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Learning How to Make Money Blogging

2011-11-10T05:34:00.000-08:00

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There are two major types of business models that
entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first
and most common way to turn a blog into a profit
making machine is to sell advertising to different
companies and brands who want to reach that blog's
readers. The second kind of money making blog is one
that helps a single brand improve its image by creating
positive associations between the blog and the product
in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can
make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen
mind for marketing.

If you are blogging with the goal of selling advertising,
there are two basic ways that you can go about
recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site;
you can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you
can do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue.
Within the first group, many people make money
blogging by selling space through Google's AdSense
program. The advantages of this program are numerous,
as it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger
or webmaster to begin raking in profits. However, most
people discover that they make less money through this
method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.

BLOGGING FOR PROFIT

Selling advertising directly to companies who want to
put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take
quite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you
have a lot of contacts in industries that are related to the
topic of your blog, you may want to try to go this route.
People who have a strong background in sales and are
experienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit
of money by renting blog space to interested companies.
The most serious problem with this model is that you
often have to build quite a sizable readership before you
can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to
do several months of work before you start to make
money blogging.

As blogging becomes a more and more lucrative
business, a lot of established companies are considering
how they can get into the action. One way that
companies are capitalizing on the blog movement is by
having blogs that provide a kind of friendly face for
their corporation. Often, a company will employ an
established blogger to create a weblog designed
specifically to appeal to that company's customers and
to create positive associations with the brand in
consumers' minds. More than one writer who never
even dreamed that he or she could make money
blogging has been approached by a company and
offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.

Timothy Kendrick

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2011-11-07T02:38:00.000-08:00

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Positive Thinking?

2011-10-31T11:36:00.000-07:00

Because our thought process is constantly working, the
Law of Attraction is constantly working as well. Many
of our thoughts are at the unconscious level, so we're
not always aware of what type of energy those thoughts
may be creating.

According to the Law of Attraction, if you want
something enough and you truly believe it's possible
for you to have it, you'll probably get it. But the
same is true for negative thoughts.

If you spend a lot of time thinking on the things you
don't want or fear, and you believe it's possible for
you to experience them, it's just as likely they'll
come your way. You can't avoid unpleasant things by
hoping they don't happen.

Your unconscious is literal and produces negative
energy the same as it does positive energy. It doesn't
know the difference. Your unconscious mind doesn't
understand "I don't want". To truly achieve the
positive benefits of the Law of Attraction, you have
to become aware of what you're focusing your attention
on.

Are you focusing on what you want? Or don't want? Do
you have thoughts or beliefs that are contrary to what
you want? If you truly want something, but feel you
don't really deserve it, those thoughts will be
translated into energy, and the Universe will "feel"
that you don't deserve it.

Becoming aware of what you're spending your energy on,
enables you to change it. Allowing you to focus all
your thoughts on the things you really want.

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Can I Make Profit With Amega Global?

2011-10-24T13:42:00.000-07:00

Amega Global markets a product line that consists of nutrition, skin care, and some magnetic energy products that are all designed to increase overall health and wellness of its users. The company is a MLM company that uses a multi-layered compensation model to reward the distributors of its goods. Many people don’t understand how the multi-level pay plan operates. Some join the business to get rich "tomorrow", but fail to realize that it takes a lot of hard work to make a Network Marketing business successful. It takes dedication, diligence, and hard work to be successful.

Amega Global was incorporated by a consortium of three companies in 2006. The company’s products are manufactured throughout Asia and distributed through the Network Marketing business model. They’ve achieved a worldwide presence with offices currently in 17 countries.

With most business opportunities, the company has to fight to get your attention because of competition from other companies presenting similar products in the same niche. Much importance is placed on the compensation plan and how much money you will make – we have been conditioned to focus on that and think that this factor will shape the success of our future business venture. Amega Global is refreshingly different!

Compensation.

It is the quality of the products that will fuel your business success.

When you concentrate on the unique products and their ability to help people live a healthier life, the money will follow naturally.

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The company has a binary compensation plan which seems to have become industry standard in recent years. The 10% binary compensation is solid with the bonus composition looking as though it favors associates that recruit in large numbers. With the Fast Start Bonus set at only 10% for new associates, it appears this greatly favors those at the higher achievement levels. This is both good and bad, depending on what is your current rank. The mega matching bonuses pay seven generations from Diamond and below up to Associate Director. There is a builder’s pool set at 1% of the total country pool for Diamond’s and below. This is a great incentive for new associates who are actively building their business.

Just like any MLM structure, Amega Global is a business which requires action and effort to build – it is no ‘get-rich-quick scheme’! However, you can take it as a given that you will be handsomely rewarded for your sales and recruitment efforts.

Marketing.

Being a health and wellness company, it’s not surprising that the only mention of growing your business is through sharing the product with friends, family and associates.

Amega Global has proprietary technology and innovative life-changing products that are in high demand and are not available from any other company – there is no direct competition! The products, such as the AM Wand, are easily demonstrateable and the benefits (pain relief, increased strength & mobility, and an improved sense of wellbeing) can be quickly observed in many cases. Business Associates find that presenting the products and sharing their own personal results is hugely rewarding and enjoyable – this aspect of ‘the job’ often takes members by surprise!

Warm market promoting methods will bring you results and have worked for decades, however the company doesn’t offer any support to associates wanting to build their businesses online. The techniques used for offline marketing cannot be implemented in today’s online world. It’s too bad that the company doesn’t offer any type of lead generating or follow-up system that I can see.

For anyone looking to build their Amega Global business online, they must understand that personal branding is the key to finding true success. Sharing magic bracelets and wands will bring you some money but will not build massive organizations or strong teams online. This can only be achieved by providing true value and displaying strong leadership abilities.

The best choice would be for each individual to do some reading and serching and then make your own decision on whether or not you would chose to use and promote these products. I am certain in saying that the company, as a whole, is not a scam. You have a potential to make good money if you master the simple art of attraction marketing on the internet. If you take advantage of the fully developed system that provides customized capture pages and a complete sales funnel to market your business and yourself, you can greatly speed up the success that you wish to realize.

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Success Through The Eyes Of A Child

2011-10-20T16:13:00.000-07:00

As I was driving home last week, I noticed a little boy and his mother by the side of the road. They had stopped walking and the mother was adjusting a toy crossbow to fit more comfortably over the boy’s shoulder. I realized that at that moment in the heart and mind of that small boy, he was not on a sidewalk by a busy road. Perhaps he was hunting in a forest, or was an intrepid explorer of the unknown, ready to pull out his bow and arrows at the slightest hint of danger. In his imagination he was a hero, confident, skilled, and brave. He was alert, prepared, with the expectation of overcoming danger or threat with his skill and swift reflexes.

For a child involved in imaginative play, there is very little distinction between fantasy and reality. Children live and play out their dreams totally in the moment.

There are many principles of success that can be learned by looking through the eyes of a child. Children’s eyes see with clarity and perception and reflect the reality of who they are. Children are uncluttered by training, brainwashing, and by living according to the unwritten rules and etiquette that have assailed the adult mind. For a child life has limitless possibilities that have not been squashed by logic, common sense, or limiting expectations that become part of the adult mind.

What principle of success can be drawn from the little boy with his bow and arrow?

One of the most powerful and yet unused principles of success is the process of visualization. Visualization is the act of creating compelling and vivid pictures in your mind. This is just what the little boy was doing. He was “that hero”; he acted like him, dressed like him, and could picture himself in another time and another place. For him, it seemed like reality. This is a spontaneous, natural process for a child.

Researchers have found that visualization accelerates achievement in powerful ways. It has been proved by research that when performing any task in life the brain uses the same identical processes that it would if you were only vividly visualizing that activity. The brain sees no difference at all between visualizing something and actually doing it.

This principle also is applicable when a person is learning something new. Visualization makes the brain achieve more. In a study by researchers at Harvard University, it was found that students who visualized in advance were able to perform tasks with nearly 100 percent accuracy. Students who performed tasks without using visualization only achieved 55 percent accuracy.

Visualization is frequently used by Olympic and professional athletes to improve performance.
Jack Nicklaus, a legend in the golfing world, once described how he uses visualization. “I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp in-focus picture of it in my head. It’s like a color movie. First I “see” where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I “see” the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behaviour on landing. Then there’s a sort of fade out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.” The results of the power of visualization for Jack Nicklaus are convincing: he has won over 100 tournaments earning over 5.7 million in the process.

For a child a high proportion of time is spent in visualization. Adults may say, “He’s only playing” and not see the potential power for success that the child is practicing. Visualization is a process that is naturally strong in the learning and formative years of the child. Research now confirms that visualization activates the creative powers of the subconscious mind. It focuses the brain by programming its reticular activating system (RAS) to notice available resources that were always there but previously unnoticed. Visualization, incredibly, also magnetizes and attracts you to the people, resources, and opportunities you need to achieve your goal.

Next time you see children playing, pause to watch visualization in its purest form. What can you learn and apply to your own life to accelerate and achieve greater success using the principle of visualization?

Barbara White, an experienced educator and parent of three teenagers, speaks with humor, insight, and passion to both teachers and parents on the subject of learning and personality styles. Her latest presentation “Learning Through the Eyes of a Child” is both entertaining and inspirational. For more articles and information visit her websites www.livingbeyondbetter.com

Leo Forecast For 2011

2011-10-16T18:56:00.000-07:00

Leo has great stamina and the energy and endurance it has often impresses others. Even when in a quite mood he leaves lasting impressions on others.

Leo lives as exiting life and boredom seldom touches him and gets motivated by a clear vision of success. His energy level makes him capable of fulfilling his dreams. The energy in him can even lead him to disastrous situation but he has the capabilities to pull himself out and thus the professional achievement of his are often great.
He is strong, honest and often exhibit warm and tender feeling towards others.

Dignity is his virtue and refuses to do any thing that is low. Honesty is what makes him different and deceives, he never.

Leos are ambitious and for that develops character persistently, he is distinguishable as always aristocratic and authoritative and opinions are always valued. He has confidence with braveness which seldom gets subdued and is extravagant to live king-size. At the same time he is optimistic, organised and temperamental who exhibits opinions openly.

Now lets us see what is there in store for you in the coming New Year. This guide will help you in planning your affairs so that the qualities mentioned above work best for you.

Jupiter shall be transiting in the Pisces sign till May 2011 and after than it will be in the Arian sign till the end of the year. The transiting Jupiter shall be showering its blessing after May 2011 and before May 2011 this positivity shall be subdued a bit. This transiting Jupiter in the Pisces sign may bring in additional unproductive journeys, extra labour which may not yield much, not favourable results from the Governments. Once the transit of Jupiter ends in Pisces and commences in Aries the overall fortune shall rise and will keep on rising for till the end of the year.

February, August and September 2011 are the months when some additional benefits and positivity get infused by the transiting Mars. The native can benefit by victory over old enemies, old property disputes can get settled, and cure to ailments is also signified.

The placement of Saturn in the second house from the natal moon for most part of the year is not an ideal proposition to except some positivity to be infused by Saturn. The native should guard his assets and should observe some constrain while speaking.

Rahu shall remain in the fifth house from the natal Moon till May 2011 and thereafter it shall slip in to the forth house, both transits are not very good for the native. A delay in acquiring property, hiccups in education and strained love life is indicated.

Ketu in Eleventh from the natal moon and then migrating to the tenth is a superb placement to except some positivity to be infused by transiting ketu. The Job/profession shall be at a rise and the incoming shall show an increase.

Let us check that how the various aspect of life behaves for a Leo in 2011.

• Overall personality and Aggression:- The health should be taken good care by the Leo native this year. There will certainly be small moments when he will be in great shape but the net result can be loss of health. The native should stick to some good basic as eating wrong can do him great amount of damage. So eat right and exercise on a regular basis to keep this aspect at bay.

• Wealth and Material success:- A planed effort is required by the Leo natives. There shall be a definite rise in fortune as the incoming shall increase but the planning should be such that the older properties/assets if any should not be touched or melted as some losses is indicated. If the button of this loss gets triggered then no other planet in the transit could be of any help. So plan in a conservative manner.

• Your siblings, courage and small Journeys:- This year do not indulge into undue altercation with your siblings as the relationship can turn to worse and the matter relating to property and its bifurcation can take a back seat. The small journeys can also trouble you which may not be to your liking.

• Your Home, family and vehicle:- The Home aspect has to be taken great care this year. Saturn is stationed in the second house from the natal moon is aspecting this house with its third aspect and this not a pleasant site for the native. So the matter relating to Home and vehicle may suffer but the inter bonding in the family may grow. There shall develop a better sense of understanding in the members of the family.

• Children & Education:- If you are a student and perusing your studies seriously, there is a strong indication that you may get distracted. So ample care has to be taken so that the distraction is minimal. You will have to put in some extra efforts to reach to your goal.

• Love and Romance:- Do not be over ambitious and treat your love with care as there are strong chances that the relationship may turn bitter, with no one to mend it.

• Disease:- February is the month that will be very good for getting yourself cured of all old ailments. Get a routine checkups done in February and see that all the diseases that played hide and seek with you are caught and cured. Going natural is the order of the year. Get regular medical tests done on you, as chances are there that you catch on some diseases. Avoid prohibited food as it can increase to your woes.

• Spouse:- The relationship with spouse shall be good for most part of the year in 2011. Cultivate good humour and enjoy the relationship with you spouse. This also will be peace giving. You stand a good chance to mend your reputation.

• Debt and Terminal disease:- Mend you habits and inculcate good virtues in you, it shall help in combating this problem. Loans raised for purchasing home can however be a profitable affair. Health can take for a ride.

• Fortune:- You may get a good return of the services you provided in terms of increments in salary and doing good in business but be careful as the fortune you are building for your future may not be helpful to you at all. You may eventually lose you reputation. So be careful in negotiating terms and negotiate keeping the future in mind. Turn religious this year; it will solve most of the problems.

• Profession and Employment:- This is going to be good for most part as Ketu will take a good care of you as it will be transiting this house. Again be cautious in striking deals as what appears good and yields instantaneously may not be that good eventually. Overall it will be a nice year for you as far these two aspects of life are concerned.

• Profits:- The profits shall come but the quantum could possibly not be understood by you. The returns may take a good time in showing its colour but mind you financially this year is going to be good for you. Invest the money wisely as you may loose it unknowingly and this money can take with it the previously earned money as well.

• Losses: - Do not be over experiment doer this year as the profit earned above may quickly vanish in wrong direction. Health and your accumulated wealth can take a beating. You have to be very careful while deciding in selling and buying properties. Similarly nagging health problems should be immediately consulted.
Jyotishacharya Vinay Sheel Saxena is a prominent vedic astrologer and Vastu expert. He has been practicing Indian Vedic astrology methodologies and techniques more than 20 years and provides best astrological services as vedic astrology predictions, vastu tips, horoscope, business and education readings.

Nietzsche, Artistic Intoxication, And The Collapse Of Nihilism: The Body As An Ontology Of Practice

2011-10-11T21:28:00.000-07:00

I.
Nietzsche writes, “what does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves” (WP 2). Nietzsche then sees ‘nihilism’ as the reality of the disappearance from our world of “highest values” that claim to be universal and objective. Nietzsche writes, “the real world, attainable to the wise, the pious, the virtuous man- he dwells in it, he is it” (TI, “How the ‘Real World’ at Last became a Myth”). For more than two thousand years now metaphysical rationalism has defined how we relate to the world in terms of epistemology, ethics, and politics. With Platonism a dualism was introduced into our horizon, whereby we have come accept the notion that truth and what justifies our conduct here on earth resides in a transcendent, idealistic, metaphysical “real world,” while our material realities are merely transient, inadequate, and needing of transcendence if we are to commune with that “real world.” Since Plato rationality, the dialectic, ascetic contemplation, and the will to give a spiritual interpretation to the unstable forces of becoming have become cultural hallmarks of modernity: what is valuable is one’s resolve to behave in such a way so as to tap into a transcendent logos of truth and absolute dignity.# The rise of Christianity, Nietzsche continues, only reinforced human beings’ conviction that a “life worth living” should be deeply marked by its metaphysical orientation: “The real world [the ideal world of the Forms], attainable for the moment, but promised to the wise, the pious, the virtuous man (‘to the sinner who repents’)” (Ibid). Christianity eventually inherited the dualistic tradition of Platonism, so that most of us continue to locate the source of value-making in an ideal realm that remains detached from everyday life but that has the power to pass judgments and impose norms on it.# What confers dignity to one’s life is one’s ability to behave, here on earth, in ways that prepare one for a promised millenarian communion with a deity in charge of history.

