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Blog Carnival on Personal Power 24 August 2009
Posted by: | CommentsThis will the final blog carnival on Personal Power for this year. I am relocating to Vietnam as a volunteer working for a non-profit organisation that provides employment to disabled young people. That means in the near future I will not have time to manage this blog carnival.
So enjoy this fine selection of articles! More to come only again in 2010.
The first one is asking the question of afterlife. What happens when you die, how you cross over, have your life review, and are greeted by family and other loved ones. But then what? Erin Pavlina presents What Happens After the Afterlife? posted at Erin Pavlina – Spiritual Wisdom for Conscious People.
Taking the road less traveled is an incredible journey. gp presents The Roads Less Traveled « Musings from Montana posted at Manely Montana.
Scientific Living presents Fearlessness posted at Scientific Living.
Greg Frost presents Gearing Your Subliminal Perception Towards Success posted at ChargedAudio Subliminal Success | Self Improvement.
Wally Bock presents Follow your bliss, but maybe not to work posted at Momentor.
Cure for child-care summer-time blues. Ella Moss presents MY KINDER UNIVERSE « Zodiac Times posted at Zodiac Times.
Mindi Lyons presents How to be Proactive Versus Reactive posted at Mindi Lyons Life Makeover Blog.
Greg Frost presents 4 Common Causes Of Memory Loss posted at Photographic Memory | Memory Loss | Memory Techniques.
Jessica Nagel presents Dairy What? Got What? posted at Sustainable Halo.
Emotions are funny things. So here are some practical tricks to make you feel good right now. You’ll be walking on sunshine by the time you’ve read this… Alex @UnleashReality presents Emotional Sleight of Hand: 5 Practical Tricks to Feel Good Right Now posted at Unleash Reality.
Greg Frost presents Children and Self Esteem – What is the Correlation? posted at Building Self Confidence | Confidence Tips | Build Self Esteem.
Regular training and development programmes increase job satisfaction and morale among managers and of course employees. Great Management Tips presents Benefits to Management Development Programmes posted at Great Management Tips.
Every job seeker wants to land an interview that leads to a job.A unique cover letter can make that happen.Here’s how: Job And Career Advice presents Say Goodbye to Your BORING Cover Letter! posted at Job And Career Advice.
Article about why apathy is present, how you control it, and how to overcome it for good. Jonathan Beebe presents Perception of Life, or Creation in Mind? posted at Develop Minds Blog.
Greg Frost presents Achieving the Optimum Brainwave State for Everything That You Do posted at Deep Brain Stimulation | Mind Control Techniques | Mind Power.
It’s not every day that a person with an eating disorder crosses the path of another individual. Health Fitness How To presents Help for Eating Disorders posted at Health and Fitness Articles.
Commonalities between the US and Michael Jackson. Britannica Blog presents What the U.S. & Michael Jackson Have in Common posted at Britannica Blog.
Deb White presents Divorce Daily Dollop 4: A mind once expanded… posted at Divorce: Coping…Surviving…Support.
Jon presents Stop Waiting for a Handout- Design Your Own Bailout! posted at The Wandering Generalist.
Alvina Lopez presents 50 Useful Mind-Mapping Tools for College Students posted at Associate Degree – Facts and Information.
Kendall Kipp presents Top 5 Open Courseware Classes for Health Professionals posted at Online Medical Billing Training.
Quandra presents Gay Marriage and The Christian Church posted at Improvement of Self.
You might have thought of happiness as being a result of things that happen to you, but research is now showing it can actually be a cause of things too. Here’s a quick review of how it works. Warren Davies presents Six Success-Enhancing Behaviours that Good Moods Bring You posted at GenerallyThinking.com.
Excellent free illustrated guide to teach you how to meditate. Complete with detailed pictures and step by step instructions on how to master this profound art. Anmol Mehta presents How to Meditate posted at Mastery of Meditation and Yoga.
What makes some entrepreneurs solution magnets while others get caught in their struggles? Tulshi Sen, author of Ancient Secrets of Success For Today’s World, shows us the key to success thinking. Aditi Walsh presents Entrepreneur Mastery Through Ancient Secrets of Success posted at Web Marketing Rebel.
