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Wishing you a Prosperous Chinese New Year

2012-01-22T00:07:00.000-08:00

Inspirational Start to 2012

2012-01-14T17:57:00.000-08:00

”Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they come to it.” W.C. Stone

Life is like a walk in the woods ... Overcome obstacles as they come, along the way !

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

2011-12-30T19:31:00.000-08:00

May 2012 be a terrific year for you !

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Seasons Greetings

2011-12-24T07:21:00.000-08:00

It’s the season of giving and receiving.

They say the best things in life are free...
But to me the best gifts in life are priceless:
Love, Forgiveness and Hope!
This season, let’s give the most precious gifts of all.

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Season's Greetings!

2011-12-17T03:31:00.000-08:00

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2011-12-10T18:34:00.000-08:00

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8 Inspiration Lessons from an 8 Month Old Baby - 2

2011-12-10T18:24:00.000-08:00

A baby is a gift which enriches your feelings and emotions, but a baby can also be an inspiring teacher as well.

How?

In fact, she can be your biggest motivator if you pay close attention to her activities.
Let me share with you some interesting observations that I believe serve as great motivational lessons.

5. Forgiveness

A baby never keeps anything in heart though you might have showed your irritation to her. She might have felt bad at that moment and that’s the end of story. Next time, when you meet her, she is a breeze again. She has forgiven you already. What a wonderful example of human element.
This is something, we all need to practice and implement in our own lives. Have a great heart, consciously ignore minor mistakes of others and give them a chance to correct, excel and grow in the life. When you help others grow, you grow even more.

6. Trust
Baby completely trusts you. The trust is always 100%. She is fearless; she believes that you are always there for her. When you throw her up in the air for play, she laughs instead of crying. That’s the beauty of trust. She trusts you that you will hold her anyways when she is falling back
So, if you trust someone, trust them 100%. There is no mid-way here. Complete trust can create wonderful and long lasting relationships.

7. Laugh From The Heart
When was the last time you laughed loudly? We can surely get inspiration from the baby from the way she laughs when she feels good. She laughs from heart.
Aren’t we so busy in life that we don’t even have time for laughing loudly? See the humor in small things, laugh and relieve stress,. Laughter is the best medicine, indeed.

8. Unconditional love
Baby loves you unconditionally. In the heart of the little baby, resides the greatest wealth on the earth, love.
I am leaving this space intentionally blank for you….

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Naveen Kulkarni writes about personal development and shares winning ideas for living a wonderful life on his blog www.planetnaveen.com. You can also get his free eBook Winning Ideas for a Wonderful Life.

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2011-11-13T01:59:00.000-08:00

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HOPE

2011-10-22T18:50:00.000-07:00

HOPE - Honest Optimism based on Personal Endeavors

I love the above acronym for hope. This simply says that yes, there is something we can do to have hope.

Is hope really that important? Martin Luther said that everything that is done in the world is done by hope. John Lubbock said that hope should be classed as virtue, along with faith and character. Alexander said that hope is the true inheritance of all that resolve upon great enterprises. We could also think of it in this light: A person without hope will take no action. The student who has no hope of passing will not study; the salesperson with no hope of making the sale won’t make the call. Hope is the starting point for accomplishment.

Over the years, with the help of hundreds of audiences and thousands of people all over the world, I have come to the conclusion that there are eight things that all of us want, regardless of our age, education, ethnic background or gender. Everybody wants to be happy, healthy, at least reasonably prosperous, secure, to have friends, peace of mind, good family relationships and hope. Actually, it all starts with hope.

Carefully examine these eight things and ask yourself the questions: Can I honestly expect to be happy if I have no hope? What impact would it have on my health if I were without hope? How prosperous could I become if I had no hope that I could become prosperous? How secure would I be in my personal, family and career if I had no hope? What kind of person would I be and, consequently, how many friends would I be able to attract if I were living without hope? Can you imagine peace of mind without hope? What do you think your relationship with your family would be if you were a person without hope?

Interestingly enough, the best way to have hope is to give hope. The more you give, the more you’ll have. Give it to those you encounter and I’ll SEE YOU AT THE TOP!

By Zig Ziglar

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8 Inspiration Lessons from an 8 Month Old Baby - 1

2011-10-22T06:29:00.000-07:00

A baby is a gift which enriches your feelings and emotions, but a baby can also be an inspiring teacher as well.

How?
In fact, she can be your biggest motivator if you pay close attention to her activities.
Let me share with you some interesting observations that I believe serve as great motivational lessons.