A defining feature of the highest values then is the project to impose on life rational or ethical perspectives that console us: through the intellectual and moral traditions of the Western consciousness we have been trained to believe that there exists an objective set of values to which we can appeal for meaning. Not surprisingly Nietzsche includes among the highest values most of our secular value systems, for they embrace the Platonist-Christian spiritual notion that truth really exists as a presence in a higher spiritual order although such presence must be recovered from behind the empirical realities of becoming, life, or nature. Nietzsche writes that “no doubt, those who are truthful in that audacious and ultimate sense that is presupposed by the faith in science thus affirm another world than the world of life, nature, and history; and insofar as they affirm this “other world”- look, must they not by the same token negate its counterpart, this world, our world?” (GS 344). Our scientific pursuits constitute another way in which we manifest the “will to truth” that drove both Platonism and Christianity. All three movements “negate” life because they affect some level of violence not only on nature but also on ourselves, since the search for objective, ultimate truths may cause us to turn life into a means (or a necessary ordeal) to securing these truths, as, for example, when scientists only show interest in the animal-mechanical aspects of life rather than its creative possibilities. Nietzsche sees the emergence of the so-called modern ideologies (classical liberalism, socialism, positivism, historicism, Darwinism, scientism, etc.) of late nineteenth century Europe as manifestations of the “metaphysical faith” that informs modern value making activities. # He warns against “the nihilistic consequences of the ways of thinking in politics and economics, where all ‘principles’ are practically histrionic: the air of mediocrity, wretchedness, dishonesty, etc. Nationalism. Anarchism, etc. Punishment” (WP 1). Behind the emotional and spiritual appeal of modern ideological systems, there subsists a will to dissimulate the reality of the collapse of value systems that claim objectivity and that give the modern personality a sense of moral comfort and stability.

Nietzsche’s metaphor for the nihilistic individual who makes value a matter of his own will is the “ugliest man,” # who operates the “death of God,” that is, the collapse of so-called objective metaphysical and secular ideals. We learn that the ugliest man (a figure of the morally self conscious modern subject) has grown tired of God’s pity, that is, God’s ability to transparently see through the horrible character of an existence (that of the ugliest man) that pretends to simulate ideal models. As a result, the ugliest man can no longer “endure” a God that witnessed “unblinking and through and through” his (the ugliest man’s) hypocritical, violent, hateful, and irreverent attitude toward life. “Where I have gone,” declares the ugliest man, “the way is bad. I tread all roads to death and destruction” (Z, IV, “The Ugliest Man.”). So God has to be murdered because His pity is too great and revealing.

The ugliest man tells us that God “looked with eyes that saw everything- he saw the depths and abysses of man, all man’s hidden disgrace and ugliness” (Ibid). The ugliest man, being self-conscious of the ugly nature of his life and experiencing a great deal of guilt since the presence of the highest ideals proves to be a mirror that constantly reflects back his life as a great lie, resolves to abandon his own identification with traditional, idealistic systems of values. He proclaims his power to fashion his own ideals. Like the modern compassionate individual whose pity toward the other leads her to affirm her will to power, pity then has a similar effect on the ugliest man. Though he reacts against God’s great pity, the ugliest man perceives such pity as a mirror, for his appreciation of God’s pity causes him to experience a moral disgust against his own life since, like many of us, he was trained by the “religion of pity” to deeply trust in God’s judgment. So the pity of the modern individual and the pity of the ugliest man are similar because in both individuals pity causes a deep reaction against the traditional perspectives on practical life. The ugliest man develops a hatred of values based on the pity of God (or of the ascetic ideologue, for that matter) because pity constantly reminds him of his own impotence, that is, his need to judge himself on the basis of values that subsist outside the scope of his will and that reflect back on his illusory life.

What is ugly about God’s murderer, the ugliest man, is his will to embrace the collapse of old idols as a reason to introduce a reactive set of values that further depreciates life and that demands our own creative intervention: “the ugly is the form things assume when we view them with the will to implant a meaning, a new meaning, into what has become meaningless: the accumulated force which compels the creator to consider all that has been created hitherto as unacceptable, ill-constituted, worthy of being denied, ugly!-“ (WP 416). God’s murderer is ugly because he deepens the meaninglessness of our world, so that if we are to defeat nihilism, we will have to transfigure his ugliness and introduce a more authentic set of values. The ugliest man experiences a visceral sentiment of spiritual nakedness that panics him into seeking a false compensation to the collapse of traditional values. He wants to escape nihilism without overturning old metaphysical habits. He now relies on the values offered through the practices of commercialized mass culture, social-utopian movements, political parties, and other secular value systems that pursue the will to truth.# Nietzsche writes, “the ways of self-narcotization.- deep down: not knowing whither. Emptiness” (WP 29). The will to action of the ugliest man is basically a form of negation, not positive construction, for he further pursues the metaphysical faith of the ascetic outlook; he acts on the basis of the notion that the traditional values have failed to produce the absolute truths that should guide our life. He expresses a will to impose on the lives of others meaning schemes that actually degrade their personal needs, impulses, and styles of life. This debilitating character in the perspective of the ugliest man is formative to nihilism: the death of God as the clash of competing, reactive, secular perspectives on human existence.

Ironically, then, the ugliest man, a symbol of the modern subject who reacts against God’s pity, embraces a mode of existence that inspires revulsion in some of us owing to its ugliness, that is, the character of the contradiction that plague his will. Nietzsche writes, “ugliness signifies the decadence [read decline] of a type, contradiction and lack of co-ordination among the inner desires-signifies a decline in organizing strength, in ’will,’ to speak psychologically” (WP 800). Contradiction in the basic impulses of the self points to an “ugly” mode of life, and we see in the ugliest man a desire to escape the hold of metaphysics accompanied by a will to impose on the world secular values whose skeleton is the old metaphysical faith in the will to truth. He reacts against the old metaphysical values’ tendency to ignore and distort our practical needs, motives, and reasons to be effective cultural actors, yet the secular values that he re-imposes on the world often refuse others the right to pursue their own practical needs, motives, and reasons. “The effect of the ugly is depressing: it is the expression of a depression. It takes away strength, it impoverishes, it weighs down” (WP 809). An individual experiences moral stagnation and lack of creativity when, for example, she models her outlook on life, her values, or her lifestyle on the moral discourses and norms offered by the managers of mass culture (modern figures of the “ugliest man“), for the latter excel in the administration of the masses’ desires, needs, and values. Nietzsche notes that “the ugly limps, the ugly stumbles: antithesis to the divine frivolity of the dancer” (Ibid). Contradiction in the impulses of the ugliest man, as shared by the late modern subject, promotes an aesthetically and ethically objectionable mode of existence because a self that cannot act and create abandons life to its challenges, imperfections, chaos, and difficulties, when it should act to remedy them.

By ‘nihilism,’ therefore, Nietzsche means the process whereby we lose faith in the notion that there exists objective sets of values that should always provide models for our lives because of the nauseating, pitiful and ugly character of the will (of the reactive modern subject) that upholds these values.

II.
In ways unforeseen by the modern subject, the body proves to be a powerful force in our ability to transform and reinterpret the aspects of becoming that we find objectionable. Nietzsche reminds us that “in all willing there is, first, a plurality of sensations, namely, the sensation of the state ‘away from which,’ the sensation of the state ‘towards which,‘ the sensation of this ‘from’ and ‘towards’ themselves, and then also an accompanying muscular sensation, which even without our putting into motion ‘arms and legs,’ begins its action by force of habit as soon as we ’will’ anything” (BGE 19). Qualities in the disposition of the body directly affect the nature of the becoming around us because both the body and becoming constitute a continual matrix of forces, and whether we subsist in nihilism or achieve an emancipated world depends on the nature of the pertinent direction these forces take. Nietzsche notes, “I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you” (Z, Ibid, 5). Nietzsche sees the will itself as an excessive force, and the forces whose excess the will configures are overwhelmingly those of the body, as opposed to purely cognitive and psychological elements, for only in the will as a bodily balance of forces can we understand Nietzsche’s claim that value depends on our ability to organize the chaos that structures the modern self. Nietzsche tells us that “what is essential ‘in heaven and on earth’ seems to be, to say it once more, that there should be obedience over a long period of time and in a single direction: given that, something always develops, and has developed, for whose sake it is worth while to live on earth; for example, virtue, art, music, dance, reason, spirituality- something transfiguring, subtle, mad, and divine” (Ibid). The disparate physiological and psychological structure of the will must be released, though in a regulated fashion if anything valuable is to take root in our culture. Nietzsche has in mind something akin to the great Romantic poets‘ notion of creativity as “controlled emotion.” # By referring to the “chaos” in the self, Nietzsche means to draw attention to the need to sublimate the multiplicity in the structure of the will.

Numerous practical issues and challenges structure our lives, so that we often do not seek to provide complete solutions to all of them. The only avenue we have to making something out of such practical chaos is to assume some level of self-discipline, so that we can prioritize our practical needs and make constructive choices. That Nietzsche underscores the chaos that exists in the self should be seen as his way of reminding us that we owe our cultural achievements to our ability to exert violence on the practical aspects of life that define us. For Nietzsche self-mastery involves a process whereby “an irreplaceable amount of strength and spirit had to be crushed, stifled, and ruined (for here, as everywhere, “nature” manifests herself as she is, in all her prodigal and indifferent magnificence which is outrageous but noble)” (Ibid). The flurry of practical-bodily issues that plague our lives demands a “narrowing of our perspective,” if we are to turn practical challenges into aesthetically and morally satisfying practices and value.

We also learn that that the multiplicity of the bodily will cannot be “explained mechanistically” (Ibid). For Nietzsche the forces of the will do not rationally structure themselves in a way that allows the mind to intuitively intent and represent the world, independent of the influence of the body because the will configures itself as will only as a result of forces spontaneously clashing. Consciousness cannot function as an interpretive force detached from the bodily realities of the self. Nietzsche believes that the Cogito functions as a conscious, mediating expression of a body structured as an unconscious self with its own hermeneutic powers.# Rational concepts can help interpret the modalities of the self, as an agent immersed in the practical events of life, but only after subterranean, bodily dynamics of willing give coherence to these rational concepts. Thus Zarathustra notes, “You say ‘I’ and you are proud of this word. But greater than this-although you will not believe in it-is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say ‘I’ but performs ‘I’” (Z, I, “Of the Despisers of the Body“). The modern subject is conscious of its own categories, but it fails to realize how much more significant is their real origin. A disembodied mind cannot grasp the real nature of the world it wants to interpret because emotions, personal temperament, behavioral habits, and our brute interactions with the material processes of the everyday life contribute to the ability of mind to accurately grasp what it wants to interpret. Our representations of the world take place as a continual matrix of rational and personality processes. In practical everyday life, Nietzsche is telling us, part of the reason why our interpretations of the world satisfy us is that they emotionally and temperamentally satisfy us; that is, such interpretations have grasped the metaphorical (symbolical) reality of the body since they draw on the latter’s multiplicity and continuity with the practical forces of becoming to impose perspectives on the world.

III.
In Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy we learn that great art is a product of a dialectic between two metaphysical and artistic principles: the Dionysian and the Apollonian (BT 1). The terms are derived from figures of Greek mythology, Apollo being the god of the plastic arts and Dionysus being the god of the musical arts. The Dionysian and the Apollonian, Nietzsche argues, are metaphysical principles because they are forces that underlie the world but also represent real dynamics of human subjectivity, whose synthesis represent the tragic experience in art.#

The modes of functioning of the two principles are then different in a way that proves important for artistic production. As metaphysical forces they point to the existence of a unified and transcendent reality of an artistic will (Ibid); the role of the Dionysian is to commune with that “primal unity”, and the role of Apollonian is to make that communion meaningful to us as individuals. The basic modality of the Apollonian is the dream experience, which expresses itself through the categories of imagination, illusions and representation, which in turn are crucial for the self to understand itself as a unified subjectivity, for they supply the forms and schemes that the subject inherits from society and imposes on the world to make it meaningful. Nietzsche asks us to “keep in mind that measured restraint, that freedom from wilder emotions, that calm of the sculptor god” (Ibid). Owing to their power of transfiguration,# the illusory but beautiful Apollonian codes that impose order on Dionysian frenzy repose the subject on a comforting state of self-knowledge and self-mastery, for the world is no longer absorbed as becoming, change and suffering but comprehended through clear rational models. The basic element in the Dionysian principle is the intoxicating experience that expresses itself through artistic rapture, an experience that dissolves subjectivity into the fluxes of becoming, for when the subject is under its intoxicating influence, “everything subjective vanishes into complete self-forgetfulness” (Ibid). The Dionysian owes its power to its ability to upset the balance of social norms, values, and categories (nurtured by the Apollonian) that make our life normal and meaningful as “sovereign” individuals.

By tragic art Nietzsche means the effect of the dialectic between these two principles. He notes that these two different tendencies run parallel to each other, for the most part openly at variance; and they continually incite each other to new and more powerful births, which perpetuate an antagonism, only superficially reconciled by the common term ‘art;’ till eventually, by a metaphysical miracle of the Hellenic ‘will,’ they appear coupled with each other, and through this coupling ultimately generate an equally Dionysian and Apollonian form of art-Attic tragedy” (Ibid). The two principles contest each other but also strengthen the effects of each other on the psyches of the tragic hero and his or her audience to create a tragic artistic experience, for whereas Dionysian rapture tends to build up in us a longing for a return to normality through Apollonian codes, Apollonian categories tend to gradually cause in us a feeling of cultural suffocation that compels us to demand a Dionysian release. A synthesis between the two principles, Nietzsche believes, is particularly significant to artistic creativity, for whereas the Dionysian inaugurates the release of chaotic primeval, de-individualizing metaphysical forces, the Apollonian imposes codes on that frenzied release to make it a coherent and tolerable artistic expression.

What makes the dialectic tragic is not only the contest and its resolution but also the character of the whole process: its dominance by the Dionysian principle. The Dionysian principle expresses a “primordial unity” within which all categories dissolve in the fluxes of change, becoming, and suffering, for “in song and in dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying into the air, dancing” (Ibid). Allowed to run its course as a purely metaphysical and artistic principle, the Dionysian has a liberating, narcotic and joyful effect in the subject despite revealing the essence of life as change, instability, and pain because the subject loses its ability to judge when it finds itself in total communion, as if merging, with the primordial metaphysical unity that underlies existence. This may compel us to wonder about the true nature of the relationships between the tragic and the meaninglessness of existence: if the tragic merges the subject with the absurd realities of life, is it a worthy aim to embrace a tragic outlook on life if it condemns us to a meaningless form of existence? This question poses a serious challenge to Nietzsche if we can correctly assume that once it grasps life as absurdity and suffering, the Dionysian will subsists at this level of its terrible discovery as an end-in-itself. Nietzsche writes, “the highest art in saying Yes to life, tragedy, will be reborn when humanity has weathered the consciousness of the hardest but most necessary wars without suffering from it” (EH, “The Birth of Tragedy,” 4). The aim of the Dionysian experience is not to stagnate in a meaningless existence but to go beyond and transforming the absurd suffering that plagues life; the tragic constitutes a truly affirmative perspective on life because suffering is the ground for asserting a joyful mode of existence.

IV.
Nietzsche believes that “the intoxication of the will” has the power to turn the will from its inward direction, where nihilism has imprisoned it, and thrust it outward into becoming; “intoxication must first have heightened the excitability of the entire machine: no art results before that happens” (TI, “Expeditions of an Untimely Man,” 8). The mechanism of intoxication consists in its ability to cause a condition of arousal in the will. If one believes that it is one’s duty to better human existence by creating progressive conditions, whereby the inspired individual authentically fashions a world meaningful to her because it reflects her creative possibilities (in the fifth section of the Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche tells us that “it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.”), and if one believes that human beings should be able to so relate to life as the meaning of their humanity, then one would welcome “a certain physiological precondition” that revives our sense of power and purpose. Nietzsche continues, “the essence of intoxication is the feeling of plenitude and increased energy” (Ibid). Intoxication can reverse the state of nothingness associated with nihilism because it has the power to cause the self to believe that it can master both itself and the world. Nietzsche insists that “it is impossible for the Dionysian man not to understand any suggestion of whatever kind, he ignores no signal from the emotions, he possesses to the highest degree the instinct for understanding and divining, just as he possesses the art of communication to the highest degree. He enters into every skin, into every emotion; he is continually transforming himself“ (Ibid, 10). A rapturous experience then emphasizes feeling as central to our awakening to becoming; as Heidegger remarks, in his discussion of rapture, “feeling achieves from the outset the inherent internalizing tendency of the body in our Dasein [the mode of existence of human beings].” # Through feeling, the cohesive powers of the body are extended into the world as our mode of existence. Nietzsche strongly feels that “from out of this feeling one gives to things, one compels them to take, one rapes them-one calls this procedure idealizing” (Ibid, 8). So the self’s emotive powers constitute an opportunity to reawaken the self.

But it is not enough to arouse the self; the body must also affirm itself within becoming. Nietzsche writes, “let us get rid of a prejudice here: idealization does not consist, as is commonly believed, in subtracting or deducting of the petty and secondary. A tremendous expulsion of the principal features rather is the decisive thing, so that thereupon the others too disappear” (Ibid). The goal is not to change the structures of becoming, for as an underlying reality, it will always remain a “primal unity” of chaos. What the intoxicating self tries to achieve is a “tremendous expulsion” of the figures it finds most authentic about itself. Such a self takes its lead from the multiplicity in the body in a manner that allows us to argue that the latter actually functions as an ontology of practice. The body that transfigures becoming is the body that expresses not what it readily takes to be its own essential features, which often are artificial and oppressive cultural norms, but what Dionysus recognizes as the underlying nature of reality: life as frenzied becoming, a realm in which our socially assigned individuality, which ignores needs that are true to us, is dissolved. Here the multiplicity of the self truly becomes an immanent dimension of the practical possibilities of becoming, as Dionysus tries to secure his “symbolic jubilee” of nature. The Dionysian hero seeks to change our perspectives on the structures of becoming by giving them powerful symbolic expressions.# The main issue that still concerns us is, using the Dionysian model, how do we recognize a body or a self as a symbol of affirmation?