When it comes to setting and achieving goals, maybe we dwell on the past, and at times maybe we live for the future. The truth is, there is only now. Now is the time for change. Enjoy this free inspirational movie. Taylor Coburn presents Time for Change Movie posted at Motivia
Jason Cooper presents The Truth is the Power of God is in you! posted at Knowledge Reform.com.
Richard Shelmerdine presents Taoism 30 day experiment posted at Richard Shelmerdine.
Some really simple steps to increase and build your self confidence. Alex presents How to Increase Your Self Confidence posted at Home Life Weekly.
A major public policy concern is the well known fact that many minority students under-achieve scholastically. Brain Blogger presents The Psychology of Minority Students posted at Brain Blogger.
We must crush our insecurities’ ability to interfere in our lives. We must learn to deal with our “flaws” and turn them into strengths. John Anyasor presents Love the Skin You’re In In 5 Easy Steps posted at HiLife2B.
Ben presents Want to Get the Best Solution to Your Problem? Use Intuition posted at Self Help Gold.
Learn how to switch on your Empowerment Mentality for mind blowing success! Dwight Anthonty presents The Empowerment Mentality posted at Financially Elite Blog.
Short article about allowing joy into our experience. Michael Miles presents Turning the ship around posted at Effortless Abundance.
The fact is, it is in the moment by moment choices we make we either create our success or create our failure. Simple as that. Cake or vision. Television or walk. Sleep in or fundraise. It’s the same with business. Kathleen Gage presents Participating in a marathon is like growing a business posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions.
You’re working on something and suddenly you’re visited by an unexpected thought Karl Raats presents 5 ways of dealing with your inner critic posted at Pinching the Ostrich.
Every individual who is in a profession should have career goals and some objectives that are over and above their day to day objectives of earning and working. nissim ziv presents How to Reach your Career Goals and Objectives posted at Job Interview Guide.
Toni presents Make Plans for No Plans posted at Happy Nest.
Surbhi Bhatia presents The Power of Being Selfish posted at The Viewspaper.
Barbara Williams presents 25 Great Thinkers Every College Student Should Read posted at Learn-gasm
Christopher X. Gerber presents Be Realistic, Build Happiness With Proper Tools posted at Experiment: Gerbus.
Finding purpose in life gives you direction and guidance. It channels inner forces and energy to overcome outer circumstances and conditions. Stephen Martile presents 4 Ways to Finding Purpose in Life posted at FreedomEducation.ca by Stephen Martile.
Janet Erickson presents Energy Healing To Remove Negative Experiences posted at Spiritual Healing and Energy Healing to Remove Negative Thoughts and Experiences.
Effortless Abundance presents Life coaches and being alone posted at Effortless Wealth and Abundance.
How to motivate yourself through a “sense of urgency.” Drew Tarvin presents Creating a Sense of Urgency posted at Humor That Works.
I invite you to take a few minutes from your busy day to join me in this meditation that will relax, center and refresh you. Catherine VanWetter presents To the Heart of the Matter – A Seven Minute Break posted at To The Heart of the Matter.
Stop Whining is an article that discusses exactly that, the key components needed to stop whining. More importantly though, it discusses how to adjust to whiners around us and what makes them the way they are. Travis presents Stop Whining posted at personalwebguide.com.
axel presents What’s It Like When The Mind Is Really Calm? posted at axel g.
steve presents METAPHYSICAL MIND » 2009 » August » 03 posted at METAPHYSICAL MIND.
Shashi Kumar presents Dozen secrets of happiness posted at Dream Consciously.
Arswino Sonata presents 85 Ways to Motivate Yourself posted at Inspiration & Motivation Blog.
Jody Fransch presents A Life-Changing Procedure | jody fransch posted at jody fransch.
Several steps toward a life without the autopilot, a life lived deliberately and on purpose. Glowing Face Man presents How to Take Control of Life posted at Glowing Face Man.
If you’re feeling stuck in your life, do these 3 simple steps to “unstuck” yourself! Remember that actions are always better than inactions. Ken Siew presents How to “Unstuck” Your Life posted at Think Big & Think Money – Guide to Success & Wealth.
A fundamental understanding of what makes up a good rapport between two people will help you to create the type of deepened relationships you require as a hypnotist. Rapport will build trust and comfort between you and your clients. Covert Hypnotist presents How Rapport Can Help You in Hypnosis | Conversational & Covert Hypnosis Blog posted at Conversational & Covert Hypnosis Blog.
