Monetize Your Life

Own your Failures, Take action for Magnificent Success

Michael Fletcher — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:07:47 +0000

Admit your failures, take credit for them, embrace them, and own them. When you willingly take responsibility and ownership even for the failures, you’re positioned for magnificent success.—Ralph Marston

How empowering is that statement? Let’s look at it again.

Admit your failures, take credit for them, embrace them, and own them. When you willingly take responsibility and ownership even for the failures, you’re positioned for magnificent success

That statement is practically overflowing with Action and Passion. All that about failure ? Until we are able to look ourselves in the mirror and own ourselves. Look into our own eyes at our imperfections of body and action and say that’s me. That is me now. Until we can do that we will never be in control of our lives, our time or our wealth.

We’ll continually act ignoring what our reality is. Acting on what we wish to be true.

There is only one reality the Present, your past is just the road that’s brought you there. Don’t keep looking over your shoulder, don’t keep hoping that your destination will magically appear around the next corner. You need to take each step as it comes. Until you realise that your mistakes are part of your journey, you’ll struggle to make any headway. You’ll sit on the side of your path looking back all the while as time passes you by.

When looking at failures in your life

Do:

Admit your failures, it’s the only way to free yourself from them, once you’ve admit a failure you release the emotions involved with it from your mind and keep the experience which will stand you in good stead

Embrace your failures. your failures are your battle scars they are the stories you’ll tell your kids and co-workers your failures are the things that improve you, doing the same things over correctly teaches you nothing.

Take responsibility and ownership for your failures, just because you suddenly feel positively about your failures doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences. Clean up the mess, figure out what went wrong put together a plan so it won’t happen, apologise if it’s impacted on anyone. Trying just isn’t enough.

Don’t:

Do it again! Well at the very least don’t fail exactly the same way or for the same reason again make sure you’ve learnt something.

Waste the chance for magnificent Success by quitting, your failures will in time teach you how to succeed don’t waste the lessons. Too many give up in the face of failure. Each failure brings you closer to magnificent success. Reach out and grab it.

CC image courtesy of:

www.flickr.com/photos/parrhesiastes/2566999335/
www.will-lion.com/mindbites

Tags: admit-your-failures, chrome-clip-screenshot-evernote, evernote-chrome-screenshot, evernote-clip-a-screenshot-chrome, evernote-clip-screenshot, evernote-screenshot-chrome, fear, goals, how-do-you-take-success-and-failure-in-your-life, how-to-do-screenshot-evernote-chrome, how-to-take-screenshot-with-evernote, how-to-take-success, motivation, own-your-failure, own-your-failures, screenshot-chrome-evernote, stress reduction, taking-action-owning-yourmlife, what-are-your-failures, your-own-failures

Lessons from Avatar – The Power of vision and integrity

Michael Fletcher — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:07:35 +0000

Avatar air battle

Ok so if you havn’t already watched Avatar go, do it now!! Avatar was pretty much the most visually wow-inducing movie I’ve ever seen. There’s tons of lessons to be learnt from this movie but the ones I’m looking at today are vision and integrity.

If critics like it, fine. I can’t say I won’t read the reviews, because I may not be able to resist. I spent a couple of decades in the capricious world of being judged by those not knowledgeable about the depth and history of film and with whom I would not want to have a conversation – with a few notable exceptions. Why would I want to be judged by them? For me, this past decade has been about retreating to the great fundamentals, things that aren’t passing fads or subject to the whims of some idiot critic. You can’t write a review of the laws of thermodynamics. James Cameron

Avatar an epic 20 years in the making

[ad#Google Adsense]

Avatar is now very famously the most expensive movie ever made. We all know that it’s taken 20 years to make and read all the blurb. We’ve wondered if it wasn’t perhaps 10 or 15 minutes too long and if it got a little too preachy at times. What we haven’t considered is what it must have taken to sit on the screenplay for Avatar for 20 years.