We learn from Zarathustra, the self-proclaimed disciple of Dionysus, that we can symbolically recognize the non-nihilistic, transfigured body in the contorted forms it takes when the subject engages in a dynamic activity like dancing. He declares, “I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance” (Z, I, “Of Reading and Writing“). As much as the tragic hero, the teacher of the superhuman finds Dionysus, the god of music and dance, particularly useful in our effort to overcome nihilism, for through intoxicating dance the normal categories of bodily expectations and behavioral conventions are displaced.# Not surprisingly, Zarathustra reminds the “higher men,” who suffer from cultural impotence and who desire to recover their power of willing, “although there are swamps and thick afflictions on earth, he who has light feet runs across mud and dances as upon swept ice” (Z, IV, “Of the Higher Man,“ 17). Zarathustra confronts the ponderous weight of cultural decline and nihilism through affirmation, but a precondition for the success of that confrontation is the elimination of decadence and resignation as weighty afflictions that plague the body.

Zarathustra wants a subject prepared and predisposed to change, and, as we noted above, intoxication achieves this through an emotive experience that has the power to orient the self beyond the absurd, though here we see the same process articulated in a body that upsets its normal categories. Zarathustra advises the “higher men“, “lift up your hearts, my brothers, high! higher! And do not forget your legs! Lift up your legs, too, you fine dancers: and better still, stand on your heads! “ (Ibid). Through the activity of dancing the body symbolically affirms its liberation from nihilistic normality; that is, Zarathustra sees a possibility to uplift the subject above the conditions that have so far acted as a hinder to her life, for through dance the whole person is involved with the rhythmic pulses of music in a way that turns his or her life into a work of art, an achievement Dionysus envisions for anyone aspiring for a meaningful life. Zarathustra’s celebration of dance symbolizes the ability of some of us to transfigure the reality around them by transfiguring their own selfhoods.

Nietzsche writes, “What does the tragic artist communicate of himself? Does he not display precisely the condition of fearlessness in the face of the fearsome and questionable? -This condition itself is a high desideratum: he who knows it bestows on it the highest honours…In the face of tragedy the warlike in our soul celebrates its Saturnalias…” (TI, “Expeditions of an Untimely man“, 24). A Dionysian-like affirmation includes the ability to create a clearing effect in the midst of a nihilistic, hostile world that reacts to our own authentic needs, and such a clearing effect must also be a physiological experience, and that is why it takes a Saturnalian quality. The tragic artist seeks to produce a symbolic, positive situation within overwhelming conditions of nihilism. Zarathustra’s use of dance to render weightless the “swamps and thick afflictions” of nihilism represents his call that we rely on the body to introduce a positive symbolic force into becoming. Nietzsche insists that the Dionysian experience “is explicable only as an excess of energy” (Ibid, 4). Through dance, as a means to disrupt a nauseating and pitiful normality, we recognize a fracturing of existence, owing to an oversupplied artistic will, as a precondition toward creating the body as a symbol of affirmation.

That Nietzsche asks us “to welcome every moment of universal existence with a sense of triumph” should lead us to assume that life will continue to be a challenge that invokes our powers to judge and act, so that existence reduces to an eternal need to impose meaning schemes on the world. This leads Zarathustra to ponder: “if ever I have played dice with the gods at their table, the earth, so that the earth trembled and broke open and streams of fire snorted forth: for earth is a table of the gods, and trembling with creative new words and the dice throws of the gods: Oh how should I not lust for eternity and for the wedding ring of rings-the Ring of Recurrence!” (Z, III, “The Seven Seals,” 3). Nietzsche again reminds us that the transfiguration effected on becoming through existential action is not meant to permanently change the character of becoming, for the latter will have to remain a locus of possibilities and thus a field of chance, instability, suffering and dice throwing.# The body as beautiful figuration, through dance, consists in the insight that intoxication temporarily presents the self as a figurative aberration within nihilistic becoming. Nietzsche writes, “affirmation of life even in its strangest and sternest problems, the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types- that is what I called Dionysian…” (TI, “What I owe to the Ancients,” 5). Because beauty in becoming consists in a transfigured perspective that exalts our being and because beauty in becoming symbolizes our will to affirmation we can say that “the crooked” body that enraptures itself in Dionysian dance affirms a will that embraces the transfigured, beautiful realities of becoming as its content.

One could wonder whether the Dionysian self should be kept in a constant state of intoxication to maintain its affirmative and aesthetical qualities? Clearly it would not be healthy for any human person to subsist in a constant state of rapture. The state of the Dionysian self is temporary, and after the rapturous “metaphysical comfort” has passed, it may express its satisfaction with the important changes operated on the categories of our culture. To understand this process, we must return to Nietzsche’s vision of tragic art as a synthesis between the beautiful codes and appearances of the Apollonian principle and the ecstatic and rapturous affirmations of the Dionysian principle. Nietzsche notes that “tragedy closes with a sound which could never come from the realm of Apollonian art. And thus the Apollonian illusion reveals itself as what it really is- the veiling during the performance of the tragedy of the real Dionysian effect; but the latter is so powerful that it ends by forcing the Apollonian drama itself into a sphere where it begins to speak with Dionysian wisdom and even denies itself and its Apollonian Visibility“ (BT 21). Through its codes and dream-like categories the Apollonian principle seeks to return the subject to the normality of social existence as an individual satisfied with the prevalent cultural order, but as Nietzsche notes Dionysian intoxication is powerful enough to upset the reigning codes. The body transformed into a symbol of affirmation, beauty, and joy remains a transfigured body, and if it is to be re-coded by the Apollonian perspective, for the sake of a return to social normality,# such re-coding must incorporate the Dionysian body as a unique, often non-conforming self, for the Apollonian force must speak “finally the language of Dionysus.” Like the masters of slave morality, the Apollonian order would show respect to the Dionysian force only if the latter expresses itself through a powerful force of affirmation. Having been impressed by the Dionysian-like self’s ability to convey its different practical needs, our Apollonian-like cultural conventions are likely to be influenced by the former (the “other”) as society debates value.

V.
We found that Nietzsche believes that nihilism, as the collapse of objective values that some of us perceive in aspects of contemporary life, originates from a feeling of repulsion against the ugly character of a mode of existence disfigured by its “metaphysical faith” and which compels some of us to abandon our reverence for objective value. We agree with Nietzsche that transforming our nihilistic table of values should include embracing the tragic hero’s bodily approach as a model. That is, since the Dionysian perspective, as aesthetic intoxication, gives the tragic hero a means to both overcome and elevate life, we should embrace it as our guide to face up to practical life and affirmatively draw from the latter values that reflect our own unique needs. Indeed in the example of Zarathustra we saw that such model can actually succeed in turning the human subject into a culturally creative being by transforming the body into a situation of personal, joyful and aesthetic affirmation.
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The Fine Art Of Going Fast.

2011-10-07T18:34:00.000-07:00

Passionate about cars, motorcycles and anything mechanical that started out well-made and has endured decades without ever being molested, Jeff is a product of the southern California hot-rod scene, his father, Allen’s, understudy. While Jeff didn’t inherit his dad’s mechanical skills, he did acquire the discriminating eye of an artist and the passion for historical significance. Indeed, it is each subject’s inherent blend of art and history that makes every Jeff Decker sculpture exceptional.

Yet it’s more than the motorcycle that makes Decker’s work so fascinating. As he tells it, “There is nothing that embodies the urgency of our age and the modern synergy of man and machine better than a motorcycle and its rider. It is a perfect marriage of mechanical and organic aspects of our world.” Decker seeks to capture the glory of the Golden Age of motorcycle racing. “These guys were every bit as colorful as Wild Bill Cody in the cowboy era. In fact, boardtrack racers played to bigger audiences than Babe Ruth. I am committed to giving them their due.” As you examine Decker’s work you see this commitment in the subject’s race face, their position on the bike, their grip on the bars and the detailed rendering of every valve tappet getting revved to its limit.

The research that Decker performs prior to creating each sculpture is a clear indication of his passion. Take, for example, the iconic “Flat Out at Bonneville” piece, where Rollie Free stretched his bathing-suit-clad body across his Vincent Black Lighting to ride 151.3 mph across the salt for the world record. The rider’s total commitment is clearly evident, but the historical accuracy of the sculpture came through exhaustive research.

“I uncovered a scrapbook that had been stored in the basement of the son of Rollie Free’s mechanic. With that archive I was able to trade with Herb Harris, Mike Parti and Jay Leno to assemble the largest source of reference on Rollie’s person. Jerry Hatfield, who was writing a book on Rollie, had to put off publishing for years because of the find. Thousands of documents and photos gave me the background I needed to sculpt. I also used his actual motorcycle, posing a model in the famous prone position to capture the image from all angles. Several details found during my research helped the restorer Herb Harris make his motorcycle more faithful to that famed day in 1948.”

This level of dedication caught the eye of Willie G. Davidson, who led the charge to name Decker as Harley-Davidson’s official sculptor. The most visible result of this recognition so far appears on the grounds of the H-D Museum in Milwaukee. Unveiled at the museum’s opening in 2008, this 16-foot-high, 5,000-pound monument to achievement is a life-plus-half-size 1930 DAH hill climber and rider that is considered Decker’s masterpiece.

Working from his own immaculately restored DAH—and within sight of the legendary Widowmaker hillclimb venue—Decker propped the bike in the position he wanted and had a model climb aboard, dressed with actual examples of the period’s helmets,
goggles and leathers. The dramatic pose came by looking though volumes of photos of early hillclimbers, where the guys who won reached the top while tossing the bike forward in a blaze of dust and glory. The sculpture came after more than a year
of sculpting, molding, casting, welding and patination.

From board and dirt track to speedway and road course, and to the back roads and byways in between, every sculpture’s goal is to capture the emotion of the moment for the rider and the machine depicted. In addition to his fine art pieces, Decker’s art is used for perpetual awards at the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), The Utah Salt Flats Racing Association (USFRA) and the Legends of the Motorcycle concours’ de elegance.

“The people who are collecting my artwork are passionate about motorcycling. But they also appreciate the work I put in. It takes months and sometimes years to make a piece and costs thousands of dollars just for the foundry work. Sure, the prices for my work aren’t small, but I love the look on peoples’ faces when they take ownership. And while I’m sensing a breakthrough in the fine arts world, I will always do this work for what it says about motoculture, especially in its historical sense.”
Rider, December 2009

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Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. The Wife Of Bath's Tale

2011-10-02T17:39:00.000-07:00

An housbonde I wol have, I wol nat lette,
Which shal be bothe my dettour and my thral (154-5)

She uses her tale to extend this idea from being a personal preference, and a maxim to be followed by 'every womman that is wys' (524) to a universal truth. The knight of her tale is set the task of finding:

What thing is it that wommen moost desiren. (905)

When he gives his answer to a supreme court of women, headed by the queen, there is no disagreement at all:

Wommen desiren to have sovereinetee
As wel over hir housbond as hir love,
And for to been in maistrie him above. (1038-40)

In al the court ne was ther wyf, ne maide,
Ne widwe, that contraried that he saide, (1043-4)

The fact that the knight's life is in the hands of the queen rather than the king is in itself a sign that the tale is a product of The Wife's imagination. King Arthur has condemned the knight to death, according to the law of the land, and yet in response to the pleas of the queen and other women,

. . . yaf him to the queene, al at hir wille,
To chese wheither she wolde him save or spille (897-8)

Thus even The King of England is subject to his wife.

The Wife uses her tale as a vehicle for her own views, and often she leaves the tale altogether and resumes the self-centred theme and colloquial style of her prologue. She lists all the alternative answers the knight received to his question, the list including everything which, in her prologue, she has shown that she demands from a marriage as well as 'sovereinetee'.

Somme seyde wommen loven best richesse,
Somme seyde honour, somme seyde jolinesse
Somme riche array, somme seyden lust abedde,
And oftetime to be widwe and wedde. (925-8)
. . .
And somme seyen that we loven best
For to be free, and do right as us lest, (935-6)

Her inclusion of herself with 'we', and the unusual inclusion of 'oftetime to be widwe and wedde' make it clear that this is The Wife's own interpolation, beyond the requirements of the tale.

The Wife digresses from her tale after the first half dozen or so lines to air her views on another subject close to her heart, 'limitours and othere hooly freres' (866). Her grievances against the church are many. The church's solemn repressive attitude towards sex, and most other forms of enjoyment, conflict strongly with her robust hedonism. In the prologue she exclaims

Allas, allas, that evere love was sinne! (614)

The church was also responsible for the dissemination of anti-feminist literature and attitudes, and here The Wife, an arch-feminist, is in direct conflict.

For trusteth wel, it is an impossible
That any clerk wol speke good of wives, (688-9)

If we turn to the character of the Loathly Lady of The Wife's tale, we find some differences between her and The Wife, and some similarities. The main characteristic they have in common is the wish to dominate their husbands. There is also a marked similarity in their tactics for achieving this goal. Both make their husbands suffer, and both use the persuasive techniques of argument. Both also draw upon authorities in support of their arguments; The Wife from The Bible, Ovid, and many others, and The Loathly Lady from Dante and Seneca.

Just as, in the prologue, The Wife puts up the husband's assumed complaints against her, putting him in the wrong, and knocking his arguments down one by one, so the Loathly Lady puts up the knight's objections.

Thou art so loothly, and so oold also,
And therto comen of so lough a kinde (1100-1)

She adds the fault of being poor, not even mentioned by the knight, and by pseudo-logic presents the faults as virtues. Both women succeed in gaining the submission of their partners for the same reason - the husbands are so frustrated and exasperated that they give in to get some peace.

The chief difference in the approach of the two wives is that whereas The Wife argues almost entirely on personal grounds, The Loathly Lady argues on the more objective and moralistic grounds of living up to the claim of 'Nobility', the true source of which was a much discussed subject in the middle ages. On one level we can assume that Chaucer has introduced this theme for the edification of his audience, but it is also likely that The Wife has included this serious subject in order to comply with The Host's original request in The General Prologue for,

Tales of best sentence and moost solaas (800).

In her prologue The Wife demonstrates herself to be an intelligent woman, and good at dissembling. At the funeral of her fourth husband, for example, she acts the part of the grieving widow, so she would undoubtedly be able to act out the serious tone necessary for the Loathly Lady's 'Nobility' argument. Putting herself in the role of The Loathly Lady also serves The Wife's purpose of championing the cause of women, in that to subjugate a knight and prove him to be ignoble would be a greater achievement than the real life subjugation of her first three elderly, feeble, husbands, and it is achieved by a more acceptable means than her childish deceitful attack on Jankin. In this way, and in the final transformation of The Loathly Lady into a beautiful young woman, the tale can be seen as a wish-fulfilment on the part of The Wife.

Thus The Wife's tale is more than appropriate to the prologue; it is essential that we know the character of The Wife through her prologue before we can fully make sense of the tale.

Bibliography

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. Ed. James Winny. Cambridge University Press. 1965.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Ed. James Winny. Cambridge University Press. 1965.
Ian Mackean runs English Literature Resources & Essays, (where his site on Short Story Writing can also be found), and Books Made Into Movies.com. He is editor of 'The Essentials of Literature in English post-1914'. He is also a keen amateur photographer and has made a site of his photography at Photo-zen.com photography

Class Act: Top 10 Tips For Using A Motivational Speaker To Inspire Youth

2011-10-02T16:32:00.000-07:00

Now, more than ever, they need the courage, ethics and critical thinking skills to solve complex problems. Adults the world over are counting on them.
The reality, however, is that many of today's youth, from the tween to the twenty-something, are disillusioned and disenfranchised. Today's adults are leaving them with a legacy of war, environmental degradation and poverty, where a person's worth is too often judged by the size of their bank account.

How can adults help them rise to the challenge?

Many teachers, administrators and community leaders are turning to motivational speakers as a way of reaching and inspiring youth. Rich Libner, president of MCP Speakers, has worked with school boards, college administrators and youth leadership to bring messages of hope to young people. They need to feel they can make a difference, says Libner, and motivational speakers have proven time and again that the actions of one person matter. It's the kind of learning that goes way beyond the classroom.

Many teachers, administrators and community leaders are turning to motivational speakers as a way of reaching and inspiring youth. Rich Libner, president of MCP Speakers, has worked with school boards, college administrators and youth leadership to bring messages of hope to young people. They need to feel they can make a difference, says Libner, and motivational speakers have proven time and again that the actions of one person matter. It's the kind of learning that goes way beyond the classroom.

Inspire the youth in your life with our top 10 tips for using a school or youth-oriented motivational speaker.

1. Pinpoint what is holding your group back
2. Identify the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead
3. Seek expert advice
4. Remember that timing is everything
5. Choose a speaker who can connect with youth
6. Involve youth in planning the event
7. Get the most fame you can afford
8. Think of what personal experiences will have the most impact on your group
9. Inspire the adults so they can pass it on
10. Tie the speaker's lessons to ongoing projects and activities

1) Pinpoint what is holding your group back

Maybe it's poverty. Broken families. Lack of positive role models. Hopelessness. Fear of the future. Poor self-esteem. The more specific you can be about the needs of the youth you are trying to reach, the more successful you will be at finding a speaker who can make a difference in their lives.

