lack of self confidence
9.5% - Lack of focus/distractions
9.5% - No motivation/purpose/passion
8.5% - Over commitment
8.5% - Change in priorities
4% - Circumstances beyond personal control
5% - Miscellaneous
18% - Denial (I always do what I say response)

Total equals 100%

A Quarter of the Respondents
As I stated earlier, I believe that poor prioritizing and lack of time are one in the same. Adding them together and that is the reason one-fourth of the folks that responded offered as the key reason for them not doing what they say. Is the answer to hire a productivity professional? I really do not think so. These people need a reason to do better. They are in their comfort zone and are not being challenged. Unfortunately, their attitude is I'll get to it when I get to it. If something really matters to these people, they will make it priority one and find the time-I guarantee.

What About Denial?
The next to the highest ranking answer category (18%) was what I refer to as denial-they just will not admit any shortcomings. Every one of the twelve-step programs for overcoming dependencies calls for your admission of problem as an early step. How in the world can you fix it if you will not admit there is a problem? Sure, some might be near perfect in doing what they say, in one area: customers, customers, friends, family, or self-but come on, we are all human and imperfect.

Pain Verses Pleasure
I believe that, for the majority of the population, pain is more persuasive than pleasure. Simply put, people tent to be more motivated to avoid pain than by the promise of pleasure. Yes, sure-you have examples to prove me wrong; however I will stand with my statement. And, if you really think about the population in general, you'll surely agree with me-especially in the area of getting things done.

Mechanisms for Achievement
Regardless of the reason behind non-performance, ultimately you want to end the anxiety of lost opportunities and unfulfilled promises and learn how to get the things done that you said you would. In achieving the result you want there are four basic mechanisms for doing this:

1. Do it yourself. You have a "come to Jesus" talk with yourself and motivate yourself to do better. This method tends to be short lived and you will most likely backslide into your old habits of non-performance.
2. Get a friend to be your accountability buddy. If you seek help from a friend by giving them permission to hassle you when you do not do what you say, you will get things done for a while. However at some point your friend will give up hassling you. This is because at some point they will perceive that to push you any harder will damage the friendship and they value the friendship more than your productivity.
3. Get a distant colleague as your accountability buddy. This method will generally last much longer than the first too as long as both accountability buddies are somewhat pushing equally. Since there is much less of a quality of friendship at issue, each will feel empowered to drive the other harder and for a longer period of time.
4. Get a paid accountability advisor. If you are really serious about doing what you say, there is nothing better than a paid advisor. First, since you are spending your money, you appreciate the relationship more. Second, it is your advisor job to not accept your BS excuses for non-performance. A paid advisor with whom you communicate weekly, will in almost every situation, help you to go further toward ending your anxiety of lost opportunities and unfulfilled promises and help you to stay focused in the area of getting the things done that you said you would.

Ed Rigsbee, CSP, for over two decades, has been helping business individuals and organizations of all sizes to grow their market through smart alliance relationships--while at the same time helping individuals to develop what he calls Relationship Glue for their personal lives.

In addition to serving as an adjunct professor for two California universities, he is also the author of Developing Strategic Alliances, PartnerShift-How to Profit from the Partnering Trend, and The Art of Partnering. Rigsbee has over 1,500 hard-copy published articles to his credit and is a regular keynote speaker at corporate and trade association conferences teaching North America how to access their Collaborative Advantage through Relationship Glue, incorporating the steps he shares in his writing and lectures.

By Ed Rigsbee

To Achieve Your Dream, You Must ACT

2010-02-06T02:37:00.000-08:00

Discomfort comes from resisting the growth needed to become the person you need to be, to get the results you want. In addition, you will not be able to get better results in your practice-or your life-by being the same old person. To reach new levels of success, you will have to grow. That is and will always be the biggest challenge to moving forward. I believe to achieve your dream you must ACT. Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to be successful. Any day we wish, we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish, we can discover an effective approach on making conscious decisions, those that will lead us toward getting what we want out of life. Any day we wish, we can start the process of life change.

We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year. We can also do nothing because we feel that we cannot afford to take the steps necessary to shift limiting beliefs and create abundance. We can pretend rather than perform. Moreover, if the idea of having to change ourselves through our core values makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose disbelieve over trust. We can choose rest over labor, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. However, while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed, "The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves." We have the ability to act and the responsibility to make better choices to achieve our dream beginning today. Do you have a different perspective?

You are the only one who has the power to transform your dream into a reality. Until you stop putting your life on hold-nothing is going to change. Do not put off getting the extra boost you need to create positive changes in your life! ACT Now!

Pick up your phone, call me at 818.245.0714, invest a few moments in conversation with me and this will not cost you one cent. This interaction will create clarity and move you into positive action. You will also have an opportunity to ask any questions you may have about my world as an entrepreneur.

By Windsor Lindor

Start Where You Are Planted, With What You Have - Now

2010-02-06T02:35:00.000-08:00

Start where you are right now. Waiting for everything to be just right to start is a fool's tool. It moves and gets to the bottom of nothing.You don't have to know a lot about something to start taking action. There is magic in taking any action. Sit and think but take action. Begin and make better later. You are going to discover more by doing than by chewing over the ending.

Focus on what you want by seeing the route to get it. The route is the means or actions you must take. These are the things you have got to do not what you feel like doing.

Why fuss about every detail first? Just make one move now and then plan. Moving is a good spur. Taking actions right where you are planted with what you have is all you need.

Use your imagination to see what you must have and how to get it. Do your vital details later. Hand over to others what you are not good at doing. But just start right where you are now.

Starting will bring on new ideas. You kindle your imagination through action.

After you take any first action write down all your thoughts. Then take your thoughts and make your action map. This plan takes your ideas to the next level in the real world.

Giving your best efforts and using what you have now makes your time, talents and resources grow. What you hold in your hand and heart may not be much now but keep going. You will be amazed at how you will get what you must have by giving others what they need.

You have everything you need to succeed right now... it's your turn to start with what you have right now.

By Richard J. Stec

Who Told You, You Could Not Do it?

2010-02-06T02:33:00.000-08:00

Are you one of those guys who as a little child won all the painting, singing, dancing, sports, poetry or drama contests? Perhaps you even won more than one price in more than one category, yet today, so many years later, you wonder why you are so handicapped at those things you were so brilliant as a child.

Let me give you an example. When I was 7, I loved drawing landscapes: mountains, the sun rising with its happy face in the middle of the mountains, the clouds smiling in the sky, a big lake full of ducks, an apple tree, a house with a chimney and a garden with tulips. Most importantly, there had to be colour, so each cloud was a different shade of blue, each ray from the sun was a different yellow while the flowers of the garden were my real chance to experiment with colour. My paintings always won many prices. I did not feel that I was born to be a painter; I just enjoyed painting, using colour and being me.

Until one day, I had to draw a baby taking a shower. What ridiculous assignment required that I draw a baby taking a shower? I don't recall it at all, but what I do remember is my teacher calling me a few days later during recess. "Maria Carolina, what's this? It looks like a little monster! Let me show you how to do it." She then painted the cutest baby, happily showering while still wearing his dippers. Not only she painted a perfect baby, she erased my painting, and then she painted her own on top of my erased "little monster". Yes, I admit my painting did not look like Baby Gerber, but it was not a little monster. It was just that I was good at painting landscapes and not necessarily at portraits.

The landscapes became less and less common. I stopped wining contests. The boys and girls who could draw human beings instead of mountains and trees became the more favourite. It never bothered me. It handicapped me, however, without notice, until I physically struggled to draw anything that was not a mountain and a lake. I even failed drawing at School and even at University, I was the worst of my class in Technical Drawing (nothing to do with painting apple trees and clouds, but still I should have at least been able to hold the pencil properly!)

Last Christmas, I read a book about ideas. The author writes that we can all accomplish whatever we set up to do. He uses the example of drawing. He asks you to take any object and examine it carefully. Observe it in detail. Look at its shape, colour, dimensions and material. Look at it from many different angles; observe the way that its components relate to one another. Pay attention to it; somehow become the object. Then draw it. You will be amazed at the results.

I am a writer and I invest a big deal of time and money finding and hiring the illustrators for my books. I thought, wouldn't it be nice to be my own illustrator and be able to draw whatever is on my mind and put it on paper just as I imagined it during my writing?

I then took one of my teddy bears, Aurora. I looked at her, I placed her on a table in many different angles, I took time to observe her. Then, I took a big sketch album and did something for the first time in more than 25 years. I actually painted her. When I was finished, she looked in the paper like my real Aurora; she did not look extraterrestrial or like an elephant. She looked like my real teddy bear and not only was I able to paint her, just as she is, but also to colour my paper with all the ideas that I wanted to express. I could have not asked an illustrator to do this better because what I drew came from my heart.

We all have similar stories. The sports champion at School, who is now overweight and incapable of running 100 yards. The greatest ballet dancer who wishes she could now dance some hip-hop, but she is too embarrassed and inflexible to try. The guitar player who secretly believes that hadn't he stopped training, he would have been even better than Richie Sambora.

Cindy Lauper had a great word on one of her songs: Insecurious.

Right now, when you become conscious of the nature of your boundaries that made you insecure, you can replace the feeling of insecurity with the feeling of curiosity, the curiosity of what would it be like to cross the boundaries. Allow yourself to be insecurious. You will be surprised as to how much talent is dormant within you. Wake up the real you and just do whatever it is you want to do. Your inner child knows the way.

By Maria Carolina Cruz

How to Make Your To-Do List More Producti

2010-02-06T02:28:00.000-08:00

We all know the value of having a To-Do list, but how do you feel when you do not get a lot of the things done on your To-Do list for on reason or another? If you are like me, you may feel a little discouraged at times. I came up with a simple strategy that I use to make my To-Do list productive even when I do not complete most of my tasks.

A To-Do list is supposed to make you more productive and organized, but I am the first to admit that some days I might get into a slump and not get nearly as much accomplished as I intended to. One simple addition to my To-Do list program that has increased my productivity is to review my tasks from the previous day.

When you review your tasks ask the following questions:

1. If I did not complete a task, why did I not complete it and what can I do so that it does not happen again? This helps you to point out any obstacles that you might have. These obstacles could be temporary or reoccurring. By asking this question you may find that you may have scheduled too many tasks and that you might need to either outsource some of those tasks or reduce your workload.

2. What did I accomplish? It is important to look at the good as well as the bad. You need encouragement along the way to your goals. Asking this question lets you see the daily progress that you are making towards your goals. It also reinforces your belief and sharpens your focus.

3. What did I learn? You may find better ways to do some things. You may even find out something about yourself. All good leaders are continuous learners. Reflecting over recent events is a good way to always be in learning mode.

There may have been an unsuccessful interaction that day where your weakness was highlighted. This is an opportunity for you to get better, and do better whenever you are faced with that same situation. Eventually you will be better.

Another idea is to record your daily To-Do list tasks in a journal, and on the following page answer the questions to your review each day. One day you will be able to look back in your journal and see how far you have come. Not only that, but it documents your progress on your road to success so that it will be easy to teach someone else in the future how to get from point A to point B.

By Jeremiah Carstarphen

How to Think Big - A 6 Way Approach

2010-02-06T02:26:00.000-08:00

Thinking big to many is a phrase that is only worth repeating by peak performers in business and start ups of various kinds. Thinking big is an act and equally an art which is articulated, practiced and improved on by those who desire to set formidable standards.

As an act and art, here is a proven approach to actually think big and make out the best deal out of it. They are:-

· Get out of your comfort zone. No one dislikes comfort of any means. However, relaxing in ones comfort zone is a stumbling block to thinking big. Thus thinking big requires leaving your easily handled schedules and trying out new things. It involves facing more daunting challenges and going an extra mile in your business ventures.

Self motivation. Around you are people who will always tell you that you have done your best. These people and events may opine that you are the available best. Albeit, you do not have to stop improving on your achievements. You have to personally set new targets even the so called unachievable tasks. When these people may come up with opinion that such missions are impossible, you have to personally motivate and insulate yourself against all negative suggestions and keep going.

· Working and walking with achievers. Associating with peak performers in your life time exposes you to a cross fertilization process. The process of partnering and friendship with these people allows one to synthesize their ideas and give birth to yet more novel ideas. Thus the slogan, iron sharpens iron. Association with achievers is infectious as it makes you think and behave like them.

· Do not back out in the face of a new challenge. Challenges are true test of peoples' visions. When faced with a great challenge, it is a set time for great promotion. Champions are known for the opponents they crushed to clinch the top spot. Challenges are moments that sharpens ones skills, those who think big fancy and accept such situations.

· Trust your guts and remain positive. Common sense plays a wonderful role in thinking big. In most cases, your colleagues, friends and environment may say no to your dreams and visions. These people can never see the picture and future you are seeing. All it takes is for you to trust your guts keep moving forward. Trusting ones guts is totally responsible for major breakthrough in different areas of human affair. Big thinkers understand their body chemistry reaction towards any issue. Once they act in accordance to this body chemistry, they hit their target easily.

· Make bigger offers and set tantalizing baits. For one to achieve some extra ordinary feats, you set targets and make offers to workers and clients that are irresistible. The reward which acts as a motivator accounts for the continued rapid and sustained growth of bigger businesses. It expands peoples coast and expose them to new techniques with mind blowing successes.

Those who think big, think differently. This accounts for their achievements both as individuals and organizations.

You are just what you think!

Do not forget, what ever one thinks about, he can achieve. The law of nature pays to anyone whatever bills they present and hold tenaciously onto.

By Kingsley Chinaemerem Igwenazor

Simplicity is a Key For Success

2010-02-06T02:24:00.000-08:00

Knowledge is power however what you choose to learn affects and reflects on your life. Learning about twenty different ways to make things happen in your life will overwhelm you, frustrate you and make you quit instead of accomplish. Investing your time and energy in learning about "HOW" engulfs you in endless details and channel your mental energy in the wrong direction.

Simplicity is a key for success, happiness and wealth. What you need to educate yourself about is the major keys you are holding in your hand at all time and wherever you are at. Then you learn how to orchestrate these keys to create your symphony and accomplish your unique dream.

Engulfment into details can turns any project or goal from a simple target to an impossible mission. Fears get you in loops, and make you research everything for a thousand time before you take a simple step toward what you want. Courage get you on the straight line toward your goal. You know what you want, you are clear with your intention and you move straight forward to get it.

In every project the possibilities are endless. With every action an new step will unfold for you to move up, learn and advance. As long as you are knowledgeable about your own system and aware of what is taking place in your life you are in a great position to succeed.

Details and controversy can shift you off The Real YOU, take your dream from YOU and aimlessly consume your energy. Verses simplicity with your knowledge about the major guidelines of your own system can empower you, increase your self confidence and channel your energy to accomplish your goals and attain your dreams.

Learn about YOU and about the major Keys that can make all the difference in your life. Create your blueprint and act with confidence. Every successful project starts with a simple idea and a great self knowledge.

Simplicity is the direct straight line to your goals. It can be mastered with your knowledge of the major keys that make a significant difference in your life.

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Rola Jabri is a founder and president of MAOC Studio Inc. And the founder of "Success Is All About YOU" She targeted her program to empower individuals as they are the source of their success and the world fruition.

