Dare to Dream

5 Ways to Turn Resolutions Into Goals Which Inspire You

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:22:00 +0000

By Jean L. Serio

There comes a time, for most, when setting new goals seems necessary. Whether it's the beginning of a new calendar, religious, business year which stimulates us. Or for personal reasons you feel it's time to wipe the slate clean and begin anew. Regardless your reason, instead of starting from scratch, with all-new ideas and plans, if you start with updating previous goals, you may be re-inspired to achieve what you originally resolved to do.
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreau - Walden, or Life in the Woods
We all have long-held dreams and goals. Those we'll likely never let go regardless what life brings. Instead of wiping the slate clean, if some goals are still worthy of achievement, why not rethink and update them. Refine, tweak and streamline them. To meet new needs, changes, desires and goals.
Here's 5 Simple Tips to Help You Reach Your Goals:
1. Discuss your new goals with someone you trust. It always helps to share your thoughts and goals with those who care and share your interests. It can also open up a discussion which prompts suggestions which may help refine your goals.
Plus it serves to encourage you; confirming you're not alone in your pursuits. Someone's on the sidelines rooting for you who wants you to succeed. Not only that, sharing provides another dividend. Once you've shared, you've claimed those goals. This helps further motivate you; propel you toward your goals.
2. Write down your goals or resolutions. Mark Victor Hansen says, "By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
3. Resolve to discover and try at least one new method of reaching your goals. Whether it's trying a new marketing method, self-help, business group or health club you join, a new class you take or experience you gain working with someone new or a non-profit, commit and stick to it. Reach out and beyond your comfort zone and you'll not only enlarge your sphere of relationships, this new openness can aid in reaching your goals. Bring you a new job, clients, unexpected but welcome business ventures.
4. Have a simple plan and set reachable goals. As the saying goes, "Rome wasn't built in a day". Keep that in mind and divide your goals into manageable chunks. Each goal, or portion of a goal, reached will help keep you optimistic and challenged to continue moving forward.
5. Celebrate each goal reached regardless how small. Whether it's an espresso at Starbucks with a co-worker or a simple meal with friends, sharing your success with others invites encouragement. Helps spur you on to greater achievements.
Think of your goals and resolutions as inspirations which lead you to the fulfillment of your dreams. Not changes which must be made but challenges which help you grow and succeed.
Mark Twain said: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Jean L. Serio specializes in creating greater business visibility using social media marketing and search engine optimization strategies for long-term profitability. To discover how your business can connect with potential and current customers and clients and develop solid, long-term business relationships, visit http://www.womensmarketingandbusinessnetwork.com

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Going Beyond New Year Resolutions

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:21:00 +0000

By Usiere Uko

As each year draws to a close, it is customary for folks to enter the New Year with a fresh set of New Year Resolutions. We make a list of things we want to stop doing and those we want to start doing. New Year resolutions have become the butt of jokes because most resolutions do not go the distance. Most folks slip back to status quo in less than two months into the New Year. It seems they do not have what it takes to go the distance.
That is exactly the point. Most New Year resolutions fall beyond the realm of our current capabilities. To perform at that level, you need a new you. The old you have taken you as far as it could take you. To proceed further, you need to upgrade. The focus and effort should be on the new you rather than improved performance which comes naturally as an outflow of the new you. For instance, if you are a smoker desiring to stop smoking, the best area to focus your energies is creating an identity as a non smoker. By the time you become a non smoker, stopping smoking comes naturally as a consequence of being a non smoker. The change occurs from the inside out and not from outside in.
The typical approach is to attempt to stop smoking as a smoker. While you may succeed temporarily, your identity as a smoker pulls you back to the habit you are trying to break away from. If you try to lose weight as a fat person, you are facing an uphill task. When, you see yourself as a slim person, soon you start eating and exercising in alignment with that image. Becoming slim on the outside becomes only a matter of time.
Everything is created twice. The first creation is a mental one, in the realm of the imagination. If you cannot see it, you cannot have it. Trying to have without first seeing it is like trying to build without a blueprint. You will be all over the place and will soon give up in frustration. For a New Year resolution to translate to a concrete goal and ultimately an achievement, you have to invest in your personal growth and development so that you can sustain the effort required to raise your game to the domain where your desired achievement or results lie. To attain the level of self discipline required to achieve certain tasks, you need to grow to that level.
The transition from an amateur school athlete to an Olympic medallist takes more than a mere desire to perform at that level. It involves commitment to personal development to develop the required mental toughness, physical fitness and training regimen to step up your game to the Olympic level. It requires putting together the right Team (coaches, fitness trainers, doctors, nutritionists, psychologists etc), the right exercise regimen, training schedule, enrolment in competitions, improving your performance and ultimately taking a shot at the Olympic and world records, if you are to stand a fighting chance of winning a medal. Achieving your goals is an inside job. If it does not happen on the inside, making it a New Year resolution does not help much.
If you want to go beyond the ritual of yearly New Year resolutions and actually achieve the change you desire, you have to start on the inside. Create a new you. Change your mindset, self image, dismantle self imposed limitations, create a new identity, self image, beliefs and paradigm before you attempt to step into a brand new day. You have to see it first before you attempt to reach out for it. Become an athlete, a writer, a speaker, a non smoker, a slim person, a mountaineer, whatever it is you want to achieve before you attempt the doing. If you truly become who you want to be on the inside, the doing part flows naturally. The secret to a Happy New Year is a Happy New You.

Usiere Uko is a writer, investor, entrepreneur and editor of http://www.financialfreedominspiration.com, an inspirational blog on investing, financial education, discovering your passion and fulfilling your God given dreams. Subscribe to Financial Freedom Inspiration Newsletter and get inspired to start your journey to financial freedom today.

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Your Purpose in Life and How It Affects Your Future

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:51:00 +0000

When you meet a professional and ask them "Why did you become a ______?" Their answer can tell you a lot about their passion. Passionate teachers sometimes say it's because they love to teach, doctors commonly say it's because they want to help people and someone who works in finances has a thing for money, all these answers will tell you about some passion they have for their jobs. This is what makes them GOOD at their jobs.
Passion goes along hand in hand with a person's purpose in life because if not passion, what is going to drive you to be the best at your job? You can say you "need" to work to support your family, but that sort f drive doesn't necessarily make you happy, I don't want to say it's a burden but I'm pretty sure that person has another passion that they just couldn't follow because of circumstances. So how is your Purpose in Life going to affect your future? It will in many ways, take a lady for example who has gone into the business of skin care.
Char always had skin problems growing up; sure we all go through bad skin phases in our teens but everyone doesn't know what it is like to have to deal with acne. Acne is terrifying no matter what age you are, but it's especially dreadful to have it going through high school.
Imagine being that girl or boy who gets looked at because of these pimples on your face and not because of the color of your eyes. People are shocked at the number of pimples on your face rather than the cute freckles. You don't enjoy chocolates because no matter how good they taste you think they will make your acne worse. Every time you meet someone the first thing they notice is your acne, no matter how sexy you are, how good your grades are, even if you're wearing a new dress or you just got your hair colored, it's the acne that's always seen first. This is something you can never quite understand unless you've been there.
Then you become an adult, no more teasing in school, no more proms that you don't go to, no more getting stared at, or not that much at least, but the acne is still there! So now you're looking for a solution, anything to get rid of this pain in your butt! So you try what is supposed to be the best acne solution there is, then your world goes crashing down. What you thought was bad has become worse, the skin treatment did not only fail to work, but it actually made your acne worse. This is when Char just became completely fed up. It's time for her to find a real solution.