James Cameron came up with the premise and then the screenplay for Avatar long before technology caught up with his vision. When he dreamt this all up there just wasn’t any way to create this world.

Now for most of us that’s the end of it. We’ve lost. We have the idea but ah well it’s just not the right time. James Cameron sat on this for 20 years though. He put together special effects teams and kept working on the Avatar story until the time was right.

The power of vision is rocket fuel for goals

If you are going to make a success of this life sometimes no is just not acceptable. So if you’d like to see the kind of success that James Cameron saw with Avatar:

Dream Big – Dreams can’t be too big.

Turn that Dream into a vision – Once you have one shape it into a clear vision the bigger and more vivid your vision is the more invested you will be in pursuing it.

Don’t Compromise – Don’t scale down on your vision. If it’s important enough to do, do it right your can’t put a price tag on integrity.

Don’t forget about your dreams – It’s easy to put your vision on the back burner and forget about it. Find some way to keep track of your dreams and goals that you’ll keep going back to

Keep working at your Vision- Keep putting time into your dreams and goals to make them happen. If the time isn’t right do what you need to, to make it the right time.

It’s far too easy during our day to day affairs to forget about what’s really important to us. Go watch Avatar, watch it in 3D and then just imagine if James Cameron was like most of us and just shrugged his shoulders and said, “ah well, too bad we can’t make it” and went on his merry way.

The world is changed by people with big ideas who make things happen.

Avatar by *patrickbrown on deviant ART

Tags: avatar, avatar-and-power, avatar-integrity, evernote-essentials-not-worth-the-money, evernote-most-premium-notepad, evernote-most-premium-notepad-review, evernote-premium-notepad, evernote-vision, f, how-to-use-evernote-notepad, integrity, most-premium-notepad, most-premoim-notepad, power, power-lesson-from-avatar, premium-notepad, remember-the-milk-evernote, remember-the-milk-evernote-review, tekkie-talk-twitter, vision

Lessons from Battle Studies: Keep breaking the mould

Michael Fletcher — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:07:16 +0000

This look at Battle Studies by John Mayer is part of my Lessons from series, these are a collection of lessons which I take from looking at everyday things a little differently.

I’ve been sitting on the new John Mayer album, Battle Studies for 2 weeks now, and like the pot of pasta with a do not disturb sign in the back corner of my fridge that’s been there for the same length of time, this album has really taken on a life of it’s own. Unlike the the deadly ex pasta though this album is mostly harmless. See my John Mayer Battle Studies Review for more on the Battle Studies itself track by track. This is not a review though this, like my, Lessons from Stranger than fiction is a look at the lessons I learnt from Battle Studies. Ok a quick run down on the history of this album, Battle Studies is the fourth (excluding his self released, Inside wants out) studio album. An artist taking a nigh on 3 years in these days of the attention deficient masses is fairly rare. However that’s just how long Battle Studies has been in the making. What makes this album really brilliant and sold me from the beginning is that despite the huge success of Continuum this was not an attempt to repeat the success or copy the sound Battle Studies is a stand-alone album.

Sell your art not your soul

That in essence is the lesson I learnt listening to John Mayer’s uneasily honest Battle Studies, it’s not ok to try and find a success recipe and churn out cookie cutter results. True greatness doesn’t come from a mould. True greatness come from people who unwittingly create those moulds. Listening to this album I have no doubt that Mr. Mayer the businessman had a few sleepless nights after long days in the studio pouring his heart onto a hard drive. In the end though after all the agonizing John Mayer, the artist won out, how rare that is in today’s music industry, where a new musician’s image is often decided on long before the first bit of music has been laid down. In all our endeavours there is a battle between the artist and the businessman, the pragmatist and the dreamer. There is a place for all sorts businessmen and dreamers but ultimately we are doomed when the artist makes his decisions like a businessman. There must be that integrity of action in art for creativity to flourish.