By Rola Jabri

How Brainstorming Tools Can Help You Break Through to Success

2010-02-05T05:06:00.000-08:00

If you could be, do and have anything you want in life, what would it be? For many people, this question is shrouded in vagueness; they might actually be able to break through to success in their lives...if only they knew what their passion was. Unfortunately, far too many people settle for mediocrity in their jobs, their relationships, their health and their financial situation because they have learned a mindset that says "I can't" instead of "I can". They have never been given the tools to achieve greatness.

What is the solution?

When you love what you do, that opens a door that invites in success - in all aspects of your life. Success is not just about having a lot of money, it's about living a fulfilling, rich and passionate life. You don't consider Mother Teresa a failure because she doesn't drive a BMW and live in a 52-room mansion.

Success is about living a purpose-driven life.

This may be a great theory, but if you don't have the necessary tools to get out of your rut, how on earth are you going to break through to success?

Christopher Howard, entrepreneur, lifestyle and wealth strategist, Master Trainer and Practitioner of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), has spent two decades modeling those who achieved great success in their life. According to the Christopher Howard Training Program, fear of success is really a fear of failure. So what his program will do for you is educate you and provide cutting edge tools for both personal development and professional achievement.

The secret of Christopher's success is in changing mindsets. The sad fact is that sometimes we can be our own worst enemy, unconsciously sabotaging our happiness and success. This goes back to the mindset. Without letting go of unresolved issues and life-long negative beliefs and attitudes, it is extremely hard to move forward and believe that we can achieve anything we want.

Why is it so hard to let go of an idea or attitude even when it no longer works for us? The reason is very simple: our emotions create these limitations within us so effectively that we feel as though these inner restrictions are actually real external limitations. If you feel that you don't deserve success - no matter how much you want it - then you will not be successful. We create what we focus on.

So how do you learn to focus on success in a way that allows you to create it in your life? What if you could breakthrough any limitation or obstacle and achieve unlimited success?

Life-Changing Seminar... Christopher Howard's Breakthrough to Success Seminar is all about personal transformation, with real brainstorming tools to empower your creativity. His three-day seminar will inspire you to stop dreaming and start living the rich and fulfilling life that is your birthright! Christopher will teach you the tools to change your thoughts from lack to abundance and your behavior from stagnancy to action. In three days you will learn to identify your obstacles, re-program your mind to release associations that no longer serve you, learn goal-setting strategies, develop an action plan and learn how to focus your efforts. It's not just knowing the tools - it's learning how to use them. With the cutting-edge Brainstorming Tools learned at Breakthrough to Success Seminar you will not only discover your dreams, but turn them into reality. And What is truly unbelievable, this three-day seminar is FREE.

So... if you could be, do and have anything you want in life, what would it be...?

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The Best Learning Happens Outside Your Comfort Zone

2010-02-05T05:03:00.000-08:00

Who doesn't like comfort? It's...well...comfortable. And comfort certainly has its good points: safety, security, familiarity, no surprises. That's the best place to be when you need time to recover or recharge or take a break from whatever fastballs life keeps throwing your way.

When you're ready for change or to learn something new-or keep hitting obstacles that hold you back from achieving a new goal or desired future-however, staying inside your comfort zone is a tremendous disservice to your well-being and your success. The best learning takes place outside your comfort zone.

The problem with staying inside your comfort zone for long periods of time is that your habits slip into your unconscious mind. You may not even be aware that you are blocking yourself from learning something new or seeing situations in a new light.

Oftentimes, when you feel unmotivated, blocked and unable to move forward, it's because you are staying within the well-defined, impassible walls of the norm. You may point at external objects-people, things-or internal objects-your thoughts, beliefs, assumptions-and lay the blame there. The reality is likely that you're operating on a habit that worked in the past, but is no longer serving you well.

"We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

New ideas, thought patterns and behaviors can't always be seen if you're limiting yourself to what you already know and do. Life changes almost every day. You meet new people, face new situations and have new experiences. The solutions that used to work for you may not work anymore, and you're cheating yourself out of moving toward where you want to be when you don't try something different.

You don't have to be miles from wherever you're comfortable or even a foot away; sometimes just stepping one toe outside familiarity is enough to jar your consciousness, spark your creative cranial pathways or jump-start your inspirational muse to find new solutions that work for you.

Fear is the most common reason people don't step outside their comfort zone. Some people are afraid to make mistakes. Some fear the unknown. Some fear not being in control. There is any number of reasons, but they all generally have roots in fear.

If you're ready to learn and expand your horizons, here are a few tips that can get you started:

Start small. When you hear the word "risk" what comes to mind? Sky diving? White water rapids? Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro? A risk is anything you haven't tried before. It can be as simple as trying a new route home from work or shopping at a new market. So start small. Do something a different way and just see how it feels. Then work toward taking more risks.

Identify your values. When you know what's important to you and what motivates you to take action, you're more inspired to keep moving forward. Make sure that your values are part of your goals. All the latest research in leadership and goal setting shows that you'll have a much greater chance of succeeding when you tie your values and beliefs into your goals. See the article on Success and Values to learn more.

Talk it out. If there is someone you admire and you have access to them, start a conversation. Find out what worked for them. It may not work for you, but it can get you thinking about alternative solutions. A life coach is the ideal partner for you if you find yourself stuck or unable to get clarity about where you are, where you want to be and how you can bridge that gap.

Conduct some research. Whether you choose to visit an organization that specializes in what you're seeking or use the Internet or local library, gather information. Learn from experts. If your goal is to save for a home, get online and check out home buyer sites. There's a wealth of information, tips and suggestions for aspiring home owners. The same goes for every subject imaginable. Just bear in mind that you want to gather lots of information. Don't just take the first thing you find. Remember that what works for one person might not work for another.

Revisit your past. Sometimes understanding why you do things the way you do them can help you see that it may have worked in that specific, past situation, but your current issue or goal won't be solved or achieved by those same means. Identifying the roots of your habits can sometimes free you up to try new behaviors.

You learn and grow as a person everyday. Just as your tastes in clothing or décor changes over time, so will your values and what's important to you. Don't let your unconscious habits remain stuck in the past preventing you from attaining new goals. Practice stepping outside your comfort zone. You'll be surprised how fearless, inventive and successful you can be as you move toward the future you desire.

Delores Mason is a writer and life coach. She has over 14 years of experience in human resources and leadership development consulting. Her coaching practice, http://www.2yourwell-being.com, helps individuals focus on nurturing the self. Delores is the author of a new book titled "Balance Your Life: Take control of your time, Discover what really matters." This book provides an easy, effective framework for individuals to take charge of their personal time.

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Cash Loans For People With Bad Credit- No Worries For Your Credit Scores

2010-02-05T03:11:00.000-08:00

If you are having bad credits and are facing several rejections on your loan applications then you should apply for Cash loans for people with bad credit. These loans are designed to help people with adverse credit scores. These loans fetch you money without bothering your credit scores. All you need to do is to prove that you are capable of repaying the loan in time and the money will be in your account without any hassle. You can get your account credited in less than 24 hours time. The beauty of these loans is that you are never bothered about your credit scores.

If you are irritated by your past experience of lots of paper work and other such tacky procedures then you should apply for Cash loans for people with bad credit. These loans are issued to you through the internet and that too in less than 24 hours time. You just need to fill an online form and the loan process will be started and the money will be issued to you in a very short time span. This makes it possible for you to get out of all the financial troubles without any delay.

The most interesting fact about these loans is that you may find a number of lenders on the internet. So you can easily get the money without any problem. You can select anyone lender that can fulfill your needs. You should always select the one providing loans on reasonable interest rates and standard terms and conditions. You can check these things from their websites. It is always wiser to compare several lenders on the bases of the features of their offers. So if you are looking for a short term loan than you should apply for these loans without any hassle.

Bad Credit Tenant Loans: Trouble Free Cash Support For The Tenants

2010-02-05T03:07:00.000-08:00

Do you need to pay off your multiple pending bills? Though, enable to grab additional funds aid due to bad credit tenancy status? Relax! In this condition, bad credit tenant loans will assist you a lot. Under this loan facility you’ll simply get approved for the funds without completing numerous formalities. Anyone can consider this financial scheme and solve their unexpected expenses on time.

People who think that they can’t easily get approved for the loans due to their poor credit records can simply consider bad credit tenant loans and solve their cash problem easily. While applying for this fiscal opportunity no lender will check your credit status and history. He only consider your repaying capability and approve funds the accordingly. Thus, all adverse credit ratings arrears, bankruptcy, defaults, foreclosure etc. are simply eligible.

If you are living as tenant and find yourself unable to pledge something as collateral against the financial aid then UK tenant loans will be the perfect option one can have. Against these loans you are not supposed to pledge anything as collateral but still you can fetch the funds as per your requirements. But, due to absence of security you need to pay high security charges against these loans. Though, by making competitive research of online market you can search an affordable loan deal for you.

The amount you can avail in the ranges of £1000 to £25000 for the term period of 1-10 years. You can decide your amount range as per your convenience and income level. But, make the payments on time so there is no need to pay extra penalty charges.

The hassle free online application facility solves all the issues regarding applying and approving process. Just fill out a simple online form with mandatory details and submit it online. Within few hours of wait the approved funds will directly get transit in your bank account. Now you can utilize the funds for fulfilling any of your requirements without facing constraint of the lender.

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Instant Approval Loans Online- Fast Approval Of Loan By Online Mode Instant Approval Loans Online- Fast Approval Of Loan By Online Mode

2010-02-05T03:05:00.000-08:00

No one likes waiting for irritating loan process. Everyone is busy in his or her life. No one has enough time to waste for loan procedure. They want their life easy and simple. US lenders feel your time problem and offer a scheme i.e. Instant approval loans online. These loans are specially designed for those who don’t have time to follow hectic loan procedure. By this loan, you can avail cash within few hours. Now you don’t need to waste your crucial time for loan approval.

By their name, you can clearly understand that you can get the loan approval instantly. Instant approval loans online are easily available on internet. Fill an online form with some sort of information like name, address, job status, and age, duration of loan and means of repayment. Submit that form to lender. The lenders approve these loans just on the basis of the information given by you. He/she will only verify that information and then approve the loan. It will take hardly few hours and cash will be in your valid bank account.

You can get an amount of $100 to $1500 from these types of financial schemes. These loans are short term loans. This means from these loans cash is available to you for a period of 14 to 30 days. These loans give you ample financial support in your tough time.

For these loans, you have to fulfill lender’s criteria. Conditions vary from the lender to lender. But generally, all lenders ask about some conditions like candidate must have good source of income and from that he/she must be drawing at least $1000 per month, his/her age must be greater than 18 years, he/she must have S.S.N and he/she must have valid bank account in US. If you satisfy all these conditions then you can get loan approval instantly and without any difficulty.

Dealing with Job Stress

2010-02-05T02:58:00.000-08:00

Job stress is one of the most prevalent forms of stresses these days. It can affect your body and mind and cause physical and emotional problems too.

Job satisfaction has paramount importance in the life of office-goers. You must enjoy the work

you do and not think of it as a task or burden else it leads to high levels of stress. There could be many reasons of job dissatisfaction like overwork, office politics

, lack of recognition, monotonous nature of the job or other problems. It not only hinders you from giving your best to your job but also impinges on your health. All the above reasons underscore the traces of job stress.

On identifying the presence of job stress, you must quickly take steps to come out of it. It is not appropriate to leave it unattended as it may lead to incorrigible damage to your booming career. So, if there are signs of de-motivation or if you have been asking questions on justness of your doing the work, then bells have rung and it is time to break out of the stressful atmosphere.
It is almost impractical to expect a job to be completely stress free. With squeezing deadlines and horde of projects to deliver, stress has become a part and parcel of every work. It is important to throw light at the two kinds of stress: positive and negative. When you over work to meet deadlines that later fetch you recognition, it can be termed as positive stress. But when it doesn’t give you the deserved acknowledgement, it can lead to adverse effects resulting in negative stress.
An individual is responsible to keep himself cheerful and optimistic. Thus, when you can not amend uncontrollable external factors, you should focus on your outlook towards life and other things.
Few simple tips to help you beat the stress are listed below:
Remember the good times
When you are dealing with an unhealthy phase of your professional life, remember the good times. Think of the events where your hard work was acknowledged and your efforts were appreciated. Recall the approach to work and the reasons of success then, tell yourself that you could again win them. Push yourself to see the silver lining on the cloud to regain confidence in your capabilities.
Keep your approach positive
Negative thoughts, at all times, should be kept at bay and it becomes all the more important when dealing with a stressful situation. Just the way negativity encourages negativity, positivity begets more positivism. Instead of thinking against your capabilities, drive yourself away from the negative setup you have been caught in. Support yourself by emphasizing your qualities and the success achieved.
Stay in good company
If you are undergoing stress crisis, make sure to move around in good company. Stress makes a person vulnerable, so you must stay away from the people who make you feel low or discouraged. Ignore the colleagues who are involved in loose talk, back biting or negative discussions. Such people would only intensify your stress levels, so keep them at an arm’s distance.
Keep your moral high
The key is to remain positive and keep your moral high. If you can so strongly believe that you cannot do a job, why not instead passionately believe in tour capability of doing it. Make your attitude manage the stress for you and always use positive language. If targets are high, break them into smaller and more achievable targets and success would come your way.
Spend time with yourself
Jobs become so occupying sometimes that you forget to pay attention to your personal life. Take break from work as and when possible to get refreshed and keep yourself going. Keep yourself relaxed and you would find yourself more productive, feeling more positive and stress free.
Make sure that your work never falls into the mode of monotony. Because as soon as that happens, you lose interest in the work and fatigue sets in. Look out for things of your interest within the work or upgrade skills by learning new things.Be stress free and be satisfied.

by : Marketing Naukri

Top Paying Careers In America

2010-02-05T02:49:00.000-08:00

Most people are aware of the fact that on an average, surgeons earn an estimated sum of $189,590 annually. The hefty package is the result of the in-depth knowledge and expertise involved in this profession. However, surveys reveal that assistants of physicians also earn around $63,490 per annum. Surveys have often been conducted to determine the top paying careers in the United States.Top Paying Careers:

a. Surgeons And Health Care Professionals - According to most surveys, surgeons always lead the list of highest paying jobs, followed by anesthesiologists whose annual income amounts to around $181,420. Tagging along are gynecologists and obstetricians who as per survey, earn about $179,640 annually, while dentists earn around $133,350. It is evident from surveys that most highly paid professionals belong to the field of health and medicine with the exception of CEOs who are ranked in the 8th position among top ten careers.
b. Personal Financial Advisors - Another lucrative career option is that of Personal financial advisors. However, in most surveys they fail to find a place in the list of top ten owing to their highly fluctuating incomes. It is estimated that the annual income of a successful personal financial advisor is around $145,000. On the other hand, an average financial advisor may earn only around $28,330 per year. Some of the factors that contribute to this immense income variation are high growth potential, rapid economic growth and finally, the educational index that this profession demands.
c. Medical Scientists - The estimated average annual income of Medical Scientists is approximately $100,000, which might seem to be a paltry amount against their educational qualifications (doctoral degrees). However, they lead the list of other careers such as podiatrists, whose estimated income is $94,500, lawyers with an estimated average annual income of $91,920, optometrists earning $88,100 and other computer and information systems managers who earn approximately $83,890 annually.
d. Marketing And Sales Managers - Statistics reveal that the estimated annual income of sales and marketing managers is around $80,000.

According to The Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey, estimated average white-collar earnings were around $21.85 per hour, estimated average blue-collar earnings were approximately $15.03 per hour, while the average earnings per hour for service occupations were only about $10.40. To obtain higher incomes, most top-end careers require a four-year college degree.