2) Identify the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead

While it is important to recognize the power of the past, a good motivational speaker should provide the inspiration and tools for youth to succeed in the future. Think about the unique challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for your group and pass this valuable context on to your speaker.

3) Seek expert advice

You wouldn't expect to put together an event menu without the advice of a caterer or mike a conference room without the assistance of a sound technician. So don't hesitate to contact a speakers bureau when looking for a motivational speaker for your school or youth group, advises Libner. A speakers bureau will help take the uncertainty and guesswork out of speaker selection. The relationship is really a partnership, Libner notes, with both parties sharing the same goal: a standing ovation. A speakers bureau will also offer event planning support, including help with travel arrangements, audio-visual requirements and back-up planning in case a speaker must cancel. The host organization doesn't pay anything for the speakers bureau's services, since payment comes from the speaker.

4) Remember that timing is everything

Choose the right moment for a school or youth motivational speaker. Endings and beginnings are both excellent opportunities to employ a speaker--think graduation or during the first week of high school or university. At these important moments, young people may be more receptive to a motivational speaker's message, either because they are concerned about the future or open to possibilities. Motivational speakers can also be used to help celebrate successes--for example at an athletic banquet or an event to congratulate honour roll students--or as a way to motivate achievement prior to exams.

5) Choose a speaker who can connect with youth

Some motivational speakers use their young age to connect with the audience, but don't feel your motivational speaker must be a peer to be effective. It is more important that the speaker, regardless of her age, creates a believable bond with the students and quickly inspires trust. Humour and personal anecdotes are important ways to connect with youth, but beware of speakers who use controversy, obscenities or devaluing of adults as a cheap way of building rapport with the crowd. A skillful motivational speaker will orient the presentation to different learning styles so everyone stays engaged.

6) Involve youth in planning the event

Nothing gets buy-in faster than having the power to shape the outcome, so make sure that youth have the opportunity to contribute their ideas to the event. Not only will they feel valued but the final product will better respond to their needs.

7) Get the most fame you can afford

Young people are immersed in a celebrity-conscious culture so use this to your advantage. Know your budget and secure the most well-known talent you can.

8) Think of what personal experiences will have the most impact on your group

Motivational speakers typically share their personal journey as a way of teaching and inspiring others. Andrew Brash, for example, is a mountain climber who abandoned his own climb to rescue someone who was left for dead by another expedition. Matt Hill, actor, athlete and co-founder of Run for the Planet, speaks to audiences about fulfilling dreams against the odds and the power of a role model. Will an elite athlete who grew up in poverty, a cancer survivor, a mountain climber or a Paralympian be the most compelling speaker for your youth?

9) Inspire the adults so they can pass it on

It can be difficult to get all the middle schoolers or all the freshmen in your city together in one room to benefit from a motivational speaker. In-service the adults who spend time with the youth and you can multiply the benefits a thousand-fold. Motivational speakers can present to teachers, parents, professors and service agencies. They can even present to student leaders as a way of helping the leaders inspire and motivate their peers. Hosting a small in-service rather than a keynote event means those in attendance will feel more like participants than audience members. Increased interaction with the speaker through a workshop or discussion format can extend learning.

10) Tie the speaker's lessons to ongoing projects and activities

Revisit the principles, strategies and messages from the motivational speaker's talk during the rest of the year. This will deepen the learning and allow students the opportunity to try out techniques.

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How To Start A Day Trading Business?-seven Steps To Day Trading Profit

2011-09-27T10:44:00.000-07:00

Day trading, like any other business professions, needs serious education, quality planning, and plenty of practice. Numerous beginners enter the daytrading business each day in hope of making quick cash. But just a few of those who get properly educated, possess a good trading plan and self-control can survive and thrive in the business. Many of them make lots of money every day trading only for a couple of hours, and spend the remainder of their days freely with their family and friends, doing whatever they love to do.

But how to become a good day trader and make real money in the market? Let’s take a look at the idea:

Step 1. We need to give ourselves a thorough education on the financial market. We should find out what financial instruments can be found in the market, and what instruments go well with our day traders best. Next we need to familiarize ourselves with the various day trading strategies and try to find one that fits us the best. Search engines including Google and Yahoo are great places to find day trading courses and strategies. We'll need to carry out our in depth analysis and utilize our own judgment to find the right one that fits us most. We should also equip ourselves with the trading tools such as market research tools, realtime trading software, and find and sign-up with a trustful discount broker.

Step 2. Once we have determined our trading strategy, the next task is to write up a trading plan. Yes, we should put our trading plan in paper. Within this trading plan, we will outline our mission statement-what we wish to achieve in day trading? What are our short term and long-term objectives? Do we want to get a little extra income aside from our regular job, or will we wish to turn into financially independent by doing day trading? We will also want to prepare an in depth plan on our daily trading activities that include pre-market research, our entry and exit strategy, and our after-market groundwork.

Step 3. Set up an account for paper trading. Once we have written up our trading plan, we are set out to test the water by paper trading or carrying out trading simulation. This is very essential as we do not wish to risk our real money before we're comfortable with the game. There are lots of trading simulation software readily available for free on the market and we may also check out with our broker to see if they provide a real-time trading simulation platform. When doing simulation, attempt to consider ourselves as trading with our real money and act according to our trading plans.

Step 4. Set a daily limit, both for profit and for loss. After we have built up self-confidence in day trading, we try to trade once or twice a week with real money. It is very important set a daily limit for both profit and loss. For example, we can set a daily profit target at $200, and a loss limit of $100. Once we have reached either limit, we should stop trading. Turn off your computer, go out and take a walk or have a cup of tea. Never over-trade.

Step 5. Have a good money management system in place. Before we enter each trade, we ought to evaluate our worst case scenario. How much money we can afford to lose in each trade we enter if we happen to lose in every single trade we made for the day? Knowing our maximum affordable loss for each trade is important as we will deliberately limit our size of entry and set up our stop loss even before our trade. This can prevent us from losing big and keep us in the game.

Step 6. Fix our emotion issues through writing trade logs. For day traders, keeping our emotions in check is a big challenge and need much disciple and exercise. Every day, we may be distracted by numerous emotions such as fear, pride, ego, etc. These emotions may prevent us from following our trading plans and eventually deteriorate our confidence. An effective way to fix this issue is to write trade logs regularly on a daily basis. When writing logs, we will analyze each trading action and record the actual logic or emotion behind trade. When we see ourselves fall in the trap of emotions, we will remind ourselves not to make the same mistake the next time. By practicing this plenty of time, we will train our mind to follow the logic and keep our emotions in check.

Step 7. Reward ourselves when we abide by our rules. Whenever we follow our strategy or trading plan to the letter, regardless of a winning or a losing trade, we need to give ourselves a big pat on the back, because we have conquered our emotions and made a big leap toward day trading success and financial freedom. When we have achieved our short term target, we should not forget to reward ourselves for the hard work and achievement. Be it a trip to Las Vegas or a cool iPad, put this in our trading plan as it will motivate us to achieve our goal. In the end, we deserve it anyway.
Lizzie Liang is a full time day trader. If you want to know more about this topic, you should really check out her blog at www.daytradingbusiness.net.

How To Give An Outstanding Acceptance Speech: 7 Presentation Secrets Learned From The Academy Awards

2011-09-25T15:13:00.000-07:00

Will you be ready when it is your time to give an acceptance speech?

The following are seven presentation secrets to giving an outstanding acceptance speech in any situation:

1. Prepare For the Moment – You may have heard the Oscar winners say, “I really didn’t think I would win,” or “I really didn’t think I would be standing here tonight,” and then give an acceptance speech like they didn’t think they would win. Well, my question is, “Why did you think you were invited to this gala event?”

Most likely, you will know ahead of time that you will be possibly winning an award, so take the time to prepare your presentation. Practice your speech using a tape recorder or, better yet, a video camcorder. Also, if you can, give a dress rehearsal of your speech in front of friends, family, or colleagues.

2. Agree Who Will Give the Speech - Time and time during the Academy Awards Ceremony, the first person to the microphone will speak for the full thirty second time limit and not allow the other winners in the group (many seen clutching their own acceptance speech notes) the opportunity to give their acceptance speeches. Where this moment should be one of the happiest moments in their lives, you can see the disappointment on the faces of the winners who didn’t have the opportunity to speak.

When you are working as a team on a project and are receiving an award, agree in advance who the acceptance speaker will be. This might be the team leader, the manager, vice president, etc., but work this out before giving the speech.

If you decide on one person to give the speech, then you need to decide on who will be recognized during the time this person gives the presentation. Also, when speaking for the group, make sure the “I’s” are changed to “We’s.” For example, when speaking for the group say, “We would like to acknowledge the following people…” instead of saying, “I would like to acknowledge the following people…” Remember, the designated speaker is representing the group.

If decision is to have several team members speak, achieve consensus on how much time each person will have to speak so that each person has an equal opportunity to express appreciation.

3. Use Notes to Enhance Your Presentation – At the Academy Awards Ceremony, one person read his entire speech from his notes, not once looking at the audience. What he had to say was very heartfelt and sincere; however, his sincerity didn’t translate to the audience because his notes were in the way.
When giving an acceptance speech, use notes as a tool to enhance your presentation and not as a crutch. Only use notes for remembering the opening sentence, important names to thanks, or whatever facts you need to mention. Don’t have the entire speech on notes.

The following are some quick tips for working with notes:

* Practice with your notes so that your speech is natural.
* Type your notes. In the heat of the moment and sometimes bad lighting, our eyesight can become a little challenged. Type your notes in 16-18 point fonts.
* Double space your sentences so that you can easily read your notes.
* Type only on the top half of a full page so that you are less likely to lose your place after looking up at the audience.
* Look up at the audience after every two or three sentences to maintain rapport with the audience.
* Number your notes in case they fall and become scrambled so that you can quickly recover.
* Practice a smooth transition for pulling your notes out of your pocket or portfolio.
* Don’t flip your notes because the flipping noise will cause a distraction for your audience. Practice sliding your notes.

4. Share the Wealth – How many times have we seen at the Academy Awards ceremony where some persons went on about how they personally achieved the reward or, worst yet, forgot to acknowledge the most important person for whom they would not have achieved the award (Remember Hillary Swank not remembering to thank her husband?).

Take the time to give appreciation to the organization giving you the award and to those who helped you achieve the award. No person is an island. You achieved the goal through the help of someone(s), so acknowledge and appreciate them. To save time, if it is a few people, acknowledge them by name. If it is a large group of people, department, or organization, mention the group by name. For example, you might say, “I would like to acknowledge the people in marketing for their hard work on the Peterson project for making this moment happen. If it were not for their time and effort, we would not have won the XYZ account. Thank you.”

Also, only thank the necessary people during your acceptance speech. Don’t thank Guttenberg for inviting the printing press if he has nothing to do with why you accomplished your achievement. Stay focused on only those people who had a direct effect on your achievement.

5. Let Sincerity Flow Through Your Speech – Let your appreciations come from the heart. Briefly convey your own feelings regarding your appreciation of the award and all that it represents. Be honest and don’t over exaggerate your feelings while accepting the award.

Be clear and concise in your showing of appreciation because you will most likely be under time constraints.

6. Value the Award – Many times during the Academy Awards Ceremony, you will hear the winner of an award say, “I really don’t deserve this award,” or “I really shouldn’t be standing here.” When you make statements like that, you devalue the award and recognition given to you. Also you question the judgment of the people who chose you to accept the award. Simply acknowledge their judgment and recognition and continue your speech.
7. Stay Within the Time – At the Academy Awards, the Oscar winners have thirty seconds before the band starts playing the “wrap it up” music. In many cases, the winner attempts to speak over the music. Between the band and the Oscar recipient, who do you think wins? Of course, it is the band. As soon as the band starts playing the music, the audience stops listening to the recipient.

Many times when you are given an award during a meeting, conference, etc., you are also under time restrictions. In most cases, you will have longer than thirty seconds. Take the time to ask the person in charge of the meeting how much time you have for your speech. Also, make it a habit to look at the agenda ahead of time to see how much time you have been allotted. It may be only three minutes, 10 minutes, or 30 minutes, but find out ahead of time. By finding out ahead of time and staying within the time given to you, you show respect to your audience, the people in charge of the meeting, and most of all yourself. Once you go over the time allotted, you can see the audience members start looking at their watches and stop listening to your important speech.

Note: If you can’t find out ahead of time how much time you have to make your speech, assume you have very limited time and keep you comments brief.

Take the time to apply these seven acceptance speech secrets and you will give an outstanding presentation each and every time you receive an award.
Ed Sykes is a highly sought after expert, author, professional speaker, and success coach in the areas of leadership, motivation, customer service, and team building. You can e-mail him at mailto:esykes@thesykesgrp.com, or call him at (757) 427-7032. Go to his web site, www.thesykesgrp.com , and signup for the newsletter, OnPoint, and receive his free motivation and customer service ebooks.

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2011-09-20T18:28:00.000-07:00

Success Through The Eyes Of A Child

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2011-09-08T07:28:00.000-07:00

The Fine Art Of Going Fast.

2011-09-03T10:37:00.000-07:00

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Class Act: Top 10 Tips For Using A Motivational Speaker To Inspire Youth

2011-09-02T13:53:00.000-07:00

How To Start A Day Trading Business?-seven Steps To Day Trading Profit

2011-08-31T23:33:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-31T01:50:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-28T15:48:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-23T12:56:00.000-07:00

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2011-08-06T18:25:00.000-07:00

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Life Coaching Tips- How To Eliminate Fear From Your Life

2011-07-27T06:32:00.000-07:00

You know what you want. In fact, most of the time, you even know what to do to get what you want, but you get stopped by fear, doubt and uncertainty. These are emotions that tell you that you're listening to your mind, or you're allowing your mind to control your life. Your mind, which I call the "Drunk Monkey," is nothing more than a survival tool. It's a fantastic device that has developed over time for human beings. Its job is to steer us away from danger. Its job is to steer us toward propagating the species, and to keep us safe from danger, and that's about it.

No goals and dreams are achieved via the mind. Goals and dreams are achieved via inspiration. How do you get the inspiration, when what you want seems so big? Does what you want seem too unattainable? Maybe you feel like you're not enough or you don't know what to do. You have to begin with the empowerment process.

The empowerment process begins with the word “aware”. There are four inspirational words in sum: awareness, flexibility, options, and power. Let's take them one at a time.

With awareness, you start to see that your mind is not your friend. You begin to see that the "Drunk Monkey" in your head is really focused in on what isn't working, what you don't like, or what might hurt you. It has thoughts like “I'll be embarrassed” or “I won't look good” or “I won't be enough” or “I'll feel stupid. I'll feel like an idiot” or “my family will leave me”. These are the kinds of thoughts that the Drunk Monkey in your head is going to spin for you, when you ask it to do things you don't normal do.

Your goals and dreams are things you don't normal do, expansion, where you want to go. With awareness, you can start to see that your mind is not on your side. It's not helping you achieve your goals. It's just this biology. It's operating independently of you and it's doing what it's doing. That awareness will lead to the second part of the empowerment process, which is flexibility.

Once you are aware that your mind is running the show, that you are literally the Drunk Monkey's puppet, you can begin to make choices. This flexibility that you have now, leads to the third part of the process, which is options.

As soon as you recognize that your mind is running the show, that the Drunk Monkey is holding the puppet strings of your life and pulling those puppet strings with fear, anxiety, doubt, uncertainty, anger, frustration, as soon as you realize that, a new set of options opens up. Well, what if I took the action? What if I went this direction instead? How about if I ask for help? On and on you go, with all these new options popping into your head that weren't there before. Once you realize that your mind is not a goal achievement vehicle or a goal achievement organ, as so many personal developments gurus have espoused in the past, this leads to number four, which is power.

When you're aware of what your mind is doing, you become more flexible. When you are flexible, you see more options. You have options in your life. Those options empower you to take new actions. This action is what I call inspired action. You become inspired and empowered to take action on your dreams. You experience an energy inside of you, pulling you forward, and having you actually feel confident when before you felt fear.
Matthew Ferry a Life Coach,The Life Coaching Company Matthew Ferry International offers life coaching, law of attraction and dozens of training products and seminars relating to the law of attraction to help you find your passion and love your life.

Why Are You Not Achieving Your Goals Successfully?

2011-07-22T21:58:00.000-07:00

Now is the time to learn better strategies that will take you straight to success while having fun during the process of getting there because when you apply this advice you will get there!

A goal is something you want to have or something you want to change in your life. It is basically a project you can manage in a smart way so that in the end you’ll find yourself where you wanted to be when you stated your goal, and began to take steps towards making it happen. But first it starts out in your mind and adopting better thinking strategies followed by powerful action actually will ensure your success, which is what you want… do you not?

Many if not most of the people make New Year’s resolutions and set up goals to quit shortly after that because they feel unhappy and frustrated. The reason is, they constantly compare their actual unsatisfying situation with the ideal goal they want to reach and the only thing they can see is the wide gap between the two places. You feel unhappy and you end up spending lots of energy to keep you constantly motivated when you don’t feel like doing anything because it is impossible to be motivated all the time. And before long you quit!

In other words, if you delay any kind of gratification or feelings of satisfaction until the ideal goal is completely achieved, you are actually making sure you will not accomplish your goal. Some goals can’t be achieved over night so the more you delay the good feelings you think you’ll have when you achieve your final goal, the more difficult it will become to achieve. It is that simple!