Sadly the battle is being won overwhelmingly by business. Money puts food on the table not ideas. Herein lies the problem.

How do we make money from our passion?
How do we keep our passion pure?
How can we keep our integrity while still paying the bills?

These are not problems that John Mayer had to worry about, making Battle Studies, but it is something he was thinking about near on 10 years ago playing in dingy night clubs in Georgia. His bills, now, I’m quite sure get paid each month with a fair amount of spare change. Still I’m quite sure that he met some resistance from the execs who were looking for Continuum 2: The sequel. He has what all of us aspiring artists need, a proven track record of success and courage in his convictions. We need to spend less time thing about what will be successful and more time getting to grips with that courage. As artists, and yes writers are artists too, we need to start experimenting wildly. Only when we have experimented to the nth degree tried and retried every idea we have in the creative toolbox. Only when we’re at peace with our art can we go forth and sell it with the cockiness that comes from mastery. Without that we’re chasing success in a raft without paddles, unable to choose our own course.

Bonus track

The big take home message off this Battle Studies? Art can be bought but real artists can’t. Be an artist of Self development and take control and credit for the change in your life, your extended social group can be a great motivator or your worst enemy if you allow them to influence your work.

Tags: art-apps-monetize, battle-studies, battle-studies-art, battlestudies, battlestudiesalbum, battlestudiesalbumcoverbolt, evernote-gtd-integration, getting-things-done-john-mayer, gtd-musical-integrity, john-mayer-artwork-battle-studies, john-mayer-battle-track-by-track-review, johnmayeralbum, johnmayeralbumbattlestudies, johnmayerbattlestudiesimage, johnmayersitting, Lessons from, monetizing-blog-art, motivational, the-heart-of-life-john-mayer-album, the-making-of-battle-studies

Be happy and peaceful now – or do whatever it is you’re doing now

Michael Fletcher — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:08:13 +0000

If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you’ll probably feel a week—a month—a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now!

Swami Kriyananda

A dog has no need of the future. It fully experiences each moment that passes and when it’s passed experiences the next. However a dog cannot exert it’s inner strength and better the lives of dogs everywhere. They cannot re-create there worlds the way they want to.

We can. Yet or inability to master what our canine friends can do leaves us where we are. We struggle with allowing our present to become our past. We re-live our victories afraid we’ll not have any more and we wallow in our miseries afraid of encountering anymore.

Embrace your human endowments travel through time and find yourself where you e would like to be then look ball and realize that the path from where you were now to there can be reached but only if you do anything but what you’re doing now, nothing.

Tags: -5-, coupon-for-evernote, coupon-for-evernote-premium, creation, creativity, errors-in-evernote, evernote-ipad-error-nsinvalidargumentexception, evernote-nsinvalidargumentexception, evernote-premium, evernote-premium-coupon, evernote-premium-coupon-2012, evernote-premium-coupons, inspiration, john-mayer-rapidshare, motivation, ns-invalid-argument-exception-en-espaol, nsinvalidargumentexception-in-ipad, nsinvalidargumentexception-mac-os, struck-a-nerve, the-best-of-john-mayer

Be the Lighthouse not the ship: Attract the Power of Positivity

Michael Fletcher — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:07:27 +0000

Life is often seen as a journey, a long voyage through troubled seas. I disagree life is a a function of the company we keep. Every day our seas are ravaged by storms of adversity and strife. Many of us are caught in amongst swells being thrown about and generally feeling out of control of our vessels and our journey’s.

How do we arrest this and bring our lives under control? Simple, realize that this is just a metaphor, you don’t have to be the boat. Your life need not be out of control and better still you can make it your job to save more vessels in distress.

Take Charge

As an individual you have every opportunity to take charge of your life. You can organize better, you can apply yourself to your goals, you can take control of your time and your life. Evidence? Have a look around at all the success stories around you. These stories are the lighthouses for ships in distress. There is nothing special about those who took control of their time, they are not super human. When you start moving into the light, the light also moves into you (to mangle some philosophy) When as an individual you exhibit the behaviors you value, others start seeing the value in you.