Knowing the impact it had on her, she set out to help people who were suffering like she did. She enrolled in an Esthetics training program and soon enough came up with her own custom formulated skin care line. She has a waiting list of new clients that can last for months! Her clients are loyal customers and her life is complete. This all because she found what she was passionate about and made it her life.
It doesn't matter what your life struggles may have been or what brought you down even what keeps you up, anything passion can be made into a career. Look at people who are mentors or life and business coaches, many if not most of them have stories that brought them to what they do. People who were so deep in debt that they could hardly see any light become financial coaches and help people get out of debt. People who have been homeless and who have lived on the streets help people in financial trouble get up on their feet and make a change in their lives. People who have failed in business turn out helping people make their failing businesses work!
There are even those who have been abused, raped, assaulted and who have been in accidents that make their stories ones that people can relate to, even celebrities. They tell their stories and start awareness programs so people don't have to hide or be ashamed anymore because being a victim is not something you should be blamed for or feel wrong about, it's something you should be helped for.
So whatever your passion is, you can make it your purpose in life. If you don't know where to start, that's okay. You just need to follow these steps:
1. Grab your notebook, a journal or even your laptop and write down some struggles you've had in your life. They can experiences in school, at home, with family or friends, anything that was a struggle in your life no matter how long ago or how small it may seem, as long as you remember what and why.
2. After you've listed down your struggles, go over them and look for the theme. Do they seem to be connected somehow? Is there something similar about why those struggles took place? Is there an underlying reason, a mindset or even a habit connection the list?
3. Think about how you resolved these issues. What did you do, how did your react, how were they solved?
4. Now write down what you learned from these struggles and what your learned from the solutions. This is going to tell you about skills you have I you that you may not have thought of before.
5. Now think about someone else going through what you went through, are the things you learned something that could benefit someone else? Are these insights you can share that will help people? If someone had told you what you had to learn the hard way when you were going through those problems would it have helped you?
6. Now look at the whole picture, watch it as if it were a movie and create an ending. Is this passion something you can make a life out of? This is what I hope has become your purpose in life.
Life is not simple, but it can be simpler. You can make things better and make life more of what you want it to be, you just need to move in the right direction and maybe, just maybe, you can help move someone else's life in the right direction too.

A way to Get Better Results From Your Self Improvement Efforts

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:06:00 +0000

by: Amie Erickson

Reading a book is additionally self improvement and private development or to be more precise, reading the book alone is not very self improvement, however reading the book, and applying what you learn is. To illustrate my point lets talk concerning one thing very generic, if you browse a book on lets say programming a webpage, it will perhaps help you perceive how the programmer makes the net-pages, but the particular page you would like to make, can not exist before you start programming it.

And equally the development of yourself will not occur just from reading a lot of books, but by applying what you learn in those books it will!

A massive variety of folks browse a ton of self improvement books, or even I should say a lot of beginnings of self improvement books, however not that several actually finish the books, and even fewer start applying the concepts or exercises they are presented with in the books. Whereas they'll like the book and the suggestions in it, most folks have a brief attention span, and before they get around to applying the new information, their eyes gets caught by another nice book, or one thing entirely totally different, and that they quickly move on while not getting any extremely life altering edges from it.

The secret behind good self improvement and personal development is that when you discover something you think might benefit you, you look additional into the topic, either by buying and reading a book regarding it, or finding data on the topic elsewhere, and at last applying the data in your own life and thereby making the enhancements you desire.

Remember it's continually smart to learn new things from reading a sensible book on the topic, but the knowledge has got to be put to smart use if you really wish to learn from it.

Even Faster Self Improvement Is Doable

If you have got interest in speeding up your self improvement even any, maybe you must consider looking into self hypnosis or meditation. Meditation is good for the soul and helps making an inner calm, while self hypnosis could be a very useful tool for implementing changes in your behaviour.

So as to urge any advantages from either of these methods you will have to be consistent in using and or applying them in your life. Regular use of meditation or self hypnosis will strengthen what ever have gone before it so to speak. Really it's like with each new thing, in the start it's not so straightforward, and it takes some effort both to apply it, and to remain with the programme, however once a whereas, it more or less becomes automatic or second nature to you, and that's when you may start to really notice the benefits.

If you are interested in learning meditation I'd suggest you seek for a private teacher, as you'll be enjoying around with the powers of your own psyche and as you immerse deeper into the techniques you may be stirring up recent emotions that can be difficult to tackle on your own.

A trained meditation teacher can bear in mind that this stuff happen beforehand, and is equipped to handle the emotions and make a case for to you the way to deal with them.

On the other hand if you want to learn self hypnosis for self improvement you could simply make sensible progress from the home study course I suggest at my website. Truly self improvement by self hypnosis may be a very powerful tool, and if you have got access to 1, I suggest you put it to smart use, remember though, shopping for, and reading the material isn't enough, you want to apply the knowledge too.

Positive Thinking And Its Effect On Your Health

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:56:00 +0000

by: Greg Riley

The first situation to consider is the relationship between thoughts and conditions like depression and stress. A crucial question is whether the person's thoughts are creating the physical depression or the physical depression is creating the negative thinking. When it comes to how you can use your mind to help, this can be accomplished consciously and subconsciously. When someone has a habit of imagining things turning out very badly, rational thinking can show show them that they often exaggerate. However, the unconscious mind is much more powerful in shaping our habitual behavior, oftentimes beyond our conscious control. Visualization and hypnosis can be very effective in modifying beliefs and, if you do this, the long-lasting effects can be more powerful than using logic only.

It is likewise true that positive thinking can have an impact on our physical health, and you may be aware of the placebo effect on people who feel ill. This is when individuals are given a pill which in reality does not have any healing value, and yet they claim to notice an improvement in how they feel. This is evidence of the connection between mind and body, and there are many examples of men and women with a positive outlook being able to recover faster from malady and injury. You can also use the power of your mind to help you in achieving your fitness goals. A historic example of this is when the four minute barrier for running the mile was broken, which had been considered as unachievable up to that point. Once the "barrier" had been broken, other runners also began to break through what had really been a barrier of belief.

The effects of aging are likewise influenced by how we think about the process. As you get older, do you talk to your friends about your "aches and pains" and your weakened capabilities? It seems there's a great deal of truth to the saying, "You're only as old as you think you are," and our thoughts can be used to undo a lot of the so-called effects of aging. Unfortunately, numerous individuals will continue to hold on to old beliefs about the unavoidable "decline" of health in old age, and not pay attention to the benefits of a positive outlook.

Now that you are aware that your attitude can bring you a much better state of health, it's up to you to take advantage of this information and set your intention to think positive thoughts whenever you remember.

Turning "Bad" Thoughts Good

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:37:00 +0000

By Bekki Sayler

I've been doing quite a bit of thinking and praying about the idea of taking our thoughts captive as Christians. What does the Bible say? Look at Philippians 4:9 with me...
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me-put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."
There is so much here, it's not even funny. The end is the clincher for me though. I will have the peace of God if I practice thinking this way. What way? I believe we cannot classify our thoughts by looking at just one category. Yes, something may be true, but if its not also pure, lovely and praiseworthy I shouldn't be dwelling on it.
My thoughts control my life. I think more so since I am a writer and words are constantly rolling around in my head. Add to that, the fact that I am a woman and you'll know there are more than enough thoughts running through my head at any given moment.
So What to do with thoughts that don't make it on God's list? Thoughts of anger, frustration, jealousy, sorrow, loneliness and the like. I have to remember the end of the above verse. If I practice what the Lord would teach me, then I will be at peace. If I dwell on things I shouldn't then it should be of no great surprise that I do not have peace. Have you ever tried to be frustrated with someone and be at peace at the same time? I can honestly say I have tried, but it doesn't work.
If someone offends me, even if I am justified in being hurt, I have a choice to make.
I can hold onto the hurt and be miserable, or I can let it go and be at peace.
Some days I can do this better than others. Today, I am kicking myself for not being careful enough with my words. In my haste to communicate my "thoughts" I hurt someones feelings and now I feel bad. I have asked for forgiveness, but I keep thinking things like, "what if I had said this, or changed that..."
I realize now as I am writing this down that I have not taken my thoughts captive.
So here it goes. Although it is true that I spoke in haste, it is more true that the Lord has given me the opportunity to ask for forgiveness.The excellent and praiseworthy result from my mistake is that the Lord is a God of restoration and He allows me to make it right with the person I hurt. I am so thankful that I do not have to walk through this life alone and sad. I am thankful for the truth that Jesus loves me and is right in everything He is and does. I can practice being purposeful in my speech and tender with my words.
Peace is worth humbling myself before the Lord and the people He puts in my life.