1. Innocence

Just look at the innocent activities the baby does. Sometimes, they may not make any sense to others but the baby get’s herself involved in those small happiness activities.

That’s innocence. Happiness has its root in innocence.

We, adults on the other hand are getting drowned in information, bath in knowledge pools. With every information on our fingertips, we have lost our innocence to overload of information.

Can we turn OFF the information channel for a moment and live and experience happiness in innocent ways?

2. Curiosity for learning new things

A baby has amazing curiosity to see, explore and for understanding how things work. She interprets the lip moments, learns entirely new language, and understands mannerisms at a stage of life where she still does not have any base language. Isn’t it incredible?
We, adults, why are we so rigid when it comes to learning new things? Why we let our curiosity factor die even though it’s still green inside us?

Aren’t we equipped with so many tools for learning?

3. Live life in present

A baby always lives the life in present. No neither has worries of yesterday, nor plans of tomorrow. Isn’t it a beautiful way to live? Live in the present moment.

Why do we adults surround ourselves with past regrets and future plans? Why do we miss to live in today, in the present moment? Let’s enjoy the “now”. Bring back your mind from past regrets and future worries and sync it with today.

4. Struggle is natural

Baby struggles to crawl, she fails. She holds the edge of door to stand, but she slips and falls. She cries for help but she continues her struggle to stand. Baby finally succeeds and the victory is clearly visible in baby’s sparkling eyes.

That’s the way the things are learnt, methods are explored and victories are enjoyed. Struggle is natural. It’s the way we humans have always created amazing things.

Why we adults run away from struggle? Why do we look for shortcuts? Let’s all of us get inspired and realize our goals by putting hard work. Struggle keeps you moving, no matter what the speed is. Struggle is beautiful.

written by Naveen Kulkarni
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A Great Salesperson Can Sell Anything! Really??

2011-10-07T07:07:00.000-07:00

By Bernie O’Donnell

Despite the likelihood that salespeople are the most studied species among mankind, we continue to hire, incent and coach them based upon an erroneous set of beliefs. The result is missed opportunities, low margins, missed quotas, unacceptable service and — the mortal sin — lost customers.

There is absolutely no basis for the adage that “great salespeople can sell anything.” Nor is there a basis for the unqualified premise that “the best predictor of future performance is past performance.” It all depends on the degree to which your environment mirrors that in which the salesperson has been most successful.

As with any job, the personal drivers of sales success are found within expertise, traits and character - the Competency Trio™.

In most jobs, Expertise (skills, knowledge and experience) is the easiest to assess, but not so in sales. Personality, which is formed from elements of traits and character, gets much attention as sales managers seek that non-existent magic salesperson that can “sell anything to anyone.”

Unfortunately, this focus on personality and attitude is often at the expense of two factors that are at least as predictive of future success. The first is mental acuity. How much business do you think gets left on the table because the salesperson doesn’t think as fast as the buyer or decision maker? The second critical consideration is how well your environment maps to the experience of the sales rep.

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YOu can be Better - Part 3

2011-10-01T07:24:00.000-07:00

Better Because…You Choose

Many people spend years climbing the corporate ladder in Fortune 100 companies and were fortunate to attend top-rated training and executive leadership programs. After leaving behind their corporate lives, would the same tools used to achieve success in business also worked just as well for life in general?

We have selected 3 core beliefs to share with you.

Previously, we shared that the first belief is : Life is what you think

The second core belief about life is: Life is in Cycles.

The Third core belief about life is:

THIRD. Life’s A Gem.

Most of us get caught in some sort of tunnel-vision. Work, work, work. Or, everything for the kids. Or totally sports.

But in reality, life has many facets. Here are seven that seem to cover everything.

Health

Wealth

Wisdom

Work

Play

Others

Service

Keep all facets in full perspective all the time, and you’ll see your life as a sparkling gem.

These three core beliefs drive the Better Because movement.

In order to inspire positive change through our individual actions, we try to be conscious of our thoughts, aware of life cycles, and sensitive to the phase we are in at any given time.

You have the ability to choose your actions every day. Whether it’s something as simple as if you will exercise today, or making longer-term life decisions, you’re the one who makes the choices, and takes the action.

Most of us have one facet of our life to pay attention to and work to be more balanced.

What choices will you make today?

What facet of your life do you need to pay more attention to?