The Power of Synergy

As individuals there are limits to what we can achieve. Our flesh and our bones and the power of our will are finite limits to our abilities. Truly great events in human history have been the result of the mobilization of groups of teams and of nations. Civilizations built, space explored, human flight achieved and who knows what else in the future. Great strides are typically made by immense teams. This is our legacy and if we wish to leave a legacy of note we must do the same.

Synergy Starts with You

Even if you are adrift at the moment, now is the time to start looking around and sizing up your allies. When you become a lighthouse you start attracting ships. If we are to achieve lasting results we must begin to leverage the opportunities provided by synergy. We must work harder to save others and we will find our own lot improve.

It takes a Village to Synergize

This advice is as relevant to bloggers as it is to teachers parents or scientists. Too many people are trying to do it all themselves. If we want to succeed we need a village, a community a team. There is definite need for us to become less insular. A big part of this mentality is caused by fear. We fear that when we give we take from ourselves. We lower our own chance to succeed. Synergy is bigger than that thinking. Synergy is about uplifting ourselves by giving. Sounds foreign, doesn’t it? When we give to others, when we share our light and steady the ships of others we build fleets each vessel carrying cargo of knowledge experience and creativity we never had before. When we begin casting our light and allow others to cast theirs we start making the water safer for others.

Technorati Tags: synergy,synergistic,goals,goal focused,teamwork

Image:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wandering_angel/ / CC BY 2.0

Tags: evernote-60m, evernote-lion-nsinvalidargumentexception, evernote-teamwork, evernote60m, Goal, how-do-you-demonstrate-teamwork, how-do-you-demonstrate-teamwork-in-your-life, how-to-monetize-your-passion, how-to-use-nsinvalidargumentexception, how-to-use-teamwork-in-your-life, inspiration, lighthouse-and-the-ship, metaphor-of-the-lighthouse-and-the-ship, metaphor-vessels, motivational, nsinvalidargumentexception-xmarks, passion, teamwork, teamwork-evernote, the-ship-and-the-lighthouse

Take back your time! 3 ways to take control of your life one minute at a time

Michael Fletcher — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:07:18 +0000

Take back your Time

I find that every week, every day, every hour I have less time, less minutes at my disposal. More and more I find that somewhere during all work and play I’ve lost sight of what is important. Where is the meaning in our lives. When did we stop trying to live meaningfully in the time alloted to us.

I put it to you that the meaning in our lives does not live in the big things the huge projects or enormous undertakings. Rather the meaning is standing in plain sight in all the minutes between this one and the last one you’ll ever see. Tomorrow is nothing, next year even less. Meaning is realizing that we can have 60 memorable moments or one average hour. Meaning is time well used. Meaning is the conversion of time to goals successfully completed, to dreams realized, to relationships cemented. Time spent meaningfully not squandered.

When I find the world is taking from my enjoyment of the universe I fall back on some of these great ways to forget about the lonely hours and scary years and take pleasure in those silly minutes we allow to slip by so recklessly.

Take some time and breath

Take 60 seconds and concentrate on your breathing- Besides the spiritual well being breathing correctly brings, physiologically it’s a great tonic too. As we become more stressed our breathing becomes more and more shallow, hunching our shoulders and limiting the amount of oxygen available to our bodies. You’d think your body knows how to breath properly, and yeah it does but with the the sedentary lifestyle we currently all live we become so accustomed to our stressed state our bodies adapt that as a norm. Want to know how bad it is let’s take a deep breath now forcing as much air into your lungs feeling your chest expand and your diphragm pushed down. Feel how unnatural that feels? That’s the way you’re meant to be breathing. That’s the state every second should find you in. Lungs full, head clear and ready to react. If you can concentrate on breathing correctly for just one minute you’ll immediately find yourself more centred and able enjoy yourself.