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Create Your Success Story In 6 Easy Steps

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:08:00 +0000

By Andrej Urek

Every success story starts as an idea. All big things were ideas first, before they become a reality. Our brain is like an electrical power station and thoughts are like electric impulses that feed our creativity. We have no clue how much power and potential We have in our brain.
Before you start your success story, you have to decide what you want. You have to have a very clear vision of your desires.
Step 1: Write down some specific things you want to achieve. If you want more money, write down the exact amount of money you want to earn.
Step 2: In this step you have to decide what you intend to give in return for the amount of money you desire. You know there is no such thing as something for nothing. Again, be specific what you will give for the good that you desire.
Step 3: Write down the definite date when you will get the money. When you set a goal you have to put a time limit on it. Think about how long will this take you. It's important not to give yourself an enormous amount of time. Give it six months or a year maximum. If you don't achieve it. Give yourself an extension.
Step 4: In this step you will create a plan how you will achieve your goal. It is important that you begin at once. Taking action is very important. You gotta put the energy out for universe to send it right back to you. What can you do today to get the good that you desire.
Step 5: In the fifth step is the time to regroup. This step is the composite of the first four steps. You have your four steps written down on a sheet of pepper. Read it every day. The repetition brings you closer to success. For a habit and read your goal every day. Put it on a wall somewhere you can see it every day.
Step 6: This will work for anything, not just money. In this step you have to back your goal with emotion. Read your goal twice a day. When you wake up and before you go to sleep. While you are reading it, see yourself already in the possession of the money. It is important that everything is in the present tense. You have to believe you can do it, because this will put you in the right positive vibration.
I know it is very hard to develop faith in yourself. You will believe in yourself if you do this every. Like I said before, repetition brings you closer to success, and it will also help you to believe in yourself. People who don't make it, are the people who don't do it every day. They get lazy. Don't be lazy, take action.

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What You Need to Know to Overcome Your Financial Problems

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:56:00 +0000

by Budi Martanto

Lots of people are having problems short of money. Though their income can be spelled out very big. looh, still less?Most people to overcome this is by working harder. And the latest news, more HARD WORK NOT TROUBLESHOOTING You! Hard work okay, but it is advisable to add one more, namely WORK SMART!Continue, whether the Work Smart Financial problems can be resolved? Not yet!You need to learn Financially Smart. This reply is not found in schools in general. Such that, many people who consider that “to get rich is difficult”, “businesses that need capital,” and so forth.What Is Financial Intelligence?Financial intelligence is the solution of your financial problems.Financial intelligence to solve all your financial problems and other problems. Too bad if Finance Intelligence is not sufficiently developed to solve financial problems, the problem will remain.Problems do not go, it is often times worse and cause other problems. As an example of someone who planned retirement fund. If they fail to solve it, it would be a terrible problem with getting them and the more money that they may need to live and health care costs.
Like it would also not like it, money affects the lifestyle and the quality and comfort in life.
There are 3 ways people in dealing with financial issues:
1. Poor way to overcome financial problems.They assume, that they are the victims Money. They feel the only who have money problems. They assume, that if they have a lot of money, their problems will be solved. Their attitude toward money will reply to the problem. The attitude of those who create their own financial problems. Their inability, or avoid actions will only prolong the list of their financial problems. And the problem will be even greater as a mountain. Instead of getting rich, they are actually getting poorer.
2. Middle Class way to overcome financial problems.While the poor become victims of money, the middle class is the Prisoner Exchange. The fix is very unique. Rather than address the financial problems, they spend money for more schooling in order to find a secure job. They experienced. They make enough money and have jobs who are pretty safe. However, those who innermost hearts, they know that they are stuck in financial problems and they lack the financial kecerasan to escape from the prison of their office. They are more appreciative of job security rather than financial challenges. Rather than being entrepreneurs, they are actually working for the Entrepreneur. Instead of investing, they actually gave money to the management of financial experts. Instead of improving financial intelligence, they hid themselves in office.
3. How to overcome the problem of the Rich Man Financial.In the process, they do not work alone. They work in a team work in addressing the financial problems faced reply. Have experts who are able to solve financial problems. And they become more financially savvy and equipped to solve the financial problems who arise in the future. The rich don’t stop, they are learning.By learning, they get richer. Here’s who do not have any others ..
Hopefully useful!

7D That Change Your Life

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:53:00 +0000

by Budi Martanto

On one occasion, there is a client of mine asked via email. Here’s the contents of his email: “Good morning, I want to ask can? Regard, I would ask what the secret to success?”
Answer: Secrets of Success? There are no secrets to success. And I never keep it secret. My mentors were never kept secret. To be sure, you need to do to Success 7D habits. Because Success is the result of repeated practice. 7D What is it? 1. DARE TO THINK POSITIVE. Successful people, not far from this habit. They always do it every time. So, Where ever you are, whatever the circumstances. Stay POSITIVE THINKING!
2. DARE TO HAVE A BIG DREAM. Have you written your big dreams in Dream your book? If not, do it before you go any further on the Habit. Dreams must be specific. 3. DARE TO MAKE A GOAL! Make your goals. What is the Goal in your life? What will you accomplish in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years to 25 years you? Remember 5 years from now definitely up. Quickly make your GOAL! 4. DARE TO MAKE PLANNING. Make your planning. Just like eating an elephant, if you eat directly where the fit. You need to cut it into small pieces and then eat it. And you need also a place to save the elephant, the DREAM BOOK! Planning is part of the Dream as well as your Goal. 5. DARE TO ACTION! Without action, your dreams just be dreams. Goal planning and you just become junk on your desk. So Take Action! 6. DARE TO THANK accustom. Gratitude is a part of life. With Gratitude will come no miracle in your life. With gratitude, will come much more ease. Start to get used to THANK! 7. DARE TO RECEIVE. Accept as if you’ve got what You Want from scratch. It’s not deceive ourselves or anything. But with the acceptance of natural law will work for you.
Hopefully Helpful!

Factors Influencing Entrepreneurship

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:51:00 +0000

By Brenda Crop

I took the plunge into running my own business fairly late in my life. That's not to say, however, that I only recently became interested in the subject. In fact, I have either invested or wasted a good amount of time and emotion envying other entrepreneurs. Perhaps, if you've been as tepid as I have, you may be more than a little amazed at the number of young twentysomethings who, usually while still in college or living out of a beach shack someplace, put together some kind of kiosk or something similar and made it work. Even more maddening has been that, at least from my perspective, it appeared as though they just up and did it - hardly a second thought about it. One night they are surviving on Ramen noodles, the next day features them on the cover of Inc. Magazine.