As per the information obtained from Employment Policy Foundation, listed below are some of the career options at varying levels of education:

a. Top Paying Careers For Individuals Who Do Not Have A High School Degree -

Drafters - $36,000
Industrial production managers - $36,000
Bailiffs, correctional officers and jailers - $36,400
Construction manager - $33,600
Electricians - $31,900

b. High Paying Jobs For High School Graduates -

Listed below are some of the career options that lay more emphasis on relevant expertise and experience instead of formal education:

Computer programmers - $55,000
Network systems and data communications analysts - $49,000
Database, network and computer systems administrators - $48,000

Although a large number of jobs and professions require specialization and expertise in relevant field, it is possible to apply for some jobs after satisfying basic criteria of qualifications. For instance, individuals applying for the job of an air traffic controller are screened and recruited by the Federal Aviation Administration.

by : Tony Jacowski

How you Can Maximize Results and Minimize Effort

2010-02-05T02:45:00.000-08:00

Get maximum results with minimum effort. Sounds great doesn’t it? The key is leverage. You can get a huge result from relatively little investment of resources. Weather it’s time, money or intellect, you only have so much. The key is to use your resources as a lever to really explode your income!A great example is real estate. You control a relatively large asset with a fairly small investment. Say you have a property worth $250,000 that you got with a $12,500 down payment. Leave aside for a moment the fact you probably could have acquired that property using little or none of your own money. In most real estate markets a realistic annual appreciation is 8%. You would gain $20,000 in value the 1st year alone. You have used the power of leverage to get a staggering 160% annual return on your $12,500 investment! With real estate, you can also get additional leverage from tax advantages and rental income that are available. So it’s pretty easy to picture real estate as an example of leverage.

Another example is selling to an account versus selling retail. When you sell to an account, you leverage your initial efforts into a long term revenue stream (the best kind!). It may take more effort initially to close the account sale, but that is more than compensated by the steady sales that can continue to roll in for years. You can now just maintain the account, which takes much less effort than it takes to get it in the first place.

One form of leverage that you just can’t afford to ignore is your network of contacts. Weather it’s a mailing list or just a social network, you can use your network to meet better suppliers, make sales, generate referrals and find great investment deals. In short, your contacts could be the most valuable form of leverage you have.

Multi-tiered affiliate sales and marketing programs are a fantastic example of leverage. You can lever your effort and money spent to gain your affiliates into a solid revenue stream. The second tier, and beyond if applicable, all give you additional sales through no more investment on your part. If you get productive affiliates, your affiliate tiers could easily generate more revenue for you than your direct sales. Once again, leverage.

Employees are definitely a form of leverage for a business owner. Their efforts are leveraged into revenue, and hopefully, profit for the business. Every dollar the employer pays the employee in compensation is leveraged into a larger dollar amount.

If you aren’t using leverage, it’s going to be a long haul. You must use leverage to maximize your efforts. Analyze everything you do in your business. Make sure you are leveraging all your resources to achieve your goals. It will be a much shorter climb to the top.

by : Steve Faber
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Top 10 Excuses Why Marketing Is Not For You

2010-02-04T07:03:00.000-08:00

As a marketing coach, I've probably heard every excuse in the book why people can't market their businesses. You wouldn't believe some of the whoppers people tell when they're trying to justify their failure to attract clients.
Now don't get me wrong; it's not that failing to attract clients makes one a bad person. Not at all. It's just that when I hear the following excuses I feel compelled to call 'em as I see 'em: Baloney!
If you have the mistaken notion that any of these lame excuses are the reason that your business
isn't successful, get a clue. These are just EXCUSES for people who fail, not reasons not to succeed (a subtle, yet important, difference).1. "I'm too honest to market." OK, this little gem is at the top of my list because it is both a lie AND an insult! I am a marketer by trade, and I am honest, so I know for a fact that marketing
is not a dishonest process or practice, nor does it have to be dishonest to be effective. What's dishonest is when you overstate your results, or if you truly don't believe that your product or service is worth what you charge, or if you deliberately intend to defraud people. In that case, the problem is with you, not marketing, so stop insulting the rest of us.

2. "I'm too modest to market myself." Listen up, princess, every word out of your mouth doesn't have to be about YOU. Think about what your clients want, need and actually get, and that'll keep the conversation going for as long as you need it to go. Hey, if you're not comfortable saying great things about yourself, start saying great things about what your clients get out of working with you. Or better yet, let them say it for you in the form of testimonials. But don't think that you have to be the subject of every fascinating conversation you have with prospects.

3. "I'm too shy to market myself." As a highly sensitive person myself, you'd think I'd have more sympathy for this excuse, but I don't. If you want to be successful, know right now that it may not always be comfortable, and you have to be willing to do what it takes to succeed, even if that means going outside your comfort zone. Shyness is a habit that can be overcome with practice, so join Toastmasters, or see a therapist if that's what it is going to take, but get over yourself. I promise you will be glad you did.

4. "I'm too creative to market myself." This excuse is really lame! Marketing is a very creative process, and since you have literally thousands of options when structuring your marketing plans, creativity is an asset, not a liability. Unless you're one of those I-am-a-self-indulgent-whiner-who-refuses-to-accept-any-responsibility-for-my-actions-and-masks-that-character-flaw-with-claims-of-misunderstood-or-excessive-creativity kinds of people, in which case I say, grow up, and while you're at it, think up a more creative excuse.

5. "I don't have enough time to market my business." OK, this excuse sounds good at first, but in reality it doesn't wash. Either you are already marketing but not acknowledging your marketing activities as such, or your business is so busy that you don't need to market at all, which makes this excuse unnecessary. So if you haven't got all the business you want but you don't have time to market, you need to reevaluate how you're spending your time, and make some tough decisions about when you are going to do what you need to do to get those clients.

6. "I don't have enough money to market my business." Again, you get points for trying, but this is still just an excuse, because good marketing isn't about money, it's about relationships. You can start very modestly with your marketing plans, and spend nothing but your time. And let me tell you, if you can't get some traction spending 40 hours a week trying to build your business relationships, maybe you should rethink your decision to be an entrepreneur.

7. "I have no personal network to market to." Oh please, you've got to have a better excuse than this! If you truly have no family, no friends, no colleagues, no acquaintances or no former co-workers, then start meeting some. I don't care if you've been on a desert island for the past 20 years, you can always meet people through networking meetings, trade associations, classes, social clubs, or at the gym! Just pick up the phone and call the people you want to know, get out there and mingle, and your personal network will grow quickly.

8. "My product or service is too hard to explain to people." Fine. Quit explaining what you do, and start talking about what your customers GET from working with you. Do you help your customers get thinner, smarter, married, fitter, their first home, or what? Seriously, nobody cares about what you do, really; people care about what they get. Get it?

9. "My product or service is so good that it should sell itself." Sure, that's probably true if your product is a talking monkey, or your clients are all telepaths, but other than that, it's going to take a little effort on your part, bucko, so start creating some momentum in the marketplace and you'll find that your product needs less and less of your efforts to sell, until one day it almost seems like it DOES sell itself!

10. "My niche is too narrow and I can't find my customers." Hogwash. What this usually means is that you haven't yet defined your customer, because you can't find what you haven't identified (and don't give me that you'll-know-them-when-you-see-them line). Start with a matrix of situation and need to identify that client. For example, let's say you're a financial planner, and you think your clients are "people who want to get their financial affairs in order." Think instead about who needs to get their financial affairs in order, and you'll probably come up with something like "married couples with children who have $X in assets and need to protect those assets with planning." And you can certainly find those people, can't you?

So we've blasted all these lousy excuses, but we haven't yet addressed the biggest excuse of all: fear. Most of the time I've found that the more excuses my clients offer for not moving forward with their businesses, the more fearful they are.

Hey, I understand, and I've been there myself. But what it comes down to is this: Are you more afraid of succeeding (or failing) than you are of going back to work for that idiot boss you always end up working for? If the answer is that you're more afraid of facing the personal responsibility of entrepreneurship than of any garbage your boss could throw at you, then good-bye entrepreneur, and hello wage-slave.

But if you think that the worst possible scenario is working for some moron again, and that you'll happily work like a dog if that's what it takes just so you don't have to slink back into that stinking office with your tail between your legs, good for you. It's time to forget about excuses, and start figuring out how to make this whole self-employed thing work for you.

The first thing to understand is that fear is OK. Yes, we've all been fearful (and yes, I include myself in that "we" statement). It can be scary picking up the phone. It can be scary going to a sales meeting.

But at the end of the day, isn't your product or service of value to someone? Aren't people glad (or going to be glad) that you've solved a problem for them? So stop worrying and fearing the marketing process, and remember this: Marketing is really nothing more than the process of developing relationships, and you, my friend, can do that in your sleep.

by : Veronika Noize, The Marketing Coach
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Marketings Greatest Secret

2010-02-04T06:30:00.001-08:00

Do you know what the best type of Marketing is for your company?
How about a Yellow Pages advert? Pay per click
? Maybe some direct mail followed up a telemarketing campaign?
Well whilst each of these are perfectly valid marketing routes and one's any forward thinking company should at least test the very best type of marketing for all types of business is the type that is FREE!!!
That's right Ladies and Gentlemen, if you're working with a tight marketing budget (or indeed with no set marketing budget at all) then you can now get exposure for your product, service or company in the form of PR (or Public Relations).For large companies PR is big business. They will think nothing of employing staff with the sole intention of getting the name of their company in the media (be it written press, television, radio or online). And because the PR market is seemingly dominated by the larger companies small companies shy away from using PR in their marketing mix
.

If this applies to you then good times could well be ahead as PR is a vital part of the marketing mix for smaller companies in particular as they often don't have the time or money to spend on often expensive advertising or other marketing.

Successful businesses of all sizes use PR to promote their business, build their reputation and become a recognised expert in their particular field. And the beauty of PR is that everyone is an expert in something. And by passing on your expertise in a particular subject in the right way you become newsworthy.

And that is the real secret when it comes to good PR. It has to be interesting and newsworthy. Nobody cares that you've just launched a new website or that Mrs Jones in Accounts has just become a Grandmother for the second time (both subjects I've seen in press releases and both subjects I've seen in journalist's bins!!). And if you've ever attempted PR only not to have it published then I wouldn't worry too much about it as you're amongst the 99% of companies who send out PR that isn't newsworthy or interesting.

Here are a few words on Why PR is important.

Communication lies at the heart of today's modern society. Be it on the internet, television, pod casts or whatever medium you choose. And with so many firms competing for the same business as you, how do your customers differentiate between you and your competitors?

The answer lies not particularly in the size of your Yellow Pages advert but how you project yourself and what your firm has to offer.

PR has a huge sway in the minds of consumers as the perceived third party endorsement that comes from editorial coverage can be substantial, maybe even more so than advertising that can cost hundreds or thousands of pounds.

PR done well can result in increased exposure, increased business and increased profits. And if you want your business to be the best it can be then becoming good at PR is something you want to do.

And remember, it's FREE!!!!

by : Marketing Buzz
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11 Ways to Keep Your Motivation Fire Going

2010-01-25T06:12:00.000-08:00

While you already know its important to exercise there will comes days when the last thing you want to do is exercise. Putting on that tracksuit and heading to the gym becomes a struggle even though you know deep down its the right thing to do.
So what can you do?
Here's 11 tips to help start that motivation fire going again...
1 - Take It One Day At A Time - Even the longest journey or change in lifestyle all begins with a single step. While these small steps might not seem much if they're repeated over and over again momentum will start to build up. Take the example of pushing a car, the first couple of pushes are the hardest but once the wheels are turning it takes less effort to keep the pace up. Just promise yourself that you're only going to train just today, then say this to yourself the next day and the next day.

2 - Does Your Goal Excite You - Does losing weight excite you or are you just going through the motions? If a goal doesn't excite you, you'll never give it your full attention. Grab a pen and paper and write a list of what this weight loss will do you for you. Make a list of about 10-20 things that will change because you've lost that weight.

3 - Visualize Your Success - If you haven't been successful how can you get that feeling of accomplishment, easy visualize! Some people say they have a problem with visualizing but we all do it. If I said what would you do if you won the lottery, I bet you'd have dozens of images flash through your mind. Now take that power and picture how you'll feel and look in that slimmer future. If you're still having problems take your list from tip 2 and read through it for help, those answers you wrote should help put some great images in your mind.

4 - Get In A Team - While its sometimes easy to get inspired for a short while, for longer periods sometimes we need others to give us that added kick up the pants. Try to find like minded people who want to make a change in their lives and use them to inspire you. If you can't find anyone close by that you can rely on or support from, why not use the internet and weight loss forums or help. Or if this isn't for you, why not look in books or magazines for inspirational stories that help lift you up.

5 - Hold Back - It can be easy to throw yourself "Gung-ho" into your fitness at the beginning, but slowly over time you burn out and motivation fizzle's away. So why not hold that motivation in check, if you feel that you could exercise for an hour why not cut back 25% and exercise for three quarters of an hour. This way you know you've still got more in the tank for the next time, when maybe you'll give it a little bit more. This way you're going to increase in intensity as time goes on rather than do the opposite.

6 - Sleep More - Lack so sleep can take the zip out of anyone, so try to get your daily amount, then you'll be mentally fit and prepared for whats ahead.

7 - Organize Your Space - If you've got clothes thrown over the exercise bike and you constantly have to look for exercise clothes/equipment you need a de-clutter. Clear out a space thats solely yours for exercising. If you want you can also put some posters/motivation images around that you can look at as you workout. In short make your exercise space a happy place that you look forward to visiting.

8 - Set Goals And Deadlines - Having a target or goal can be a great way to inspire yourself. Pick something small that you want to achieve like losing those first 5 pounds! Now go out and get it and don't stop till you've achieved it, then move on to the next goal. Unfinished goals can be a drain and kill motivation, but build on those small gaols and you'll start to feel more positive that you can do it.

9 - Use Music - Music can be a great motivator when you're down. You could be in the worst mental form of your life but when your favorite song comes you can change in an instant. Burn a CD or load up your mp3 player with all those favorite tunes that make you want to get up and go.

10 - Get Outside - Theres something magical that a bit of fresh air and change of scenery can do for us. If you're not feeling like exercising just take a short walk to clear your mind and get the blood flowing. After 5- 10 minutes don't be surprised if like "Forest Gump" you want to keep on going.

11 - Use Past Failures To Succeed - Human beings are strange things we love to break rules and go against the grain sometimes. We're told not to do something and what want to do the opposite!

So, why not use this power for you, call up all those old images of past failure or people telling you you'll never succeed and use it against them. Think to yourself "I'll show them I can do it"...and then go out and do it!
By Barry J McDonald

The Butterfly Effect and Low Priority tasks

2010-01-24T06:54:00.000-08:00

I often find myself making to do lists. I used to rank each item on my list according to its urgency using the scale of: Low, Medium, High, Urgent
I then concentrated on the urgent and high tasks.I found that there was a problem with this approach. Invariably my list was very long. I felt overwhelmed by it all. How could I possibly complete all these things in my work week?
Often this meant that by the end of the week some of the low priority tasks would remain undone.

By labeling a task as low priority it meant that I regarded it as having no importance. It did not matter if low priority tasks got done or not.

How do you judge whether a task is important or not?

Sometimes tasks can have more importance than you realise. For example, you may have on your list an action to call a client who has not done much business with your company. When you call the client to tell him about a new service your company has to offer, you find out that the service is just what he is looking for. The result: he places a large order with you. If you had labeled the action to call him as low priority, you could have not made the call if you were having a busy week.