Take some time to Rock out!!

Get your favourite song out and play it. Listen to it and don’t do anything else just enjoy all the reasons it’s your favourite take some time and remember those. Maybe it reminds you of your first kiss or that summer that went on forever or perhaps it just makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Whatever the reason you’ll find that when you connect with those feelings you make them real again and each time we play that song as background music we kill some of the meaning. If you’re not a music person dig out that painting that makes you want to weep. That poem that makes you laugh or that garfield cartoon you haven’t read in ages and let yourself remember what it felt like the first time you did that. Ok so this one would take a bit longer than 60 seconds sue me!

Rate your coffee

Go now grab a cup of coffee. Start drinking it and try describing it as if you were reviewing it. Are the tastes bold and earthy or bland and lifeless. Be as descriptive as you can don’t use the word nice for goodness sakes. Let your imagination run wild and grab some words from the musty recesses of your mind that you haven’t used in a while and dust them off and shine them up today we’re taking them to town. You can use this for any of thing you currently take for granted even some of those things you currently find distasteful. How about a play by play on the drive home or a review of the last excuse you gave your boss for that late report. The important thing is to take the time to look at something differently. Explaing the mundane moments an you may find that those moments become progressively less mundane.

There are many other ways to kickstart your if this post teaches you anything let it be that your time is as valuable as you make it. If we spend our time waiting for the next hour, day, week or year we lose out on all the things we have the power to do right now. Truly our minds are the most powerful tools we have at our disposal and if we use them we’ll find more and more ways to make our time count.

So how does this fit in with the idea of monetizing our lives? All of the minutes of our lives have value. One cent is only one cent but think of this $100, $1000 or even a $1m dollars is nothing but a collection of cents. When we play fast and loose with those little coins we stop our chances of becoming truly rich. Find more ways to get the most out of those minutes of your life and you’ll soon find that the hours, days and weeks will see to themselves and your life will become progressively richer.

Image Credit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gilderic/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Incoming search terms:

monetize free time (1)

Tags: evernote-v3-1-1-3-1-1-android-apk-torrent, free time, free-monetized-blog, hacks-and-monetizing, how-we-spend-their-leisure-time-meaningfully, meaning-of-take-back-your-time, Michael Fletcher, monetise-free-time, monetize, monetize-blog-meaning, monetize-tricks, monetizing-hacks, monetizing-hacks-blogger, Personal Power, scheduling, stress reduction, take-back-your-time-day-october-24-2011, take-back-your-time-torrent, value added, ways-on-how-to-control-your-time-in-24-hours

Try is nothing, Do or do not

Michael Fletcher — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:07:26 +0000

People want change in their lives. We all want to achieve our goals and feel that focus in our daily lives. We all want to live longer happier richer goal focused lives. We all feel that need to fulfill that purpose that only you and I were placed on this earth to perform.

Goal Disposal

During the course of every single day, you and I each have 24 hours at our disposal and most of us do dispose of it! We send the carcass of each day off with meat still hanging off the bones. The next morning we wake up, moaning and groaning that yesterday just wasn’t satisfying. To quote Moose of that lovable Archie and his gang, “Duh!”. If you have 24 hours and you use none of them to get closer to your goals, your passion or that burning desire which drives you, guess what, you’re not going to get any closer to it. Get rid of all hope. Abandon all your dreams you are stuck with your current life for better or worse.

Try is nothing

‘Try is nothing, do or do not’ was originally uttered by that great philosopher Yoda and it’s wisdom has stuck with me for as long as I’ve started trying to accumulate wisdom. Now I put this up as my Gtalk status recently and got some nasty nasty comments. This mentality that trying is enough I find quite amusing. Try to my mind is a utterly and depressingly disempowering word. Try unpacks the power of my action and unloads it at the doorstep of fate and fortune. Try is self-defeating it allows the possibility of failure in. It’s a weak verb that sparks weak action.