Arthur presents Do the Impossible posted at World Domination with Arthur Pledger.
Donald presents How to Be a Better Person Day by Day posted at Life Optimizer.
Randy Powell presents Can God Hear Me? posted at Communicating with God Effectively.
Ever in a rut? Here’s how to get out. MoneyNing presents How to Get Out of a Rut and Out of a Slump posted at Money Ning.
MBB presents How I Pursued My Dream Of Blogging From Home posted at Money Blue Book Blog.
Silicon Valley Blogger presents Business 101: Teaching Myself Entrepreneurship posted at The Digerati Life.
The Smarter Wallet presents How To Be A Millionaire: Secrets To Success posted at The Smarter Wallet.
Blog Carnival on Personal Power 21 June 2009
Posted by: | CommentsAnother blog carnival already. My oh my how time flies. This time, because the submission time was shorter, there is a smaller offering which is preferred. It gives each submission more prominence. After all, you want to have your articles read and studied. Not so easy when it’s a huge carnival.
We start with:
The people doing the guiding are generally called coaches and mentors. The two roles are similar in some ways but in fact are very different. Great Management Tips presents What’s the Difference Between Coaching And Mentoring? posted at Great Management Tips.
Easy Way Diets talks about the power of the human mind in You will succeed if you believe it to be found at Easy Way Diets
The power of human mind and confidence is inexplicable. So, self trust is very inevitable to succeed in one’s life. Job and Career Advice presents The Potentials of Confidence Factor! posted at Job and Career Advice.
Do you feel you lack confidence or self worth? It’s a hard thing to admit. Here is an awesome technique to boost self confidence in weeks! Fit Jerk presents Build Self Confidence In Mere Weeks! The Newbie Self Conscious Drill posted at FlawlessFitness..
Facing an interview can be interesting. You may have several interviews that will be a learning experience for you. nissim ziv presents How to face an Interview – tips and techniques posted at Job Interview Guide.
Life lessons from our animals. gp presents The Ingredients for Equine Success « Musings from Montana posted at Manely Montana.
Enjoy this HUGE list of some of my very best affirmations!! Glowing Face Man presents Examples of Positive Affirmations posted at Glowing Face Man.
Greg Frost presents Absorb Knowledge Better With Subliminal Learning posted at ChargedAudio Subliminal Success | Self Improvement.
Greg Frost presents How Brainwave Technology Can Boost the Power of The Human Mind posted at Deep Brain Stimulation | Mind Control Techniques | Mind Power.
Greg Frost presents Body Language: Standing Up Straight posted at Building Self Confidence | Confidence Tips | Build Self Esteem.
Robert Simmons presents How to make new habits posted at Personal Development.
Greg Frost presents Great Tips to Develop a Photographic Memory posted at Photographic Memory | Memory Loss | Memory Techniques.
Michael Haltman presents Where Did Nancy Pelosi Come From? posted at The Political and Financial Markets Commentator.
Ella Moss presents ABOUT HAPPINESS « Zodiac Times posted at Zodiac Times.
Douglas Manning presents Discover Your Life Purpose: Let’s Play 20 Questions | SuccessHound.com posted at SuccessHound.com.
Lucky Balaraman presents How To Find Happiness, Step 1: posted at Calm And Cool.
There are a number of diets that exist from starving yourself to death to eating prepackaged meals to only eating specific foods. But what diets work? Crystal Wells presents Finding the Best Diets that Work for You posted at The Best Diets That Work.
jim presents Five Life Lessons My Dog Has Taught Me posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.
What Everybody Should Know About The Power of Positive Thinking … Does it sound simple? The power of positive thinking? Dawn Abraham Life Coach presents Power of positive thinking posted at Qualified Life Coach.Com.
When faced with the opportunity to give up, pass it by before your dreams pass you by. John Anyasor presents On the Act of Giving Up posted at HiLife2B.
What you give meaning to determines how you feel. You can choose to feel good and not be controlled by your experiences. Find out how…Alex – Unleash Reality presents Feeling Good is a Choice posted at Unleash Reality.
Have you ever become aware of an unseen direction? Paula Kawal presents What’s Choosing You? posted at Journey Inward | Your Highest Path and Purpose is NOW!.
Do you make it a point to attend conferences in fields you’re interested in? Erin Pavlina presents The Value of Attending Conferences posted at Erin Pavlina’s Blog.