I am certainly not alone in asking "How did they do it?" I wonder, however, how many others ask "What let them do it?" What is the mental attitude which allowed them to jump into their new venture, when so many times in my life, I've been held back?
Of course, there are many factors influencing entrepreneurship. A lot of them are external. I friend of mine in the insurance business who almost launched a product which sounded too good to be true, at least to me. As of this writing, it's still on the drawing board. I hope it is not too political to say that the passage of the health care act gave my friend enough uncertainty that they wanted to wait a few years and observe the law's full implementation. Business experts alternatively call this either a changing political or changing business climate, neither of which is influenced by my friend's thinking. But what if I also told you that they had been thinking of this idea for a good ten years prior to the passing of the health care law? During the first seven or eight years of this, my friend's limitations were internal! They worried about what would happen if they would fail.
Here is a point I only understood as a theory until about a year ago. I respect it a lot more now because I have experienced it.
Once you have a good idea, of course it is good for you to test it. Get good counsel. Find whatever necessary financing you need. Minimize risks whenever you can. But once the season of planning is over, it is time to take massive action on it. Run into the fire, and run through it as quickly and completely as you can. Take record of your mistakes, make the necessary adjustments, and then run through the fire again. This one change has made almost the entire difference between the "tried to's" I have attempted in the past, and the success I have only begun to experience now.

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Success with Passion

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:56:00 +0000

I really like the Internet business. I also love to write. I love to share the positive things, as well as contribute to improving the welfare of many people. Who does not love? This work makes me interact with people who are interesting and successful. Because I liked, then I do it with enthusiasm. Because I do it with great excitement and enthusiasm, this work does not feel like a job. Passion is important in achieving your success. Many people are successful because they have passion in their lives. If you do not have the Passion in a particular field, whatever you do will be a mediocre, nothing Special. Would you run all or most of your life to do the job that you dislike? What a waste of time! Love your work and achieve success there. Passion gives you motivation. Those who have a passion not easily give up, they eliminate all the spirit of fear. Because they love will work, they do not want to stop. There are always new ways to overcome obstacles who make others stop. Passion momentum they become intangible, yet powerful, making them invincible.

Many people who have great ideas but can not make the idea take off as weak in this regard. They think their ideas will take off by itself. Actually not. Precisely that is live on the runway. Having an IDEA is not enough. You must act. And worse, if you do not have the motivation and enthusiasm, an IDEA for anything would just be rubbish at your desk or in your head, without ever moving anywhere. The absence of PASSION, often the difference between failure and success!

Turtles on vacation

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:15:00 +0000

by Budi Martanto

Narrated group of turtles who decides to go on vacation. His name is also a tortoise, was of nature to a slow-paced. To prepare for this picnic, they take 7 years. And after everything is ready, leave a bunch of turtles from their nest to find a suitable place for their picnic activities. Came in second year, they finally found a suitable place for their picnic. During the six months they cleaned, unload supplies and fix the place. And something startled them all, they realized, that turns out they forgot to bring salt. "Gosh! A picnic without salt?!!" Then they discuss, digelarlah one long discussion. and it was decided a green turtle to take the salt in their homes. Although green turtles are the fastest tortoise from their group, the green turtle is complaining, crying, whining and thrashing in the shell. He actually did not like who is entrusted with the task. However, what can we do. With forced green turtles are willing to go, but with one condition, that none of them could eat before he returned with salt. They all agreed. So the green turtle. 3-year duration of the green turtle go, but have yet to return. 5 years, 6 years and in the 7th green turtle appeared yet. A tortoise among their parents had no more power to resist hunger. Then he revealed that he was so hungry and told everyone to open up food supplies. And at that moment, the green turtles emerge from the tree roots balih and said: "Look, right?! I know you definitely can not wait wait for me, if this is how, I do not want to go get the salt!"

Bruce Lee Bio - Life Of The Dragon

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:28:00 +0000

By Darren W Chow

Bruce Lee is a legend of the martial arts community. In his time, Lee not only trained in the ancient art of Wing Chun, but he also put it to use in both traditional and questionable means. Lee was always known for getting in to fights when he was living in Hong Kong. He even once beat up the son of a Triad leader. According to one Bruce Lee bio, this was the last straw, as some talk was going around thereafter that Lee had a contract out on his life. Lee's parents sent him to live with his older sister in San Francisco pre-1960. While there, he would refine his craft as a martial artist and eventually found his own style that borrowed philosophies from many of the ancient arts that had turned Lee into such a master. Lee's new style was called Jeet Kune Do, or "the way of the intercepting fist."

Unlike many of the traditional teachers of martial arts, who urged against combat unless entirely necessary, Lee seemed to welcome it. According to the Bruce Lee bio, he got in to many fights throughout his short time on the earth. He was a frequent target of criticism from the Chinese community for teaching the ancient arts to Caucasians. It even led to a confrontation between Lee and another master with the stipulation that if Bruce lost he would have to cease teaching the art to the western world. Lee fought the challenger in a highly contested bout, which occurred in private. The challenger claims that he did not lose and that the fight went on for 20-25 minutes, while the Bruce Lee bio said that the challenger was vanquished in just 3 minutes. Neither man relented in their telling of the story. He did challenge Lee to a public rematch that was never accepted. Lee continued teaching his martial arts.
Lee's unique skills eventually earned the attention of Hollywood, who put him to work right away in features such as "Way of the Dragon," "Enter the Dragon," and "Game of Death," that would change the way that people thought about the martial arts movie. He was also noted for a starring role in the classic "Green Hornet" TV series as sidekick Kato, who stole the show with his unique fighting abilities. In spite of his devotion to western culture, Lee was railroaded out of the lead role in "Kung Fu" due to his race.
Lee died in 1973. His official cause of death was cerebral edema, though there have been many theories over the years from a reaction to cannabis to Triad murder to a curse over his family backed by the untimely death of son Brandon. Depending on which Bruce Lee bio you read, the cause of death seems to be different!

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Karma and Awareness

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:14:00 +0000

By Alexis Mohr

We often hear "what goes around comes around." Some people think this is a good, if brief, explanation of the law of karma. However, it is a distorted and over-simplified understanding of a deeply complicated and highly nuanced spiritual law because it bypasses the important truth that we, like life itself, are very complicated and that the energies we engender take on a life of their own as they circulate through our lives and the lives of others. Our actions do not stand alone like telephone poles, but are connected, just like a row of telephone poles we might see along a stretch of highway, all connected by the very cable they support. Karma is the energetic residue or byproduct of our actions that remains in the sphere of human events for a very long time, like cigarette smoke (unpleasant or negative karma) or food aromas (pleasant or positive karma) which linger in a closed room long after the actions which created them are over. This is easy to see in cases of violence and abuse of children. If no one intercedes and facilitates the healing of the child, later the child may very well re-enact what was done to him, creating another generation of injured souls, who may do the same. This is also true of positive karma. They who have received great kindness and generosity are as likely to pay it forward as they who have suffered at the hands of others.