Do or Do not

The most important reason for me, try is not enough! Unlike conventional wisdom suggests it’s not good enough to try. Trying to be a blogger is not the same as being a blogger. Trying to spend within your budget is not the same as staying within your budget. Only in our minds is trying enough. The real world doesn’t care that you’re trying to lose weight or trying to write a novel. We are judged by our actions. When we try something and it doesn’t work we need to try something else that’s what doing is about. Doing is knowing that trying is part of a process not the process. When we do we commit to do, we commit to the outcome of doing not the process.

When you focus on your goals do try everything you possibly can and don’t stop till you Do achieve your goal

Incoming search terms:

do or doing nothing (1)

Tags: blog post inspiration, do-it-or-do-not-do-it-there-is-nothing-as-try, feedingyourpassion, focus on goals, gettingridofeverythingyouown, Goal Setting, goals, how-to-get-started-with-your-life-from-nothing, how-to-monetize-inspiration, if-you-can-do-it-do-not-try-to-hard, inspiration-for-life-blog-post, iseedumbpeople, motivation, nothing-that-i-do-is-never-good-enough, passion, pictureillustratingrapport, try, try-or-nothing, yoda-quotes, yoda-quotes-try-is-nothing

The Price of Perfection

Michael Fletcher — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:07:34 +0000

The past week has been a lesson to me on the price to be paid when we retreat to the safety net of our minds. Once we achieve any success in an activity it’s so very easy to lose sight of our original reason for taking part. I spent the last two weeks not doing what I love, writing, teaching and learning, allowing myself to be controlled by expectations. Having had a few good weeks on myDL I’m struggling to write. Even though the success has been very moderate I’m suddenly finding myself quitting in the middle of posts and shooting down more ideas than ever paying the price for pursuing perfection. It’s not enough to find your passion! you need to find a way to keep it yours too!

Re-connect with your passion

Connect to the original reason you found your passion often. Go back to the reason you started. Whether your passion makes you $1 a year or $100 a day you when you started you started because you connected deeply with it. Connect with that feeling often. Remember all the reasons why you’d gladly do what you’re doing for free. Remember that some time good enough is good enough, the price of perfection is high when you let it stop you producing.

Study how the professionals progressed

Research heroes of your field and look how they progressed. Even the most gifted of gifted athletes and writers knocked their head once or twice. They didn’t start out perfect but they always had passion. No one is born able to do it all. Read about how they did it. Study their mindset. Model their strategies. Use their tactics. Have a good old laugh at the mistakes that they made. When you’re done, have a quick chuckle at your own expense 10 years from now someone will be laughing at how you knocked your head and you won’t care when you’ve made it. Passion will fuel you when you know that you won’t be perfect, but that you’re doing the right things. The price of perfection is less time spent learning.

Change your mindset about failure

Change your mind about failure. You’re going to make mistakes, you’re going to make plenty. Live with it. This is not permission for you to fail! This is permission to make mistakes. Put together a system and incorporate an element of quality checking before you complete. Systems are often passion killers, use your system to channel your energy to the parts of this blogging lark you’re most passionate about. When I write I now complete my outline, knock out my first draft. I then revise the piece while also checking for glaring spelling and punctuation mistakes then I revise again at least 12 hours later. When I just started out I found I still missed a glut of errors. I should have been checking more until my error margin was acceptable. At the moment I still miss the odd mistake but if I do I fix it and move on I still trust my system. You should do the same set up a system and stick to it as long your success rate is within acceptable limits. The price of perfection is going to be a heart attack if you don’t have trusted system to handle the areas of your blogging which you struggle most with.