Would you like to see some changes in your life? You can begin making these changes by building self-awareness. Nina presents Building Self-Awareness Is A Process posted at Metaphysical Teachers.
Wouldn’t it be nice if social interactions had obvious signs? Things that tell us whether we’re doing okay or not; something to look up when in doubt. Hning presents 5 Ways to Know Your Directions (and Your Blog’s) posted at Hning.
Nancy Miller presents The Top 50 Mormon / LDS bloggers posted at Online University Reviews.
Shauna Heathman presents Leaving a positive mark on others is crucial to self-confidence posted at Mackenzie’s Blog.
Bruno Vigneault presents Beyond The Secret movie-DVD posted at How To Make A Miracle Happen.
“Do You Read?” is an article which explores the benefits reading can play upon our lives, especially in a society so saturated with television and laziness. Travis presents Do You Read? posted at Personal Web Guide.
Donald presents The Joy of Living Today posted at Life Optimizer.
The ultimate way to keep the pen mightier than the sword. Relax presents How to improve your writing posted at The Wise Curve.
axel presents Consumed By Collective Fear posted at axel g.
Sometimes we focus on money and forget there’s other things that are also important to us. James Feudo presents There’s More to Success than Money | Overnight Sensation – Public Speaking, Communication and Personal Development posted at Overnight Sensation – Public Speaking, Communication and Personal Development.
What happens when our values are challenged? this article explores how decision making, having support in the community and education can help us stand up and be counted. isabella mori presents taking a stand: what does it take to make a difference? posted at change therapy.
Alvina Lopez presents 25 Scientifically Proven Ways to Make Yourself Smarter posted at Psychology Degrees.
Have you ever thought of introducing a good habit into your life, but never got around to doing it? Celes presents Cultivate Good Habits in 21 Days posted at EmbraceLiving.Net.
Peter Cantelo presents How To Make Sure Your Business Gives You Quality Of Life posted at vivavi.co.uk.
errte presents Singer Jai posted at singerjai.
Wally Bock presents What to do if your job search just isn’t working posted at Momentor.
For many women in our society, we have been trained from an early age that it is selfish for us to take time for ourselves. Catherine VanWetter presents To the Heart of the Matter – Creative Selfishness posted at To The Heart of the Matter.
Marisabel presents How to create your own miracles: Life on Canvas posted at Life on Canvas.
Broderick Allen presents Overwhelmed? posted at Personal Growth From the Bottom Up.
This article is about the concept of employment – how our worth is measured, and what we gain/lose through this process. Ram Raghavan presents What does your paycheck really represent? posted at ramraghav.com.
The purpose of this video is to show you how beliefs are formed and where they come from. This is an important step so that you can understand how to reprogram your unconscious mind and create new beliefs. Stephen Martile presents The Unconscious Mind Power Series 2 posted at FreedomEducation.ca by Stephen Martile.
Gerard presents The 5 Most Common Mistakes To Avoid If Wanting To Improve Your Self-Confidence And Self-Esteem posted at Solutions For Prosperity.
Andrew Heath presents On Starting Before We're Ready posted at Andrew Heath.
Have you tried an Article Writing Service?
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s always surprising how much pain we absorb in our lives. We just sit there taking it all in. Day after day. One of those pains for some people is article writing. But as every internet marketer knows, it’s a compulsory chore.
Internet marketing depends on having good content as well as constant fresh content. It’s something of a tread mill. If you don’t write, then there’s no traffic. And you need that traffic to increase your list, your popularity, your guru status and all the other requirements for a successful online business.
This is something I have experienced myself. Often. Every time I have a gap in posting to my blog, as for instance last week, my traffic figures plummet. It’s as if I have never written before. Groan. But then I’ve neglected this blog for so long that I can’t really complain that there’s little movement.
That’s the other thing isn’t it. You have to be at it all the time. You can’t just give it a year’s break as I did with this blog. Sure I posted a Blog Carnival once a month. And that got some folk visiting. But I didn’t write anything myself. It was like the ground opened and swallowed up the blog. Never to be seen again.
And the other bit of a nuisance was that Google decided to knock one of my page ranks off. Yip. Nasty bots. That took me three months of writing to get back up again.
Every blogger has my sympathy. You see, the big thing is that I really enjoy writing. So writing articles is not necessarily a huge chore for me. Yet even I find it a burden sometimes. Now imagine how bad it is for folk who don’t really like writing.