There is something called the Butterfly Effect. This, simply stated, says that small, seemingly insignificant actions can sometimes create huge outcomes. Its name comes from the Chaos theory of science that says that a butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the world could effect the weather patterns in such a way as to cause a hurricane thousands of miles away. Sound crazy, but that’s what some scientists speculate.

So, how does the Butterfly Effect work in humans? This can be illustrated by a story.

You arrive at the station to catch your train at the station. The platform is long, and you know that the train due to arrive in 5 minutes has many carriages. You wonder what end of the train you wish to travel in: front, middle or end.

You realise this decision is not really that important, as you do not really care where you sit as long as it is in a comfortable seat. You decide to stand on the middle of the platform but for no particular reason.

The train arrives and is quite busy but you find an empty row and sit there.

At the next station many people get on. A tall woman, seeing that there are no empty rows, sits down next to you.

You get talking her and before you reach you destination you have arranged to meet her in a few days time for a drink. Six months later you are married.

If you had not stood at the middle of the platform and not sat in that particular carriage, would you have met then married that woman?

What this story illustrates is how the outcome of seemingly low priority actions can be unpredictable.

How many opportunities have you missed because you neglected a low priority action?

Armed with this knowledge, how do you create enough time so that all your actions that need doing in a week are completed? First, don’t label any action by priority, unless it is absolutely vital that it be done straight away. You then need to find some way to organise the way you work that results in you being more productive, that is, get more things done in less time, and complete all your planned actions.

The only method I know of doing this is Getting Things Done a system created by David Allen. Put GTD and David Allen in Google to find out more.

by : Stephen Willikamson

The Secrets to Effective Time Management When Working at Home

2010-01-24T06:52:00.000-08:00

Effective time management is something that many business professionals
struggle with on a daily basis. This is no different for the work at home
mother. In fact, it may be more difficult for a work at home mother then a business professional who works outside the home. Why? When working from home
, mothers tend to get side tracked by the smallthings that need to be done around the house, running errands or making phone calls. However, with a little determination and effort, effective time management can be achieved by the work at home mother!

The most important thing you can do to make your day productive is to set daily work hours and stick to them. Working from home is not like a traditional 9-to-5 job because you are in control of your own schedule. While many consider this one of the benefits of working from home, it can also be your business' downfall if you aren't careful. It is so easy to get consumed with the small everyday chores around the house and put your business on the back burner, which will ultimately cost you money. In order to prevent this, you need to evaluate your daily routines and set your work hours accordingly. Then you must stick to them!

As a work at home mother, your schedule will constantly be changing due to school plays, sporting events, field trips and so on. The key is to make out a weekly or monthly work schedule that accounts for these things. Then you need to stick to the schedule. When you are making your schedule, you should also include break times as well. These scheduled breaks should be used for things such as checking e-mail, facebook and making phone calls. By allotting time for these activities, you will be much more focused during your scheduled work hours.

Once you have your work hours established for the week, you need to prioritize your daily tasks. You should start with the most important and end with the most trivial task. At night, you should review the to-do list for the next day making sure you haven't forgotten anything. These to-do lists are like daily goal sheets and provide you with a list of all the things you want and need to get done during your scheduled work hours. They also make it much easier to say "no" when your child's teacher asks you to volunteer for a field trip or a friend unexpectedly asks you to go to lunch.

Finally, you need to limit distractions during your work hours. This may mean you need to schedule your work hours when your children are napping, at school or in bed for the night. It may also be as simple as closing your office door and turning off your phones. Whatever it is that helps you stay focused, you need to do it. Making these changes will be hard at first, but your business will reap the benefits from it in time!

by : Kim Lerner

The Time Management Tip That Can Change Your Life

2010-01-24T06:50:00.000-08:00

An extremely common source of stress on the job is largely self-inflicted: the chronic underestimation of how long a task will take.

Whether it’s a routine motion you have to draft, a “touch-base” meeting with a partner or staff member, a quick call with a client, or cleaning up your office, it often takes longer than you assumed (or you don’t accomplish all you had hoped in the time available). The result is the build-up of pressure as your day progresses.

The problem is rooted in unrealistic thinking about the activity at hand. And the paradox, of course, is that consistently coming up short on estimates (or not even considering how long a particular activity will take) leads to more stress and reduced effectiveness.

Fortunately, as with so many areas of performance improvement, the beginning of the solution lies in increased awareness of your thoughts and emotions in the moment.

Here’s a simple process that takes 20 or 30 seconds. As soon as you notice yourself moving on to a new task or activity:

1. Pause.
2. Think through what’s involved and how this kind of activity typically goes.
3. Determine the specific scope of the action/activity you want to accomplish; that is, the specific chunk of work you want to get done given the time you think you have or want to spend
4. Revise your mental schedule using the new, more realistic timeframe.

A good rule of thumb is to add 30% to the amount of time you initially give yourself (depending on the nature of the activity). If you finish early, great – you’ve got some breathing room when applying the process to your next activity.

How can you develop the habit of using this three-step process? One way is to keep a log for a few days: at the start of a task, jot down how long you think it will take, and then go back to record the actual time it took. By completing even one full page of such a log, you’ll have gotten your brain’s attention and will have reinforced the pause-think-revise process.

Remember, much of the stress that builds up each day stems from the fact that your internal thoughts and feelings about how long you should be spending on something are out of sync with how much time you’re actually spending on it. Getting your inner and outer worlds in sync puts you in greater control, reduces your stress, and makes you more productive.

by : Bill Jawitz

How To Improve IQ And Spatial Memory: Eat, Train, Run, Relax And Sleep

2010-01-24T06:47:00.000-08:00

Four things are important for optimal brain function:

* a stimulating environment involving novelty, requiring continual learning
* brain nutrition (e.g. Omega 3, B6, B12, Zinc, Epicathechin, Folic Acid
) and avoiding sugar and bad fats (e.g. trans fatty acids such as you find in margarine).
* brain training (executive process training such as High IQ Pro), *
* regular aerobic physical exercise

We can add to this:

* not having chronic stress
- cortisol is a hormone that seriously damages the brain
* having decent sleep - REM (dreaming) sleep is essential for complex learning

Aerobic exercise

Another study has just come out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that cognitive health benefits of a regular run. Neuroscientists in Cambridge – a Ph.D friend from the CNBC program among them - recently joined forces with researchers at the US National Institute on Ageing in Maryland to investigate the effect of running on the brain.

They looked at rats’ brains. A lot can be said about how human brains work by looking at the workings of other mammal brains. There are remarkable similarities, and most differences in all but the highest cognitive functions are differences of degree.

They found that running stimulates the brain to grow new neurons – new grey matter – in part of the brain used for spatial memories called the hippocampus. The hippocampus is also critical for our fluid intelligence. Brain tissue taken from the rodents showed that the running mice had grown fresh grey matter during the experiment. Tissue samples from the hippocampus revealed on average 6,000 new brain cells in every cubic millimeter! The hippocampus is one of the few areas of the brain that can grow new neurons throughout adulthood – a process called ‘neurogenesis’.

Cell death in the hippocampus is relatively high as we age – a process called ‘cognitive aging’ -making exercise that much more important for maintaining peak performance as we age.

How it works

"We know exercise can be good for healthy brain function, but this work provides us with a mechanism for the effect," said Timothy Bussey, a behavioural neuroscientist at Cambridge.

So what do all these new brain cells do? In their study they found that running – and new cell growth - benefited rats not so much in basic memory tasks such as learning a new object and its location, but in tasks where the objects that were to be remembered were physically identical but could be distinguished based on their spatial relations (e.g. left vs right). The running mice clocked up an average of 15 miles (24km) a day! Their scores on this type of memory test was nearly TWICE as high as those who did no exercise.

It seems that the continual growth of new neurons in the hippocampus ensures that similar events in our experience are encoded uniquely based on their context – in both space and time (x happened after y is a kind of context in time, just like x is to the left of y is a context in space).

This kind of memory translates into our ability to remember what a person had for dinner yesterday and the day before, or where they parked on different trips to the supermarket – exactly the kind of context-dependent memory that is vulnerable to cognitive aging.

Link with IQ, fluid intelligence and the High IQ Pro 'dual n-back' exercise

This is also precisely the kind of memory that is essential to working memory, fluid intelligence and IQ. For example in the High IQ Pro working memory exercise, you have to continually update in your short term memory the location of a small square and a letter. It is only the relative location of the square and its order in time that enables you to keep track of it in memory.

Fluid intelligence is our on-the-spot reasoning and problem solving ability. It is this kind of advanced short term memory that needs new brain cells for each act of cognition that is needed for fluid intelligence.

Just like jogging, the High IQ Pro brain training exercise will certainly stimulate the production of new neurons in the hippocampus highly useful for flexible learning and fluid intelligence. While a study has been done showing cell growth in the frontal and parietal lobes with our exercise, this particular study looking at its effects on brain cell production has not yet been done. I’m looking forward to seeing the lab that first does it.

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"When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them."

...Wolfgang Ketterle, Nobel prizewinning physicist, MIT

"Being a runner, to me, has made being depressed impossible. If ever I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured that I'll come back with clarity and empowerment."

...Alanis Morissette, singer-songwriter

by : Dr Mark A Smith

How to Break Your Bad Habits

2010-01-24T06:45:00.000-08:00

We all have bad habits that we need to break. Some of us drink, some of us smoke, and some of us may do other things that we need to stop. Many people would like to quit and kick their problems and habits to the curb. But sadly many of us simply don't know how and cannot afford a personal life coach. The good news is you don't need a personal life coach to take care of the monkey on your back.

You can kick whatever problems you have yourself; all it takes is some determination and focus. Most people when confronted with trying to get rid of a bad habit say they can't do it alone, that they are unable to, and that they cannot live without the problem. The simple fact of the matter is that they can live without it and they are strong enough to stop. Let's take cigarettes for example, many people smoke them and you don't need a government official to tell you that they are bad for you.

People make the choice to smoke, but there's a difference between smoking every once in a while and becoming addicted to it. You may have a variety of reasons for wanting to stop smoking. You may have a new baby on the way, want to get healthier, or just stop and put the money towards something else. What's important is that you can do it without medications, treatments, or substitutes.

You can do this by simply having unyielding determination and faith in yourself. Faith is something that seems to be lacking in many people and I'm not talking about the religious kind. Many people think that faith and religion are the same thing but that is not the case. Having absolute faith in yourself that you can do anything and get rid of any habit is essential to solving the problem.

The unyielding determination part comes into effect when the withdraw symptoms occur. You may get the urge to smoke, resume overeating, or whatever else it is that you are trying to get rid of. When that happens you need to remind yourself why you are doing this and what the rewards are. It's not an easy thing to do but you can do it.

Some people may choose to do a step down program rather than quitting outright altogether. When doing something like that it's best to have a timetable to follow and make sure you tell a close friend or relative. Doing this will help you immensely as they will ask you at the appointed dates if you are still on track.

If you can keep it up for a couple months then your habit will be broken. Some people want a quicker solution than this but you cannot rush breaking yourself of a learned and comfortable behavior. Failure to get rid of the issue completely may make it come back in the future.

When breaking a bad habit remember to never give in to the urge to resume it. No matter how much it may hurt physically or psychologically it's important to continue to see it through. There will be some tough days, but the pain will purify you and you'll come out stronger for it.

Subconscious Mind Power - Unleash Its Potential With a Binaural Beats MP3

2010-01-24T06:43:00.000-08:00

The subconscious mind is the most powerful tool that everyone has to make changes in their lives. It controls our every action, our thoughts, our attitudes, and is the very foundation of our view on life. Everything that we do or say originates in our subconscious thoughts.The problem that we face is how to open the door to the subconscious mind, get rid of the negative thoughts, and reprogram it for the positive changes that we want to make.

Meditation is an excellent method to reprogram the subconscious mind and if combined with a binaural beats mp3, it becomes infinitely easier and more effective.

However, this cannot be done while the brain is functioning in the conscious state and more specifically, is functioning in the beta frequency range.

The brain typically operates in four major frequency ranges:

* Beta: This is the highest and most active state. It can be a range of high stress. We are not relaxed in this range.
* Alpha: Alpha is a range of moderate relaxation
but still with a live of consciousness. We typically enter the alpha range when we close our eyes and relax for just a moment. You can usually feel the stress and tension go away in this state.
* Theta: This is a range of drowsiness and high relaxation. It is the state just before falling asleep.
* Delta: Delta is the state of deep and complete sleep and total body relaxation.

The subconscious mind can be entered when the brain is in the lower frequency ranges of alpha and theta. It is at this point that we can begin reprogramming the subconscious. There are several ways to accomplish this.

Commonly known methods to enter the subconscious mind are self-hypnosis, yoga, and meditation. However, all of these methods require instruction and numerous hours of practice in order to be done effectively.

An easier and more convenient method is to make use of a modern technology know as binaural beats recordings. Binaural beats are available on mp3 and cd's. They are effective in assisting the brain to move itself into the lower frequency ranges of alpha and theta so that we can begin retraining the subconscious.

There are specially designed binaural beats mp3s to reprogram a wide range of areas in the subconscious:

* Remove negative thoughts and build self-esteem and confidence
* Get rid of addictions such as smoking and drugs
* Improve creativity and problem solving
* Increase ability for higher performance levels
* Program yourself to accomplish your life's goals
* Relieve stress and anxiety
* Improved health by blocking the release of harmful chemicals that come from stress

Everyone can be the person that they want to be if they can simply unleash the potential of their subconscious mind. The opportunity to do that is available by establishing a regular and daily routine of meditative sessions while listening to a binaural beats mp3

Tuning Your Mind Toward Success

2010-01-24T06:40:00.000-08:00

Hopelessness, depression and lackluster-ness are no fun! These emotions are destructive to your daily interactions with people and suck your energy away from anything positive you could be accomplishing. In fact, these emotions can even pull other negative aspects toward you.If you feel like you’re not getting results, that you’re not getting what you really want out of life, these emotions can bubble up. If the same rules for negative attraction apply to positive attraction, then it’s all based upon the approach.

What’s an approach? It’s a mindset prior to engaging a task. How can you change your mindset for success, you ask? Keep reading.

Underneath our personas everyone holds beliefs about the way the world is. These are ideas and associations around all areas of our lives. Often these are things we take for granted, as truths. Beliefs put perspective around what we can or cannot do, what we will or won’t achieve, how talented or terrible we are at something, etc. With a certain mindset, you may simply not see options beyond those in which you’ve been habitually engaged. Sometimes more options are available if you change the way you feel about the situation. Think about positive feelings associated with a past experience, or make up one. A positive feeling can lead to a positive perspective, which will create the opportunity to form what we want out of life.

You may need to start from square one and change your beliefs. Changing a mindset means altering beliefs. The first step is to identify your beliefs. Look at the “evidence” you lean on for your lack of success and ask yourself if it serves you to hold onto that belief.

You may have blind spots – areas in your beliefs or behavior of which you are not aware. Consider the following questions to understand where some of your beliefs may have stemmed from. When we understand the thoughts that influence our mental approach, and recognize the feelings and emotions that come from those thoughts, we can begin to attune our attitudes toward those that will attract the results we’re looking for.

* Where did your negative beliefs come from?
* Are those beliefs realistic? Why?
* Where did your positive beliefs come from?
* Are those beliefs realistic? Why?
* What are the beliefs of people whom you consider successsful?