Incoming search terms:

Tags: best-note-taking-app-for-mac, best-note-taking-app-for-mac-and-pc, best-note-taking-mac, f, knowledge, Life at peace, mac-app-note-taking-study, perfection, personal development, Personal Power, Refocus, refocus-whitehatblackbox, skills, the-price-of-perfection, whitehatblackbox, whitehatblackbox-down, whitehatblackbox-goal-refocus, whitehatblackbox-moved, wunderlist-goal-achievement, wunderlist-monitize

Enjoy 60 Good Seconds with me – Beginner meditation in 60 seconds

Michael Fletcher — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:07:11 +0000

Meditation anywhere

The brain waves of meditators show why they’re healthier. Neuroscientists have found that meditators shift their brain activity to different areas of the cortex—brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left frontal cortex. In other words, they were calmer and happier than before. Benefits of meditation

So you heard about meditation and haven’t had the time or the knowledge to look into it. In just 60 seconds I’ll give you a very quick introductory lesson to relax your mind in 60 seconds. So that you can enjoy the benefits of meditation too:

Benefits of meditation:

Meditation helps the body regulate it’s breathing
Meditation reduces anxiety attacks as it lowers the levels of blood lactate.
Meditation makes you more aware of your body and well being
Meditation builds self confidence.
Meditation gives your conscious mind a rest
Meditation increases serotonin which influences moods and behaviour. Low levels of serotonin are associated with depression, headaches and insomnia.
Meditation enhances energy, strength and vigour.
Meditation increases your minds capacity for creativity and problem solving
Meditation helps keep blood pressure normal
Meditation reduces stress and tension
Meditation creates a state of deep relaxation and general feeling of wellbeing
Meditation helps with P.M.T.
Meditation increases concentration and strengthens the mind
Meditation helps reduce heart disease
Meditation helps with weight loss

So how do you begin with meditation, much like everything else you simply begin. In order for medititation to be effective all you need to do is to allow your mind to release itself from incessant thinking. All I’m going to ask you to do is to follow this exercise for 60 seconds a day and you will have started on the road to a more peaceful inner life. When starting meditation I found meditating for long periods very difficult, almost impossible, and very demotivating. For this reason I suggest starting for short periods and increasing as you feel more comfortable.

Meditation Excercise 1

You will need some free time a quiet place free of distractions an egg timer or something similar preferably with an alarm. Anything that can make a noise with a 60 second delay will do.

During the exercise dress comfortably in loose fitting clothing and sit or lie down anyway that is most comfortable.

During the 60 seconds I will ask you to:

Close your eyes.
Breathe in deeply through your nose and out through your mouth
I ask that you concentrate on the air that you are breathing in.
For the full 60 seconds concentrate only on the path of the air from just in front of your nostrils down into your lungs
Hold each breath there for a moment and then release it, all the time focusing only on the air you are breathing as it travels in and out

You will during the minute of meditation find thoughts encroaching, you’ll wonder about work or what you’re going to eat or any number of real world problems. When you do just become aware of the thought and allow it to fall through your mind as you begin concentrating on your breathing again.

Do this meditation excercise whenever you have a free moment, first thing in the morning is the best time for many, and you will soon find that you have less and less trouble keeping your mind clear for the full 60 seconds. In the interim you will find that even these short 60 second bursts are thoroughly relaxing.

Image Credits:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fchouse/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Incoming search terms:

60-second-guide-meditation|MonetizeYourLife (1)

Tags: 60-sec-meditation, 60-second-guide-meditation, 60-second-meditation, 60-secondes-mediation, 60-seconds-meditation, garden-seconds-with, good-seconds, how-to-begin-learning-mediation, meditation, meditation-60-seconds, meditation-anywhere, meditation-in-60-sec, monetizing-meditation, oooloo, oooloo-iphone, relax-in-sixty-seconds-a-day, sixty-secends-to-relax, start-monetize-in-a-second, stress reduction, studying

Evernote to flip the lid on July 14th?