Try This: Make 2 columns, one marked “Good Job” and one marked “Area of Focus”. Review the 7 facet of life (Health, Wealth, Work, Play, Service & Others) and decide which column each of them fall under. Decide what you can do today on one of “Area of Focus”to make life a little better.

Make it fun to do…consider how you might feel if you accomplished your small action today and stayed focused on it, until you were satisfied. Go for it!

Written by :

Cathy Haffner and Ginny Hutchinson are co-founders of Better Because, a positive media company, whose mission is to make life a little better. They are successful Fortune 100 executives now in their Second Act, who learned valuable (and humorous) lessons from their careers, 20-year marriages, and their children. Their new book, Better Because of You, is a top seller and essential reading for a better life!

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Learn This Secret to Boost Your Confidence 2

2011-09-24T02:33:00.000-07:00

You are not the center of the universe. Nobody really cares about your every move. Nobody is watching, and if they happen to be, they are far less concerned with what you are doing and much more focused on what YOU are thinking about them. That’s the irony of this. You think you are so important that everyone cares what you do, when in fact, everyone is so preoccupied with themselves that they don’t even notice or care what you are doing.

Nobody cares about you. Furthermore, nobody thinks about you, watches you, keeps track of what you’re wearing, or notices the words you mispronounce. And yes, this is wonderful news! Why? Nearly all of us, nearly all the time, are deathly afraid we’ll say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or just generally look like a complete idiot. Think you’re different?

And while this realization that you are not the center of everyone’s universe may depress you initially, I hope you’ll find that it is actually a huge blessing in disguise. Why? It’s lets you take chances without fear of judgment. You can raise your hand, speak your mind, share your ideas, and take bold risks without (significant) consequences. And here’s the interesting part . . . the second you realize there is no imaginary audience critiquing your every move and the less you care what others think, the more freedom you’ll have to do your best work.

Of course, once you start doing your best work, that imaginary audience might not be in your head — people might then actually start to notice you . . .

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Learn This Secret to Boost Your Confidence 1

2011-09-16T23:52:00.000-07:00

Nearly all of us, nearly all the time, are deathly afraid we’ll say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or just generally look like a complete idiot.

Think you’re different?

I think to some degree, all of us have this fear of constantly being watched, criticized, and judged. It might motivate a few to do their best work, but for most, this haunting belief that we always have to be “on” can be paralyzing.

In fact, psychologists use the term “imaginary audience” to describe this heightened state of vigilance that is especially strong during adolescence.
An imaginary audience is this belief that we have a group or followers that are watching, dissecting, and judging our every move. But the keyword here is “imagined.”

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Get Over Yourself!

2011-09-10T01:31:00.000-07:00

When you walk into a networking event, what are you thinking?

When you are introduced to someone new, are you trying to remember their name or are you instead thinking of something witty or clever to say to make a good impression? Do you have any fear when you are in a job interview? Are you petrified to give a public speech?

Do you resist speaking up in a meeting even if you think you might have something important to share?

Why take a chance — even a seemingly small chance — if you think everyone is watching and ready to judge you?

You don’t speak up in the meeting.

You socialize with colleagues at a networking event instead of connecting with someone new.

You resist sharing a good story that highlights your skills as the perfect job candidate. In your effort to look your best, you focus too much on yourself and how others will perceive you instead of your work and what’s most important. Nobody performs well under constant scrutiny — real or imagined.

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You can be BETTER - Part 2

2011-09-03T08:57:00.000-07:00

Better Because…You Choose

Many people spend years climbing the corporate ladder in Fortune 100 companies and were fortunate to attend top-rated training and executive leadership programs. After leaving behind their corporate lives, would the same tools used to achieve success in business also worked just as well for life in general?

We have selected 3 core beliefs to share with you. Previously, we shared that the first belief is : Life is what you think

The second core belief about life is:

SECOND. Life Cycles.

Life is not a straight line, it’s more like a series of circles that go around and around, up and down, similar to a spring.

This is a natural cycle in life. Every year, we have four seasons – the Fall is when trees shed their leaves and in the Winter, there is a period of dormancy (some animals hibernate). Then, Spring is a renewal and Summer is a period of full bloom.

Some periods of time days are filled with questioning, which builds into creative thinking, which leads to inspired action. All, the doldrums can set in again, where we can languish… until we start questioning, which builds into creative thinking, which takes us once again to inspired action.

This is where positive thinking and actions have an influence on the quality of your life.