There is another aspect of unsuccessful goal setting, watch out! If you decide you are a success only and only if you shed off these 30 pounds or when you are a millionaire, perhaps when you buy that Mercedes and have it standing in your drive way, then you are trapped in a place where there is not escape, as you will be denying yourself any good feelings to keep going… unless you do it the way I am about to share with you.

If you wanted to cross over a river, you would use a bridge to walk on until you reach the other side and if you wanted to grab something that sits on a high shelf you would use a ladder, so why would accomplishing a goal be any different?

Now, what can you do differently and in the present moment to ensure your goals will be successfully accomplished and with fun?

Pick a goal: what do you want?
It can be anything but let’s take the example of a weight loss goal.

Solution 1: make a power decision. What is the first thing you will notice when heading towards your goal? What is the first success?
You want to shed off 20 pounds so if you notice that you shed 2 pounds on your way, congratulate yourself and keep going. Do more of the things you notice bring about success.

Build a bridge between where you were when you started and your final goal. You simply make smaller steps and these little goals will be easy to achieve. The result will surprise you because it will lead you straight to your wished big goal. Keep going and keep rewarding yourself and feeling good about what you’ve already achieved while feeling certain that sooner or later you will be at your final destination!

Solution 2: keep a journal of your progress and successive successes on the way to your goal. People tend to forget what they have already achieved and where they were when they started their journey towards a goal, so by keeping it all written down you can go back any time and see how far you’ve come already and that will keep you on track and highly motivated. It makes the whole project fun and worth going for.

These two important strategies will show you that you are a success and that you don’t have to wait for any final result to feel good about it or about yourself. In fact whatever feelings you think or believe you will have when your goal has manifested in the real world, start on your way by having them right now and build your bridge to success from then on.

What you’ve learned so far to achieve a goal with success is this: it is very helpful to have a concrete and easy way to track your progress. Find a way to make your goal as concrete as possible and break it down to smaller steps you can accomplish with success.

And to make your goal achievement even easier and more of a success follow these steps:
Choose a goal
Check whether the goal is good for you and will enrich your life
Find the resources that will help you achieve your goal: information, people to help you, advice…
Prioritize your goal so you keep hitting your target until you hit it finally
Track your goal, the progress and success journal will help you with that
The freedom to change or even discard your goal if you don’t want it anymore or if it no longer suits you

What now? If you have goals that you’ve already started working on, make them easy to track and start your progress and success journal. Walk the bridge step by successful step, all the way to your final success!

Karima Begag
Karima Begag is a success, creativity and manifestation coach. Her teachings include a wide variety of success technologies and tools. You are special and you deserve to live the life of your dreams Now! To get amazing success and self empowerment tips and tools plus a FREE E-Book “The Manifesting Mindset”, a gem of manifesting tools, your golden key to your dreams come true go here: www.ManifestWealthSuccess.com

Five Performance Lessons From The Biggest Loser

2011-07-17T11:39:00.000-07:00

To give you an idea, the most recent winner, Danny Cahill a 40-year-old man from Oklahoma, went from 430 pounds to 191 pounds in 7 months (that`s 239 pounds LOST).

When my wife first began watching the show and telling me how fascinating it was, I wasn`t that interested; reality TV didn`t seem very real to me, and I didn`t really want to watch. After a few more conversations, I decided to watch with her.

The show is "reality TV" and therefore there are elements that don`t interest me that much, and I wish it wasn`t so long (it`s the perfect candidate for your DVR), but overall I really enjoy the show.

Why?

I enjoy the show because of the truths it highlights week after week about human performance, success, goal achievement and leadership. And, of course, these lessons are available to us all regardless of how much we weigh.

Here are five of the most valuable lessons you can take from this show and apply in your life.

The importance of vision. How can we arrive at any destination if we don`t know what it is? Contestants on the show often say "I`m not ready to go home yet" (most weeks at least one contestant leaves "the ranch" where all contestants live while they pursue their weight loss full time). This statement connects to their vision. Often what they mean but don`t say is that they don`t yet have the skills, tools, and more to be successful on their own at home in reaching their vision. Their vision is clear and those who stay the most focused on it have the best results.

The power of purpose. As with most reality television, there is a monetary prize for the person who loses the most weight (as a percentage of their initial weight). Yet, if you didn`t already know that as you watched the show, you wouldn`t learn it from the contestants. Do they want to win $250,000? I`m sure they do. However, that is never a topic of conversation; rather they talk about why they want to lose the weight - to play with their children, to live longer, to be a grandparent, to literally be able to have children, and more. These statements of purpose are the real "why" - the real reason they are putting their bodies and minds through extremes. Those with the strongest purposes, make the most progress.

The need for massive action. You must agree that you can`t lose 20-50+% of your body weight in 7 months by eating a few less chips or walking once in awhile. The people on the show aren`t timid about their actions. They are doing the extreme! When I watch them I am continually reminded that if you want massive change, you must take massive action.

The value of new habits. During the course of the show, there are episodes where all the remaining contestants go home for one or more weeks. During this time, they need to continue to exercise and eat correctly because when they return for the weekly weigh in, they will be accountable for their actions of the week. Those that are most successful at home are those who have built new habits of thinking and acting; habits that transcend the time away from home. So it is for us - we must consciously build habits that support the goals we want to achieve, and make choices that are consistent with those goals.

The consequences of coaching. The show has two trainers who work with the contestants throughout the show - helping them with diet, exercise and mindset changes. Would the contestants be as successful without a coach to help them with their improvement? Of course not! Few of us would embark on physical fitness change without some coaching; yet often we try to reach other personal or professional goals without informed help. Crazy isn`t it? If you want great success, get informed, caring, wise assistance.

Each of these lessons is incredibly valuable, and when intentionally applied can create great change. They apply to those we lead as well. When you take these lessons and apply them to your leadership activities, you can make a bigger difference within your organization.

Am I telling you to watch the new season, or watch past episodes online?

Not necessary; that is up to you.

What I am telling you is that if you want greater results in any part of your life, pay attention to the lessons I have shared above.

Because they work.

Remarkable leaders know that their ability to master these ideas makes them more effective leaders. One of the ways you can learn the skills related to goal achievement, focus and influence (and much more) is by participating in The Remarkable Leadership Learning System - a one skill at a time, one month at a time approach to becoming a more confident and successful leader.
Get $748.25 worth of leadership development materials including two months of that unique system as part of Kevin Eikenberry’s Most Remarkable Free Leadership Gift Ever today at MostRemarkableFreeLeadershipGiftEver.com. Kevin is a bestselling author, speaker, trainer, consultant and the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group (www.KevinEikenberry.com).

The Truth About How To Achieve Your Goals

2011-07-12T07:52:00.000-07:00

Now, before you go on thinking about ways on how to achieve your goals, keep in mind that the first step is to know what your goals really are. Goal-setting is a prerequisite to achievement. It is difficult to experience success when you do not even know what you want.

In order to achieve your goals, you need not only to identify but specify what they are. For instance, saying that you want to be successful in your job is not a specific goal. A goal needs to have some kind of time frame and a measurable standard of success. Saying that you want to see yourself promoted in say, 6 months is more like a goal.

The next thing you need to do is to come up with plans on how to achieve your goals. You need to know the standards or the criteria required for the realization of your goals. Know what it takes to be promoted. Most of the time, it's a balanced combination of working hard and working smart. Put your goals and your plans on paper. Also, you need to write down the things you've done to achieve your goals - just so you can evaluate how you're doing. In no time, you'll discover your own road to learning, goal achievement and success.
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Reach Your Goals With Hypnosis In 6 Easy Steps

2011-07-10T04:39:00.000-07:00

If you are a very goal-orientated person then it is inevitable that you will encounter obstacles on your way to achievement and success. The bigger the goal the more set-backs there seem to be. These obstacles and set-backs can act as tests. They test your character and your resolve. Each barrier that is overcome and each challenge that is met head on develops your character, belief in yourself and strengthens your resolve to succeed not matter what.

However, when the same obstacles keep showing up over and over again and failure seems to be a common occurrence it's time to re-evaluate your approach to your goals. These recurring problems are an indication of your inability to learn from the temporary failures you are experiencing. The conscious mind is obviously having trouble analysing the reasons behind the failures and keeps making the same mistakes.

At this point some outside help is needed. Obviously you are unable to consciously work through the trouble you are having and it must be a subconscious block that is preventing you from learning your lesson and moving forward. This is where hypnosis can be invaluable. Either hypnosis or Self Hypnosis can most definitely be used successfully and effectively to get to the root of the problem and eliminate it forever.

One extremely powerful benefit of using hypnosis is the ability to train your mind to stay focused on the successful attainment of your goal. You can program a specific outcome and retain the ability to consciously divert your attention to it in a positive, success-affirming manner. You can also eliminate self-sabotage and remove the negative feelings and thoughts that are blocking your path to success.

Here are some tips for using hypnosis as a goal achievement tool.

1. Visualize. Program yourself with your desired outcome. While under the influence of self hypnosis visually imagine that your goal is already accomplished and your objective has been reached. See it as real. See it through your own eyes and experience all the wonderful feelings associated with that goal attainment.

2. Persistence. Program yourself to be persistent. Post hypnotic suggestions to develop an iron will and persistent approach to your goals will be invaluable in times of stress and disillusionment.

3. Think Positive. Learn to think positively. the subconscious mind has a tendency to replay past memories and throw them back into consciousness in the form of doubts and fears. Through the use of self hypnosis you can totally eliminate them. Program your subconscious mind to think positively and expect positive results.

4. Program out the Problem. If you are having problems reaching a certain goal use hypnosis to solve it. While in trance see yourself successfully traversing the obstacle. You don't have to see how you did it, just see yourself at the other side, relieved, happy and proud that you "figured it out" and reached the other side. If you can't do this, for whatever reason, seek out a competent hypnotherapist to identify the problem and remove it!

5. Pre-pave your path. Imagine yourself meeting the right people and being in the right place at the right time. Program your mind like this, through the power of hypnosis, and your subconscious mind will pick up on non-verbal clues, process the millions of bits of information you receive every second and guide you to the right course of action.

6. Develop faith Use hypnosis to convince the subconscious mind that your goal is already a reality. "Fake it till you make it". Fool your subconscious mind into believing the "real" world is actually exactly like the world you have been visualizing. In the deeply relaxed state that hypnosis offers you can get fully involved in your mental image. Really feel how great it is to have already accomplished all those things you wanted for so long. Enjoy the fact that you are enjoying the benefits of having reached that goal.

Follow these six steps and use them with the power of hypnosis and you will be catapulted towards your goal faster than you can imagine.
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24-7... That's Why You Need A Strategic Plan For Business Growth Success!

2011-07-08T13:30:00.000-07:00

Are you caught up working 24-7 IN your growing business?

Can't find the time to get it all done? Not enough hours in the day? No one can do the work right, except you?

Well, then maybe the time is right for you. You're finally ready to implement a strategic plan for Business Growth.

Let's review 24 reasons why your business needs a strategic plan for Business Growth.

24 Reasons Why You Need A Strategic Business Growth System

1. You have no future-oriented vision for your business. In other words, you don't know where you would like your business to be in 1 year, in 5 years, or even in 10 years from now.

2. On the other hand, you have some vague notions of where you would like your business to be in the future. But you don't have any concrete plans established to make your dreams a reality.

3. Another reason you need to develop a startegic plan for business growth is that you are not sure what it is specifically that YOU want to achieve for yourself personally from your business. A strategic plan for business growth specifically incorporates plans to help you achieve those personal goals you want from working in your business for the next 5 to 10 years.

4. A strategic plan for business growth includes the balancing of your personal and business values. One should not outweigh the other. A strategic plan asks you to consider your personal values as you develop a plan to grow your business.

5. One primary reason for developing a strategic plan for business growth is your Cash Flow. Is it unpredictable? Why is that so? A strategic plan for business growth must address your business' Cash Flow circumstances.

6. In addition, a strategic plan to grow your business will help you develop your business' unique methods of generating Cash Flow.

7. Does your business have a specific "system" developed to generate Cash Flow? How about to manufacture more of it? Your strategic plan should encompass the design of such a Cash Flow "system".

8. Any business can suffer from the unfortunate circumstance of having trouble paying bills on time. How can you solve this problem? The answer typically lies in having an organized approach to your business growth that keeps focus on your financial outlook. Your Cash Flow, your sales, your accounts receivables, and your own collections may be underlying reasons for your own financial woes. Your strategic plan should answer these questions and should arrive at workable solutions that you can implement to correct the problem of money, of Cash Flow.

9. If your business has failed to produce sustainable profits, likely you do not have a strategic plan in place. Your plan must set out actions to produce profits. But must also be focused on sustaining profits once they start to come.

10. One major reason for designing a strategic plan for your business is because your customer or client base is unstable, not growing, or even dwindling. You need a plan to identify your current customers and clients. And a plan to target your most valuable ones.

11. What if your customers or clients aren't sure what it is you do? What steps are you taking to ensure that your customers and clients do know exactly what it is that you do? These steps must be "programmed" into your customer and client contact "system".

12. If your customers or clients do not refer business to you, and neither do friends or colleagues, something is wrong. What? You've got to strategically analyze your business and come up with reasons for your lack of referrals. Then your plan must include remedies to the referral problem.

13. Many times, your competition gets the upper hand over your products or services just because you failed to consider them. Your plan to grow takes into account your own competition, their products, and services compared to your own. What steps can be taken to improve your products and services, or to design new ones that are even more competitive in your market? Your plan will have the answers.

14. What do you love about your business? Your products? Your services? Are you really passionate about your business? Any plan to grow a business must answer this important and fundamental question.

15. What about your marketing? Have you addressed this issue in your plan to grow? Are you spending too much money on marketing with no specific method, plan, or target? When you implement your strategic plan, you will come up with a specific plan for your marketing and, most important, a specific target to market.

16. Additionally, it may surprise you but you are in desperate need of a strategic plan to grow your business if your only form of acquiring new customers or clients is word-of-mouth. What is your method of acquiring new customers? What are your specific plans?

17. Who are your "prized possessions?" I call these your "Most Valuable Customers and Clients..., or MVCs for short." Your plan to grow your business must include ways to identify your MVCs, and ways to acquire even more of them.

18. Can you state exactly what benefits your products or services provide to your customers or clients? You must be able to as part of your plan to grow your business. Once you arrive at your answers, write them down. These benefits must be constantly, and consistently promoted to your customers and clients as part of your overall plan to grow your business.

19. Why do you need a strategic plan to grow your business? Because you don't have enough time in the day to do all you have to do. When you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Writing it down, and then following your plan is a great strategy for time management and goal achievement

20. "But I can't develop a plan." I'm just too busy putting out of the fires." That's a primary reason why a plan that strategically addresses your issues, obstacles, and problems, "your IPOs", is urgent. You've got to identify what are your IPOs. You do this as part of your strategic plan. Then your plan has got to come up with solutions that you can implement to overcome your IPOs.

21. A central reason for having a strategic plan in place is so you have a method and steps to follow to achieve your goals. And they'll be written down. Once they're written down, then their achievement are merely a matter of executing the steps you have written down. If you want to achieve your goals, then have a strategic plan to do it.

22. But what if you say you don't have a plan. That you just do what you have to do each day you come into the office. Having a "system" and a formal process to follow day in and day out leads to consistent action and eventual triumph over the hurdles and obstacles you face in your business. A formal plan will keep you on track taking the actions that you need to achieve your goals.

23. A necessary part of your business, if you want it to grow, and make money in the process, is to design and implement a "system of operations". Your strategic plan for your business must establish the key "business operating systems" that will run your business and its component parts, whether you are on the job or not.

24. We're now at the final reason why you need a strategic plan in place to grow your business. If you're not sure of definite ways you should grow your business and increase your profits based on your personal goals and business objectives, then you really don't have a plan. You haven't thought out how your business is supposed to be the vehicle that gets you to the ultimate destination..., your goal achievement.

Once you take the time to design a strategic plan, you'll then have a method... a "system" that you can follow daily.

You'll have a plan that sets out definite ways and methods that you can implement... ways that will increase your profits... and that will drive you daily towards the ultimate achievement of your goals and aspirations. Not only for your business..., but for YOU. And even in an economic downturn or Recession!

There's 24 reasons why you need to design and implement a strategic business growth system for your business.

"But, how can my business benefit if I design a strategic plan
for business growth and increased profits?"

To answer that question, let's review just 7 benefits of designing and implementing a strategic plan for business growth.

7 BENEFITS OF A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR
BUSINESS GROWTH & INCREASED PROFITS

Once you develop a strategic plan to grow your business and increase your profits, you will have these 7 benefits:

=> A business that is strategically growing and evolving into the dream enterprise YOU always wanted.

=> More fun and satisfaction by doing the kind of "work" you most enjoy, with the people you most like to work with, and for the kind and quality of customers and clients you dreamed of one day serving.

=> A financially solid business with increasing income for you and your staff.

=> Profit building, with lower overhead costs and reduced expenses.

=> Easier, quicker resolution of customer and client complaints, and staff issues.

=> More time off to spend with family and friends.

=> Less stress.

So, what are you waiting for?

There's only 24 hours in the day . And only 7 days a week.