Besides our beliefs, we also make assumptions that hold us back. Perhaps you don’t think that you will be promoted because your colleague has more experience. Have you considered that he or she may not be interested in the position? Or the fact that you are qualified in unique ways? Keep the big picture in mind and remember all of your individual positive traits. Be conscious of what assumptions you’re making and begin to model the success you want, instead of what you don’t want.

by : Mindie Kniss

"Relaxing with a Mental PDA" Your 5 minutes daily program to Stress management

2010-01-24T06:37:00.000-08:00

We all have this favorite expression when it comes to being stressed out, and I wouldn't bother naming all of them since it may also vary in different languages. But when it comes down to it, I think that it is how we work or even relax, for that matter that triggers stress. Ever been stressed even when you're well relaxed and bored? I know I have.

Since Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful incidents and decrease negative reactions to stress. Here are some of the things that can be done by just remembering it, since life is basically a routine to follow like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. You can do a few of them in a longer span of time, but as they say-- every minute counts.

Managing time

Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.

To improve your time management:

· Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself.
· Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time.
· Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you.
· Manage your commitments by not over- or undercommitting. Don't commit to what is not important to you.
· Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines.
· Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like.
Build healthy coping strategies

It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.

Lifestyle

Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. Try to:

· Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations.
· Have a sense of purpose in life.
· Get enough sleep, since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping.
· Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress.
· Get moderate exercise throughout the week.
· Limit your consumption of alcohol.
· Don't smoke.

Social support

Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community. It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.

Changing thinking

When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body's stress, just as an actual threat does. Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.

· Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress.
· Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly.
· Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it.
· Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style.

Even writers like me can get stressed even though we're just using our hands to do the talking, but having to sit for 7 or 8 hours is already stressful enough and have our own way to relieve stress. Whether you're the mail guy, the CEO, or probably the average working parent, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your homes, especially your life.

3 Steps for Bringing Your Vision to Life

2010-01-24T06:34:00.000-08:00

A vision is the imagination of your highest dreams and deepest desires realized. Vision is inspired, it is compelling and it pulls you forward.

Everyone has a vision. It is both a spiritual gift and it is a tool. Your vision is a giant that once awakened can keep you on track in manifesting a life that is worthy of you.And one in which you have the impact that only you can have in the world.

Vision operates like a powerful magnet that pulls you forward into your greatness - into the expression of your gifts and talents, dreams and desires, and purpose.

For your vision to work for you in these amazing ways, get to know it intimately and create an ongoing relationship with it. It is like any intimate relationship, you need to give it quality time and attention to keep it alive.

Here is a simple, three step process for bringing your vision to life and keeping it alive.

Before you begin, you need to do three things:

First, set aside some quiet time where you can devote your full attention to this visioning process. Dedicate time by scheduling it in your planner or on your calendar.

Second, have something to write with and on. Select pens and paper that you love. Writing in a notebook or journal that calls to you is a great idea.

And third, remember that a true vision is inspired. It comes from within your own spirit and can be felt and known in your heart and mind. Enter into your dedicated visioning time in the spirit of vision.

The Three Step Process:

1. Ask yourself this question. “What would my life be like five years from now if it were better than I have yet imagined? Let it unfold. It will. And take note. Your vision may even seem to have a life of its own. Give it free rein until it feels complete.

2. Look for the deep desires inside your vision. Desires are the impulse of life seeking new and greater expression through you. What are the key desires living inside your vision that you want to express? Write each of them down as clearly as you can.

3. Create an affirmation for each of your key desires. An affirmation is a simple, clear and specific statement written in the present tense, as if it is already true.

Here is an example of an affirmation written from this process. “I am succeeding easily by using my true voice, doing what I love and making a difference.”

Write your affirmations down, keep them nearby and repeat them to yourself, or out loud, every day. Always repeat them in the spirit and energy of your vision.

Use this process to bring your vision to life - wake up your sleeping giant!

Notice how your vision becomes a magnet. It pulls you forward - aligning your thoughts, words and actions - toward the vision itself, and into your greatness.

And it pulls the “stuff” of your vision toward you.

Step Into Your Greatness...
Keep your vision alive!

by : Reggie Odom

On Faith

2010-01-24T06:26:00.000-08:00

Where would we be if we did not have faith? Be that faith in ourselves, faith in our loved ones, faith in our fellow humans, faith in our future, faith in God or faith in life itself. I personally cannot imagine a life without that abstract element, the energy of faith.I wake up every morning and I have faith, I trust that I will live through the day, I go about my duties and I have faith that all will be as it usually is, that I will not suddenly fall off the planet earth to float indefinitely in outer space, or to suddenly drop dead without a reason! Accidents and obstacles come as a surprise or shock and I feel challenged but then I discover yet new strengths within me that I did not know existed, and I have faith that all will be well again. Where does this faith come from? I don’t really know, it’s just there no matter what happens. Even when I’m hit hard it’s always faith that eventually brings me back to life and I bounce back in top form.

Usually one relates having faith to religions. One has faith meaning one believes in one religion or another, in one God or another. But here I would like to talk about the essence of faith, the feeling, the idea, the thought of having faith, in general a persuasion of the mind, an act of knowledge, of will and understanding. I am not talking about blind faith, as when someone is indoctrinated into a belief system that one follows blindly without question, without reflection or understanding. Most religions demand that people believe and have blind faith in the scriptures and in the teachings of any particular religion, no matter how absurd, senseless or far-fetched the stories are. And perhaps for many this is just the right recipe that they need as an anchor to hold on to, so it works fine for them. For others this may not be enough, they have questions and they need to search for knowledge, for wisdom and truth.

There is faith outside religion, otherwise would we ever sow seeds if we did not believe and have faith that the seeds will grow into flowers, plants, trees or food? Would we ever do anything without the belief that we would have the results we imagine and hope for? Doesn’t everything we do depend on the fact that we have faith? Isn’t faith the moving cause of all actions for all intelligent beings? Isn’t faith the principle power that creates all things? Doesn’t that mean, therefore, that without hope and faith nothing can exist. Is this perhaps what the ancient scriptures of all religions alike have been endeavouring to teach us mere mortals? I quote here a passage from one of the ancient scriptures: ‘For verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you.’ A passage from another ancient scripture says: ‘Faith is the first great governing principle that has power, dominion, and authority over all things. Without it, there is no power, and without power there could be no creation, nor existence!’

Faith is a power that operates throughout our lives and every soul has this unwavering inner born faith at birth. Just watch children and you will see that this is true. However, as soon as we begin to develop reason, which is a process of acquiring knowledge that we need to live life, we tend to lose our self-confidence and our confidence in others. Doubt begins to creep in, which is the greatest enemy of the soul and it hinders one from progressing towards self-realization. Those who have faith naturally no matter how many disappointments they encounter in their lives recognize faith as a power from the Divine. Their faith dominates and directs their reason keeping them in union with the Cosmos, in touch with their Higher Self, their Higher Presence. They do not have blind faith but they have careful insight into the life that we live as their faith defends the innate desire of the Higher Self. Faith breeds faith. The more faith develops the greater is faith’s influence on our daily actions, our behavior and also our environment. Faith must come from deep within and is the secret of all success. The first thing to learn is to have faith in yourself and this faith should be so strong that no matter what others say you keep on going in your belief. Entrepreneurs usually have this faith. Faith means having self-confidence. Healthy self-confidence is good. Love it, live it and enjoy it.

To a mystic faith is the unique power that works through the whole of creation. Faith for the mystic does not mean a belief in a certain religion, prophet, dogma, teacher or a book, but a deep unconditional trust, even in the absence of reason. For many this quality comes naturally, versus others who constantly require material proof. Yet it is said that every soul brings this quality of faith when born, it is only later that the soul begins to mistrust and so loses faith. As the soul grows the soul begins to trust in names and forms and in the progress towards knowledge the soul begins to compare and considers some things better than others and so confuses what is real with what is not. Sometimes some people lose faith if they meet with obstacles in their life or live through negative experiences with family, friends or work mates, and that is a pity because by giving up their trust and faith in others they give up their own inner power. How many times have you heard someone say: ‘I’ve been cheated one time too many, now I don’t trust anyone.’ Or ‘I can’t love anyone any more, my partner cheated on me.’ Those who mistrust everyone and everything are unfortunate for such people live half a life by shutting out life experiences that help them to grow along the path to self-realization.

The Law of Faith is founded upon the recognition that we all know more than what we have read, heard or studied. We know more because we are a part of the All and we have a direct link to the universal wisdom. We just need to learn and to remember how to access this link and this we can do, if we quiet our mind and look within, listen, discern and most of all if we trust. We need to learn to develop more trust in our own deepest intuition and wisdom as the final arbiter and source of our decisions. Faith being a vibration of the highest frequency will always prevail. Doubt never succeeds but faith always does. Faith is the feeling of light. It does not take faith it takes application. If you have faith, which is the feeling of light, it will act more rapidly but if you make your application, the law is compelled to act for you. Faith is the presentiment of knowledge. Like a motive force, faith intensifies the energy. Despair is the death of faith. When faith is knowledge then despair is the death of knowledge. So no matter what religion you belong to or what belief you have, focus on the energy of faith. Always have faith in yourself, have faith in Higher Powers, have faith in others, have faith that all will be well, no matter what. Obstacles, problems, accidents and ill health are all a part of life, and we all have our share of that, no one is spared. Go through your experiences with faith in your heart, it makes life much easier. There is as much good out there as there is evil, ignore the evil and focus on the good. Contribute to the good with your thoughts and with your deeds, for that is what is most needed right now as we, as a human family, move forward in these turbulent times to higher dimensions of being.

by : margo

World Residential Countertops Market

2010-01-24T06:23:00.000-08:00

Worldwide demand for countertops is projected to increase 3.3 percent annually to 341 million square meters in 2013. Advances will be aided by the recovery of new housing construction in the US and much of Western Europe from low 2008 bases. Additionally, countries such as Brazil, China and India have been building large volumes of modern housing units each year to accommodate the needs of their growing populations. The types of materials used in countertops vary on a local and regional basis, generally depending on factors such as the relative wealth of local consumers and their style preferences, as well as the availability of local materials. In 2008, laminates accounted for more than onequarter of global countertop sales, followed by solid surface and natural stone, each with roughly one-fifth of demand. Engineered stone is expected to achieve the most rapid gains, albeit from a very small base. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=129886&rt=World-Residential-Countertops.html )

Growth in China, India to fuel gains in Asia/Pacific region
The Asia/Pacific region, the largest market, accounted for 43 percent of global countertop sales in 2008. Advances in this region are primarily driven by China, which itself accounted for nearly half of the region’s countertop sales in 2008. Gains stem from the country’s ongoing shift toward urbanization and the development of a more modern housing stock. The expanding size of the Chinese housing stock, the ongoing privatization of home ownership, better living standards and rising income levels will boost remodeling sales. India is expected to post somewhat stronger gains through the forecast period as it develops additional and more modern housing to accommodate its population’s needs. However, gains, particularly in many of the least developed countries of the world, will be limited by the small size of homes, and the high cost of countertops relative to alternatives such as pedestal sinks and free-standing tables.

North America was the second largest market in 2008, accounting for 19 percent of global sales. Advances in this market are expected to be aided by the recovery of the US new housing market from a depressed 2008 base. Continuing consumer preferences for spacious kitchens and multiple bathrooms will also boost countertop sales. Canada’s countertop market is much smaller than that of the US, but is similar in terms of housing styles and preferences of countertop materials.

Similar to the US, growth in Western Europe will benefit from the projected recovery in new housing units built over the forecast period, from a low 2008 base. Countertop demand in Western Europe will be aided by the relative affluence of these countries, allowing residents to build more spacious homes that accommodate larger countertops and to remodel the countertops more often.

Remodeling, new home markets to exhibit similar growth
In 2008, the remodeling market accounted for the largest share of countertop sales, benefitting from the much larger size of the global housing stock and the ongoing trend of upgrading from freestanding kitchen furniture to conventional countertops and cabinetry. Although it is smaller, the new construction
market is expected to post similar gains over the forecast period. Advances will be aided by the increasing average size of new homes in much of the world, coupled with a rising inclination toward the installation of at least basic kitchen countertops
in new housing units.

Buy Cheap Video Games And Sell Them Online

2010-01-24T06:21:00.000-08:00

You can buy cheap video games
from wholesale suppliers and sell them on your own ready to go website that will act as your online video game store.It is simple and easy to get started all you need is to sign up for your e-book and membership that will give you step by step instructions on howto start and maintain your online game store from beginning to end.

And once your done setting it up you just have to work a couple of minutes a day to keep it running and earning you money even while you sleep.If you want to see actual proof of how this is a legit business idea and that you can work at home selling video games all day check out Buy Cheap Video Games HQ.

You will gain instant access to an online treasure chest of video game products you can sale online with out ever having to personally touch.All the payments and shipping are set up to handle themselves automatically.You simply just have to check a couple things every day for a couple minutes and then you can go back to doing whatever you want.

You can have the total freedom of working at home
and earning an honest paycheck buying cheap games and selling them back to people at an increased percentage and than what the wholesale price was.

So if you want an instant turnkey business in a billion dollar industry then check out Buy Cheap Video Games HQ.You will get one on one help so you are guaranteed to sell video games and actually make a profit.

3 Things You Should Know Before Starting an Online Business or a Small Business

2010-01-24T06:16:00.000-08:00

The best definition of a small business is one that is small in terms of number of employees, overheads and typically sales volume and annual profit. These types of businesses will include small boutiques and shops, usually run and managed by one or two persons;or a single professional like your barber, grocer or vet. Therefore because of their nature, they are usually privately owned with few investors if any.

Online business is fast replacing the traditional small business. It is internet based and allows for more flexibility and freedoms as well as a higher profit potentials.
1. There are many Advantages to owning and running an Online Business or Small Business, these include but are not limited to:

* A low cost start up
* Flexibility based on the type of business chosen, that is, part-time or full time
* Often specialized and have less competition
* A close relationship with their customers
* The value to the customer is more because their customer’s happiness is typically the survival of business
* Fewer constraints in terms of decision making; the number of people involved in the running of the business and changing to adapt to the market.
* As well as being suited to internet marketing
* A lack of capital to see the venture through to profitability
* A lack of resources and correct application of those resources
* Entrepreneurs tend to work longer hours initially because their business is their success; they are concerned about their service and the customer experience as they well should be.
* Marketing: finding and using the appropriate marketing tools for their business to prosper.

2. Starting any Business is not without challenges; these may include but are not limited to:

* A lack of capital to see the venture through to profitability
* A lack of resources and correct application of those resources
* Entrepreneurs tend to work longer hours initially because their business is their success; they are concerned about their service and the customer experience as they well should be.
* Marketing: finding and using the appropriate marketing tools for their business to prosper.

3. Marketing is the Way to Grow any Business.

Marketing is the hinge that opens the door to profits. Many businesses rely heavily on the experience of their customers to ‘spread the word’ about their service. That is not to say that many business owners do not utilize directories (online and offline); media advertising: visual and audio; and in recent years internet marketing: e-mails, online classifieds, and the like; a few will even use PPC (pay per click) advertising.

Some of these marketing methods can be too expensive for the small business owner or the new online business entrepreneur, as well as time consuming which usually is also a cost that is not affordable.

More and more entrepreneurs recognize that their businesses will survive economic turmoil if correctly positioned.