Written by :

Cathy Haffner and Ginny Hutchinson are co-founders of Better Because, a positive media company, whose mission is to make life a little better. They are successful Fortune 100 executives now in their Second Act, who learned valuable (and humorous) lessons from their careers, 20-year marriages, and their children. Their new book, Better Because of You, is a top seller and essential reading for a better life!

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You can be Better ! Part 1

2011-08-27T01:44:00.000-07:00

Yes! You can be BETTER !

What To Do When You Have To Take a Step Back - 2

2011-08-23T07:19:00.000-07:00

In the process of any form of achievement there will be times
where you take a step back
where things don’t go as planned and you fall into a bit of a slump.
These moments can hurt. But don’t quit...

Inspire yourself...
Music, good books and the videos from Gary Vaynerchuk rarely fail to get me back in my groove. Discover your muses and then exploit the hell out of them in your down times.

Stop doing anything. Be still and relax. Taking a step back can be spurred from burning out and you can’t recover from that by running your engines even hotter. Don’t feel guilty for purposeful unproductiveness. Enjoy it.

Blast some music...
Nothing gets me pumped up more than playing some Ben Harper at a most likely unhealthily loud volume. Get some good speakers (fan of the Logitech Z-10 system myself) and get lost in the melodies.

Get something done...
Make some form of progress. Whatever it is doesn’t particularly matter, just kick your mind into gear by realizing that the step back was only temporary.

Hang out with friends...
This is essentially “Stop doing anything” but with the added distraction of your buddies to help take your mind off your step back. If you want to take a more active approach consider joining a mastermind group. Then you can hang out with like-minded individuals and take steps forward at the same time.

Solidify your plan...
What is your current plan of action? Run through it, slowly, and begin revising or removing any weak links. Make your plan a flawless sequence of events to take action on – there’s no room for mediocrity.

Smile!
Force one if you have to. Just smile. It’s proven that the physical act of smiling has the same effect as being genuinely happy. Sit, smile and breath.

Step forward...
Don’t live in the past. Take action that takes your forward towards your goals. Stepping back is an inevitable part of life – make sure it doesn’t become he only part of life.

In life and work, we're bound to face many obstacles, What's your motivation for carrying on?

Written by David Turnbull, the founder of DavidTurnbull.com(Categories: self improvement )

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What To Do When You Have To Take a Step Back - 1

2011-08-21T00:31:00.000-07:00

In the process of any form of achievement there will be times ...

where you take a step back –

where things don’t go as planned

when you fall into a bit of a slump.

These moments hurt. But don’t quit...

Persistence ...
is an aspect of success that many people struggle with because it is difficult to keep working, fly past the tipping point point. I hope these strategies make the road towards your goals simpler, with less interference from steps backwards.

Identify the cause. ..

Any solution requires a clear problem. What is it specifically that you’ve deemed to be a step away from your goals? When you break things down like this instead of responding immediately with “Everything’s gone wrong, I’m doomed!” you’re able to think logically without the interference of emotion. Smart decisions can be made in response.

Remember where you’re going...
Have a clear direction, an end goal. This is a key tool for motivating yourself through times where everything feels to be going against you. Every day visualise the exact outcome you want from your goals.

Realize it’s just a pot hole, not a canyon...

It’s a scrape not a flesh wound. Any step back is reversible and rarely requires any major shift in actions or thoughts. Be mindful of what went wrong, acknowledge it, and move on.

What's your take in the face of trouble? Will you quit or persevere?

Written by David Turnbull, the founder of DavidTurnbull.com(Categories: self improvement )

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Queen Elizabeth Park Vancouver B.C.

2010-04-27T21:06:00.000-07:00

Queen Elizabeth Park Vancouver B.C. canada

Situated in the heart of the city, atop Little Mountain, the gardens are a delight to the visitor. To add to the pleasure is the Bloedel Floral Conservatory with its many tropical plants and seasonal floral displays.

Bangkok - The Royal Barge

2010-04-27T21:03:00.001-07:00

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Bangkok – The Royal Barge

Seattle Pike Market Place

2010-04-27T21:02:00.000-07:00

Seattle’s Pike Place Market – Then and Now

Seattle Washington

Historical photograph provided by Seattle Museum of Histroy and Industry, Contemporary photograph by Ed Lowe

Inspiration

2010-04-27T20:54:00.000-07:00

On occasion, what you need most is a burst of inspiration to keep you moving forward. This is a quote I recently stumbled upon... and found very inspiring.