If simplistic platitudes misrepresent the spiritual truths about the nature of karma, how then shall we think of it? How does it affect our lives and the lives of others? And how can we learn to create less negative karma and more positive? Translated from Sanskrit, karma means "action." In traditional Buddhist teachings, from which we take our modern ideas of karma, skillful action brings about positive karma and unskillful action produces negative karma. The importance of the terms "skillful" and "unskillful" cannot be overstated because they take a lot of the traditional Judeo-Christian sting and judgment out of our notions about karma, replacing, as they do, Western language like "virtue" and "sin," which connote not just judgment of our actions, but retribution for them if they have been "sinful."
Skillful actions are those that are based upon the wholesome understanding that all life is transitory and that, ultimately, no one can harm us if we remain unmovable in our belief that our consciousness exists independent of our body. In Western parlance, we would say that no one can harm our soul which is the only part of us that cannot be destroyed and is of permanent value. And so, our skillful actions benefit our consciousness, or soul, and help us to free ourselves from the negative impact of karma.
We engage in unskillful actions in our day-to-day lives when we react to things that hurt or frighten us. Because we tend to believe that things around us are of permanent importance in our lives we react with aversion or attachment to events and people. If we can maintain the realization that all things are transitory and of much less value than we think, we are able to generate far less negative karma and remain firm in our commitment to preserve our peace and equanimity.
If, on the other hand, we indulge our temperamental reactions which are based either upon our skillful or unskillful means we begin to create karma. This is why attachment (excessive affection or hero-worship) and aversion (hatred) are to be avoided through spiritual practices which free us from these positive and negative attachments; all of these practices are based on meditation. If you create strong feelings around an experience the energy which was created during the experience, and later as you mull it over, tends to remain in the energy field perpetuating itself unless and until the opposite energy dilutes its strength and nullifies its influence.
A simpler way of thinking of karma is to envision subtle air currents. Once we set these currents in motion they continue and are no longer under our control. When you exhale you cannot control where your breath goes. These currents mix as they move about and interact with other air currents which have been set in motion by others. Like the telephone poles, they do not stand alone. Negative karma which we have set in motion is mitigated by our skillful and positive actions and thus can be redirected and neutralized. Remember, all the karma we create mingles with our group and family karma and with the effects of the karma of others.
Can We Control Karma? I once complained to a martial arts teacher that my knee hurt as I did the form. He said, "There is nothing wrong with your knee. You are using it badly. You are not practicing awareness." He went on to instruct me on focusing my awareness in the knee as I did the form. I was astounded at how deeply I could experience the inner workings of my knee as I kept it in proper alignment throughout the form. The pain stopped.
Awareness is the most powerful agent we can bring to bear in creating and experiencing the effects of karma. Even when we are engaged in activities that we know are fundamentally unskillful or motivated by negative desires and emotions, we can demand of ourselves that we maintain an honest awareness of what we are doing. This, at least, enables us to reconcile our outer world with our inner world. By maintaining this coherence, we at least do not deceive ourselves and, thus, our positive energies can influence us in the end.

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5 Reasons Failure Is OK

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:56:00 +0000

By Andrew James Miller

We've all seen it during our school days. The giant red F at the top of the page of homework, or a test. Even if you went through school with a 4.0 (you perfectionist, you) you probably have had nightmares about how soul-crushing it would be to get one. I got one F during my entire academic career (math test), and I remember exactly what it looked like, and its position on the page. It's seared into my memory, because of what it stood for: failure. Of course, the really insidious thing about failure is it causes another F - fear. Fear is like a decease, crippling and devastating if allowed to run rampant in the human frame. So, to avoid fear, we should do everything we can to avoid failure, right?
Wrong. I think we need to embrace failure. Failure's ok, and I'll tell you why.
1. You learn from failure.
Success doesn't teach you half of what failure teaches you. Failure shows you what you have yet to learn, ways you can improve, and (if you let it) can be the best stepping stone to success. However, if you take your failure personally and refuse to learn from it, the would-be stepping stone gets tied around your neck and you get hurled into the ocean. You have to be able to step back from the inherent emotional risks of failure and look for the lessons, or fear will consume you. You must also remember that failure will tend to effect you emotionally if you stake your entire identity on the project in question: be sure to work towards success in other areas of your life so a failing in one can be taken as a learning experience; it's difficult to learn when your entire foundation for your identity has dropped out.
2. Failures show that you're pushing yourself.
People who push the boundaries of their talents and constantly learn and grow tend to succeed. If you haven't made a mistake, had a failure, you're probably staying well within your comfort zone and not fulfilling your potential. If something scares you, do it. Fear of failure can be crippling, but only if you run away from it. If you run towards the projects you fear the most, you'll grow exponentially. Yes, you might fail dismally, but you might be more creative and ingenious than you think and be able to figure it out. Either way, you've learned and grown, if you have the right attitude about failure.
3. Small failures keep you from catastrophic failures.
Once you make a mistake on a small scale and learn from it, you are unlikely to make the same mistake on a larger scale. Imagine a visionary architect who sets out to build a building that seems impossible to most other architects. He draws dozens of pictures of the building, and is constantly changing and refining his design. He builds scale models. He shows the ideas to his friends and illicits their advice. He does the math, researches different building materials and finally has the complete picture and builds the impossible building. What's he done here? He's essentially failed over and over again. When his colleagues tell him a certain part of the building won't work, he's failed a little bit. As he draws and refines the building, the design changes as he fails to get the correct design, over and over again. Perhaps he has to scrap the whole basis of the idea and start clean.
He's failed. Perhaps he realizes while he's making the scale models that something aspect of the building needs to change. Back to the drawing board, he's failed. But finally, when he's done due diligence and the building is built, it's beautiful. It's a success. All the small setbacks and mistakes - all of the small failures - have kept the final building from being a failure. Imagine if the architect just went to the building site and winged it. He would be pulling a lot of nails.
4.Failures change your behavior for good.
Speaking of architects, there's a house in town that is a fine example of a huge, resounding failure. It's a big, beautiful high-end house, and it sits, nearly finished, on a mound of dirt in a nice section of town. The exterior is done, all of the new windows are in. But they've halted production; the inside may never be finished, and the yard has gone to weeds. Why? There's a limit set by the local homeowner's association as to how tall a house can be, and this house exceeds the limit by several feet. Construction has been halted indefinitely. Now, you would think that someone would have checked the requirements for houses in the neighborhood - the contractor, the architect, the unfortunate people who are paying for this mess - but no one did, and now this huge, expensive, failure of a house sits vacant in the lot, while the weeds grow up around it.
But let me ask you: if these people ever build another house, do you think they'll forget to check? Not a snowball's chance in July. The extremely expensive mistake they made (Dave Ramsey calls it "Stupid Tax") has indelibly burnt this into their minds. They probably would check the policies multiple times, consult and throughly impress the fact that their house must be under a certain hight with the architect, and be out on the building site with a tape measure, just to make sure. They will never make the same mistake again, because their failure has changed their behavior. Pain has a way of doing that.
5."Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Zigler
This is very important for your well-being. You're not a failure. You have to impress this into your mind. Write it on your hand. Put it on your desktop. This idea gives you permission to try as hard as you can and fail miserably. It's ok, you're not a failure. You can just try again. Finished your first novel and everyone who reads it tells you not to quit your day job? It's ok, the novel may have failed, but you aren't a failure. You can go on to the next thing, and the next thing, as many as it takes. Labels are hard to get rid of, but events you can move past really quickly. Failure is an event. Accept it as it is, learn what you can, change your behavior if needed, and keep moving.
What happened after I got the F on the math test? I went crazy. I'm no morning person, but I started getting up a 6:00 to do a set of math problems every morning. I made flash cards. I wrote down everything the teacher said. I aced the next test. I was able to learn from the failure, and was better off for it.