24/7.

But that's enough time to get busy working ON your business.

So, get going. Today. This hour!

You want to make more profits? Achieve all of your goals? Have more time off? Feel fulfilled? Be happier and more passionate about your business? Even in a Recession or down economy?

Then here's the secret.

You must design, and implement a strategic plan for your business growth.

This article is an excerpt from the MasterMind Business Growth System, as authored by Miguel Mendez, Jr., Esq.

Copyright (c) 2008. Miguel Mendez, Jr. All rights reserved.
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Achieve Your Vital Career Goals . Record Clear Goals And Follow The 15 Easy Steps To Career Success.

2011-07-08T00:22:00.000-07:00

commitment, clarifies required steps in the achievement process, and helps you remember important details.

2) Identify and focus on the benefits to you as well as others of achieving your goals. This is a most strong important motivator.

3) Define the purpose of your goals. Link your goals to a practical, specific purpose. To boost your own motivation, base your goals on inspiration, not just on simple logic.

4) Identify your supportive forces. Examples of supportive forces include instructors , books, training people who encourage you to persevere , skilled coaches or mentors , and printed as well as online research materials

5) Develop an action plan, set deadlines and act. Establish sub goals. Divide each main goal into logical progressive steps. Set deadlines for completing each step, and complete the steps on time.

6) Establish priorities. Take action in order of priority.

7) Make a public commitment. If appropriate, share your goals with someone who encourages you to go the extra mile. This will increase your sense of responsibility.

8) Be realistic about limitations. Do not set a short term goal to get a job requiring more education. Set separate goals to get an education, take an interim job, and then reach the ultimate goal.

9) Use positive self talk and affirmation statements. Do this each and every day. As often as humanely possible. Do them compulsively as if you were a Moslem completing his 3 daily prayer routines. Write down your statements and post them prominently in your bedroom, on your fridge and so that you can see them in the mirror in your car.

10) Use positive visualization. This more than boosts goal achievement

11) Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice new skills regularly. Get additional information, training, coaching and feedback on your progress.

12) Evaluate and revise goals as necessary. Evaluate your ongoing progress. Experiment from time to time with new methods especially if you are not getting the results you want. But most importantly remember to be patient. Rome was not built in a day. However if necessary you may want to revise your goals.

13) Persevere. Stay the course until you succeed.

14) Reward Yourself. Rewards are excellent motivators. As you make progress toward your goals, do something nice for yourself that you enjoy.

15) Record progress on your goals. As simplistic as it seems, al long series of check marks on a calendar or a wall chart may actually, motivate you by providing a vital sense of accomplishment. Do not let missing an occasional daily goal deter you, however. Keep focusing on your ultimate chosen goals.

Remember that your career goals are most important to you and your success. By setting career goals you are on the road to obtaining your ultimate success.

By recording clear goals and following the 15 steps outlines you will focus your hard won efforts and maximize your winnings.

Achieve Your Vital Career Goals . Record Clear Goals and Follow the 15 Easy Steps to Career Success.

Remember that your career goals are most important to you and your success. By setting career goals you are on the road to obtaining your ultimate success. Get Ahead with Dynamic Goal Setting . Follow the simple steps of dynamic goal setting to your career success . By recording clear goals and following the 15 steps outlines you will focus your hard won efforts and maximize your winnings.
Mr. R. Sodoma Career Motivation and Trends Counsellor. Winnipeg Job Shark winnipegjobshark@yahoo.com www.winnipegjobshark.com

Change To Achieve Your Goals!

2011-07-05T20:21:00.000-07:00

Most people naturally resist change. We develop our normal routine in life, things are going OK, and we are comfortable with it. Then we identify a “change” we want. We get an idea or see something that makes us want something we don’t have. This could be something physical, or it could be a different situation we want to be in. Maybe we even recognize that we have a new goal. But we continue in our normal routine hoping to reach that goal and after a while we realize it’s not happening. Why not?

Someone once said “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.” If we keep our normal routine, we are not going to get a new result; we are not going to reach that new goal.

That’s why I’ve prepared this new series of articles about change. I’m addressing six topics tied to the word “change.” Here’s what the letters stand for:

C represents “Commitment.” To reach a worthwhile, meaningful goal is going to require commitment to that goal on your part.

H represents “Help.” Your odds of success are much better if you have help from someone. This could be a mentor or it could be a friend or family member who just provides moral support.

A represents “Action.” You are going to take specific actions to progress toward your goal.

N represents “Negative.” Negative is something you don’t want. You will need to get rid of the negative.

G represents “Get Excited.” You are on the path to a new goal, something you really want to achieve. This is great, so get excited about it.

E represents “Execution.” You are going to execute a plan, a series of actions that move you toward your goal. No execution, no achievement!

Achieving goals takes more than just writing them out and thinking about them. It takes many things, and sometimes we can get lost because we don’t have a structured approach. We can lose our focus on just what we’re trying to do. As I expand on each of these letters and words, I hope to help you bring more of the process of goal achievement into your existence. That will help you maintain your focus, your action, your execution, and your excitement. Your helper will be there to encourage you along the way and to celebrate your progress with you. You will meet the challenge and be more confident about going after the next one.

So, this article is just the beginning, just as writing down your goal is just the beginning. As we progress through this article series, the word “CHANGE” will become a positive word. When someone tells you “I hate change; why can’t things just stay the same?” you’ll be ready to say “Really? I like change. In fact I’ve learned that change is going to help me reach my dreams!” They may not understand, but you will!

My goal is that these articles help you in your journey.
And now I invite you to learn more by visiting Launch Your Goals to learn how to stop missing your goals and start living your dreams.

How Billy Jean King And Running Help My Goal Achievement

2011-07-01T22:31:00.000-07:00

That's a good question, and I'll start off by saying that Billy Jean King could take up several articles all by herself, considering the milestones she left in the game of tennis, and the role she played in the advancement of women's tennis.
That's not my focus here though. No, what I want to focus on is her famous attitude to every ball she faced.
To sum it up, it was 'same as the last, same as the next.'

She treated every point as an individual point, not letting her position in the match dictate the way she played.
This allowed her to close out victories when she was in front, and also to stage some amazing comebacks from being behind.

Opponents knew that this was her way of thinking, and it used to unnerve them, all swinging the percentages in King's favour.

As I write this, it's January 2007.
I was 40 last year, and to mark it I decided to train for and run a marathon.
I aimed for the London Marathon, but didn't get a place, so I changed my aim to running my own personal marathon around my local streets at the same time on the same day!

So far in my training I have got up to 14 miles, and all is going well.

One thing I have noticed, and this may sound silly, but once you set out to run these distances, it's a long long way!!

You simply can't manage it without getting your thought patterns and mental approach right, and it's here I drew on Billy Jean.

Sometimes when I'm running I will get a tweak in a muscle, or have a spell of aching lungs, or my feet hurt.
It's at these moments that it seems a long way still to go!

When I get those thoughts, I instantly replace them with the 'one ball at a time' ethos of Billy Jean King, and remind myself to not think about how many miles I've done, or how many miles I've still got to go, but to concentrate my efforts on where I am *right there and then*.
Is my pace ok?
Are my arms relaxed?
Am I breathing properly?

Once I've done that assessment, the moment of thinking how far I have to go has gone.

This is an attitude that can be used in any area of goal achievement.
When the going gets tough, don't let your imagination focus on how much further there is still to go, replace that negative with the positive actions of the here and now.

It's a technique I intend to use right up my marathon on April 22nd, and you should use it too.
Gordon Bryan is the author of 'Transform Your Life in 21 Days!' which has been described as 'motivational magic.' Read about it and grab his free 8 Step Goal Achievement Plan at: www.transformyourlifenow.com

Why Goal Achievement is Rocket Science After All!

2011-07-01T07:31:00.000-07:00

I say and write it myself all the time, and I believe it, I have done for over 20 years, and have used it to great effect in my life.
I write about the theories in my book 'Transform Your Life in 21 Days!', so why would I write this article saying that goal achievement *is* in fact rocket science after all?

Ooh, good question, and here's the answer...

Simply because we can look to the exploration of space (rocket science) to find an almost endless flow of goal achievement nuggets.
The recently revived US Space Shuttle Progamme is great to watch.
Now they show the whole mission streamed live online, so you get to see all the daily mundane workings of the astronauts as well as the more spectacular stuff.

In December 2006 the shuttle discovery docked with the International Space Station, and although the shuttle only stayed a few days, they dropped a crew member, Sunita Williams, to start her 6 month stay at the station.

Yes, 6 months in space!

As I was following her progress, I was fascinated to learn that she has to do 2 hours of exercise a day.
1 hour of cardio work, and 1 hour of weight work.

This isn't to turn her into a superhuman, it's just to keep up with the rest of us back here on Earth.

Because of her zero gravity environment, Williams' muscles, including heart, lungs, legs, arms, etc, will not be taxed anything like as much as they are to just move about in the gravity we feel here.

If she didn't exercise, over 6 months, she would be in a bad way on her return home, she just wouldn't be strong enough to walk or do the simple functions we take for granted.

Hence her 2 hours a day.

Now, an absolute classic tip in the field of goal achievement is to give 1 solid hour a day working on your goal.
If you do this, you will make leaps and bounds you hadn't thought possible.
The reason for this is that most people simply *don't* commit this time.
An hour a day adds up to 7 hours a week (I kept up at school!), and you can get a lot done in 7 hours.

So, as you work towards your goal, think of Suni Williams in space.
As I write this, Jan 4th 2007, she gives 2 hours solid every day - not to make progress, but just to keep up with the rest of us!
She'll continue to do it every day for 6 months!

That's impressive in my book, and she can do it, imagine what you could achieve with 2 hours a day for 6 months!
Can't find 2 hours every day?
Stick to the 1 hour a day then. That will still take you hugely forward.

So, is goal achievement rocket science? It can be!
Gordon Bryan is the author of 'Transform Your Life in 21 Days!' which has been described as 'motivational magic.' Read about it and grab his free 8 Step Goal Achievement Plan at: www.transformyourlifenow.com

Boost Your Goal Momentum--find Your Hidden Stopper

2011-07-01T05:26:00.000-07:00

Sam stumbled into the kitchen, still half asleep, and grabbed the new bottle of creamer to lighten his morning coffee. Flipping open the lid, he tilted the bottle to pour out the cream—and nothing happened. He quickly identified the problem, of course, and peeled back the foil seal, hidden beneath the lid, that was keeping the cream from flowing.

Whether your goal is to prepare a tasty cup of coffee or something much more complex, you won’t succeed unless you learn to peel back the stoppers that get in your way. Often it’s as simple as recognizing what your hidden stopper is.

For most people, stoppers are habitual phrases they say to themselves right after they think “I should . . .” or when they notice a task that needs to be tackled in service of their goals. Common stoppers are “I’m too tired,” or “I don’t feel like it” or “Okay, as soon as I . . .” or “Maybe later.”

To find which phrase or phrases you personally tend to use to thwart your goal achievement, all you have to do is ask your subconscious to notice them. As easy way to do that is simply to ask yourself, “What stoppers do I usually use?” and wait for your mind to point them out to you. If you want to speed up the recognition, program yourself before you go to sleep at night by reminding yourself that you want to find your stoppers.

They aren’t all that hidden. You just haven’t paid any attention to them before. Now that you are aware that they are probably lurking in your behavioral repertoire, you’ll spot them quickly.

The next time you notice yourself saying a stopper phrase to yourself, immediately label it and reward your subconscious with a word of praise so it will continue pointing out to you when you use one. Just say, “Stopper phrase! Good job!”

Then pay attention to how automatically you use the phrase as a signal to stop carrying through on the action you intended to make toward your goal. Observe how completely it brought your momentum to a halt.

After a short bit of practice, you will even find yourself becoming aware of stop signals that you haven’t verbalized to yourself. You might see a paper that needs to be filed, for instance, and catch yourself dismissing the impulse to take care of it. You didn’t repeat a stopper phrase to yourself; you just acted on a silent one. But another step toward your goal got postponed nonetheless.

Whether it’s verbalized or not, what recognizing your stopper phrase does is allow you to make a real choice instead of unconsciously reacting to a habitual pattern. When you are aware of your stop-signals, you can decide whether you really want to stop or if you are only responding to the stopper out of habit.

The more you choose to override the stopper and continue with your original intention, the weaker the stopper will become. When you take action despite the appearance of a stopper, over time you will train yourself not to bother issuing stoppers at all because they no longer work. Instead, you will begin to experience the joy of momentum and increased productivity that comes from following through with your decisions to act.
You’ll get the cream into your coffee—and accomplished goals.
Want to learn more about realizing your goals and dreams? Get a subscription to The Magical Mirror newsletter with enrollment in my free five-part ecourse, “How to Change Your Life and Live Your Dreams.” Click here: Live Your Dreams For more dream-builder resources and success tips, visit www.thetomorrowgame.com Susan K. Minarik is the author of “Winning the Tomorrow Game."

The Sedona Method - Your Secret Weapon For Goal Achievement

2011-06-26T02:17:00.000-07:00

This is a quick history and review for anyone interested in the Sedona Method.

The Sedona method was created by Lester Levenson when he was 42 and only had a few weeks left to live. Lester had suffered his second heart attack and had been sent home to die. His doctor had advised him to buy loafers so the he didn't have to bend down to tie his shoe laces - because it might have killed him!

Before Lester Levenson created the sedona method he was a physicist. He believed only in what could be seen and measured. Fortunately though, this view changed as he started to question his life and what he wanted from it as he prepared for death. Slowly the answers came to him along with the framework for the sedona method.

Afer questioning what it was he wanted from life Lester discovered that he was seeking happiness. He had always felt most happy when he had been in love and had felt most unhappy when he was seeking to be loved. So he started to change all his unloving feelings to feelings of love and found himself getting physically stronger. He also discovered something else!

Lester discovered that he had been wanting to change the past for many years and had allowed this to control his thinking. He also found that he had been seeking approval or love from others so that he could feel safe. He then discovered that these thoughts had been creating negative experiences in his life and that the thoughts were driven by the negative emotions. After the initial shock of this discovery Lester went on to create the sedona method. He used the sedona method to remove these feelings and within 3 months his illnesses (of which there were many) were completely cured!

The technique Lester created to remove negative thoughts and emotions, the sedona method, can be used to produce results instantly. Within 3 months of using the sedona method, Lester was totally cured, fit and healthy. Within 6 months of using the sedona method he was a millionaire from property sales he made with none of his own money!

By removing his resistance to the past and present and by not allowing himself to try and manipulate the future Lester was physically well and a millionaire in a short period of time just by using the sedona method.

When your thoughts become clear, without the hindrance of negativity or opposite thoughts, they materialize very quickly in the world! This is the power of the sedona method.

The sedona method course outlines that all negative thinking is the by-product of negative feelings. By using the Sedona Method to release these negative feelings we no longer have the negative thoughts and are free to have the things we want because our thinking because naturally more positive at a deep level.

The sedona method is an experiential tool. It cannot be fully explained and must be experienced. Even after the first use of the sedona method you experience a lightness in your body and are left with a warm, fun-like energy that is exhuilerating.

You can free yourself of your self-imposed limitations with the sedona method.
For more information on the Sedona Method check out these sites: Sedona Method Review. iCap Release Meter - machine that measures your releasing.

5 Quick And Easy Ways To Wiping Out Obstacles To Goal Achievement

2011-06-24T18:33:00.000-07:00

And it's only normal to encounter these obstacles in the pursuit of your goal.

It's kind of a test to see if your worthy.

However, when these obstacles start to become a nuisance to the point of almost putting a stop to your goal(s); or worse, making one completely abandon his/her goal, one must take action and think things through.

So, with that said, here are some helpful, tested pointers that will keep your attention focused in achieving any goal that you put your mind to.

Step #1. Think positive.

This means: Do not quit. Especially when one is midway in working for a goal, there should be no room for quitting.

To quit is tantamount to going back to the starting line of goal accomplishment. That is time, energy, money, and a whole lot of things wasted and lost. It is more costly to quit than to find a solution to the problem, not to mention the frustration one feels.

Step #2. Keep a clear, open and tense-free mind.

Always be ready to receive new ideas. Focus and concentrate. Think on a wide scale manner and always be open for options(even unconventional ones) to eliminate the particular obstacle you are currently dealing with.

Step #3. Persist and Persevere.

Be sure to exhaust every possibility, even to the point of trial and error, just to be sure that there is a solution to correct the problem your dealing with.

Step #4. Simulate.

Try to picture inside your head a possible solution to help overcome and/or solve the obstacle that's setting you back.

Step #5. Get assistance.

If all fails get assistance from other you know who are more knowledgeable on the work being done. They may be able to help you or not. Their suggestions might not necessarily be the right or exact ones you were hoping to hear, but they may trigger some NEW ideas in finding the right solution to your problem.

Those are the basic 5 steps to overcoming any obstacle that's holding you back.

But... before I go I'd like you to consider this scenario as an example.

Let's say you thought of a COOL new product and you are confident and excited that this product will be sellable to your target market once it hits the market.

You then go tell a friend about it, but your friend says that your product would be waste of time and money.

Your friend also tells you why it will be such a flop and gives your their reason why as follows:

"If your product idea is to be a success, how come nobody else is doing it?"

Does this sound familiar?

With that being said you decide that your friend is right and forget about your new product idea because of your friend's comment.