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relationships - 80:20 Rule

2010-04-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

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There is no human being on earth who is perfect.

No perfect husband or wife exists, neither will there be a perfect marriage where the couple lived in eternal bliss with no quarrels, disagreements, misunderstandings and in total accordance with each other.

But, we wish for perfection, some of us will do our best to attempt to change our partner into someone whom we prefer.

How do you do that? How do you make your relationship as flawless as you could? By working on your partner’s faults and weaknesses, hoping to turn them into strengths and qualities that will augment the marriage, in your opinion.

But what if, your partner already possesses 80% of qualities in the image of a perfect spouse that you desire, and it’s only the 20% that acts as the obstacle towards you achieving the ultimate mark? Would you be so affected by that 20% and keep harping on it to yourself?

Some wives will whine about their partner’s lack of initiative, messiness, lack of communication, and fail to appreciate the stability, responsibility and honesty, the exact traits which made them commit to their relationship in the first place. The same goes for the husbands.

Without realising, these people are magnifying the problems, and making them seem larger than life. They begin to perceive the weakness as one that is much more serious than it actually is, and that gives them even more reason to talk about it, and it makes things worse again. They have just begun a vicious cycle.

Why not think about the 80% when you are affected by the 20? Because when you choose to focus on the good, only then will you be able to draw strength from the love that comes with it, then deal with that 20% .

See, how men focus on the negative even when it is only 20%, and so easily become blind to the goodness of things.

You are what your mind is capable of thinking and focusing. So, make the right decision today to zoom in to the plus points, and refrain yourself from indulging in your insatisfactions, othrewise you will be sucked into the black hole unconsciously.

culled from: www.kloudiia.com

Theories of love - Part 2

2010-04-23T20:12:00.000-07:00

Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love

This is perhaps one of my favorite theory of love.

Psychologist Robert Sternberg proposed a triangular theory of love that suggests that there are three components of love: intimacy, passion, and commitment.

The three components, pictorially labeled on the vertices of a triangle, interact with each other and with the actions they produce and with the actions that produce them so as to form seven different kinds of love experiences (nonlove is not represented). The size of the triangle functions to represent the "amount" of love - the bigger the triangle the greater the love. The shape of the triangle functions to represent the "type" of love, which may vary over the course of the relationship:

Different combinations of these three components result in different types of love.   According to Sternberg, relationships built on two or more elements are more enduring that those based upon a single component.

The different combinations are listed below :

    * Nonlove is the absence of all three of Sternberg's components of love.

    * Liking/friendship in this case is not used in a trivial sense. Sternberg says that this intimate liking characterizes true friendships, in which a person feels a bondedness, a warmth, and a closeness with another but not intense passion or long-term commitment.

    * Infatuated love is pure passion. Romantic relationships often start out as infatuated love and become romantic love as intimacy develops over time. However, without developing intimacy or commitment, infatuated love may disappear suddenly.

    * Empty love is characterized by commitment without intimacy or passion. Sometimes, a stronger love deteriorates into empty love. In cultures in which arranged marriages are common, relationships often begin as empty love and develop into one of the other forms with the passing of time.

    * Romantic love bonds individuals emotionally through intimacy and physically through passionate arousal.

    * Companionate love is an intimate, non-passionate type of love that is stronger than friendship because of the element of long-term commitment. Sexual desire is not an element of companionate love. This type of love is often found in marriages in which the passion has gone out of the relationship but a deep affection and commitment remain. The love ideally shared between family members is a form of companionate love, as is the love between close friends who have a platonic but strong friendship.

    * Fatuous love can be exemplified by a whirlwind courtship and marriage in which a commitment is motivated largely by passion without the stabilizing influence of intimacy. A relationship, however, whereby an individual party agrees to sexual favors purely out of commitment issues, or is pressured/forced into sexual acts does not comprise Fatuous love, and instead tends more to Empty love.

    * Consummate love is the complete form of love, representing an ideal relationship toward which people strive. Of the seven varieties of love, consummate love is theorized to be that love associated with the “perfect couple”. According to Sternberg, such couples will continue to have great sex fifteen years or more into the relationship, they can not imagine themselves happy over the long-term with anyone else, they overcome their few difficulties gracefully, and each delight in the relationship with one other. However, Sternberg cautions that maintaining a consummate love may be even harder than achieving it. He stresses the importance of translating the components of love into action. Thus, consummate love may not be permanent. If passion is lost over time, it may change into compassionate love.

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