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Passion Vs Obsession

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:55:00 +0000

By Derek Fredrickson

What am I passionate about? Skiing - pretty much everything about it. I ski every weekend from November to April and do the same with my kids. I like other crazy and outrageous outdoor activities but pretty much anything to do with snow on the ground and two boards on my feet will make me a happy camper.
However, I'm beyond passionate for skiing. I have to say I am obsessed with skiing. Ask any member of my family. And when I say obsessed I mean beyond just having ski pictures and posters in my office or at home (which I have).
I read ski magazines on summer vacations at the beach. My iPhone wallpaper is skiing. When we play family games about favorites (what's your favorite color, favorite food, etc.) - mine all have to do with skiing. I keep every issue of all four (yes, there are 4) ski magazines. I mostly wear t-shirts to work and they all have skiing references or photos on them (my favorite is the spin off from the "Got Milk" campaign and says 'Got Powder?') I follow the top ski racers on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc. I even bid (and won) on a pair of autographed Lindsey Vonn skis for my daughter.
I think my obsession is good - it teaches my kids to focus on what you believe in passionately - no matter what. My 7 year old daughter Claire now wants to grow her hair really long so she can wear it in a pony tail like Lindsey Vonn. How crazy is that? She's passionate about skiing and almost obsessed. I don't think that's overdoing it.
I see myself as I write this article - I could continue on and on and on - but maybe not everyone is as crazy obsessed with skiing as I am. And, wondering "what does this have to do with authentic internet marketing?" But, it does show people how it is good for the soul (and the business) to embed obsession into their values.
Now, I'm also obsessed with authentic Internet marketing. It started out as a hobby when I began working with my wife under 2 years ago. I read some books, studied some courses online, and followed some of the best online mentors. I learned everything about online marketing and then some. I took this passion and then went even further - to see what I could do for our business.
You could say I took my wealth of online marketing knowledge and turned it into something really authentic. Something people can learn from easily in a step-by-step manner to implement in their own business so they can see similar results. Now, I'm obsessed with teaching and sharing how you can authentically market your business on the Internet.
Your Assignment:
What are you passionate about? Make a list of the 5 things that first come to mind when you ask yourself that question. They must be the first 5 that come to mind. If it takes longer to think about it, they are not front of mind and something that you're probably not always thinking about. They can be values, work, hobbies, etc. For me, it's about helping people, learning, family, skiing and doing the right thing. Now, which of these could you do all day long for free? If you were given $1 million dollars tomorrow, which of those 5 would you still wake up each and every day saying - "I can't wait to get started." This is your obsession. Follow that and do everything you can to make it a reality and good things will come.

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Awakening to Life's True Purpose

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:55:00 +0000

By Steve Wickham

Distraction is the concept in contention with life's true purpose; the biggest, now global, trick of human history. This is as visible a threat as it is insidious. It is literally strangling our quality of life and we are helpless against it, unless we are awakened to our true life purpose.
Life, ironically, is a distraction from our purpose. Almost everything in today's world conspires against this purpose. Not that we should reject our world and live as secluded hermits. But there is a force in this life that blocks our awareness of, and our access to, our purpose.
SO, WHAT'S OUR PURPOSE?
Our purpose is to honour God by living our lives - not kidnapped by agendas-of-distraction but with eyes wide awake to the God-honest realities that are somehow subsumed by these agendas-of-distraction.
Allow me to put it in plain illustrative terms.
One example of distraction is entertainment; what is not clear about entertainment, however, is what distractive element takes us toward our purpose (for some entertainment is purposefully distractive) versus what takes us away. Most entertainment takes us away. For instance, we choose entertainment when we should be doing other things. Or, we choose the wrong sort of entertainment. Moreover, much entertainment takes our minds away from more relevant God-honest realities. We are all implicated.
Dismissing or rejecting entertainment out of hand, if we follow the chosen example, is not the answer; nor is merely giving in to the entertainment revolution sweeping the globe continuously.
There has to be a more compelling and effectual answer.
Frustration has no part whatsoever in us living our purpose, unless it's part of the learning process. There's little to be learned via the frustration of chopping and changing in indecision.
THE AGENCY AND PROCESS OF AWAKENING
Let us be perfectly clear that the awakening in view is no New Age concept. Such an awakening - the necessity of humanity to partake - is as old as creation itself. Adam and Eve, of course, failed their awakening test, as have and do we.
Awakening is nothing about failure, however.
It is, like salvation, an initial choice as well as an ongoing choice-the finances of the mind invested in focusing on what is really relevant, as well as learning what agendas-of-distraction we are to dispatch to the archives of previous currencies.
Awakening is truly about choosing to live the abundant life.
THE SCIENCE OF THE ABUNDANT LIFE
One of the most poignant things Jesus ever said about the nature of worldly life, and the countering nature of salvation, was:

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
~John 10:10 (NRSV).

Agendas-of-distraction are an example of the thief, among many examples. The myriad examples of distraction sway us away from true abundance - the experience of God breaking through our consciousness and awakening us to reality.
This is no subjective reality, but the reality.
It must surely be the greatest gift; to enjoy knowledge of reality. That is, to be at peace with it. This is where the abundant life begins. Indeed, this, not apart from the Saviour, is its source.
The abundant life journeys with simplicity. Having dealt with the distractions - those that would otherwise seal our fate as stolen - the simplicity of the abundant life opens up new doorways and new streams of thinking.
The abundant life is our true life purpose. It is no destination, so we must endear ourselves to it, rejecting distractions, and follow it passionately all our lives.
Perhaps the following quote of Isaac Newton's encapsulates the whole article:

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Ours is to look past the distractive pebbles and shells on the seashore and further yonder to the ocean of truth. There is where life is truly at; nowhere else.

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How To Stop Self Sabotaging

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:54:00 +0000

By Trevor Johnson

Sometimes we're our own worst enemies and we come up with all sorts of devious ways of self sabotaging that even Wile E Coyote would envy. So if you're forever indulging in self sabotage, what can you do to get out of the habit?
Stop procrastinating
Or at least reduce it.
Procrastination is probably the biggest form of self sabotage that we can indulge in.
After all, if you don't start something then it's darn near impossible to complete it.
If you catch yourself procrastinating, recognize it for the act of self sabotaging that it is and devise your own system to stop yourself putting things off. Personally, I find one of the easiest ways is to start doing whatever it is I'd try to put off, before I give myself the chance to procrastinate on it.
Stop putting yourself down
This is another nasty way to self sabotage yourself.
If you're forever putting yourself down and belittling yourself, your subconscious will begin to believe what you're telling other people and will start to modify the way you act to bring your real life into line with you idea of yourself.
Next time you catch yourself putting yourself down, put a stop to it. Mid sentence if need be. Shrug off whatever you've started to say or turn the comment round so that it's positive.
The same goes for anyone who puts you down on a regular basis. Work on ways to reduce your contact with them or, if that's not possible, tell them straight that they're undermining you (or get a friend to act as a mediator on your behalf)/.
Interrupt the patterns you run
There's a good chance that at least some of your self sabotaging follows a pattern.
Take some time out to analyze what the triggers are that cause you to sabotage yourself - there are probably a handful that are the regular offenders - and then devise a plan to interrupt them as they take shape.
This could be as simple as telling yourself to snap out of it. Or distracting yourself or changing "direction" slightly.
Feel free to experiment until you find a couple of ways that work best for you. Then implement them as often as possible when you find yourself trying to sabotage whatever it is you're doing.
Stop beating yourself up
This is often a big problem for people.
They start off by sabotaging themselves and then they chastise themselves after the event for following through with the sabotage.
The past is in the past. Get over it. Whatever you did can't be changed so don't run through a post-mortem every time you do something that has the effect of sabotaging yourself.
Go a bit easier on yourself and spend the time that you would have spent going ape at yourself more constructively.