This exact scenario happens all the time all over the world.

Don't fall victim to this.

You are your own person with your own opinions and beliefs.

Though it is good to hear other peoples opinions and their reasons, what really matters the most is yours in the end based on the information you have received and researched.

So the lesson here is, be firm in your beliefs and follow your heart and minds desire.

You just never know what the outcome might be.
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Goal Achievement, Subliminal Audios, And Success: 10 Tips

2011-06-23T15:52:00.000-07:00

Subliminal technology has been around since the 1950s. Subliminals are more effective than affirmations because the subconscious mind is your mind's power and control center and accepts suggestions with less judgment than your conscious mind. Also, phobias can be difficult to overcome since fears and defenses are housed in your subconscious mind; consciously you realize that flying is relatively safe, for example, but your subconscious mind still fearfully reacts when you step onto an airplane. This is why targeting your subconscious to alleviate fears is effective.

There is some debate about whether subliminals really work. In our research we've discovered that the studies which have found subliminals ineffective haven't used the technology properly.

For example, one study repeatedly flashed a sentence to participants multiple times for about 60 minutes. Another study flashed words on a screen for several minutes. In both cases, this is not enough time to have much of an impact.

Ideally, we’ve found that it’s best to see or hear the suggestions for at least three hours daily for at least four weeks, especially when the issues you’re confronting involve significant behavioral changes. Also, the suggestions must be phrased properly and be consciously acceptable to the person listening, such as in line with her goals and principles.

We’ve used subliminal suggestion audios for over 25 years. They can be very powerful if written, produced, and used in a coordinated, focused manner. Below are guidelines to use subliminals to help you reach just about any goal.

1) Subliminal suggestions are best when phrased simply, positively, and in the present tense. There is debate about whether “you” or “I” is better. We have used both with success. “I am not smoking” will not be as effective because the subconscious mind may perceive that as “I am smoking.” “It’s easier for me to quit smoking now” and “My will power is becoming stronger every day” are better. Suggestions targeting many aspects of a goal including the resistance to the goal are best.

2) Some subliminals include what are called “masking sounds,” such as music or the sound of ocean waves. We recommend noiseless subliminals because they aren’t distracting and you can listen to them all day on auto-repeat while working, playing, surfing the internet, and even while driving.

3) If you sleep soundly you will be able to listen to noiseless subliminals all night long. A number of light sleepers have found they don’t sleep as well. Everyone is different, so experiment.

4) For best results, listen to quiet subliminals on auto-repeat, continuously (in the background while doing other things is fine), for at least three hours daily, for at least four weeks (six is better) initially. The longer you listen, the more likely your subconscious will embrace and capitalize on the suggestions.

5) If you listen at your computer, for example, and turn the volume up, anyone within earshot will be affected. It’s up to you whether or not you want others around you to benefit from the audio too.

6) Listening to more than one subliminal audio, unless they are closely related, is too much for your mind. Work on one goal at a time. Nervous tension and heightened stress are common symptoms of trying to blast too many different messages to your subconscious at once.

7) It’s natural to be skeptical of the effectiveness since you can’t consciously hear the suggestions. Subliminals work even for cynics and for those “too strong willed” to benefit from hypnosis. Everyone can benefit from hypnosis if they are willing to let go, follow directions, and have a sincere desire to reap the rewards.

One way to test the effectiveness of subliminals is to listen daily for the recommended number of weeks. Then, re-read the suggestions for that particular subliminal. You will likely find that your mind is following the directions without you even being consciously aware of them. This truly is almost effortless change.

8) If you listen to a 12 minute-long subliminal recording on auto-repeat, for example, and each suggestion is repeated at least 5 times within the 12 minutes, that’s 25 times per hour, and 75 times per day for each suggestion if you listen for at least 3 hours a day. Eventually, with recurrence, the subconscious mind will begin to follow the suggestions, just like an obedient horse follows your lead.

9) Some people may recommend that you should only buy a subliminal or hypnosis audio created by a “licensed mental health professional,” which is unwarranted. The truth is that subliminals and hypnosis have been used effectively long before licensed mental health professionals got over their fear of the falsehoods regarding these amazing tools, finally understood the benefits, and decided to use the methods in their practices.

It’s great that some mental health professionals are endorsing and promoting subliminals, hypnosis, and past life regression, but credit really should be given where credit is due.

Licensed mental health professionals didn’t pioneer subliminals, hypnosis, or past life regression and it’s not their right to slap a disclaimer on their audios suggesting that it’s unsafe to use audios formatted by holistic healers or other non-licensed mental health professionals.

10) Another myth is that you need a specialist, such as a licensed psychologist specializing in weight issues, for example, to format a good weight-loss subliminal or hypnosis suggestions. As long as you use the best technology and techniques available and use properly phrased messages, which don’t take a psychologist to understand or write, it’s not necessary to be a licensed specialist to format a good subliminal or hypnosis audio.

Do you have a goal that you’d like help with? Are you receptive to alternative methods? Then we highly recommend subliminal audios. Get your potent, subconscious mind on your side to make the most of your life.

Copyright © 2009 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo
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Failing Kids? Teach Them Goal Achievement!

2011-06-18T04:35:00.000-07:00

I am convinced that most people finish their schooling, even college degrees, without ever having been taught how to effectively set and achieve goals. We probably heard about it in school; we might have been told to set goals...in fact we likely were told to "reach for the stars"! And that's good, as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. Let's consider how you can teach your children to achieve their goals. Teach them now, and they will use this knowledge for the rest of their lives.

So where do we start? Since I don't know how old your children are, I'll start with pre-schoolers. You think that's too young? Think again! Let's say your little girl, age 5, wants a popular toy. You can respond with "OK, we'll get that the next time we're shopping." You can say maybe, and you can just say no. I'm going to assume that the toy is something you don't object to so it's OK for her to have it.

Here's where you can start teaching about goals, even though you don't use the word. Let's call your daughter Susy. If you just say you'll buy it the next time you're shopping you've taught her a little about goal setting. You taught her to say "I want it!" and she'll get it. Or, you can talk to her about why she wants that particular toy. At 5 years old I'm sure she will be able to give you all kinds of reasons. Help her think about why she wants it so she can really see herself having it and having all the fun that will come with it. You're teaching her to dream and visualize. These are two important skills for achieving goals.

Now that Susy is really clear on how much she wants the toy, you can think of some ways she can "earn" it. I'm not thinking of actually having her earn the money to pay for it (although that's not such a bad idea). I'm thinking of things you will have her do and accomplish before you will buy the toy. These should not be things she's already doing; they should be things outside her normal activities.

Let's say you want her to learn to make her own bed when she gets up in the morning. This is something new for her, and she's old enough to understand that she's learning it and doing it so she can have the toy. Now each morning as you help her learn to make the bed (and maybe even help her make it!), you can talk to her about the toy she's going to have and how much fun she's going to have with it. This is helping her keep her dream alive, and it's making her task more acceptable. She's not thinking about the work of making the bed; she's thinking about the fun of playing with the toy! She's also learning that by changing her habits she's reaching her goal. But, don't explain that to her right now, she is only 5 after all!

Now the day comes when you buy her the toy. She's excited, but not just because you're buying the toy. She's excited and feeling really proud of herself because you're telling her how proud you are that she has learned to make her bed, that she's done it every day, and that she has really earned her toy! Congratulate her. She deserves it...and so do you.

Now, if you really want her to learn how to achieve goals, help her identify the next dream. You can make the next dream a little bigger. This one may take a little longer to achieve; but she'll be excited about achieving it, and she'll feel really good about herself because she's the one accomplishing it. That's giving her a great self image that she really deserves!

One more thing...you can make her daily bed-making routine a small part of the program for the next goal...no use giving up a good thing!

Congratulations! You have taught Susy a great lesson that she will use for the rest of her life.
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Guaranteed Goal Achievement! Easy New Year Reolutions.

2011-06-17T18:26:00.000-07:00

I did so much of my Christmas shopping this year online. Some may think me lazy, but I love to shop that way. It has dawned on me that setting and achieving goals really is as simple a process as placing an order. Therefore, when you now complete each of the following steps in this ordering process, it becomes a bit like ordering your goals!

Suppose I have set myself a goal to reduce my weight by 3 kilograms during the month of January. I compare the online DVD store to Life’s Amazing Virtual Goal Delivery System and am delighted to say that if you follow these steps, your New Year resolutions are in the bag!

The Amazing Virtual Goal Delivery System:

The first Step: Decide what you want.

Take some quality time out for yourself to be quiet. This is something that hardly any of us do enough of in our busy lives. We tend to manically rush, and we are constantly paying attention to the noise that is going on around us. Your heart and mind really do enjoy times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we take the time to do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams and goals!

Think about what really thrills you. When you are quiet, think about those things that really get your blood moving. What would you LOVE to do, either for fun or for enhancing the quality of your life? What would you love to accomplish? What would you try if you were guaranteed to succeed? What big thoughts move your heart into a state of excitement and joy? When you answer these questions you will feel Great and start becoming aware of what your goals are and of course what they should be.

Life is too short to not pursue your dreams. Someday your life will near its end and all you will be able to do is look backwards. You can reflect with joy or regret. Those who dream, who set goals and act on them to live out their dreams are those who live lives of joy and have a sense of peace when they near the end of their lives. They have finished well, for themselves and for their families.

So, back to the online goal ordering system; I cannot and do not expect the online DVD company to send me a film or comedy show before I have actually sent them my request, neither should you expect life to supply the resources to stop smoking, reduce weight, lower stress levels or be filled with self-esteem for example. So, choose the outcome that you require so that it can be ordered.

In order to do this ensure that you do get a vivid, sensory rich idea on how you want it to be; decide upon what it is that you really want and then make sure that you do really state it in the positive. For example “I want to achieve and maintain the size shape and weight that pleases me” and NOT “I want to lose some weight”. We are not "losers" here!

Your unconscious mind treats negative and positive the same when it learns, they are not processed by your neurology in the same way that they are when you say them, for example; If I were to now say to you: "Don’t think of a pink elephant" it is a command that is very difficult to actually do. In order not to do it, you have to do it! When someone says “I want to stop lacking confidence” you have to imagine lacking confidence to understand the sentence! You are dominating your mind with the thoughts of the things you do not want.

The Second Step: Get Your Goal In Writing; Make It Real and Tangible.

Before I can place an order for any DVDs, I had to find the right order page for the DVD I wanted. However, before I could find the right order page, I had to type the right key terms into the search bar. I wouldn't have found the right order page if I hadn't used the right terms. Wouldn't it have been madness for me to have typed "NOT The First Star Wars Film and NOT The second Star Wars Film…" or to have typed in "I do not really want anything with Jack Nicholson in it..." in my search for the DVDs I did want? Write what you do want, and be as specific and particular as you can.

As I have already mentioned, it is a common thing for people to think about what they want out of life in negative terms. They talk about "getting out of debt" when they really mean that they want to experience "financial security and freedom".

Your unconscious mind is going to deliver precisely what you order. Vague orders bring vague results and we never see the connection between our requests and what shows up. Too often we place careless orders unknowingly, and then wonder why things do not turn out the way we wanted them to. Focusing on "debt" brings a constant supply of it into your life, even if you are trying to get rid of it. After all, it's like putting "NOT debt" into the search tool. You're not looking for the "debt" order page, so stop using that expression today!

Commit to the thing you want by putting it in writing. It is like entering it in an imaginary search box. It is also the fastest way to get to the right order page. One more thing: write it in present tense as though it has already happened. Make it happen in the now!

So, maybe your goal statement in writing will be something like, "January 30th, 2006: I have now reduced my weight by 3kgs." Getting it in writing automatically takes you to Life's "order page" but you are not done yet. The DVD is not on it's way until you have completed the order all the way to the end of the process.

Third Step: Loading Up Your Shopping Cart.

Now, if you are going to invest your own endeavour on doing something, you need to have a good reason, so let yourself know exactly what the reasons are that you want to achieve this goal. What is it going to get for you? How does it benefit you? What then becomes possible for you? Allow yourself to really explore all the benefits that you are going to get from achieving your goal. The more you do this, the easier it is to be enthusiastic and motivated about it, and then of course the more your success is simply inevitable.

In my DVD purchasing experience, after I typed in "Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of The Sith" into the websites search engine, it presented me with a list of "Star Wars" DVDs. Some were the earlier films. After carefully selecting my specific choice, I clicked "Add to Shopping Cart." This is a logical step; after all, I cannot really expect the online DVD people to despatch the DVD until I have advised them which one in particular I am after.

This step is comparable to the step of adding detail and sensory information to your goal statement. You need to spend time creating a more detailed description of the thing you desire. Instead of "January 30th, 2006: I have now reduced my weight by 3 kgs" you write, "January 30th, 2006: I am delighted and proud now that I have made really powerful steps to achieving and maintaining the size, shape and weight that pleases me, by successfully reducing my weight by 3kgs. I am truly happy at how easily this was achieved and am grateful to myself for having successfully compoleted this. I am now developing a more progressive relationship with myself and expect to reduce more weight with more ease this following month too."

Following this step means that you have just added your desired goal and successful outcome to the "Special Life Cart".

The Fourth Step: Where are you? Give your shipping address.

Now that the DVD is in my shopping cart, I have to tell the DVD company where to send it. This step is the part that ensures that my ordered DVD is distributed to my location. This now brings together two key pieces of information into one virtual place. Without this step, the DVD people cannot send me the book… because they have no address for the package.

Goal setting is no different. Just as the DVD and my address had to merge into one database, the goal you want needs to be merged with your personal information also. Notice that during this step, it is not the actual DVD that came together with my actual home; it is simply a representation of the DVD that came together with a representation of my home.

The same needs to happen with a representation of the thing you want, and a representation of you. How? You must imagine yourself achieving that goal; being that ideal weight for example. It might take a few minutes to really generate the images in a vivid way. Nevertheless, with the power of disciplined thoughts, you merge the thing you want, with the person you are. Your mind is the virtual database where it all must come together before Life can fill that order.

As you think about your goal now, having it in the positive form, vividly imagine just what you are going to see, hear and feel when you get what you want. As you are doing that, turn the brightness and colours up in your imagination, make the sounds louder, even add some of your favourite music or other wonderful sounds and turn up the wonderful feelings that go with it, think about where in your body those feelings are going to be when you achieve that goal and really make them more intense.

Then BELIEVE in that which you want. As you imagine that goal, view it and perceive it like you just know it is going to happen, in the same way that you know if you drop your cup of tea, it will fall to the floor. You just know it will happen. So every time you think of your goal and the sensory rich outcome, think of it like you just know it is going to happen.

Then think about how will you know when you have achieved that goal. How will you know?

I once had a client whose main goal was to be wealthy. I asked her exactly how she would know when she was officially wealthy and she said that she would have more money. So I asked her if she thought that if I gave her a fifty pence piece, would htat make her officially wealthy. "Of course not" was her reply. 'More money' did not turn out to be specific enough evidence for her having achieved her goal, so we went into the detail of what she would see, hear and feel when she was officially wealthy. So get your own brain sure that it knows exactly what to work towards.

The Fifth Step: Receive Confirmation of your order.

After I filled in my shipping address, it asked for my credit card info. This is where I pay for what I want.

In setting a health goal, to "pay" traditionally refers to "dieting," "pounding the treadmill," and so on.

But that can be wrong.

So what is the price you pay? Well, it is not an easy price to pay. But it is easier than "paying" with unreasonable diets and fitness regimes. To take the final step in the order process, to do the last thing required before you receive the order confirmation, is to allow yourself to experience the feelings you feel when the goal is achieved. It is easier said than done, but you need to take your imagination exercise just one step further; let me give you an example:

You are out at a social summer event with friends, wearing that new dress or that favourite pair of trousers, huge grin on your face, you can smell the air and it smells sweet, you feel a sense of freedom in your tummy as you move your body and you can see your friends expressions on their faces looking at you excitedly. As you meet some friends that you have not see for a while, they tell you how amazing you look to have reduced your weight. You look over at your proud partner and you whisper to them "I did it! It has been tough at times, but I did it! Let's really enjoy ourselves today!" And your partner says "You really did do it, I am so proud of you and what you have done."

This is your price. Ensure that you get into your imagination and associate with your results. Do NOT watch yourself doing it, BE you doing it.

Now, if you really do spend some time generating those kinds of images and thoughts in your mind, and feel the excitement and enjoy gratitude for the success then you are there! You have paid for your goal. Then as those feelings develop and enhance inside of you; that is your confirmation. Trust yourself and your unconscious mind to keep its promise, and go about your life in peace. No need for desperate dieting; you have already paid the price. Go about your life with a calm assurance that it is already done. Then go about your goal sensibly. The results are on their way and will connect with you in a natural way as you go about your day to day activities. Simply follow the thought. Think about new behaviours that you will need in order to succeed and begin to generate them.

The Sixth Step: Expect Success to Arrive, and be ready to let it in.

After my bill was paid, and I received my order confirmation, the DVD was on its way. I needed only to expect it, wait for it, look out for it, refrain from cancelling it, and answer the door when it arrived.

One very powerful thing to do here is to now let go of your goal. Detach from the outcome.