The recession has closed many small and large businesses down but, those that are able to ride out the storm will do better than they have ever done with the right skills applied to their business.

Internet marketing gives the small business owner a wider reach and once delivery systems are in place, this can be one of the most effective types of marketing

Learn to Market your Business in a variety of ways and open a door to the world of Successful Online Business and Profitable Small Business.

by : Warren Greenidge

Out with the Old. How to Make Way for a Brand New Year!

2010-01-24T06:14:00.000-08:00

Please don't tell me you haven't done anything yet to set the tone for next year! How's that working for you?Are you just hoping to make it through to the end of this year so you can make your New Year's resolutions? Many folks are, you know. Or do you have something more intentional in mind to clear out the old and make way for the new?

The end of December is here. For many of us, it's been a mad dash, beginning with Thanksgiving and continuing on through Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and the New Year with an increase in activity, family events, and business functions.

Let's face it. It's been exhausting!

With the New Year fast approaching, it's time to say, "Out with the old. In with the new!" It's time to find a place of peace and quiet amidst the hustle and bustle where you can reflect on 2009 and make way for what you want to attract for yourself in 2010.

Here's a fun exercise you can do this month.

In the spirit of preparing for a fantastic new year, set aside 15 to 20 minutes to be alone in a quiet, serene environment. Curl up in your favorite lounge chair or place on the couch. Make yourself a warm cup of tea or hot cocoa. Then settle in for some precious "you time" to clear out the old and make way for the new.

Three Steps for a Bright New Year

Step One: On a piece of paper, write the following three lists:

1. Top 10 Thing I Found Challenging this Year

What tested you the most? What did you find most taxing? What were your biggest problems, most difficult tasks, and major trials?

2. Top 10 Things I Gained this Year

What did you acquire or achieve? What attributes did you grow into? What big things did you win, reap, or land?

3. Top 10 Things I'm Open to Experiencing in 2010

What new experiences are you open to? What are you willing to have more of, be connected to, or participate in?

Step Two: Read over these lists and reflect on them for 5 to 10 minutes until you clearly feel that your past year is finished and that your intentions for the up and coming year have already been accomplished.

Step Three: Burn all three lists. As you watch them burn, affirm to yourself, "And so it is done."

Don't wait for January 1st to make your New Year's resolutions. Now, as December winds down, it is a good time to begin thinking about what you want to usher in for yourself and your business in 2010. Enjoy and have fun with this helpful "Three Steps to a Bright New Year" exercise. Then, on New Year's Eve, you'll be ready to exclaim, "Out with the old. In with the new!"

If You Want a Team of Leaders You Must Become One First

2010-01-24T06:09:00.000-08:00

John Maxwell, a top author on leadership, wrote "The number one motivational principle in the world is: people do what people see." So if you want a leaders on your team you must become one first.Many people believe that leaders are not made they are born. While it's true that some people seem to be born with leadership traits, it's more common for leadership skills and abilities to be developed. Research Abraham Lincoln's life and you will find a good example of that.

But where do you start? Great leaders are generally great communicators. This doesn't necessarily mean that they are great orators though. To be a good communicator you must first be a good listener.

There is not one person who does not appreciate a leader who will take the time to listen to what they have to sy. It's very motivational when someone gives you that respect and that respect is usually reciprocated. Great leadership starts here.

Great leaders take responsibility and hold others accountable. Any kind of team thrives when they know the "buck stops at the leader" and that the leader will insist the team members meet the set standards.

The best way to develop future leaders is to hold them accountable for their actions and to not accept any less than what's expected. Of course as the leader you have to hold yourself to the same expectations. For example, it's hard to expect others to be on time for meetings if you're not.

The best leaders get people involved in what is going on and then empower them to play a role in problem solving and becoming successful. When you show confidence in your team by seeking their contribution you build a sense of pride that enables you to reach the shared goals quicker.

In the book The One Minute Manager, the number one motivator of people is "Feedback on results. It's what keeps us going." Great leaders understand this and make sure that the team is always aware of where they stand.

When goals are set, a plan that includes a time frame to achieve it is put in place. When you give your team consistent updates on how they're doing you're giving the necessary information to keep them on target.

It wouldn't be fair to notify an employee at the end of the year that he didn't receive his bonus if he was never given any progress reports long the way. Great leaders communicate and give their team members opportunities for success.

They also give them opportunities to fail. Leaders understand the importance of that. This is how we learn best. They're there to help pick them and dust them off, too.

By : Steve Lauri

Give Your Services First

2010-01-24T06:06:00.000-08:00

Nature is a perfect balance. (There are no manipulations or hidden interests.) To go along smoothly with this perfect scheme, all we have to do is, 'honor some basic laws'.

One such law is-

"Give your best services first..."We all work. Even millionaires and celebrities do work. Work is spending /using your energies available. When we spend our energies, the environment sends us something back to keep the balance- it may not be necessarily a salary check or money credited in your bank account. It may be some message, an opportunity or a surprise gift, if we care to realize this.

But our parents (or whosoever brought you up) have taught us the opposite way-

'Ensure/calculate first what you get will in return of your services. Then offer your services commensurate to this 'return amount'.

The idea is fine from the limited financial prospective of maximizing profit. But life is much more than mere finance. Moreover, this message was given to us as training in childhood by people who were worried and concerned about our protection.

When we grow up, we have to learn the bitter & better facts of life. But some of us refuse to grow. This is because some of the myths they carry from their childhood as realities. Some of such myths are analyzed here-

Myth 1- You should receive first to give something in exchange- The facts of life are just opposite. Businessman invests first and the profit comes much after as a consequence of services provided. A salaried person works first and the pay check comes much after as a consequence of work. So the rule of life is 'give first and you will receive something back as a consequence of your services provided'.

Myth 2- My resources will dry up if I only believe in giving first- As far as your services are concerned, your resources are your capability of work. And this will only finish with your life. In fact this resource gets refined every time you do some work /provide service. You become more expert of that work.

Myth 3 - Work only when profit is guaranteed - The fact of life is that there is no universal formula which can calculate profit with 100% guarantee in all circumstances. There are uncertainties in life and you have to take some risk anyway. So an assessment of profit is only one part of decision making, it should not become the sole criterion to decide. Future is unknown and every thing can not be pre- decided even after advancements of technology. So focus on 'quality of work' rather than 'quantity of profit'.

Myth 4 - My value will reduce, if I provide service first without a payment tag attached to it- You can only offer some value tag for your products/services in a market. If the offer is accepted by the customer, then only the value becomes a reality. Your value is decided by others -your customers in a market situation. You have very limited control over deciding your value. It is based on the judgment of others. Give them more opportunity to judge by offering best of your services.

So why not give it a try-

'Give your best service first every time... And see the difference.'

By Deepak Dixit

3 Keys Motivated People Have So They Can Do Great Things While Others Watch in Awe

2010-01-24T06:04:00.000-08:00

The difference between motivated people and high achievers and average people who look on and wonder what they are doing comes down to three simple things. While it is easy to list the three things that set high achievers apart and the average person, it is a lot harder to apply them.But I promise you, if you set some goals and apply what I teach here, you too can become a motivated person that people look at and say, "How did he achieve that?

Key 1 Motivated people have a lot of Discipline

No one ever written a best selling 400 page book of fiction without discipline. Whatever you like to say about the best selling author, one thing is clear, he wrote 10 pages a day for 40 days and spent the next year editing the book about ten times and found a good publisher.

You don't become a published author by a major publisher without good discipline. Sure you may have written a 400 page novel and you may think yours it better than most you have read, but if you have not sent it to 200 publishers trying to have it picked out, your lack of discipline may be what separates you from the one you despise.

You cannot write 500 articles on EzineArticles without attention to detail and the weekly sitting down and writing them according to the very strict rules. If you think it is easy to have an article published online here, try it for yourself and find out. if you think you can do a better job then a top author on here, by all means join us. You are welcome. If you think you can become the top author who has written the most articles in any section, good luck to you as you would have to write double the top author for a long time to catch up to him and take over.

There are very few self made men and woman that don't have discipline.

Key 2 Motivated people have Staying Power

It is easy to play football or any sport for one season. It is harder to play long enough to get the skill to be picked into the A grade and play on TV and earn good money. Harder still, to play at the top of your game as you get older an older.

Any great boxer can get into the ring with the world champion. Only a person with a very strong mind can stay for 15 rounds in a boxing match. They say 20% of boxing is in the mind and 80% is fitness. However when all the training has been done and you are in the fight, it is 20% training and 80% of the power of your mind that wins a fight.

This means if you are good enough to fight the world champion you have to be equal in the mind with the top fighter you face. If you can stay in the fight no matter what he throws at you, you have chance of staying and beating with him.

Anyone can claim to be success in the good times, but quit when hard times come. Its the ability to press on and keep on going forward when all hell is coming against you, its sheer staying power when the odds are stacked against you, that makes you stand out from the rest..

A prophecy of God spoke of my always giving and not getting back that I received today. It is in italics below:

"Matt, I see a heart and enclosed in the heart is human beings and this heart belongs to you. For your heart is big, my son says the Lord. You always gave but not always received says the Lord. My child I shall open doors and many shall see the compassion in your heart says the Lord. For truly your heart is in the right place says the Lord. I shall begin to remove every thorn and thought that exalts itself says the Lord. I see the word, sulfur. Some times at night darkness tried to suffocate you, and it was the smell of sulfur says the Lord. I decree peace, sanity, love, abundance by the command of Jesus."

You have to be able to stay in the race no matter how hard it gets.

Key 3 Motivated people have a Reason to go on

If things get tough and all sorts of opposition comes against you and it seems like you would be a fool to go on, you have to have a bigger reason to keep going than what the circumstances are coming against you. Success is not down to how you feel or how easy it is to advance. Success is pressing on despite the opposition and to do that you have to have a good reason to go on.

I almost gave up writing articles so I took six weeks off and recorded some videos. Now I have two more websites that I want to launch and so I want to write about 300 articles to link to the new websites. I have found my reason to go on, and so when I am finished them I should have about 900 articles published.

If you are almost quitting, search out the reason you started what you are doing. Go back the the reason you started and find the reason to go on again. Have a good think, what can you change, what can you do different, find the reason you need to go on, then get committed again and press on.

I hope this has helped you.

Of course I have many mockers who don't think I have done anything special and yet they are jealous of my success. I have heard from other people that my mockers are proud of all that I have done,but just haven't told me that they are. If you want to stand out and have some success, get some discipline, some staying power, and have a reason to go on.

By Matthew Robert Payne

To Motivate Or to Inspire - That is the Question

2010-01-24T06:02:00.000-08:00

In today's uncertain economy many businesses and organizations are facing change as they have never known. Change is always intimidating, but to some, it can cause discouragement, disinterest, depression and even complete apathy.For an organization facing these problems among their employees, a simple remedy can often be found through a motivational speaker who can breathe that essential spark of life back into employees, managers and in fact, the total business.

And now comes the question. Do you search out a speaker who can motivate your employees or a speaker who can inspire them, and is there a difference? Many would agree that the two are one and the same, but still others remain steadfast in their beliefs that there is a marked difference in the two.

Let's start first with definitions. The dictionary defines to motivate as, "to provide with a motive or motives; incite; impel" and to inspire as, "to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence."

So do we want a leadership speaker to motivate or inspire? A simple analogy may help us understand the difference. If you have an old clunker that you've ignored, chances are it will often fail to start when you want to go somewhere. Sure, you can get it to go by pushing it down the driveway, but the next time you go to start it, you will likely need to give it that same push. On the other hand, if you had kept it well maintained, it would more than likely start up right away for you every time.

The same is very similar when motivating or inspiring people. If they have been motivated, they will be eager to move forward....for a while. But eventually the momentum will slow and you will need to "push" them to get them going again, and if you stop pushing chances are they will stop altogether.

A person who has been inspired, on the other hand, is like the old clunker that has been well maintained. An inspired person sees the vision and understands the expectations and as a result has a desire to keep going and working until the desired goals have been reached. Rather than needing that little push every so often, they are self-propelled to complete the task.

Another example might be the person who attends a sales promotion meeting, gets all fired up at the time, buys the kit and materials, and then a few days later loses interest in the whole idea. This person was obviously motivated but definitely not inspired!

It would appear then, that the fundamental difference between motivating someone and inspiring them is found in the long term effect. Motivation seems to be a fleeting thing where inspiration is more long lasting. True inspiration can actually last a lifetime. Most of us can remember way back in our lives a time when a teacher, relative or parent so inspired us that it changed our way of doing things forever. True inspiration then, provides a lasting motivation that comes from within, bringing with it the determination to wake up every day and take action towards our goals.

By John Hersey

Believe in Yourself to Accomplish Anything - Motivation in Yourself

2010-01-24T06:00:00.000-08:00

When we want to accomplish a goal in life there is always something that stop us, it can be an accident, money or even self belief. As humans we have a nature of doubting ourselves in believing that we can accomplish a lot.As long as there is a curiosity in our hearts we are always going to struggle to accomplish everything in our dream. I always believe that if your can dream it can be done.

All the time you need to start believing in yourself and talent will start to develop in areas you never thought your talent could take you. People that believe in themselves have high paying jobs, have businesses that strive and perform better than anyone around them. Did you know that only 10 percent of all people really strive to believe they can perform better than the rest of the 90 percent? These are the people you need to look at and be around. When you surround yourself around successful people you start to think successfully. When you start thinking successfully, you start to believe in success and finally when you focus on success it will come over and over. Simply by believing you're a success.

When you start to believe in yourself you can reach a new potential. You start to develop an understanding of better focus, believe and determination in yourself esteem. This makes your stand out of a crowd and shine like you never had before. Simply when you get transformed in the state of focus you tend to find nothing is impossible. The personal breakthrough begins with your beliefs, which lie in yourself.

Lead with integrity; know that people are always going to doubt you. Knowing that life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Changes of one's own believe in the inner you. By changing you are accepting the fact you are a better thinker, speaker and action taker. Believing is way you are expecting to do good and taking action is the most effective way to motivate yourself to accomplish success in everything you do. Take challenges every time, a challenge is just a mere jump in the road of life. Defeat it by simply using your talent and believing in yourself that you are bigger and stronger than the challenge itself.

Take your actions and turn them into efforts towards your dreams in making them a reality. The actions you place in motions are the determine results you are going to get. You must take the first steps in becoming successful and that is to launching your actions to get the job done. You need to have the expectations and your will believe that you can accomplish the goals you are setting yourself. To better explain myself, if you want a promotion at work, you must first believe that it can happen. Second, speak to your superior about it, and set your words and believes into actions. Nothing comes free, it's all hard work.

Discover how to make 6 figures online. I've set myself a New Years resolution. My New Years resolution was to quit making excuses and actually do something about my life. And this time I didn't just forget about my resolution like every year prior...

By Johnny Q

Why New Years' Resolutions Aren't Enough Or, "Why Years-in-Review Can Really Suck"

2010-01-24T05:57:00.000-08:00

It happens every year: we get caught up in a Year-In-Review, which becomes a "Year-In-Regrets" - squash that tradition and raise your glass to a real plan. This time, rediscover yourself and re-invent it.Don't remain status quo, let this be the year you spread your wings.

Maybe this isn't you, but it's been my pattern for years. Why? My upbringing, culture, family and friends all did it. We'd go to school after the break and ask each other what we were going to do differently. The first part of every year was spent reviewing, Jumbo-Tron style, how we performed or failed, emphasis on the latter. We'd discuss what classes we were bombing, what friends we were letting down...who was building us up, who we wanted to meet after school at the bus stop for some "school of hard knocks" lessons, so to speak. (Personally, I was too busy running from all that violent drama.)