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Stop Resisting and Accept

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:53:00 +0000

By Michael Anthony Martin

Dealing with Difficult People... Stop Resisting and Accept
Stop Resisting and Accept
Learn to deal with the difficult people in your life by improving your communication skills, accessing additional resources, and knowing when it's time to just accept things as they are.
"We struggle to define ourselves from earth and vast blue sky
We open to explore ourselves unto the question why
Then we realize that hoping will not take us to our dreams
One step is just beginning
To accept life as it seems"
The difficult person in your life may never change but you can. Your challenge may be to stop resisting and to accept the person and situation as exactly as it is. What stands in your way is called resistance. It can be provoked in many different ways and for a variety of reasons. The first step to overcoming resistance is to be more aware, or conscious that we are actually resisting something, or in your case the difficult person or situation that has arisen.
One of the early signs of resistance is that we notice ourselves becoming more defensive. We put up an emotional wall to ideas, information, and even people. We can physically feel our stomach tighten and our blood pressure rise.
We may get flushed or red in the face. Our adrenaline kicks in and we have a strong urge to fight or flee. If this happens to you around your difficult person then you may be having a stroke or heart attack, but more likely you are experiencing resistance.
Just to be clear, resistance is much deeper than disagreeing. When we disagree we can sometimes become stressed or even angry, but we don't usually want to run away or beat the other person to a pulp. Resistance is always about us and never the other person. They may provoke the feelings inside of us but they cannot change us. That is completely up to us.
Where we most resist change is precisely where we must change. We need to recognize our resistance and then change ourselves or our attitudes to watch it recede. To do that we must be open and also find clarity around the situation. Then change.
There was a fairly bad science fiction program on television a couple of years ago that featured a group of man-machines called 'borgs' as the bad guys. Their mission was to take over the brains of humans and assimilate them into their cyborg consciousness. Once the 'borgs' got you it was over. Their slogan was "Resistance is futile".
So too with the resistance to change in real life. Accept the situation and the difficult people in your life and then go about the change you need to make inside of yourself in order to move forward. Resistance really is futile.

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Life - An Evolutionary Process

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:51:00 +0000

By Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD

Life is meant to be an evolutionary growth process, which means then that no matter how good your life has become, no matter how available you are in the Laws of Life - you are on a continuous evolutionary process. If you are on a stationary plain, you might notice you feel stagnated or that life is passing you by. You are right. Life was meant to be continuously in an evolutionary pace. However, this is not to say that you need to be creating something earth-shattering every day. To the contrary, it simply means that you need to have a vision for the next phase.
Many people say they want success, but any time one agrees that conditions are difficult, and also talks about how life is unfair, or holds negative thoughts they are out of harmony with the Universal flow of life. Talking about unfairness or holding negative thoughts locks the energy flow is at a lower level of existence and out of harmony with the thing one says one wants. Thus, you are creating resistance against with what you say you want.
Of course, the question is how does one open up? By being in agreement with all that is prosperous and using every means at your command to make it easy for prosperity, abundance and the free flow of life to come into existence. Stop negative beliefs - i.e. how life is unfair Believe that prosperity and abundance is available for everyone.
On this journey called life, difficult issues come about - fair or unfair as it may seem. It is paramount to remember that there is an answer greater than the problem you are experiencing. All problems seem daunting or overwhelming when you have the attitude that things in life are fair or unfair. It is only daunting and overwhelming until you apply the right thinking, and then, the solution reveals itself.
The cliché that unfairness and making mistakes is part of life is what keeps you locked into what you fear the most - unfairness and making mistakes. The power of the Universe is consistent for everyone and in all things. The Universe is available to everyone and everything in the same fashion and intensity. Through proper thinking about the problem, challenges and vicissitudes you have access to the power to receive the answers you need.
Where you are right now as you read this; take a deep breath and accept, that your greatest answer is seeking to emerge through you. All answers to all life's questions are waiting for you to discover them. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

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The Nature Of Stress

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:07:00 +0000

By Williams Tehoy

What is the nature of stress? It can be positive or it can be negative, being part of daily life for all people, but it can also be a burden that is exhausting and filled with anxiety. Regardless of where it comes from, good or bad, stress can influence both the person experiencing it and the environment around them. This stress overview aims to take the mystery out of stress, sharing important information with you that can help you control stress. It is all a matter of learning and coping with stress.
What are the causes of stress?
Stress can come from both internal and external factors, including the environment around you, whether it is your job, a relationship, challenges, life situations, your home, varied difficulties or even expectations that you might have of yourself. However, modern life is riddled with heavy pressures to achieve, even look our best, which means that it is no big surprise that we view stress in a very bad light, even if biologically stress may be less negative than we realize. As a result, stress usually is a creation of the human mind in regards to things that may not yet have happened or may never happen, yet our brains anticipate based on mere assumptions.
Internal stresses can influence how we respond to our lives, the challenges that face us and if our health may be harmed as a result of that stress. Yes, these types of stresses are the most detrimental because they affect the most important parts of our lives, our sleep and rest time, not to mention our nutritional needs. Somehow our bodies and minds have evolved to adapt to the stresses of the environment around us, as well as the pressures that we and others put on ourselves. We are amongst the most evolved on the planet. Sometimes even people who cope well with stress need assistance in getting their stresses under control again.
Are there any sections of our body that are bothered the most by stress? Your reproductive system, pancreas, intestines, stomach, heart, muscles, joints, nerves and brain can suffer or sustain damage with too much stress. We do have neo-cortex which has the challenge, yet the ability and talent to adapt accordingly to our changing environments, no matter how dangerous or risky they might be. Unfortunately, the mind and body can only take so much, making stress the most risky and dangerous threats to human survival, far out doing even wars, though its final effects may take years to be realized.
Coping with stress strategies
If stress is managing your mind and body, playing havoc and making you feel ill, now is the time that you must control stress, getting assistance to reduce stress and anxiety before your mind and body finally break down permanently. As such, this stress overview can help you deal with your stress because stress is something that human beings are better adept at dealing with, making stress and the worries we subject ourselves to more psychological and thus we do not have to succumb to the illnesses or nutritional impacts if we learn proper coping mechanisms.

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The Power of Belief To Transform Your Experience

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:02:00 +0000

By David Neagle

I just had a great conversation with a friend who was telling me about some business associates who have had a complete turn around on their dream.
A few months ago, they were enthusiastic and on fire for their future. Unfortunately, they didn't keep their mental doors locked... and something negative slipped in, and they dropped the pursuit of their dream.
All failure begins this way.
People may have high hopes, but when their perceived circumstances suggest a lesser outcome is more likely (perhaps via an unexpected obstacle), this perceived discrepancy becomes the initial seed of failure.
Being unaware of how this process destroys the dreams of countless people, they fall victim to its seduction.
Take a look at what happens and how this process works:
1. We all have two parts in our thinking: One is our dream or goal, and the second is the belief that it might not ever happen. This is where most people start out.
2. Next, something begins to spark or inspire a person to take action on their dream. (Yet, not having a full understanding of the Laws of Success, they are actually moving in the direction of their dream with a great deal of ignorance. Ignorance is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as a person stays open to what he/she must learn along the way. The problem is many individuals are not open to growth and change.)
3. Their subconscious manifests an obstacle to keep them from experiencing anything "new". This new challenge is perceived as a point of failure.
It is at this point in a person's journey where moving forward becomes too painful or fearful, and a person usually chooses to stay "safe". The truth, however, is that this is also the point where moving forward would allow a person to see the bigger win they are hoping for!
You see, YOUR beliefs control your perception of everything in your world, which in turn creates your reality. If you want to change your reality, you must use new information to change your beliefs AND your perception. Until you see things differently, you will continue to makes choices that keep you where you are. And eventually, you will give up on your dreams.
In other words, your experiences reflect your belief system. This means that if there is anything in your life you don't want to experience all you need to do to change "it" is to change the belief that caused "it" in the first place!
In theory, it's really simple... but in practice, many people find it difficult because they really don't understand all beliefs are nothing but illusions anyway. But these illusions are so strong people think that they are real when actually they are not.
The power of belief is astounding. I encourage you to study its mysteries for yourself and see what changes you truly do have the power to make.