It’s like trying to become a swimming sensation, but you hate water. Or it’s equivalent to being a bus driver but you are scared of traffic. Or what about an astronaut but your have a fear of heights. I could go on and on!
Yet, it’s the one thing you really have to do in the internet business. You have to have content on your site. And you have to have decent stuff for people to read and enjoy and think you know what you are talking about.
With all that pain and agony of trying to write, when you absolutely hate it, wouldn’t it be a good idea to take the pain away?
So here’s the deal. Why not try an article writing service? Never occurred to you has it? Try this one. The articles are good. How do I know? Because I’m the writer for this service. If you go back and read this blog, or if you’ve been reading it for a while you will know that I’m not bad!
And now for some unashamed self-promotion – well, I think I’m actually reasonably good. In fact I think I could provide a great article writing service. What do you think?
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All about selling yourself
Posted by: | CommentsGary Vaynerchuk is the essential modern business person for me. He is a one man show, more or less, and he epitomises what can be done as a single practitioner. He earns huge sums of money selling his time and knowledge.
Sure, he has a few support people around such as a good video producer. There’s probably also a techie lurking somewhere and a PA or two. But at the end of the day, it is Gary’s personal brand that makes the money for himself and his business.
One of the most essential skills one needs in this modern life is to be able to sell oneself. It’s totally essential if you are selling a service, or a piece of art you have created, or a widget you have invented, of if you want that first date with the love of your life and many more examples.
Everything in your life requires that you to sell yourself. It’s difficult for some people to sell a widget. But it is doubly difficult to effectively sell oneself. We have to be super confident that we are worth it. And most of us do not believe we are worth it!
This video is a fabulous example of how Gary sells himself. It’s selling yourself 101. Absolute classic. Watch and learn. In a few minutes of video you will learn how it’s done and watch a master at work.
Notice that he is not embarrassed. Not once.
You and I would be squirming around on our chairs. In our mind we are thinking that we couldn’t possibly be authoritative enough to write a book and then sit in front of a camera and tell the world that it is worth reading.
But he not only talks to us ordinary folks. He thinks his book is worth reading by CEO’s of huge companies. Those mainly pale males sitting in little ivory towers are advised by Gary that this books is essential reading!
But what is even more amazing is the fact that Gary delivers this message about how awesome his book is without once faltering. The entire message sounds as if he has just found this wonderful gem and everybody needs it and deserves it. It is totally authentic.
We can all learn a bit from this video. Watch it.
Remember it’s not only about business. It’s also how you present yourself to the partner of your dreams or how you interact with your friends, work colleagues, a stranger you meet.
In short the message is about selling yourself to other people every day of your life. How does he do it? By being totally and absolutely passionate about his topic. Does that mean we need more passion in our lives? You bet.
The recession – whose fault is it anyway?
Posted by: | CommentsEvery two weeks I have the treat of playing bridge with my University of the Third Age (U3A) people. It’s a wonderful evening of fun, laughter and puzzling as we try and work out what to call and play next.
During our coffee break somebody asked me who was to blame for the recession we are in. Good question that. My plain and simple answer was: all of us. Or at least all of us with a mortgage, credit card, overdraft or a loan from our employer amongst many options of borrowing.
You could count the number of people without some form of borrowings on one hand, I would imagine. Even the wealthy tend to borrow more. In fact I always felt that the level of wealth you had was more an indication of how much you could borrow, than how much you actually owned outright.
Why are we to blame then? Isn’t it the fault of the government, the banks, the advertising industry, the sub-prime lenders, the insurance companies, the stock exchange traders, the traders selling short, the traders selling long, the congress, Government or the CEOs earning too much money and that’s just to kick-start the list.
Can you add to that? I’m sure you can think of a few yourself. There was a letter to Citibank on Huffington Post that complained that the writer’s parents in their 80’s were now being charged close on 15% interest on their credit cards even though these old folk had been responsible people with their money.
The question is, why would one use a credit card. The word in itself means you are getting credit. Why don’t her parents operate a debit card. That is you pay with the money you have. Besides that point, also remember that you only pay interest on your credit card when you have outstanding money and not if you pay on time.
So going back to the question, who is to blame for the recession, the answer surely is all of us. It’s we, the consumer. We bought into the hype of having everything now even if we could not afford it.