This year's a bit different. My Year-In-Review isn't going to be spent on the 1,001 reasons life seems like a lemon orchard or rotten egg farm. Been there, done that, folks. A quick Year-In-Review for me: reaching drop-dead bottom of the barrel. Do I want to spend Spring mulling that over? Are you kidding me? No, I'm spending my time on the bounce back up from the bottom, which brings me to your life.

What should you do with your Year-In-Review, if your last year tanked?

1. Re-Prioritize Your Focus
2. Re-Focus on What You Can Change: Y-O-U
3. Change One Thing at a Time

1. Re-Prioritize Your Focus

Focus on the silver lining, not the rusty, crummy moth-riddled bad news. If you want bad news, turn on the radio to a talk radio spot on the AM dial, or turn on the talking heads in cable news. Use that to kick-start your own downward spiral...

...OR just tune that off for a moment to get really focused on what you can change in your own life. You can't stop the big banks from turning all Mr. Potter on you, even if you are George Bailey. What you can do is market your own skills or spend your spare moments trying to get skills to market.

Case in point: you're reading this article, right? Re-prioritize your focus, and get real with what turns your head and eats up your time. It should be worth your while (debating politics...hmm. Not sure that fits, imho.)

2. Re-Focus on What You Can Change: Y-O-U
You can't change the economy. Not if you have time to read this article, anyway. You can't change the government, not until elections, really. You can't change that your company just laid you off, that the dog ran away, that the car just broke down, etc. Stop worrying about what you can't change, and focus on the one thing you can change: Y-O-U and your attitude, your income, your decisions. If you don't like the tracks your train's on, then either flip the track switch or buy another ticket. Whatever that takes.

Case in point: as you read this, I am probably working 75 hours or so a week on a slow week. The majority of my hours is spent making money online as a freelancer or web publisher, the other time in the family business, and a wee little bit of scraps are left over for what I think really matters: my family. That is not my goal lifestyle, but I'm working hard to make that happen for my family. Life can give me lemons for the time being, it's OK, so long as I'm focused on the destination.

3. Change One Thing at a Time
Alright, you may have 10 character and life changes you want to make right now, or that you wanted to happen yesterday or last week. The answer is not to change it all at once. Take your biggest, baddest problem, the one that robs you of sleep knowing it's looming over you.

Start with a goal in mind - a solution you'd love to see. Make it realistic.
Take your end-game and ask yourself, given a certain timeframe of "x" months, how you can progress to that goal.
Give it all you've got.

When that one's down the tubes of history, take aim at the next one. Be ready, though, because when life plays ball, you'll get some curves thrown in for good measure. Life doesn't play by our rule book, by our schedule, so be ready to handle it when it does come. In other words, you're going to face several problems at once, many times, but the point is you don't want to be the one deciding that, "Oh, I think I'll lose 30#, gain $15k in income, repair my marriage AND buy a new house. Today."

Set yourself up to win this thing, and don't let the Year-In-Review bah-humbug's get you down!

By James M Hussey

Change What You Can - Forget the Year-In-Review and Write Next Year's Plan Instead

2010-01-24T05:53:00.000-08:00

It's funny how the Year-In-Review process can quickly lead to an excuse to kick ourselves in the rear, or kick others in their rears. You probably don't spend enough time trying to change what you can, so the Y-I-R processcan be an excuse to call all the bad plays we've done and put them on display in our personal Jumbo-Tron.

Mind you, there's a time and place where we should examine where we've been, what we've done and what we haven't... but there's no good reason on the planet why we ought to park it in morbid introspection. If hindsight is 20/20, why do we spend so little time looking forward, armed with what we have "learned" from the past, instead of barking more and wagging less? Forget the Year-in-Review spiel, which can quickly become the time to count the potholes in the road behind us. Look ahead to where you're going!

Here's a bit of a distilled plan to change what you can. Boil it down to:

1. Where have you been?
2. What would you like to change?
3. Plan it out, and don't come back this way again.

Let's take that a step at a time.

1. Where have you been?
Alright, this is the good use of the Year-In-Review. It's a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say, to review where you've been, what you've been doing, and evaluate what's working and what's not (thank you, Dr. Phil). Put these into a list of "assets" and "liabilities," or "pro's" and "con's," or whatever it is you want to call them. It's important to write this list down. Put it into a Google Documents, or whatever you use. I hear legal pads still work fine, too!

2. What would you like to change?
Narrow down your laundry list of things you would like to change. It may sound obvious, but make sure these are attributes and conditions that you actually have the power to change. Don't get stuck making a list of things like, "I'd like to fire every incumbent in every level of government..." It's also not helpful to make the goal so insurmountable that you won't get there until Haley's Comet returns. Focus on yourself, and not other people. You can't change the world, just you.

3. Plan it out, and don't come back this way again.
Make a plan. If it's to get out of debt, then this may mean you talk to a financial adviser or get plenty of resources to help you do this right. What can you do to change what you can? Start with the goals in mind, and don't try to change everything at once--prioritize! Divide and conquer.

Then commit to the premise that you won't come back this road again. If your goal is to lose weight, stop buying Ben & Jerry's... for a season... I mean, that stuff's REALLY good. Seriously, commit to the change and you won't have another Year-in-Review that sucks. Change what you can and keep improving yourself. It really can be done.

By James M Hussey

A True Mission Statement For Life - Has Yours Vanished?

2010-01-24T05:50:00.000-08:00

What is your ultimate true mission statement for life? Have you ever sat down and pondered at the question for a little bit. With so many people having droned lives day in and day out a mission statement for life is out of the question.But is it? Is this truly what there is all to offer? Has your life gotten so far out of control and chaotic that your mission statement for life has vanished.

What if you could regain that opportunity and live the life you thought possible but could not because of so many turning points took you elsewhere. Well what if I could help you regain it. What if I said your real mission is just around the corner! Would you still want it after all these years?

Well Its true I work with a company that is allowing people to start realizing that their dreams and true mission statements are not lost forever. They are now attainable more than ever before. Stop being held down by society and reclaim your life. Whether it is that job you are dreading or that boss you hate and you loved art and having kids took that dream away.

Start realizing your life has meaning and purpose and regain the mission you used to be on. Find at how starting a business where leaders are making dreams come true very possible. Like I said I work with people everyday showing them with the company I work for that true freedom is not just a dream but a reality. My mission statement was lost before and when I got hurt at work it led me to find and reclaim what was once mine as well.

Jason Bronson is a International Marketing consultant and Online Entrepreneur. Jason specializes in teaching individuals and families with making a incredible income from Home.

By Jason Bronson

Rich Mind Rich Man, Poor Mind Poor Man

2010-01-24T05:48:00.000-08:00

"Finally brethren,... whatsoever things are true,... honest,... just,... pure,... lovely,... of good report,... think on these things." Philippians 4:8.The real difference between the rich and the poor is their MINDS. Your mental and emotional disposition affects all facets of your life including your health, wealth and happiness. A positive mental attitude goes a long way in helping you reach great financial altitudes. This is because a positive mental approach to life frees your mind from destructive negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, anger, regret, self-pity, revenge, hatred, envy, and greed.

Whenever you entertain any of these negative emotions, you waste a lot of mental and emotional energy which is better channelled towards the attainment of worthy and desirable goals. Negative thoughts and emotions must not be allowed any space, no matter how small, in your mind. For speedy progress on the path to wealth and success, your thoughts, your feelings, your words, your actions and reactions must all be positive, always.

Positive mental attitude suffuses your consciousness with positive emotions such as love, peace, harmony, happiness, gratitude, prosperity and positive expectation. When positive mental attitude becomes your way of life, you easily and naturally exude a genuinely infectious self-confidence, with a warm and pleasing personality that makes being with you a desirable experience. And when influential people desire your company, the doors of opportunity become wide open for you.

When you live in positive mental attitude, you naturally develop that positive approach to life that successful people are known for: you think positive, dress positive, talk positive, and act positive. You walk tall, chest out and face up. You live in perpetual positive expectancy and you achieve great results.

Instead of dwelling on thoughts of lack and poverty, fill your mind with thoughts of abundance and prosperity. Instead of sickness and poor health, think wholeness and vitality. Instead of defeat and failure, think success and accomplishment. Instead of impossibility, think possibility.

Begin right now to live in positive mental attitude. Instead of being pessimistic, be optimistic and confident. Instead of worry and uncertainty, fill your mind with hope and positive expectations. Replace the emotion of fear and the mentality of self-doubt with a burning desire and absolute faith in your ability to succeed.

A basic difference between the rich and the poor, between the successful and the unsuccessful, between the lucky and the unlucky, is their mindset or mental attitude. Our mental attitude determines how we react to situations and opportunities that come our way. Generally, the rich habitually manifest rich mental attitude while the poor habitually manifest poor mental attitude, even though most of the time, unconsciously.

To illustrate, imagine two human Minds. A rich Mind and a poor Mind. Both standing side by side on the roadside as a glittering brand new car zooms past. They both gaze at the car in admiration and watch it disappear round the bend corner.

The poor Mind depressingly shrugs his shoulders, shakes his head from side to side and whispers to himself: "I can't have that", "I can't afford that", "Such is not for me". His poor mindset and line of thought automatically foreclose any search for options and possibilities from within; effectively shutting down the mental, spiritual and emotional capabilities of his Mind to generate solutions to his desires, problems and needs.

On the other hand, the rich Mind gets positively excited, moves his head up and down, and thoughtfully whispers to himself: "I'll certainly go for that!" "How can I afford that?" "How can I achieve that?" His rich mindset and possibility attitude automatically stimulate and activate the mental processes required to generate ideas and examine possibilities for achieving his goals; thus effectively mobilising all his mental, spiritual and emotional energies towards the successful realization of set goals, targets and objectives.

With that background illustration, let us now take a quick tour to explore the differences between the workings of the rich Mind and the workings of the poor Mind.

The rich mind thinks possibilities. The poor mind thinks impossibilities.

The rich mind asks, "How can it be done?" The poor mind believes, "It can't be done."

The rich mind asks, "How can I get that?" The poor mind intones, "You can't have that!"

The rich mind asks, "What do I have that I can use?" The poor mind declares, "I don't have what it takes!"

The rich mind sees the beautiful rose flowers amongst the thorns. The poor mind sees dangerous rose thorns amongst the flowers.

The rich mind looks out from the prison window and sees the stars. The poor mind looks out from the prison window and sees the mud.

The rich mind sees opportunities everywhere and goes after them. The poor mind sees risks everywhere and runs away from them.

The poor mind sees Goliath and thinks: He's so big I can't kill him. The rich mind sees Goliath and thinks: He's so big I can't miss him!

What the poor mind sees as an obstacle, The rich mind sees as a stepping-stone.

The rich mind sees half glass of water as half full, and is joyful. The poor mind sees half glass of water as half empty, and is sad.

Rich minds make the best out of the way things turn out. Poor minds make excuses out of the way things turn out.

Rich minds give results. Poor minds give reasons.

The rich mind thinks prosperity and abundance. The poor mind thinks lack and limitations.

The rich mind gives freely with confidence, fully aware of his eternal link to unlimited supply. The poor mind gives hesitantly, lest he be left with less than enough for himself.

Rich minds know life is fun and must be lived to the fullest. Poor minds believe life is hard and full of difficulties.

Poor minds think poverty is a virtue! Rich minds know poverty is a curse!

Rich minds passionately WANT money, and do something about it. Poor minds only WISH they had money, but do nothing about it.

Rich minds have purpose. Poor minds have wishes.

Poor minds revere money, and make it their master. Rich minds value money, but make it their slave.

Poor minds work for money. Rich minds send money to work.

Poor minds wait to get lucky. Rich minds work to get lucky.

While rich minds focus on creating additional sources of income to meet their growing needs and wants, poor minds focus on surviving through continual self-denial and cutting back on their needs and wants.

In conclusion, there is a positive and a negative perspective to every situation in life. When faced with exactly the same situation, some of us see more of the positive side while some of us see more of the negative side. Some of us are generally optimistic about life while some are generally pessimistic about life. This is because of our predominant mental attitude: Rich Mind or Poor Mind. And that determines our actions and reactions.

What we perceive of any situation is a function of our mindset or attitude to life and living, which has been developed over the long period since childhood. It is an inside thing. Our outer world is only a reflection of our inner world.

So, what is your mental attitude? What colour is your mindset? Is it positive or negative, optimistic or pessimistic, rich or poor? Whatever it is, just know that Your Mind is your World, and you can take control of it right now, to create a new earthly destiny of your choice!

A positive mental attitude is a powerful habit-force that propels you towards your goals in life. By the law of mental causation in action, you must attract into your life the ideas, people, and resources necessary to bring to fruition your most dominant thoughts, whether they be good or bad, positive or negative, rich or poor.

You must therefore cultivate positive thought patterns that produce desirable results in your life experiences. You can achieve this by developing a positive mental attitude. Never allow any negative emotions such as fear, anger, anxiety, lack, greed, hatred, jealousy and revenge to occupy any space in your mind.

The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your Life! Your mental attitude determines your earthly experience. Yes, your attitude determines your altitude. Rich thoughts, rich Life: poor thoughts, poor Life.

As you live your life in positive mental attitude, as you habitually project rich and positive thought-forms into the universe, you inevitably attract similar thought currents back to yourself; and you now see your world from an exciting new perspective that puts you firmly in control on the path to a happier, healthier and richer you.

By Jay Onwukwe

New Year's Resolutions For 2010 - Top Tips For Success

2010-01-24T05:46:00.000-08:00

If you want to be one of the 10% of people who stick to their resolutions - then read on!

1) Make only one resolution

The chances of success are much better when you channel your energy into changing just one aspect of your behaviour2) Visualise

Sit down, relax, and really Imagine what it would like to achieve your goal. Go into detail - how would it feel? What would you look like? How would your life be?

3) Make a list of benefits

Write down everything you've visualised - go into as much detail as possible about the impact achieving this goal would have on your life. It will help to keep you motivated - and you can keep adding as time goes on, and refer to it whenever you need to.

4) Keep the resolution SMART

(Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time based) - and write it down! Rather than just making a vague statement like "I want to lose weight" set yourself a target weight, and a timescale to reach it in - say three months - and put it in a diary

5) Work backwards

Once you have the goal written in a diary, work backwards from that date, setting mini goals along the way (say a pound a week) - that way the end goal won't seem so daunting

6) Track your progress

Keep a track of each of mini goal - they are easier to keep and each small achievement along the way will help keep you motivated

7) Reward yourself

And this doesn't mean with food if you're trying to lose weight! For each mini goal why not reward yourself with some new make-up or treatment.

8) Go public

Tell your friends, families and colleagues and ask them for their support - especially when you feel your resolve weakening! The ideal would also be to buddy up with someone who shares your resolution - and to be there to motivate each other.

9) Be persistent

Research shows it takes around 21 days for a new activity, such as exercise to become a habit, and 6 months for it to become part of your personality. So stay with the bigger picture that is your goal - and give yourself a break if you slip up along the way - you're only human!.

10) Ask for help

If all of this is a lot to take on and you feel you would benefit from some help - why make it hard on yourself? Ask for help! If that means taking on a personal trainer, coach, or buddying up with a friend for a few months - then do it. Make it easy!