When you really, really want a specific outcome or really, really want a particular dream, your system sometimes tenses up, and it becomes increasingly hard to achieve it. Instead, find a way to become relaxed with the notion of not getting it. This maintains a sense of relaxation and acceptance while you are moving towards your goal. Imagine your goal as actual “thing” and imagine letting go of it, cut the ties that bind it to you and let it happen unconsciously without you having to continuously engage in conscious thought processes about it.

As for your goal to reduce your weight by 3 kgs by the end of January, if you have gone through the entire order process, and you have received confirmation, all you must do is expect it, look out for it, refrain from cancelling it with unbelief, and when opportunity knocks (because it will), simply answer the door.

Celebrate The New Year In Style!

So finally: The Seventh Step: Celebrate your successes!

People need to celebrate more, so celebrate your successes. Not just the big goal, but every milestone along the way. If you want to slim down, celebrate every few pounds lost (with something that supports you, like new clothing, not chocolates.) If you want to be a healthy non-smoker, celebrate your first day smoke-free, then your first week, first month etc. If you want to – celebration sends a strong sense that you are doing the right thing to your neurology and makes it easier and more enjoyable to continue replicating your success.
Adam Eason is a UK based consultant, speaker and best-selling author. Please visit his website for a vast range of resources from the fields of hypnosis, NLP, personal development and human potential and to receive your amazing, free, instantly downloadable hypnosis session for ultimate relaxation: www.adam-eason.com Thank you.

Goal Achievement…turbo-charged Style!: Top 7 Pitfalls Of Conventional Goal Setting Techniques And What You Must Do Instead To Achieve Powerful, Compelling Outcomes

2011-06-13T20:57:00.000-07:00

” Yes, that’s s right. The likelihood is that the way you have been setting goals is actually the very reason why you are not achieving goals. How do I know?

Be honest with yourself. How many goals have you set in the last year in which … • you did not take action on? • you gave blood, sweat and tears to achieve with little results to show for it? • you lost your focus or motivation to keep going?

The good news is: through the tools of NLP (NeuroLinguisticProgramming), you can learn the most powerful goal-setting techniques of top achievers to create powerful compelling outcomes in your business.

Let’s first take a look at the top 7 pitfalls of traditional goal-setting … and how the new turbo-charged techniques can ignite your most ambitious goals into high velocity results.

PITFALL #1: LACK OF PRECISION

Vagueness is deadly in any business, especially in the area of goal-setting. Vague goals create vague, if any,results. When you write your goals in specific, precise language,your subconscious mind, which is the part of you that actualizes your goals, gets busy in the “how” and drives all its energies toward accomplishing your goals.

“I want to earn more money” or“I want my employees to be more productive” is like speaking greek to the subconscious mind. It doesn’t know how to interpret what you want. Instead, a more precise goal is stated as: “I want to earn $100,000” or “I want my employees to get out their reports by 3pm daily.” That goal is precise, specific and measurable. Now the subconscious mind will go to work and keep you focused, until you get to that end result.

PITFALL #2: NOT KNOWING YOUR COMPELLING "WHY”

Most people set their goals in a vacuum. They set goals on what they think they want, rather than on what they really, really want. Ie., goals that will motivate them and create meaning and fulfillment in their businesses and lives.

The secret: Ensure that you are defining goals congruent with your most important values. Values are your subconscious drivers that motivate you to do or not do anything.

Eg., let’s say you set the goal: “I want to make $100,000. Yet family, fun and recreation are your most important values. If your goal is not congruent with your top values, you will produce marginal results with that goal. Your subconscious mind will always drive you to take actions and decisions that feed your most important values.

Always,always ask “why is this goal important for me to achieve?” It's a “power question” that will link your goals with your values.

PITFALL #3: LACK OF A TIME DEADLINE

It has been said that a “goal is a dream with a deadline.” Without a deadline, it’s likely that achieving your goal exists only vaguely sometime in the future. “I want to achieve $100,000” lacks any sense of direction. The old “someday” syndrome kicks in and your subconscious mind takes a nap, thinking it has all the time in the world.

A goal with a time deadline instead alerts the subconscious mind that you are ready to take action, focus your energies and achieve your desired outcome within a certain timeframe. IE., “I want to earn $100,000 by December 31,2006” is a goal that creates a sense of urgency and puts you in momentum..

PITFALL #4: NOT CONSIDERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR GOAL

In NLP, we always check for the “ecology” of achieving a certain goal. Ie., does achieving your goal conflict with other areas of your life? Does it negatively effect others? Does it negatively impact the planet?

In today’s high stress,cooker pressured business world, business owners and leaders often pursue goals that cost them in other areas of their life. In some cases, serious consequences – such as divorce, heart attacks,loss of friends, etc. As management guru, Steven Covey, reminds us:“It’s one thing to move up the ladder. It’s another thing to find out your ladder is against the wrong wall.”

Always check your goal’s consequences. Ask yourself: “Does the goal conflict with any other area of my life?” “If I achieve my goal, does it create win/win or win/lose outcomes?”

PITFALL #5: STATING THE GOAL IN FUTURE TENSE

Stating the outcome in future tense keeps you in that hoping, wishing state. A state in which all your fears and doubts creep in. You begin to hear those nasty inner voices, eg., “you’ve got to be kiddin'. You’re a loser.” “Why bother! You’re fail anyway.”

When you write your goal in present tense, you bypass those inner voices. Why? Because the subconscious mind does not know the difference between that which is imagined and that which is real. Writing the goal “as if it already happened” sets a strong inner intention and decision that the goal is already achieved, at least in your mind. Thus, your goal becomes more compelling and achievable.

Eg., instead of stating your goal as “Iwant to earn $100,000 by December 31, 2006,” use present time language to make it more compelling and real:

“It is now December 31,2006. I have successfully accomplished my goal of earning $100,000 ….” Yeah! Now your mind is cheering you on .

PITFALL #6: LACK OF AN "EVIDENCE PROCEDURE"

This one secret is worth its weight in gold! No other goal-setting technique incorporates this powerful secret. It is the difference that makes the difference between mediocre results and extraordinary outcomes.

Your evidence procedure is your “proof”statement that your goal is already achieved. How will you know when you have gotten your desired outcome? What is the last step that needs to happen to ensure you goal is achieved?

Use sensory based language to make your proof statement compelling and real. That is, what will you see, hear, feel that proves you have accomplished your goal?

Eg., your goal statement with an evidence procedure: “It is now December 31,2006. I have successfully earned $100,000 in income this year. I know it because (proof statement) I am looking at my 2006 financial statement with a big grin on my face as, I hear my wife congratulating me for a job well done.” BINGO!

PITFALL #7: NOT IDENTIFYING AND ENROLLING YOUR SUCCESS TEAM

As Walt Disney said, “You can have the most beautiful dream in the world,yet it takes people to build it.” Trying to accomplish your goals on your own is the hard way.

Goals, as defined above, along with a success team give you the fuel and the leverage to achieve big audacious goals that once seemed impossible. Whether you are an executive trying to get your team to rally behind your goals or an entrepreneur wanting the support of like minded business owners,the critical factor is to make sure you link your goals and vision with what each member on your team wants to achieve.

“How can I assist my team members to self actualize through the accomplishment of my goals? How can I help them get what they really want?”

IN SUMMARY: If you want to become an unstoppable force in your business. follow these top 7 principlesin goal setting …turbo-charged style. When you do, invite me to your celebration party ☺).
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Goal Achievement And Success - Knowing How To Achieve Your Goals

2011-06-10T00:53:00.000-07:00

Well, there are no guaranteed steps to goal achievement, for there are different ways to achieve various goals. However, part of being successful is developing certain attitudes that only true winners possess:

1. Persistence. You need to be persistent because the road to success is surely not without difficulty. Being persistent means that you won't give up easily; it means that you will strive to solve the problems you encounter and that you will be passionate about achieving your goal from beginning to the end.
2. Optimism. A sense of optimism should be balanced with a sense of realism. Being optimistic means that you won't easily lose hope. It also means that you readily grab the opportunities that come along your way, without failing to consider other possibilities. This means that you are able to trust your instincts and make calculated risks.
3. A good sense of timing. Although it is important for you to be diligent, it is also important that you have to be sensitive about your environment, including the people around you. A good sense of timing relates to making sensible choices, and this is something you can develop by being more observant. This is especially true in the case of business.

As you can see, knowing how to achieve your goals by developing the right attitudes is applicable to gaining success in every aspect of your life. This will ultimately help you to develop your character as well - and that's one achievement that no one can ever take away from you.
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Developing The Right Attitude To Support Goal Achievement

2011-06-08T12:37:00.000-07:00

If you consider achievement and achievers, you hopefully would recognize that one piece of the goal achievement puzzle is attitude.

In most goal achievement writing I`ve seen, attitude is always discussed, often downplayed and typically misunderstood in the entire goal achievement puzzle; three good reasons to explore the ‘right` attitude!

In this brief article, I will outline what the right attitude is (to support maximum goal achievement), why it is important to us both as individuals and leaders and how to develop it.

So, what is the right attitude? I`m glad you asked.

Consider the three P`s of the right goal achievement attitude:

Positive. This is where most of these conversations start . . . and stop. Prevailing wisdom and much research show that having a positive attitude improves the likelihood you will achieve your goal, speeds your progress and, perhaps most importantly, makes you more resilient - All of which help you overcome obstacles and remain persistent in pursuit of your goal.
Possibility. The key to possibility is belief. Do you believe you can succeed and reach the goal? Do you believe we can earn it? Do you believe the goal is possible? If you think it is possible for others, can you see it for ourselves? This is more than just an extension of positive thinking. After all, if you didn`t think the goal was achievable, how likely are you to work hard to achieve it?
Proactive. The right attitude isn`t about thinking and belief alone. The right attitude includes realizing that you must roll up your sleeves and do something.

As you take action in the direction of your goals, you can build momentum, greater belief and enhance our attitude as we go.

All of this sounds pretty good, I realize, but what makes this the "right" attitude; or, more practically, how does this attitude help the situation?

The right attitude enables the right behaviors - behaviors of persistence, discipline and creativity.
The right attitude enables right focus - staying on mentally target and alert for opportunities.
The right attitude enables right results - it improves the likelihood of your success in reaching your goals.

Behaviors, focus and results. The right attitude can create all of them, both for ourselves and those we lead.

You know what the right attitude looks like (and you realize it is more than "just" positive mental attitude) as it relates to goal achievement, you may be wondering how do you create it? Another great question . . . here are some immediate steps -

1. Set the goal. This is the start. Before you can achieve a goal you must know what it is. This sets everything in motion. The size and nature of the goal will impact all three P`s described above.
2. Involve those who will be achieving the goal. If you want others to believe in the goal, you must involve them as much as possible. The right attitude comes easier when participants own the goal.
3. Create greater belief. Remind people of past successes; reward and recognize small successes on the achievement path. As you do this you create a momentum effect and the greater belief buoys the attitude.
4. Get excited about the goal. Actually this is a misstatement. Don`t focus on the goal itself, get yourself and others excited about the benefits that come from achieving the goal. When you know why you are doing the (hard) work of moving toward a goal, you are creating the right attitude.
5. Make the goals visual and vivid. Help people "see" the achievement of the goal. While this has already been mentioned, it is critical. Help your team make that picture as real as you can. Then, whenever possible, remind people of that vision.
6. Keep the goal in front of you at all times. Do you have a list of your goals that you read often? Do you have team goals "written down" or visually available to people in multiple places? Do you open team meetings by reminding people of the goals? When we are reminded of goals we are excited about achieving, it manages our attitude and keeps is "right."

We all know the right attitude will make a difference. Now you know some reasons why, and how you can influence and nurture that attitude in yourself, and those you lead.

Once you get the attitude right, you are fast-forwarding your progress towards achieving your goals!

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9 Things Successful People Do Differently by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.

2011-03-20T05:17:00.000-07:00

Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren't sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail. The intuitive answer -- that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others -- is really just one small piece of the puzzle. In fact, decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do.
Here are nine things successful people do differently:
Get Specific
When you set yourself a goal, try to be as specific as possible. "Lose 5 pounds" is a better goal than "lose some weight" because it gives you a clear idea of what success looks like. Knowing exactly what you want to achieve keeps you motivated until you get there. Also, think about the specific actions that need to be taken to reach your goal. Just promising you'll "eat less" or "sleep more" is too vague -- be clear and precise. "I'll be in bed by 10 p.m. on weeknights" leaves no room for doubt about what you need to do, and whether or not you've actually done it.
Seize The Moment To Act On Your Goals
Given how busy most of us are, and how many goals we are juggling at once, it's not surprising that we routinely miss opportunities to act on a goal because we simply fail to notice them. Did you really have no time to work out today? No chance at any point to return that phone call? Achieving your goal means grabbing hold of these opportunities before they slip through your fingers.
To seize the moment, decide in advance when and where you will take each action you want to take. Again, be as specific as possible (e.g. "If it's Monday, Wednesday or Friday, I'll work out for 30 minutes before work"). Studies show that this kind of planning will help your brain to detect and seize the opportunity when it arises, increasing your chances of success by roughly 300 percent.
Know Exactly How Far You Have Left To Go
Achieving any goal also requires honest and regular monitoring of your progress -- if not by others, then by you yourself. If you don't know how well you are doing, you can't adjust your behavior or your strategies accordingly. Check your progress frequently -- weekly, or even daily, depending on the goal.
Be A Realistic Optimist
When you are setting a goal, by all means engage in lots of positive thinking about how likely you are to achieve it. Believing in your ability to succeed is enormously helpful for creating and sustaining your motivation. But whatever you do, don't underestimate how difficult it will be to reach your goal. Most goals worth achieving require time, planning, effort and persistence. Studies show that thinking things will come to you easily and effortlessly leaves you ill-prepared for the journey ahead, and significantly increases the odds of failure.
Focus On Getting Better Rather Than Being Good

Believing you have the ability to reach your goals is important, but so is believing you can get the ability. Many of us believe that our intelligence, our personality and our physical aptitudes are fixed -- that no matter what we do, we won't improve. As a result, we focus on goals that are all about proving ourselves rather than developing and acquiring new skills.
Fortunately, decades of research suggest that the belief in fixed ability is completely wrong; abilities of all kinds are profoundly malleable. Embracing the fact that you can change will allow you to make better choices, and reach your fullest potential. People whose goals are about getting better, rather than being good, take difficulty in stride, and appreciate the journey as much as the destination.
Have Grit
Grit is a willingness to commit to long-term goals, and to persist in the face of difficulty. Studies show that gritty people obtain more education in their lifetime and earn higher college GPAs. Grit predicts which cadets will stick out their first grueling year at West Point. In fact, grit even predicts which round contestants will make it to at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The good news is, if you aren't particularly gritty now, there is something you can do about it. People who lack grit more often than not believe that they just don't have the innate abilities successful people have. If that describes your own thinking -- well, there's no way to put this nicely -- you are wrong. As I mentioned earlier, effort, planning, persistence and good strategies are what it really takes to succeed. Embracing this knowledge will not only help you see yourself and your goals more accurately, but also do wonders for your grit.
Build Your Willpower Muscle
Your self-control "muscle" is just like the other muscles in your body -- when it doesn't get much exercise, it becomes weaker over time. But when you give it regular workouts by putting it to good use, it will grow stronger and stronger, and better able to help you successfully reach your goals.
To build willpower, take on a challenge that requires you to do something you'd honestly rather not do. Give up high-fat snacks, do 100 sit-ups a day, stand up straight when you catch yourself slouching or try to learn a new skill. When you find yourself wanting to give in, give up or just not bother, don't. Start with just one activity, and make a plan for how you will deal with troubles when they occur (e.g. "If I have a craving for a snack, I will eat one piece of fresh or three pieces of dried fruit.") It will be hard in the beginning, but it will get easier, and that's the whole point. As your strength grows, you can take on more challenges and step-up your self-control workout.
Don't Tempt Fate
No matter how strong your willpower muscle becomes, it's important to always respect the fact that it is limited, and if you overtax it, you will temporarily run out of steam. Don't try to take on two challenging tasks at once, like quitting smoking and dieting at the same time. And don't put yourself in harm's way; many people are overly-confident in their ability to resist temptation, and as a result they put themselves in situations where temptations abound. Successful people know not to make reaching a goal harder than it already is.
Focus On What You Will Do, Not What You Won't Do.
Do you want to successfully lose weight, quit smoking or put a lid on your bad temper? Then plan how you will replace bad habits with good ones, rather than focusing only on the bad habits themselves. Research on thought suppression (e.g. "Don't think about white bears!") has shown that trying to avoid a thought makes it even more active in your mind. The same holds true when it comes to behavior; by trying not to engage in a bad habit, our habits get strengthened rather than broken.
If you want change your ways, ask yourself, "What will I do instead?" For example, if you are trying to gain control of your temper and stop flying off the handle, you might make a plan like this: "If I am starting to feel angry, then I will take three deep breaths to calm down." By using deep breathing as a replacement for giving in to your anger, your bad habit will get worn away over time until it disappears completely.
It is my hope that, after reading about the nine things successful people do differently, you have gained some insight into all the things you have been doing right all along. Even more important, I hope are able to identify the mistakes that have derailed you, and use that knowledge to your advantage from now on. Remember: You don't need to become a different person to become a more successful one. It's never what you are, but what you do.
(For more on using each of these strategies, check out my new book Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals.)

This post originally appear in the Harvard Business Review.

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