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How to Create Stability in Our Lives

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000

By Aldo Marconi

How do we create the environment of stability? Especially if our lives have been wracked by upheaval and chaos? Everyone has their challenges, the waves of the sea are always churning and some storms are more destructive than others. Some waves are just hitting the shores with negligible damage and are enjoyable to watch and listen to on the beach, while others can be an outright disaster when they build up to the level of a tsunami and obliterate everything you have worked for in the blink of an eye.
Clearly, the objects, people, that are most firmly anchored, have the best chance of surviving and thriving despite the crashing sea.
We have to learn how to drop anchor. We have to create stability by being stable, by repeating certain habits till they become part of our daily routine and anchor us in a meaningful (for us) and positive way.
Most people would agree that smoking is definitely a habit, but not much of a positive one, nor an effective anchor because it continues to damage the ship (your body) while a true anchor protects the ship from being destroyed by the wild nature of the ocean.
And no offense to those who are already ensconced in this habit, because I still have plenty of my own damaging routines which have been built up over the years, but I am adamant to do my best to replace them with good anchors that preserve the ship for the journey.
Find an anchor, find one activity which is healthy for your body, mind and spirit and keep at it. Try to keep at it even when you are faced with challenges, perhaps you will not be as tranquil in your mind, but this activity will help to anchor you and get you through the waves when they rise up to the level of a storm as we know will happen one time or another in life.
Without firm boundaries and anchors, nothing really has any form. Without walls, there can be no home and without walls, there can be no pool, so building boundaries, is a good thing, whether it be for a vineyard or for a house, that is the way to establish your place and your domain in your world.
So, perhaps you already have all of your anchors lined up. And that is great. This idea though has been somewhat new to me, maybe not in terms of understanding it conceptually, but from experiencing it in practice
Over the last year now, I have been building anchors so to speak, despite my inbred nature of depression, whether it be genetic or learned, it has been my nature for many years but I have been pushing against that wave through volunteering, going to school, studying for a new career and now swimming. Those are all good anchors that have been good for the ship to stay a course of helping others and myself.
I do not think it matters whichever one a person might choose, whatever type of anchor it is, as long as it is one that you enjoy and that you do your best to commit to. Maybe it is music, maybe art, maybe a specific field (there is that field again, remember the vineyard) that you work in, maybe it is volunteering, mentoring, working out, you pick it, but at least get one that can serve as a strong anchor.
We do see this concept in nature, our solar system revolving around the pull of the sun, our own bodies, held close to the earth by gravity, our personal lives, which have probably revolved around the relationships with less than ten people, whether they have been great relationships and whether they have been stormy, the point is to start today to enhance the good anchors in our lives. And if we do not have any, pick at least one to start with and build from there.
I see an incremental improvement in most areas of my life because I have dropped some powerful anchors to protect the ship. There is no perfection, just trying to keep making progress and having these anchors is definitely contributing to staying a productive course.
The ocean is always there and the waves keep coming and there is really no escaping from storms now and then, but at least we can do our best to preserve ourselves for the journey, avoid shipwrecks so we are free to enjoy the ocean and sail another day.

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Tools to Create Change

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:56:00 +0000

By Dee Britton

Are you living the life that you truly desire? Is everything in your life going just the way you have always dreamed? Relationships? Wealth? Health? Career? Family? If not, then what are you doing about making the change and creating that awesome life that you were meant to live?
Creating Everlasting Change
In order to create real everlasting change in any area of your life you must be equipped with the right tools. One of the biggest problems in society today is that so many people say that they want to change and do nothing about it (except moan about their current situation). Or on the other hand they spend much time and effort gathering the tools required to change, yet never doing anything with them.
Renovating your life is just like renovating your house and it always needs constant up keep. If you are renovating your house you need to know what you want done. What room in the house needs an update, what trades you require, what equipment and tools you need and you need to know how you want the finished product to look. You can either decide to outsource the work or do it yourself. Creating a better life is just the same but many people do not invest in themselves like they invest in their homes.
Preparing Your Own Personal Tool Belt
If you have decided to do the renovating yourself it is like walking into Bunnings (a large hardware store) with an empty tool belt on. You walk in the door and you are overwhelmed. You go up and down all the different aisles and there are thousands of different tools that you could fill your tool belt with but you have only got so much room or so much capacity. You know that only the best tools, the most precise tools will ensure a fantastic renovation.
As you walk down the aisles at Bunnings and you think to yourself:
'Shit, where do I start?
'Which aisle do I go down?'
'What do I need to get this job done?'
You've got this big list of problems that you need to overcome and an even bigger list of the extra stuff that you want out of life. You need a store attendant in overalls or in a Bunnings apron (an expert in the field) to really guide you and show you how to get what you need and guide you to the specific tools that you need, so that you can just leave with all the right tools to get the job done right.
No two renovations are ever the same so the tools must be selected specifically for you.
How Much Do You Want The Change?
In order for the renovation to go ahead you must really want it to happen. You must be so sick and tired of just existing and you understand that there is so much potential, and the investment is worth it. You are aware that there will be a bit of upheaval going on and maybe some unexpected obstacles as the changes take place. But you understand that the finished product will be so much better than the current one.
The Tools Do Not Work All By Themselves
There is no use going out and getting the tools or employing the trades if you are not ready or really sure about what you want. How many renovations do you see half finished? Or do you know of people who have decided to make the change, have gone out and purchased the tools, only to have them sit in the shed collecting dust.
There are many resources available that will equip you with a full belt of tools so that you can feel fully prepared for the change. So, NOW is the time to really think about what type of renovations really need to be happening in your life. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year, but NOW! Go out and get the necessary tools or trade experts and stop just thinking about it. Life is too short to live in a miserable old shack.
To health, happiness & living the life of YOUR dreams.

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Questions for Self-Improvement

noreply@blogger.com (budi martanto) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:51:00 +0000

By A McIntyre

You need to constantly question yourself if you want to improve. Questions guide your inner dialogue. They act as a guide for you to create inner and outer wealth living a life with emotional and financial freedom.
When we were still toddlers, we learn by asking questions. Sadly, when we became adults, some of us lost out ability to ask. Some deem asking as an activity only for childish individuals. Others simply neglect it because they are already satisfied with their current state. Ideally, we must never lose this ability. As long as we live, we need to ask questions. Some of these questions might have satisfying answers in the future; some might have not. BUT at least, you didn't maintain an idle mind.
We have come up with 3 questions for self-improvement. If you haven't asked yourself these questions yet, then start asking them now.
1.) Do I enjoy the things that I do?
You have to reflect on your current state. You have to make sure that you are enjoying the things that you have right now - work, relationships, and responsibilities. If there is one area in your life that seems boring, painful or monotonous to you, focus on that part. Reflect on the reason why you don't enjoy doing the things in that certain area. Strive to get out of these areas as soon as possible unless you want to live a miserable life.
2.) What is my real passion in life?
You enjoy doing what you do if it is your passion. For example, work seems so easy if you love the responsibilities that are included in it. When you enjoy what you do, you don't call it work anymore; you call it passion. People who choose not to pursue their passion live a life of misery most of the time.
3.) Do I always plan for my future?
It is not a sin to live in the present but it is a sin not to look forward to the future. Always think 5 to 10 years ahead. Think of things that you would like to achieve if you are allowed to live even for another decade. Create a list of what you would like to do and fulfill them one by one.
You can't find inspiration if you are just contented with your current state. You need to stand up and push yourself to your limit. The power of questions is inexhaustible. Famous success coach Anthony Robbins once said "quality questions create a quality life." You must put these questions in front of you in order to drive you to your goals, be rooted in your capabilities, and change your overall perception of yourself.

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