Sue Belton (CPCC, ACC) is a Certified Life Coach based in London, and coaches clients internationally. Her passion is to help people achieve clarity, focus, and motivation - to live the life they really want.

Sue recently featured on BBC1's The One Show talking about how to effectively make and keep New Year's Resolutions. Sue helps people make permanent changes in their lives.

By Sue Belton

Infinite Life Success Secrets

2010-01-24T05:43:00.000-08:00

I believe that this life is Infinite. I don't mean our life span; we are finite beings, at least physically. What I mean is that our lives are Infinite in their possibilities and the link we have to the Infinite SourceOh no! Not religion!

No, I am not talking religion. What I am talking about is that there is something out there that many do call God, some call the Universe, some call the Cosmos, and still others claim it to be the Inner Self. My purpose here is not to teach religion, but to say that there is more to this life than just our five senses can experience.

Our life is immeasurably greater than we imagine. That being the case, there is much more that we can do for the betterment of each other and ourselves. We can become much more successful if we believe we can be.

Ah, now we get to the success secrets!

Well, not really. The problem today is that everyone wants to sell you their secret on how to get rich, how to get the relationship you want, how to get the house you want, whatever it might be that you want. I said the problem because most of the secrets have been known for thousands of years and so they are no real secrets at all!

I know someone who is very popular right now who will teach you their secret to letting go of harmful thoughts and emotions through a meditative practice. I learned the same basic technique years ago when training to teach yoga. It was the same sort of technique taught by a guy named Patanjali some thousands of years ago. He probably got it from somebody else!

So if there aren't any secrets, what am I supposed to do?

Have faith! Have faith in the Infinite, whatever you believe that to be. Have faith in yourself that you can achieve the object of your desire. Have faith that it will come to reality.

Plan how you expect to accomplish it! Make plans as to how you might get what you want into your life. You plans may be all wrong at first, but without some sort of plan, you will never get anywhere. Don't worry if they are perfect. Let the Infinite help you to perfect them!

Do something! There is no free lunch! There is lunch that is extremely cheap and comes with little effort on your part, but there is no free lunch and it always costs someone. Expect to work for what you want and do so in such a way that you harm no one else. Work with others and try to make sure everyone wins.

Think positively. Each day of your life will have its ups and downs. Take each situation, each occurrence and think about it in such a way that the best comes from it for you and those around you. Negative thinking starts to put the whole thing in the trash.

Is that it?

No. There is a lot more to it, but I think you recognize all these main points. I am sure that you realize that this wisdom, the "success secrets" have been around for a long time!

There is nothing wrong with reading, listening to, and watching motivational speakers and teachers. They help you keep your head above water when the floods come. Use a little skepticism when it comes to buying secrets!

By Stephen C Thomas

New Year - A Brand New Beginning!

2010-01-24T05:37:00.000-08:00

Welcome to 2010! I feel so excited about this year because there is so much ahead of us to accomplish, and I'm looking forward to achieving them. You see, one thing is to set a goal to achieve and another thing is to set strategies to achieve them.Personally, I've a lot to achieve this year but it will only be a day dream if I do not set some strategic targets or tasks on how to achieve them. A lot of times we set New Year resolutions that are not resolute. As the saying goes, "many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits".

To some people, a New Years resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other. Let's be honest, how many times have we set our minds each New Year to achieve certain goals and you find yourself unable to achieve any of them? You discover that the resolution we make do not pass the first few weeks of the year, and then we forget our resolutions-back to our usual lifestyle that has always yielded the same old result that we don't want.

In this 2010 maiden edition of my article, I will be sharing with you the areas you need to set some goals and some strategic tasks you need to achieve them. The areas I will be sharing with you are only suggestions. I trust you already have some goals to achieve this year. Thus, mine should be an addition to yours. One of my many goals for this year was to become a "certified life coach" before the end of January 2010. You know what? That goal has been achieved. It didn't just happen for goal setting sake but by setting daily targets and tasks, and working towards it with dedication and determination, I achieved it right on time. You should understand that setting a goal is important but it's not the success itself. The strategies you put in place to achieve it is what matters. Thus, I will be laying more emphasis on how you can achieve your goals. Now, lets' begin by looking at some areas you can set your goals for this year:

1. Career Goals: Academically and career wise, where would you want to be?
2. Financial Goals: Do you want to be financially buoyant? What goals do you have?
3. Relationship Goals: Are you looking at engaging yourself in profitable relationships?
4. Job/Work Goals: What level or position do you want to attain in your workplace?
5. Personal Development Goals: What plans do you have to develop yourself mentally?
6. Spiritual Goals: Do you have plans in place to get closer to God?
7. Business Advancement Goals: As an entrepreneur, what goals do you have for your business?
8. Family Goals: How much time do you want to spend with your family this year?
9. Networking Goals: How many personal & business contacts do you want to build?
10. Health & Fitness Goals: What are your plans to keep in shape?

Before exploring some of the strategies you need to execute in achieving your goals, here are some questions I would like you to ask yourself:

i. Have you ever set a goal? If yes, is it "passive" or "active" goal?
ii. In what areas of your life do you set most of your goals? (Work, finance, family etc.)
iii. In the past, what processes or steps did you follow to achieve your goals?
iv. How do you track your goals?
v. What has hindered you from achieving your goals in the past?
vi. If you could do anything now, with the life you have ahead of you, what would it be?
vii. If you could change anything about your future (the way you see it now), what would it be?
viii. If you could do anything you wanted to do, starting now, what would it be?
ix. Now let's go to your present - and the goals you want to achieve now. What are the goals you want to achieve first this year?

I think you should pay close attention to the above questions, and answer them as honestly as possible. Right now, I would also like you to pay close attention to some of the strategies I'm about to share with you. One of the basic rules of setting and achieving goals is that goal-setting is a skill anyone can learn. For your goals to be achieved, you should note the following: Identify the goal you want to achieve, write it down (it doesn't make sense storing it in your brain); set the date for completion; list the obstacles to reaching the goal; write and date the action steps you would want to take to reaching the goal; prioritize your goals; review and track your progress on schedule; and finally, update any goal, date, or action step that isn't working. Remember, you can never achieve your goals when you lack clarity of what you want to achieve, and also not putting the above outlined strategies in place. I wish you all the best for this year.

By Elvis Ukpaka

3 Easy Steps to Get Rid of Negative Self-Talk

2010-01-24T05:32:00.000-08:00

As we all know, not only crazy people talk to themselves. We all spend the whole day talking to ourselves, even if we don't realize it. Self-talk is like having a radio in our heads.

We hear it wherever we are, and more often than desired, this voice is a non-stop reminder of how unlucky, bad, or silly we are. This character in our heads is an expert in getting us down through pessimism and criticism.

This voice can make us feel worthless and can leave us without control over our lives. It can convince you to not go for that one chance with that girl or boy, not to apply for your dream job, or not bother to make that positive change your life needs so much. Our inner critic feeds on the fear and the doubt it produces in us, but it is up to us to let it take control. We can easily control the radio in our heads to play the stations that work for us instead of against us.

There is a way to change the station to a more positive one every time the negative tries to take control. Follow these 3 simple steps, and turn the voice in your head into your biggest admirer:

1. First, be aware of that negative voice talking to you and what it is saying. Observe the self-talk inside your head, truly listen to it; commonly we don't pay attention to our thoughts, they just come and go automatically, and equally control our lives. You must gain awareness of what that voice is saying. Is it saying the same thing over and over again? How is it making you feel? Most of us don't focus consciously on what our inner voice is saying; we simply accept its judgment as the truth, and this is where many of us get stuck, sometimes for our whole lives. Negative self-talk is, in most cases, only trying to deceive us with feelings of fear and doubt. What it says is not true. Learn to recognize who truly is in control of your life.

2. Second, assess your inner voice. Learn to recognize the forms it takes: maybe it gets nervous, mad, or frightened? Maybe there is a hint of a positive voice trying to gain strength over the negative one; if there is, you should be proud. Try to focus and listen to that background positive chat more and more every time you hear it. With practice, you will eventually hear it all the time. The most important thing is that you are aware that your inner critic is just a habit of your mind and that you can easily change the station to listen to a different tune, one that makes you feel good, energized, and proud about yourself and your life.

3. Now, after consciously recognizing, listening, and evaluating your inner critic, you can start replacing negative talk with positive one. Give the good talk space to speak, and encourage it through positive affirmations, until you feel the change inside yourself. Affirmations are very powerful; these energize you and prompt you to act positively. If you feel resistance, try this: As soon as you identify the negative talk nagging you with something like "I can't do anything right", instantly change that into a positive affirmation, like "Everything I do turns out right". This is a very powerful exercise because it allows you to assess how each statement makes you feel, and you will want to continue giving yourself bigger doses of positive talk every time.
By John Hersey

The Key to Self Help Motivation

2010-01-24T05:30:00.000-08:00

Here is the most important steps to finding a little self help motivation
Goal Setting
The setting of short and long term goals is critical in your quest to self motivation. After all, if you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you've got there?

So grab you're favourite drink, grab yourself pen and paper and make a list of all the important things you feel you have to get done.

OK. Now prioritise your list into short time and long time goals. Now here's the secret...

BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND - THEN PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST

Now think about that long time goal. How will you get there? You're going to need a plan or a map.

But here's the trick. You need to create your plan in reverse. With your goal in mind, think backwards from the goal to now. In this way you will be able to discover what is is that you needed to do at each stage in your plan and you will arrive at that which you need to do first, your first step. With a clear plan in mind you will be far more motivated to make a start.

As you're planning backward from your goal you may come across a step that your unsure of. That's good. Now you know that there is something here that you need to find out about and this simply becomes another step in your journey. This in itself will be a huge boost in your self help motivation because working backwards in time has allowed you to avoid what otherwise may have become a stumbling block. You really are helping yourself to motivate yourself.

I hope you can see how powerful this method is. You can move steadily towards your goal knowing that there shouldn't be any nasty surprises. This realisation, that your goal will be easily achieved, will provide you with all the self help motivation that you need.
By Ian Major

Problems - Opportunities in Disguise

2010-01-24T05:28:00.000-08:00

GAZING outside as I open the sliding door to allow the cooling morning breeze in, I notice washing on the line. The sprinklers are also soon to activate. Problem? Only momentarily.Overcoming procrastination, another five minute job ticked off the list, and a favour done for my wife. I then think of what else I could do for her. A simple yet factual illustration, problems are often opportunities in disguise.
This is starkly a choice between optimism and pessimism. Who really in their right minds (i.e. with the right knowledge of the choices before them) chooses to be a pessimist when it's just as easy being an optimist? Many, it is sad to say. It's a pity for their background and experience that they cannot see with hope in the world.

This list is basically endless...

Problem: conflict. Opportunity: character growth via understanding, humility, gentleness.

Problem: incapacity. Opportunity: be inspired by a docudrama or write an old-fashioned letter (okay, email it).

Problem: three places to be in at the same time. Opportunity: face it, everyone loves you! It really is no problem at all.

Problem: work on Monday (it's Monday morning). Opportunity: start dreaming of what you'll do on your next weekend, realising the power of anticipation, as you whistle joyfully through your work.

Problem: you hate how you look in the mirror. Opportunity: commit to exercise and dietary control and those excess kilos will be trimmed off in no time and you'll feel younger to boot.

Problem: not enough time to do everything. Opportunity: to see that there's enough time to do the important things and some of the things you like.

Problem: you've got an addiction to something. Opportunity: think of the people you'll be able to help once you've truly licked it!

Some problems like cancer, deaths of loved ones, severe conflict and other lasting dire straits present unique opportunities for us. It's not so easy to see the silver lining. But, each of us has the capacity to see good things from every circumstance. These are individualised perceptions only we can create of our own.

Sometimes our own suffering merely brings it home to us how much suffering there is and how many are affected. To grow a more compassionate heart is an opportunity--it'll bring home a thankful joy every time.

Problems are opportunities for growth and growth is the purpose of life. Can you see now that problems are necessary?
By Steve Wickham

Paying Attention to the Right Things

2010-01-24T05:26:00.000-08:00

As the economy continues to struggle, and unemployment is at an all-time high, I find myself speaking to groups of people that are confronted with economic realities harsher than anyone in America has faced since the Great Depression.
These folks have often watched their homes, cars, and certainly their savings slip through their fingers, and many of them feel that their once-stable lives are out of their control. I speak to each group for their own specific purposes, of course, but in many cases I find myself weaving a second message into my original: a message of attention.

Back in early 2002, business for motivational speakers was slow. The 9-11 disaster had stolen a lot of the power of hope and motivation, and as a whole, we had moved from serving people to searching for people to serve. I attended a gathering of some of the top names in professional speaking. We talked about how hard things were for us and for the country, and the irony of the need for hope spiking just as the demand decreased.

An expert took the stage, someone who was supposed to tell us how to survive. Instead, she told us that there "was no problem". She told us about professional speakers that were overbooked, and had more clients than they could serve. She pointed to the need for hope, and told us that we were paying attention "incorrectly".

The concept has been in the public sphere for centuries, under a variety of different names. The most current 'phenomenon' surrounding this simple concept is called The Secret, but in fact there's no secret to it.

As a group, our attention was focused on the problem -- on the lack of business. Our attempts to get more clients were focused on our own empty calendars. The busy speakers paid attention not to their own schedules, but to the needs of their clients. They approached each call not from a 'please, I need you to hire me' perspective, but from a 'how can I assist you?' point of view.

Her words moved me deeply. I knew, intellectually, that we create in our lives that which we focus on the most. If you devote your attention to your problems, they will multiply. If you pay attention to your successes and blessings, they will multiply.

So what does of this have to do with the people I talk to today? Simple: most of them are paying attention incorrectly. The economic realities that we face today are challenges -- but every challenge comes with opportunity built-in. Instead of focusing on the fact that your job is tenuous (or even already gone), focus on what you can do with your time and skills if you're not locked in to your current position.

One personal friend of mine lost a valuable job as a sales director for a major international entertainment company - and his response was to relax, cut back (of course), and start doing what he had wanted to do since his college days -- play with Photoshop. Today, he makes good money as a well-known freelance Web graphics designer. By focusing on the opportunity that his change afforded him, he turned a disaster into a success.

Leadership speakers have known about this basic psychological tool for generations, but as my story above demonstrates, even we lose focus from time to time. Everyone does -- the important part is to recover quickly and shift your attention back to the opportunities as firmly as you can.
By John Hersey

9 key elements to living a more complete and happy life

2010-01-24T04:49:00.000-08:00

Motivational tips are one of the 9 key elements to living a more complete and happy life.People often lack motivation in every day life. This is because they are not focused on what is important in life and that is what will keep you motivated beyond your wildest dreams. It is really simple philosophy but few ever realize and learn it. Those that do are living a very happy life and they are so motivated to continue that course for themselves.

If you are someone who is lacking motivation then just keep reading this article on motivational tips. Then start taking action by applying them in you life starting today.

Here are 3 Simply Tips To Keep You Motivated in Life.

1. Know exactly what you want in life. Right now take the time to write out what you want for yourself in life.

2. Now ask yourself why do you want each of the things you wrote down on your list because the answer to this question is what will keep you motivated to achieving it.

3. Read and listen to positive learning material on personal self development, motivation and motivational stories and do this on a daily basis. Because just like wanting to get into shape you can not expect to go to the gym once or twice a week and expect to get results. You have to make this a regular habit for yourself or else you will continue the path you are on now.

By Sunny James