In the US we bought houses where we didn’t have to pay any installments for two years. After two years we suddenly couldn’t pay. What? Didn’t we get it? We had to pay at some time. It wasn’t as if we didn’t know. We just thought it would go away. The UK lenders also offer some strange options for home loans.
What about that maxed out credit card? Did you really need to have five pairs of jeans in your cupboard. Did your kid need that Nintendo or Wii gadget. It’s not just the sub-primers that we all look down on as being foolish people. It’s all of us with our credit cards, loans and mortgages who spend more than we earn.
A recent experience pointed this out again. I’m looking for a place to move to. I viewed a flat with two small rooms, tiny kitchen and bathroom and a patch of garden. The letting agent and I could barely walk in this space because the two adults living there with their baby had covered every possible inch/cm with stuff. There’s even a baby’s blown up swimming pool on the lounge floor. The amount of money that has been spent by this family on non-essential items is awe inspiring.
So whose fault is the recession then? It’s all of our fault. We did it. We brought it on. Our massive consumerism finally tipped over. There was just too much debt in the world. It had to fall apart. We just never worked it out that spending far in excess of what we could afford was not healthy for our financial well being. So now we are ill.
The cure? Pay off your debts and live within your means.
5 easy Steps to follow when starting your own Business
Posted by: | CommentsYou will look at the five steps listed below and wonder how that could be all that is required to set up a successful business. You will think to yourself, what about money. How do I market the business. Where do I start with all of this. Surely it must be a lot more difficult than this.
The good news is that it isn’t actually. Everything else you can learn by reading books, searching the internet, getting in accountants, marketers and other advisors. Stick to the following few principles and you should be good to start your own business.
1) The supporter
Get close and enthusiastic support. Have a look at how many big businesses started with at least two people. Bill Gates had Paul Allen when they founded Microsoft. Steve Jobs had Steve Wozniak for Apple. HP were Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Google had Sergey Brin and Larry Page. And there are many more.
There is a reason for this. You need support when starting a new venture. It can be really frightening trying to set up a business on your own. It could mean that you give up before you have a chance to make it. Most successful businesses have had to grow through some tough times. You need somebody who will be enthusiastic when you are ready to give up.
2) The team
Employ staff who share your vision. And if you employed staff who seemed to have shared your vision but eventually lose that enthusiasm, regrettably you will need to give them the pink slip. You cannot build a business with people who do not burn with the fire of enthusiasm for the product or service you are building.
3) The product/service
Decide on something that is unique. Customers will need and want to purchase this. It is not that important that you and your business partner know everything about the product or service. But it certainly helps. It helps to ensure that whoever supplies you or works on the product/service with you isn’t going to cheat you.
If you know you want to establish your own business but are not sure what to do, then have a look a trends. Watch such websites as TrendWatching or Springwise and follow the new stuff that is happening in the world. Adapt a product to fit in with a trend. Make sure to select something that gets your own enthusiasm bubbling over.
4) Be exceptional
Ensure that the product or service that you will be offering to your customers is exceptional. Do not waste your time producing a half baked offering. Your business will not last. Whatever you decide to offer has to be considered so good, that it is talked about. For further ideas on the concept of ‘exceptional’ check out Seth Godin.
5) Lead the project
Be prepared to take chances and make decisions to ensure that it happens. This is not the time to delegate. Ensure your team sees that you are prepared to lead and to make those awkward and tough decisions. They will follow no matter what.
What made me think of putting forward these points was an article I read. It’s by Josh Russell who offered a very good list of pointers for a web-app startup business. Although his points are set out differently to the above, they cover the same principles. Do it with a small team, be enthusiastic, do it well, be innovative and don’t rely on outside people to make it happen.
For more articles by Anja Merret check out her blog.
Carnival on Personal Power September 2, 2007
Posted by: | CommentsThis Carnival is getting more and more popular. We have had to restrict entries to one per person just so that every submission has some space to itself.
Do get stuck in and read the articles. Each one is worth it.
Chris Stevens presents Positive Thought for the day posted at Positive thoughts and more.
Lexi Sundell presents Crystalline Consciousness Technique™ posted at Energies of Creation.
Michelle Croft presents It Can Be Done posted at Ancient Energy.
Lyman Reed presents Two Steps to Changing Your Life posted at Creating a Better Life.