Michael Fletcher — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:07:14 +0000

According the Evernote blog announcement, we need to prepare ourselves, come the 14th of July

We’re making an announcement about something new. Something we’ve been working on for a little while. Something that will change the way you interact with Evernote, and, maybe even, change how you think about Evernote.

Speculation is rife about the Evernote blog announcement about what July 14th will bring. So what is the evernote announcement on the 14th July going to be? This is my personal Evernote wishlist none of which will end up being the July 14th Surprise no doubt.

What’s in the July 14th box?

CSS support for web clippings? Please please please, let this be the announcement I love Evernote however in 2010 I still find it frustrating that when I clip a site for later reading I lose all the formatting. This is probably everyone’s biggest gripe with Evernote and hopefully come July 14th we’ll all have good reason to shout “suck it” to the Evernote detractors who’ve been point to this as a deal breaker for years now.
An improved web interface, now don’t get me wrong I don’t hate the Evernote website however the Evernote application has come along in leaps and bounds with Evernote 3.5 really hitting the mark and sadly leaving the Evernote web interface in it’s dust. Perhaps July 14th will bring us beefed up editor interface and integrate the shared folders better.
Integration to 3rd party apps perhaps? I’d love to log into Evernote on the 14th of July and see the option of linking up with my google calender or gmail via API. Evernote is great as is however integration with 3rd party apps would mean a complete office solution. Including your contacts and emails and everything else in your Evernote system.
A Linux version, please please please. I use Ubuntu on my home PC and it’s really frustrating that I can’t work offline. Looking at it’s geeky target market, namely me, no Linux support really doesn’t make much sense. Maybe if we wish hard it’ll be in the box on the 14th July?
A time management module? Perhaps some kind of to-do and task scheduling component. I’m not sure if this is the direction Evernote are headed in but it certainly would change the way we use Evernote.
Free Personal robot or android to capture all our notes into Evernote for us, please please please could it look like a mini elephant so we can make it run away from the pc’s mouse?
Positive re-inforcement via chocolate deposited into our Evernote shared folders
Evernote TV? Will Evernote announce that we can finally clip the best bits of our favourite television shows for later perusal?
An evernote affilliate program? Please let Evernote announce that I will get $1 for every note captured by a user I referred, I’d be a millionaire by now.
A paper based version of Evernote, perhaps called an Evernote Notebook?
Handy apps we can add to Evernote to track our finances and everything else, that way we can be depressed about a much wider range of things we haven’t gotten round to.

All in all this is all speculation about the announcement and we all have things we’d love to see added or changed in Evernote. One way or another there’s going to be a big party on the 14th July which means something game-changing is coming on the back of this announcement.

What do you think the Evernote announcement will be?

July 14 Evernote Announcement update:

Evernote Trunk is here, Evernote unveil a fully featured application store that provides application integration withing Evernote. Evernote trunk promises to change the face of Evernote forever with addition itegration with platforms like SAP as well as improved group functionality and the opportunity for publishers to publish magazines via “branded notebooks”

Evernote July 14th announcement Event Details

If you want to go to the Evernote anouncement event on July 14th here’s the details:

July 14th, 6pm – 9pm
111 Minna in San Francisco [map]

Tickets

RSVP today to get a free ticket. We will be charging at the door, so make sure to pre-register.

For Evernote See also:

Free Videos by Ustream.TV

Incoming search terms:

Tags: brett-kelly-evernote-essentials-free-download, evernote, evernote essentials, evernote sucks, evernote-and-finances, evernote-essentials-pdf, evernote-essentials-promo, evernote-essentials-torrent, evernote-finances, evernote-for-symbian, evernote-millionaire, evernote-recent-announcements, evernote-symbian, evernote-to-manage-finances, friendslogotvshow, friendstvlogo, friendstvshowlogo, integrate-tracks-with-evernote, july 14, kevin-rose-evernote, lose-it-integration-with-evernote, monetizeblog-info, s60-clip-to-evernote, track-finances-evernote, tvshowfriendslogo