Dr Martin W. Russell presents Name Calling posted at Dr Martin W. Russell.
Warren Wong presents The Key To A Healthy Relationship posted at INTJ Personal Development.
Art presents Realization in Love posted at Success Step.
Anmol Mehta presents Meditation Techniques, Types and Practice – A Comprehensive Guide posted at Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment & Kundalini Yoga.
Ralph Jean-Paul presents Be A Presence In Any Room posted at Potential 2 Success.
Raymond David Salas presents How to Attract Your Desires Easily posted at ZenChill.com Power Tools Blog.
Phil B. presents The Right and Wrong Ways to Boost Morale « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity.
Arin Vahanian presents A Quick Primer on How to Eliminate Fears and Bad Feelings posted at Super State.
Dominic Tay presents Is Success A Must? posted at Personal Development For Winners – Dominic Tay Dot Com.
CL McGown presents The power of the mind posted at Controversial Christianity.
edithyeung presents Disempowering Phrases Successful People Never Say posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..
Rolf F. Katzenberger presents Successful meetings, or: The Great Commandment of Communication posted at Evomend | Timeless resources for personal organization..
Howard Ditkoff presents The Joy and Power of Discovering True Selves posted at SystemsThinker.com Blog.
Pat B. Doyle presents Visualize Your Success posted at Pat B
Doyle.
John Hill presents 10 Steps to Raising Your Vibration posted at Universe Of Success.
Ant presents 5 Ways To Not Get Your Point Across posted at The Beef Jerky Blog.
Mike Surro presents Talking with Jesus: “Law of Conception” posted at Life Attract.
Alvaro Fernandez presents Brain Fitness Program 2.0, MindFit, and much more on Brain Training posted at Brain Fitness Blog.
21st Century Citizen presents Steve Loo is Changing the World posted at 21st Century Citizen.
Silicon Valley Blogger presents My One Money Advice: Be Prepared For That Rainy Day posted at The Digerati Life.
Jody presents The Trinity Project – Blog posted at The Trinity Project.
Don’t let age or anything else get in the way of your dreams
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the key components to the Law of Attraction is the belief that by visualising a goal, this goal will manifest itself. Although I am fairly skeptical about the Law of Attraction, there is certainly some value to this statement.
We tend to limit ourselves because we think we are not capable of achieving a goal, not worthy of finding a loving relationship, not deserving of financial success or not able to obtain a University qualification, the list is endless of what we feel we cannot do. By the fact that we visualise a goal having been achieved, this limiting belief is overcome.
I think that we do not achieve to the maximum of our capacity because we talk ourselves out of it. Successful people might have moments of self-doubt, but on the whole they are convinced that their idea will make it and they will make good money pursuing that idea. They have solid self-belief in their capabilities. An outsider might even consider that they shouldn’t have that belief because they are not intelligent enough, don’t have enough knowledge, or not enough capital to invest in the development of the idea. How often are these outsiders proven wrong. Many times.
Yet for most of us, the list of our limiting beliefs far outweighs the list of the things we believe we can do and achieve. The list gets longer as we get older and we tend to focus our powerful thoughts on all of our mistakes and failures. As we get older, we tend to have less and less faith in ourselves. What is even worse, that added to that is society that supports that. Older people have to retire, they are banished to old age homes, their opinions do not count anymore, nobody considers them a consumer anymore, the list goes on.
Every one of these negative elements will add to the fact that as one gets older, our belief system becomes more and more negative and we believe that we cannot accomplish anything. However, is that really true? Some folks, in their 70s, 80s and even older, have achieved amazing things. They have been outstanding presidents of countries, they have finished marathons, they have won Nobel prizes, they have managed or even started huge business empires and many more examples.
What distinguishes these people from the you and I’s. The main thing is that they believed that they could do it. They did not allow anything to get in their way. Not their age, not any physical frailty, not any perception of society could stop them from achieving their goal. It doesn’t even occur to them to consider that their age could deter them.
If you find yourself, having grown older, not even anticipating that it would happen so quickly, suddenly facing a lonely retirement, a retirement without sufficient funds, or just a retirement that is too early for your active brain and healthy body. What are you going to do? Are you going to accept that the decline has set in? After all people are telling you this. Or are you going to say, move over world, here I come. I want another shot at a career, a new relationship or a goal to run a marathon or ride a bike from London to Brighton. You can do it, you just have to believe that can. It’s that simple. Believe in yourself. Take up the mantra of ‘I can do it’. It will allow you to achieve beyond your wildest dreams. Try it, you will surprise yourself!
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High achievers want to prove a point
Posted by: | CommentsThere is an interesting theory that I read in an interview on a South African marketing site. The person being interviewed was the CEO of one of, if not, the biggest publishing house in SA. His theory was that oddballs would drive innovation and change, rather than the people in their power suits and branded sunglasses.
This CEO, Koos Bekker, had been to Monte Carlo to attend the Ernst & Young and Rand Merchant Bank World Entrepreneur Awards Programme as the South African candidate. The winner of the award, for anybody dying to know, was a clown. Well not quite but close. It was Canada’s Cirque du Soleil founder and CEO, Guy Lalibert.
What Mr Bekker maintained though, and what really rang bells of ‘oh of course’, was that the entrepreneurs he met at the award ceremony were quite different in that some were small and inarticulate and some larger than life and obnoxious. But he felt they all had something in common and that was their burning ambition to prove something to the world.
That makes total sense. The people that make it in large capital letters, whether in the field of wealth, fame, science, humanitarian works or even those claiming to be highly infamous and many more fields of endeavour, are the ones that feel they have to be a bit of a mesiah. They need to show the world the best product, service, humanitarian effort or be the most famous or infamous.
Whether it’s somebody like Madonna for the fame, Nelson Mandela for the political achievement, Steve Jobs for Apple and technology, the Curries for Science or the Wright brothers and their flying machines. These people have always wanted to prove a point, make a statement or show the world. They have done this even to the point of sacrificing their personal safety such as Mandela in prison, the Wright brothers falling out of the sky, Jobs getting fired from his own company, or the Curries dying of cancer.
Possibly this overriding wish to be right in the invention, business idea, political thinking etc is what makes these people more successful in their chosen field. They do this better than others who might have the same good ideas, put in the required hard work, are passionate and single minded in their pursuit, but they just don’t get as far.
The undying wish to prove to the world that their invention, their ideas, their thinking is the most important in the world, pushes these people into the spot light. It makes them succeed beyond what one would image they are capable of taking their intellect, background, education etc into consideration.
What does it take to become a millionaire?
Posted by: | CommentsSee the story for a person called Richard Jones. He was just about destitute when he thought of his big idea. And he didn’t have much support or money to pursue this big idea. In fact he ended up sleeping in a tent on the roof of the warehouse where he had his small office, for five long months. He was the only one who thought that he might start a new online music revolution.
His friends laughed at him and told him that he should get a real job. Richard Jones continued to believe in his dream. He slaved away at his computer making the last of his student loan last as long as possible with a meagre diet of chick peas and rice. While he suffered sleepless nights and a terrible diet, he found it endlessly disheartening that nobody wanted to believe in his idea which he had started on as a computer science student at university.
It has taken him almost exactly four years, to realise his dream and to reap the benefits of his hard work and pain and suffering he had to go through. The music and social-networking site which he and his two partners set up, Last.FM has been bought by US entertainment giant CBS for a tidy sum of £141 million. Whoever said that hard work and patience didn’t pay?
Richard Jones’ idea was quite easy. It is a software application which searches through your music library and from this research evaluates the type of music you enjoy listening to. Then, by logging into the Last.FM site the users are able to stream music, according to their taste and listen while logged on.
To avoid copyright issues, users are not able to download the music. At the same time they are able to chat online to their friends or make new friends. A social network site with music as an added feature. Along the lines of the olden days where you used to congregate at a friend’s place to listen to ‘records’.
From very small beginnings of members from his university community, Last.FM now has over 15 million members in 200 countries and it claims to be the largest social music platform. It is easy to see that this could be possible.
Other examples of people who followed their vision, put in incredible amounts of hard work, and suffered various forms of hardship are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google. Then there is Mark Zuckerberg who started Facebook. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim started YouTube in the back of a garage after they had been made redundant from PayPal, Steve Jobs and his partner Woyzek didn’t have it easy when starting Apple. The list goes on.
In all cases, the success came after hard work, self-belief, some pain and suffering for a few years and often some form of ridicule from their peers. And possibly, especially the YouTube guys, some surprise at the extent of the success.